Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-06-18
Le,,er from Washington.
WASHINGTON, June Is, 1885,

to Congress, nrst 10 the SENATE, oy our
District Commissioners, who somehow
or other have dropped right into line
with certain Of their predecessors whose
craving for full-blown despOtic power
over the people has from time to time
taken us by unpleasant surprise. In
forming rules and regulations for the
government of the Police, Fire and
other branches o. the District service,
care was taken that something like fair
play should be observed as between the
higher and the lower officers OF the gov
eminent, so that removals from office
by the former should not take place
among the latter merely to crafty party
or personal spite. Before removals
were to be made charges of infractions
of the rules and regulations had to be
directly made and equitablv sustained,
otherwise, no removals. These safe
guards against despotic injustice it
rather seems our present Commissioners
are striving to throw down, so that like
Robinson Crusoe on his lone island they
may ''lord" it over "fowl and brute" to
their own sweet liking. But some are
keeping lookout on this untoward
thing, recalling to degree the old
warming, Look to the Senate.
The present week is to be famous for
the entree of our new leading lady into
Washington, that is to say, fashionable
society. The President is to launch his
charming bride upon the sparkling wa
ters, and then to leave her to steer her
way through the gay and gilded craft
that will surround her. 1t is augured
that her native tact, and some little eX-
periehce acquired during brief visit
here some months ago, will help her
through.
The dreadful and bloody riots last
week in Belfast, Ireland, perpetrated by
Orange mobs of men and women upon,
mostly, Catholic keepers of taverns and
restaurants, whereby some seven or
eight persons lost their lives, have been
succeeded by Catholic attacks on Or
angemen in County Sligo, on the west
coast. The military attacked and routed
the rioters, some of whom were shot.
In counties Clare, Limerick and Kerry,
moonlight" gangs are forming, thor
oughly organized for mischief. "Such
is life," in Ireland.
Mr.. Gladstone has addressed the elect
ors of Mid Lothian, Scotland, soliciting
reelection for the fourth time. His
manifesto is long and shows him to be
thoroughly in sympathy with Mr.. Par
nell and his party. Candidly speaking,
for myself, do not think it will en-
nance G.adStone's renown, for though
able and we'll supplied with strong
points, it lacks that impartial appreci-
alton of the ideas entertained by the
other side which statesman OF the
premier's high level ought not to be
blind to. The best solution to the whole
trouble would be, think, the practical
adoption of our system; local legisla-
lures for England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales severally, with general
legislature i'm London to deal with mat
tiers not local but imperial. One Of the
chief distractions in the way Of pacifica-
ton for Ireland, specially considered, is
the bitterness of sectarian, for surely it
is not religious, animoSity. We see the
same thing here in Pennsylvania, at
Wilkesbarre, where on Sunday mob
of 5000 people, and some of the very
toughest of the mining population, did
their worst to annihilate one Daley, Il
convert from Catholicism, who sought
to show the people his objections to that
system. Only the police saved his life.
Bigotry and fanaticism Of all shapes
and colors, are the worst enemies not
only of liberty but OF true religion.
A very remarkable paragraph is going
the rounds which may, or may not, in
dictate the kind of milk to be expected
i'm the next to be developed Presidential
cocoanut. Some American gentleman
at Ottawa, Ontario, states his knowledge
of the fact that large sums of of money
have been travelling from Boston and
the Eastern cities to Ottawa for the pur-
pose of encouraging the Nova Scotia Sc
cessionists from the supremacy OF Great
Britain, in their labors. This is said
to be the entering wedge to the annex
alton of Nova Scotia to the United States,
So that the British American waters
may become the quiet property of our
Eastern fishermen. AS much as S25, OOO
was sent from one mercantile house
In Boston. The New York Tribune has
been plainly put upon the scent, which,
added to the movements Of Messrs.
Frye, Dingley & Co., make it far from
improbable that Mr.. Blaine is going to
be toward the annexation of Nova Scotia
what Tyler and Polk were towards the
annexation of Texas. If volcanic erup-
tons and earthquakes are necessary to
Mr.. Blaine's success, our republican
friends will not hesitate about making
use Of them.
Our latest news states that the city
of Vancouver in British Columbia is
almost totally burnt down. Over 500
houses were consumed, but rebuilding
commenced immediately.
The Washington Star complains that
Mr.. Gibson of West Virginia stole
away our District day yesterday by
talking against time.
The British government disapproves
the harsh measures of the cOlonists of
the Dominion in respect to the seizure
of those Yankee schooners. All matters