Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-24
Letter frem Washington.
WASHINGTON, September 81, 1886.


his avoirdupois since his sojourn in the
Adirondacks. AS for Mrs. Cleveland,
the photographers will have to take an
other score or two pictures Of her good
looking person, and discover new beau
ties and attractions. How is it that the
Adirondacks have not become more
generally fashionable?
1t will be time now for Secretary OF
State Bayard to take his holiday spell.
He has been about, f not quite. the only
head of an Executive Department in
the National Metropolis for a month
past. His envoy to Mexico, Mr.. Sedg-
wick, has dropped in just in time to
make his much talked of report of Cut
ting and Arresures. What is to be the
shape and color of it none of the cork
screw reporters have been able to find
out. So Sedgwick has learned one
wrinkle at least since he undertook his
"mission," and with this might go
back to his home, for his "report," COM
ing the day after the fair, will be of
no account whatever. Mr.. Secretary Of
the Interior Lamar, who stealthlly
packed of to some secluded hamlet in
rugged New Hampshire to write an ell
logy on John G. Calhoun, is now said to
have somewhat initiated the love-lorn
EinriIa an1 after "a
lady from Georgia, rich and beautiful,
summering in the Granite State. Cum
ming fellows, these Secretaries, they
know how to put their short lived hon.
ors to account and strike for wealth and
beauty while they have che gilt-streaks
upon their wings.
SO then we are 10 have no more
"berettas" or "Zuchettas," fo- the Pope
SAYS we are no more than "missiona-
ry" country, anyhow, and the one Car
dinal, Gibbons, is as much as we de-
serve. This is sad, but may be, with
the help of the New Testament, we can
contrive to worry along.
About 400 of the Geronimo Apaches
lately captured in the Arizona noun
tains have arrived in Florida, and will
be put on reservation not far from st.
Augustine. They ought to be distrib-
uted in smaller parties.
1t is real pity that the Democratic
junto which ruled the roast in the House
of Representatives during the late ses-
sion, could not have got along with
their. in TOO many cases, show economies,
without cutting off $3.50, 900 from the
appropriation for The Government
Printing Office. 1t must, as the new
Public Printer AYERS, necessitate the dis
charge of great many poor and worthy
employees, and of course abridge the
conveniences of the public service.
There was no need of this eurtaiiment
whatsoever. The Democracy complain
loudly Of the dangerous plethora OF the
National Treasury, and make great
reduction of the government incomes a
principal point of their policy. How
inconsistent then TO increase the i'm
pending plethora by stopping legiti-
mate expenditure made for public and
private good. Elections, and fictitious
virtues and economies have no fascina-
tons for honest people, as we claim
in ha RI hn Not
only the best, but the only way to keep
the Democratic party "solid," is the
adoption by the leaders of an honest,
sincere, unpretending and manly course
of action. Unfortunately, that has not
latterly been apparent.
Some three hundred or so of the
Spanish troops in garrison at Madrid,
the Capital, got up Il very stupid at
tempt at revolution on Sunday last, de-
handing a republic" They soon
found themselves in bad box; had to
leave the city. and scatter themselves
about the surrounding country where
ever they could. The Spaniards, like
many Of those who call for "Home
Rule" will find, sooner or later, that
true freedom, whether according to Re-
publican or any other forms, has but
one sure basis, viz, subordinat ton to
lawful rule either divine or human, as
the case may be. In other words, Civ
ing to Caesar the things that are Ces-
ar's; to God, the things that are Gods.
There is no third party in this arrange
ment; only Caesar and only God.
What might be considered as a good
deal of solution of The bridge contest
above or below Georgetown Cor, as it is
most absurdly jenominated, West
Washington, happened yesterday after
noon in the tumbling down of the Sec
ond span of the Aqueduct bridge lead
ing to Rosslyn, causing also break in
the Alexandria canal. The present
odlous concern ought to be forever
abolished.
Ex-public printer Rounds was toasted
and gifted last evening by the employ
ees of his late Office with some handsome
souvenirs, prior to his westward march.
The bitter contestants at Belfast, Ire
land, are at it again. They fight like
wolverines.
Several shocks again at Charleston
and vicinity. Loud subterranean ex-
plosions accompany the shocks.
The Bulgarians do not scare at Rus
sia's threats as expected. They are
acting like sensible and fearless men.
May God favor their cause.
News from Italy is quite striking.
The Pope is wise in looking away from
the United States, for he has as much
as he can manage at home. His late
movements towards rehabilitation of