Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-01-22

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Friday, January NJ. 1855.
You've man, 60 West, and engage in
the ice business. In Montana this week
the mercury froze in the thermometers.
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Hon. A. p. GoRMAN has been re-elect-
ed by the Maryland Legislature as
United States Senator. He went through
easily. The Republicans cast their votes
for Hon. Louis E. McComas.
THE Committee on Rivers and Harbors
has resolved to limit the amount sppro-
priateG by their bill to $ll GOO, 600.
We shall see how well it shall keep
within this limit by the time the bill is
passed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been re-
ceiving some hard knocks from the Sem
ators this week. He is still pursuing
the even tenor Of his way, though 1t Is
more than likely he will kick back some
of these days.
A NAN i'm New York has established
a coonery, and proposes to furnish the
markets with fresh coon meat. AS the
Irishman remarked when he first saw
monkey, "What will the New Workers
get up next?"
WHEN great corporations fall out the
public gets its dues. The railroad war
has made travel cheap between the East
and West, and competition between
rival gas companies in Baltimore has re-
duced the price to fifty cents a thousand
feet-about one fourth what it used to
be.
GIRLS, beware Of the dashing young
man with the fancy name. Miss Neitie
Dorsey, a belle of South Bend, Indiana,
married a heightened but unknown
young man named George Washington
Harry Claire, and she discovered the
day after the wedding that he was n
thief and a forger and had another
family besides.
TIE backbon of President Cleveland
stiffenei with Indignation when the
Republican Senators demanded his rea-
sons for removing Republican office
holders and putting Democrats in their
to understand that it was none of their
business. At last reports the Senators
were doing their best to back out of
the situation.
AND now Montana Territory wants to
be a State, and thinks that she will get
in because she has a Democratic major
ity. She wants TO come in with Dakota,
AMI will act as an Offset to Dakota's
Republican majority. The truth of the
matter is that neither one of these Ter
ritories are sufficiently advanced for
admission as States, and no political
seesawing admitting them is justifiable.
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A BILL has been introduced into Con-
gress to make the Commissioner of AS
riculture n Cabinet officer. We suggest
a better plan, and that is to set up an
additional cabinet. TO be composed OF
such eminent but unappreciatcd patriots
as Gen. Hazen, Of the Weather Bureau,
tho Commissioner of Agriculture, the
Commissioner Of Pensions, and so on.
Their salaries should also be increased
to a degree commensurate with their
dignity, even fit busts the Government.
The House passed the Senate Presi-
Dental succession bill without amend
ment, and President Cleveland signed
the bill, thus making it law, on Tues
day. The bill provides that in the case
of "the death, resignation or inability
of both the President and Vice Presi-
dent" the Cabinet officers shall be in
the line of succession. The order shall
conform to the following: The Secre-
tary of State, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, the Secretary of War, the Attor-
ney-General, the Postmaster General,
the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary
Of the Interior. They are to continue
in office until the Inability" is re-
moved or d President elected. 1t is
made the duty of the Secretary succeed
ing, if Congress is not in session, to
convene it within twenty days.
The Parkersburg Sentinel is response
BILE for the announcement that the Hon.
Henry G. Davis will be candidate for
the Legislature in this State next fall.
Upon authority equally as good it is sta
ted that Hon. Daniel B. Lucas, Gen.
Joe Spriggs, Hon. B. F. Martin, Hon.
John j. Davis, Col. j. w. ST. Clair and