Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-04-16

HON. C.. p. SNYDER has been appoint
ed as the West Virginia member of the
Congressional Democratic Committee.
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A BILL has been introduced in the
Senate to enlarge the White House. Can
il be possible that the President in
tends to get married!
A CONNECTICUT Yankee has invented
machine with which he weaves rugs
from hair. The continuance can be
truly called q hair-loom.
THE Earl OF SALISBURY committed
suicide in London ..on Tuesday by shoot
ing himself in the head. Mental de-
preston is given as the cause.
The editor of the New York World,
Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer. has resigned as a
member of Congress. He finds that it
will require all his time to hunt up sen.
sations and falseboods for his paper.
For the next six months the city pa
pers will be filed to OVERLOOKING with
base ball news, while the modest cOun-
try editor will be satisfied to fill up with
snake stories and descriptions Of curious
vegetables.
EACH day something new in the way
of strike turns up. The school-boys
of Troy, n. Y, and Greenpoint, Long
Island, have struck for shorter hours of
study. The police had to be called out
to quell the youthful rioters.
RAILROAD business over the Gould
railroads in the Southwest is being re-
sumed, but a large force of military has
to be kept on guard all the time. 1t Is
likely that the strikers will not give in
withouC further trouble, however.
The present Congress seems deter
mined to spend rs much money as it
possibly can. One Of the latest extrav-
agances is a bill proposing to erect q
$500, 1000 statue of President Lincoln.
There are already two such memorials
in Washington.
Ii Is not often that Senator Riddle
berger gets on the right side Of the
question, but the fight he is now max
ing against the secret sessions Of the
Senate is not only for the right but is
also on the popular side. There are
many Senators, though, who love dark
ness rather than light.
CAPTAIN Pipes, the Republican who
= did the dirty work necessary for the re-
moval of Mr.. Cross, Democrat, as assist
ant door-keeper of the Senate, holds a
place under the Democratic Secretary
of War. Is il any wonder the faithful
are disgnsted when they see such fell
lows kept in fas places? M
TUESDAY was bad day for New York
aldermen. Eleven of them were ar
rested and promptly indicted by the
grand jury on the charge of being con-
nected in the Broadway street railway
steal. Other arrests are to follow, I'M
ill not only the bribe-takers but the
BRIDE givers are to be brought to justice.
Mr.. ROBERT GARRETT, president of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, having
won a lawsuit which permits him to
build window that is obnoxious
to his pext.door neighbor, the said
neighbor now threatens to turn his own
home into the noisiest kind of an orphan
asylum, so as to get even with Mr.. Gar.
rett.
SOME one has started rumor to the
effect that the President is suffering
from lack of exercise. But any one who
knows how many times the President
shakes hands in day and the agility
required to evade the kissing of babies
presented by fond mothers will not be-
lieve any such report. The President
does need wife, though.
WE shall shortly see which Is the
strongest sentiment in the breast Of
Observation-Disclosures or the love Of
fashion. Societies are being organized
by tender-hearted persons to prevent
the killing of birds for the decoration
of hats and bonnets, while fashion de.
clares that the birds are necessary to
the perfect adjournment of the fair sex.
Which will win?
Mr.. MORRISON OH Monday introduced
his new tariff bill into the House, and it