Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-05-21

WASHINGTON, May Is, 1886,

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discreditable to human nature that the
proprietors Of the land, or the land itself,
across from the Capitol, towards the
East, must be put under judicial con-
demnation. Yet so it is. The process
will cause considerable delay, so that
July will be here before the foundation
stone of the new National Library can
be laid.
The eight-hour contest between mas
tiers and men may be, perhaps, settled
BY the adoption Of the masters proposal
for compromise on nine hours.
Senator Kenna has called the Presi-
dents attention to a case Of false i'm
prisonmen. of an old Italian who was
one of Gen. Scott's men in the Mexican
war. A shameful job was "put up" OIL
him by rascally detective for the sake of
finding criminal chargeable with coin
ing bogus money, so that ST 900 re-
ward might be had. The President,
after examining the case, has released
the imprisoned man.
That bundle of all sorts Of crankiness,
if not worse things, Henry Ward Beech
er, 10 an advocate for continuing the
importation of socialists, anarchists ct
id genus omne, without any stint, so that
they may be digested into good Amer
lean citizens! Perhaps fellow feeling
makes the champion mugwump won
drous kind. Henry must have strong
digestion.
The total value Of the French spolia-
ton claims is placed at about six and
one-third millions of dollars, not fifteen
millions as supposed.
Another Eastern fishing schooner has
been captured by Dominion armed
vessel for purchasing bait along the
Nova Scotian coast. She is named the
Ella Doughty. But why, whilst the
bait controversy is on the carpet, was
che sent our Just to add fuel to the
flame so that, as the New York Star
says: "the simple truth is that MIR.
Frye, Mr.. Rice, Mr.. Dingley and other
eminent fishermen are Stimulating rage
for the purpose Of catching votes"
This is the opinion of leading author
ity in England on international law,
who says in his journal, the Observer,
that the "Englsh government ought
not to be deferred from making over
lures in this direction by the vaporing
of few American politicians anxious
to secure the Irish vote by posing as the
enemies Of England" AS we drift
along the stream of time it gets to be
often apparent that the vote-catching
temptation is the one that "most easily
besets' the American politician. The
English jurist above mentioned proposes
an international commission just as our
President did, but Messrs. Frye & co.
didn't want any peaceful arrangement.
No soil on the waters" for them.
That bloody Apache, Geronimo, still
carries on his butcheries on both sizes
Of the boundary line between Mexico
and Arizona, in spite of all the efforts
OF the army. 1t is proposed to set a
price upon his head; catch him who
can.
Senator Rildleberger proposes statue
in Washington to the honor of Zachary
Taylor. Nobody will say nay to that.
Last advices from Britain show the
defeat of Mr.. Gladstone's policy about
Ireland, and that he is agitating gen.
eral election, which the Queen is dis
inclined to because Of the injury it
would do 10 the interests of business.
The old. fashioned murders and outrages
are cropping out again in the green
island. An immense petition mile
and a quarter long has been sent to
Parliament from Ireland, signed by
more than l00,0 900 people and weighing
274 pounds, against Irist Home Rule.
The Orangemen i'm Ulster are arming
and drilling and it is said 5000 English
volunteers will aid them. This is some
thing none can approve of, yet why
does Mr.. Gladstone use his official posi-
ton to force a state Of things that might
lead to civil war? The feeling in this
matter is deeper than political; it is a
sense of going back to the times of
Bloody Mary and James III altogether
u reversal OF human progress. We see
what took place l6 or II years ago even
in Italy, so distasteful to Mr.. Kelley, of
Richmond; that whole matter is full
of lesson in this Irish business if people
would only read it. We want no more
direct struggles between Protestant and
Catholic such as there were 200 years
ago. Let us have peace.
We have gentleman here from New
Zealand on a search for American grape
vines to be planted in that very favored
cline.
l copy hteratim the following dis
patch:
LONDON, May 1s.-The Irish National
League has received from the 9th n.
Y. Regiment and the Clan-na-Gael So
ciety of New York, offers to equip,
transport and maintain in the field
10, 900 men to support Home Rule in
Ulster, against any and all loyalist OPP
position.
Yours, &C., JADIs.