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

WASHINGTON, June 20, lSs

ing muskets, as requisite to clear the
road tracks and permit the freight
trains to move.
An unusual procession Of $50 men
with attendant lalies i'm carriages, and
headed by fine brass band, landed OH
Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday from
Baltimore. They called themselves The
Commercial Travellers Association just
from convention in, Baltimore. Our
people here call them by shorter
name, viz, Drummers. They waited OH
the President, and said they represented
26O, 900 drunmers. Surely there never
was such drummed people as we are.
The Post reports Mrs. Cleveland as
reseIaing what ladies who have Wis.,
tied her have to say. 1t would be very
sorrowful if Mrs Cleveland and her
lady visitors cannot agree.
We were all honestly surprised at the
vote of to against Matthews, the AL
bany nominee for Recorder of Deeds,
the District, last Friday. Ingalls, and
Pike, Senators from Kansas and New
Hampshire, were the two. ingalls, is
sharp, able man, but most inveterate
partizan, and ought not to have voted
for Matthews, for ingalls, has held HIM
self out as great friend of the District
and its people. If the Senate rejects
Matthews, Mr.. Cleveland ought TO give
the disposal of the place to the District
Democracy.
Our Chief of Police for three years
past has been Major Dye, who was a
Pension Office Clerk. and previously Or
ganizer of the Egyptian army about the
time of its defeat at Tel el-Kebir. He is
removed, and it is thought that Mr.. 5.
III. Walker citizen Of Capitol Hill,
will get the place. limitations are
abroad that Collector Cook (colored)
and District Auditor Tichenor will also
be asked to resign. The latter place is
worth, believe SO 900; the former not
less than 81 900 year. The wonder is
that the President holds OH so tightly
to the Register of Wills, for the present
incumbent was bitter opponent, using
his publication, the Republic, to ridi-
cule and oelittle Mr.. Cleveland.
Somehow or other Washington City
has too many murders upon her record
Last night young man named Frank
Blackford, son of j. 5. Blackboard, for
merly Superintendent of the Capitol
police, aged twenty-six years, was shot
in the side and killed by Samuel Glass;
enhiemer, the keeper of a restaurant on
9th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue.
Claimed to have been done in self-de-
Tense.
No end to the plans for public parks
about Washington. The most attract
i've seems to be a park along the pct-
uresque valley OF Rock Creek, say l 900
feet wide, to run from near Lyons
Mill to the District line. The cost of
the land would be 100000. Then the
scheme fora grand avenue from near
Observatory Hill to Arlington by u
bridge or bridges through the Analos-
tan island, is very popular. A bridge
over the Eastern Branch at the eastern
end of Pennsylvania Avenue, connect
ing the heights with the City by an easy
line of road, will before very long
cause those pleasant elevations to be in
the market.
The political pot is boiling, almost
over the brim, as expected, in the Brit
ish isles. Parson Beecher of Brooklyn,
in his very first speech, "put his foot in
it" so maladroitly, that according to a
cable despatch he has felt it to be his
best way to back out from speechifying
altogether. In order to demonstrate
the great fitness of Irishmen tor self
government, and probably for govern
ing generally, he instanced their
achievements in New York, in which,
says the very pro-Irish Washington
Star, he certainly was not happy"
The Star adds, "the Scotch-Irish, whom
Mr.. Beecher justly asserted to be among
the shrewGest and clearest-headed bus
mess men In the United States, are the
class who in Ireland are fighting against
home-rule with all their might. This is
singular confusion for mind as able
as Mr.. Beecher's." The fact seems
really to be that Mr.. B. thought he was
to 70 over on great putting expedition,
which would he likely to put him
"solid" with the New York and Brook
lyn Irish. John Bright, the Birming-
ham Quaker, stands very far ahead Of
our Brooklyn B in the pending strug-
gle. John is sincere and sound, Henry |
Ward hollow and empty; John has
much at stake, Henry sought only self
glorification, and missing even self-ap-
proval. Bright objects to giving UP the
genuine interests of Ireland to the fac
tious men who pretend to be her
friends. He says 81 cannot intrust the |
peace end interests of Ireland, north or
south, to the Irish parliamentary party
to whom the government now proposes
to make a general surrender. My six
years experience of them, and their Ian
guage ia the House Of Commons, and !
their deeds in Ireland, makes it impossi-
BILE for me to hand over to them the in
dustry, prosperity aud rights of five
millions Of the Queens subjects. Our
countrymen in Ireland-least ways two |
millions-are as loyal as the people of
Birmingham" Howe, the historian,
denies the capacity of the majority in
the south of Ireland for self-govern-
ment He COWS Uther,s ia I'm Ireland /