Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-07-02


The Executive Committees of the sever
nj counties of the district are requested
TO take the proper steps for the appoint
ment of delegates to attend said Con-
vention; and it is recommended that
each county appoint not more than one
delegate for each one hundred DEM
ocratic voters in the county, aud one
for any fraction of one hundred over
fifty. By Order of the Committee.
CIV. DALEY, Chairman.
w. S. RAYMOND, Secretary.
The Wheeling Register has appeared
i'm bran new dress, and looks as pretty
as sweet sixteen. We wish our con-
temporary continued success in all
things.
WE hope that the various candidates
will not be backward about coming for
ward and placing their cards in the
REGISTER. Our columns are yearning
for them.
GEo. w. CHILps, Of the Philadelphia
Ledoer. positively declines to become
candidate for the Presidency. Well,
rather than see the office go out OF the
profession, we'll accept the honor.
Mr.. V. NJ. FIRoR, of Charlestown,
appears in print i'm card in the Berke-
ley Springs News, from which we
gather that he is willing to serve MS
country as State Senator-if elected.
CONGRESSMAN LIE FEvRE says that
"no member of Congress can live on
his salary of five thousand dollars n
year and be honest" Well, no-Eot If
he lives as fast as Congressman lie
Fevre.
K
JUDGE FLICK is spoken Of as a candi-
date for Congress in this District. The
Judge is well set on his pegs, but it
would be an easy job for Mr.. Wilson to
knock those pegs from under him IN a
Congress ional election.
The Congressional convention for
this district will be held at Keyser ON
the 25th of August. We hope that jeff
erson county will send solid and en-
thusiastic delegation for Hon. VIM. l..
Wilson, the best representative the Sec
ond district has ever had.
At q mass-meeting of the striking
miners at Sewell, New River district,
the strike was declared of, and the men
resolved to resume work Monday. A
number of the strikers will not be re-
employed by the operators, and it is
feared that they will bring on another
strike. There is no advance in wages.
In accordance with a decree of the
government all the members Of the roy
al family have been banished from
France. This is done TO protect the re-
public from the danger Of return to Il
monarchy, but it is believed by many
that it will have a contrary effect, as the
banished princes have many sympathi-
zers.
THE Democratic State Executive
Committee met at Parkersburg last
week and elected Hon. Henry G. Davis
as the West Virginia member ofthe Ma
tional Executive Committee, in place
of Mr.. Lewis Baker, who has removed
from the State. Some business relat-
ing to future campaign work was dis
posed Of, and the committee adjourned
to meet at the call of the chairman.
A NUMBER of postal clerks recently
originated nice little scheme by which
they thought to keep themselves in
office. They organized an association,
the object of which was to prevent the
Postmaster General from dismissing one
without causing all of them to strike.
The plan did not work well, for, COM
ing to the ears of Mr.. Villas, he promptly
dismissed twenty-ni Of the ringlead-
ers. That wound up the conspiracy
suddenly.
WHEAT continues low in price, bu t
when the farmers consider that every
thing they have to buy is also very cheap
they must allow that they are not with
out something to be thankful for. Gro
ceries, dry goods, implements and sup
plies generally are down in about the
same proportion as wheat. And then,
too, the big crop this year is surely some
thing for which we can be thankful. anC
1t is the privilege of every one to at least
hope for better prices.
CONGRESSMAN WILSON recently re-
ceived letter from the chairman of the
Executive Committee in Randolph coun-
ty saying the Democrats would hold
their meeting Monday to select delegates
to the Congressional Convention and
asking him to come out.