Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-08-20

WASHINGTON, August II, 1888

ards retirement on account OF 1t. lie
has despatched Mr.. Sedgwick to FL
Paso and elsewhere In Mexico to gather
up all the facts aud report back to him.
IL Is now said that Cutting Was tried
and convicted for crime committed
rhoHy in Mexico. II so, that puts an
other face OIL the matter. AS TO mans
innocence towards Mexico when the
crime was committed in the United
States-how would this bs? A man
stands on the left bank Of the Rio Grande
and fires his loaded rifle across that river
and kills or wounds Mexican. Soon
after the rifle shooter Is blockhead
enough to be seen in FL Paso, ami very
naturally gets arrested, tried and COLI
vieeed. Would it be a good plea that
he had a right to fire his rifle as much
MS he pleased i'm the United States ana
Is not amenable to Mexican law, even
if afterwards caught in that country!
Poor Washington Navy Yard! Ev-
ery bureau in it wiped out except equip
ment and ordnance Yards and docks;
Construction and Repair; Steam Engi'
neering; Navigation, Provision anu
Clothing. This comes from putting the
Secretaryship into the hands OF a MIL
liouaire New Yorker, who has gone
into vacation for several weeks to come,
after career three. fourths OF which
have been vacation. For what was It
the Washington people ''painted the
town red'' in November 1854! They
get the monkeys allowance, more
kicks than coppers." Our helplessness
comes Of our having no vote.
Gen. C. e. Augur, of whom incl
dentally spoke in my previous letter.
has lately had a rougher experience
than all his military life afforded. Late
Saturday light two big negro DULLES
adjourned to the front of his residence
in Georgetown to continue blackguard
quarrel that had begun somewhere
else. Their language was abominably
offensive. After bearing it a while the
General walked out upon the pavement
TO demonstrate, when the brutss turned
their brutality all at him. This was
quite intolerable, SO the General laid
light cane over the head OF the chief OF
the offender, Bill Pope. Instantly Pope
hnf GpnprHl
the leg following it up by three other
discharges, one in the side, which
brought General Augur to the ground.
His foes then decamped but were after
wards captured. Pope was once in the
penitentiary for numbering colored
man, but President Arthur pardoneu
him out year before his full time had
expired. He will be brought to trial.
but will probably get off lightly. The
General Is doing reasonably we'll.
Mr.. Samuel J. Randall's autocratic
department is not universally admired.
1 witnessed his cutting and slashing the
Senate's amendments to the Sundry
Civil bill. 1t was almost all 'Non-Con-
cur." One of the amendments was to
allow pay for two weeks vacation per
annum to the employees Of the printing
office which had been sOlemnly prom
ised them. mon concur" says Randall.
Up jumps Western member in opposi-
ton. "Oh," says Randall, 81 don't want
the employees of this government to run
the government" "Nor 1 either"
said the other, "nor do appreciate that
three members of this House should
override the balance of the 325." Sam
mey's doings often have more of the
autocrat than Democrat in them.
Mr.. Cleveland has again staggered
people by his appointment Of VIM. Ii.
Webster, a Thoroughbred Republican
and chief of Pension Division to the
influential place Of Chief Civil Service
Examiner. Said to be due to Dorman
B. Eaton's great power with the Presi-
dent. 1t Is talked of extending Civil
Service Law to the postOffices in all the
cities and large towns.
You have all heard of "Our Lady of
Lourdes" in France. Well, we are to
have a similar thing here, for they have
started a shrine near New York and the
necessary appurtenances are providing.
No wonder the "Holy Father" SO in.
tensely interests himself with the
United States.
The Pope, by the way, is becoming
very important factor in our affairs.
The great labor problem, is largely re-
fcrred to him for solution, for nobody
in our limits can so effectually stop the
main machinery. His say-so in the
United States on this mighty subject
puts us in mind of the old maxim, "Rome
has spoken and the case is decided" In
the knotty and troublesome Purcell
complication out in Cincinnati the APP
peal is to the Pope against Archbishop
Elder, who is charged with a purpose of
holding on to the four millions or rather
to the assets that have been held for the
partial relief Of Bishop Purcell's credi-
tors. He says the money has been put
into church buildings and cannot be re-
covered. But the Pope is expected to set
all right. We are told too that in the
architecture of the new catholic uni
yersity here In the District, the Pope
looks into and advises as to the minut-
est details.
An experiment on the Washington
aud Loudoun County Railroad to substi-
tute petroleum oil for coal, was made
yesterday with alleged success, and
speed of 40 miles an hour was attained.
Attorney General Garland has made a
dacided res ponsa IN his asSailants I'm the