Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-17
Letter from wa.hinsson.
w.suINoroN. september IA, 1856

WASHINGTON, September IA, 1886.
Messrs Editors.-Affairs in Charles
ton seem to be less distressing than a
week ago, but the people cannot yet see
with much clearness their way through.
About a quarter Of a million of dollars
in general subscriptions for present re-
lief have been received. The Lord
Mayor of London sets subscription in
motion with good results. a Roths-
child subscribed $4,000. Mechanics in
Charleston are not disposed to work
very cheap. bricklayers, to-wit, asking
S. a day. Still, how the city is to be re-
built is as much a question as ever.
Some inkling of Il movement in politics
may be gathered from meeting last
week of FRS: Assistant Postmaster
General Stevenson, Commissioner oil
Pensions Black and Representative
Springer, one object of which was to get
mn a Senatorial boom in Illinois In favor
of Black, to fill the seat now held by
Senator Cullom. Another object was 10
annihilate Representative Morrison po-
litically. Several things will have TO Dc
done before these schemes are perfected.
One OF them is Mr.. Blacks successful
outcome from the Senate Committee.
1t is to be presumed that this first move
ment was by and with the advice and
consent of the President, for each
of the three is decided Cleveland man.
IL is conceded from the two trials OF
the Galatea and Mayflower that, at
least, for comparatively quiet waters,
the centre-board contrivance is best. IL
remains TO be tried how it would an
swcr in the storms and waves OF mid
ocean.
The charges of disgraceful conduct
by Mr.. Bayard's envoy 20 Mexico, A. U.
Sedgwick, are renewed and fortified, or
perhaps fiftified. Mr.. Sedgwick must
explain.
1t appears that a conference OF irish
Catholic bishops took place a few days
ago at Maynooth, Ireland, at which res
olutions were passed endorsing MI.
Glastone and his labors, and demanding
home rule" whether or no. Failing IN
their work through Parnell they are
coming out in their own proper purpose,
and talk quite menacingly. Doubtless
all that can be done to relieve Irish dis
tress will be done by the government,
but it is not very likely that the spirit
Of incisism actuating those prelates Will
receive any specially favorable consld-
Grafton. Disorder and wretchedness
are the medium in which their policy
and purposes thrive most. They are
thoroughly understood.
A private acquaintance informs me
that letters from the interior, the main
land of North Carolina, speak OF the
terrible "shaking-up" the people there
had from the earthquake. This shows
that the cause of the disturbance was
very deep-seated. The lower condition
of the earth's crust under Charleston
and the Inflated Summerville, was the
probable cause of the heavier disaster
there. think it likely that scientists
will soon be enabled to divide the earth's
coatings into portions more definite than
ever before, showing the relative la
bility of such parts to seismic disturb
ance.
Prince Alexandcr's billing and COO
ing, gee.ing and having with the head
ship of Bulgaria seems to have ended
i'm his final abandonment of the govern
ment there. He may be right in his
want of confidence in the policies OF the
brute-force powers of Eastern Europe.
Some of these days, the trampled-down
and humbugged masses of those coun-
tries will cry halt upon their Cars
and Kaisers.
Sterling 2. Rounds is no longer pub
lie printer; Thomas E. Benedict having
fully succeeded him and is in place. No
changes in the offices among the EN-
ployees just yet.
Some idea of a revolution in the out
living States of Mexico is entertained.
They seem to be tired Of President
Diaz.
The President is expected home the
latter part of this week, after his fish
ing and deer hunting eXertions and ex-
p0riences. 1t is getting pretty wet and
cold up in the Adirondacks.
1t is said that if Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria had not abdcated he would
have been murdered within few
weeks. The Russians already talk of
Bulgaria as their own.
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