Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-06-04

WASHINGTON, June l, 1886

ton that he repulsed the prefer of the
American crown. For oh, the sample
we are now getting Of Republican in.
terest, down to the remotest scintilla,
about their soon tO-be Democratic Maj
estes, out Jenkinses the veriest of all
the Jenkinses. AS the American people
are never half of anything, we should,
IL we had the chance. beat the world at
loyalty and all that thereto appertains.
Before this gets into print, it will be
Grover and Frank or Fanny, but only
one Cleveland; DIR. Byron Sunderland,
Of the FIRST Presbyterian church, being
the honOred blacksmith. That is the
amount of it. We shall get our reward
for patience, and Grover wife anG a
farm. 1t remains to be seen whether
Her Majesty will like the District Of
Columbia well enough to stay here after
she has got used to it, and politics are
measurably passed away.
Congress is evidently choked with OLE
omargarine, for nothing else is talked
of, hardly. Many an important thing
Is overlooked for this tedious and sick
ening subject.
Yesterday, Decoration Day, drew its
usual crowds; the skies, too, gave a
hearty tribute of tears. Hon. JnO. d.
Long, member of the House from Mas
sachusetts, pronounced the Grafton at
Arlington. There were celebrations at
Soldiers Home, exercises at the Con-
gressional Cemetery, Alexandria and
other places. The President was in
New York and visited Grants tomb.
He dined with Miss Folsom at the Gill
sey House. A magnificent present from
him to her is being made at Tiffany's.
1t is set of plate.
Our Bluenose controversy has settled
down, and the general judgment seems
to be that the Dominion people acted in
no unfriendly manner, the real mischief
having originated in Mr.. Frye's refusal
to comply with the Presidents sugges-
ton for commission TO examine and
settle the whole fishery business. The
influence of Frye and his allies in Con-
gress sufficed to cause Congress to act
under what looked like a burst of pat
riotism, but was really Buncombe. The
irritation along the coasts of the Gulf of
st. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy ap-
pears to have pretty much subsidized. A
capture was, however, made on the 3Oth
ult., OF small fishing smack carrying
Spanish colors, off bay in Florida, for
violating our fishery laws in fishing too
near the shore. The Chlotide had ten
men on board, none of whom speak
English. She had no papers and was
from Havana. The fine of $500 OH the
skipper OF the Nova Scotia vessel which
came in without manifest, will not be
pressed.
Not many days ago application was
made by parties i'm England to the Col
lege of the Propaganda i'm Rome to use
It's influence with the Irish bishops to
have Irish representatives in the London
Parliament; and since then, it is al
legged, our Mr.. Powderly has forwarded
a declaration Of the principles OF the
knights Of Labor to the ver:table Pope
himself, and that some utterances of the
Papal See on the subject may shortly be
expected. Who says the Pope has no
influence?
The Home Rule pot still SINNERS.
The well-known publicist, Goodwin
Smith, has written heavily against Mr..
Gladstone's hobby, and the still better
known c. I'll. Sturgeon. the Evangelist,
talks after this fashion: "What," says
he, "has Ulster done to be cast off
The whole Home Rule scheme is full of
dangers and absurdities. as if conceived
by a madman?'
Talking of Ulster, the London Pail
Mall Gazette says that the Orange
army to resist Home Rule is composed
of 1861 men, artillery, infantry and
cavalry. This rather outshines our
New York Clan-na-Gaels. The same
paper says it is extremely doubtful
whether the British army could be re-
lied upon to force Ulster to submit to
Parnell.
Talking also of Parnell, it seems that
about week ago Member of the
House of Commons charged Parnell
with saying in a speech he made in
Cincinnati, that she would not rest un-
til the last link than connected Ireland
with England had been broken" Par
nell strongly denied this; but report
er In Cincinnati finds that on February
Goth, 1880, Parnell is reported as hav-
ing said i'm Music Hail. as follows:
"When we have undermined English
misgovernment we have paved the way
for Ireland to take her place among the
nations of the earth. And let us not
forget that that is the ultimate goal at
which all we Irishmen aim. None of
US, whether we are in America, or in
Ireland, or wherever we NAV be, will
be satisfied until we have destroyed the
last link which keeps Ireland bound to
England" What Mr.. Parnell is re-
ported to have said then, has all along
been believed to represent the real poll
ey and purpose he and his followers
have in view, to which it is easy to see
Home Rule could and would be made
almost halfway house. Very late in
telligence gives the probable vote on
the second reading of the bill, conserv-
atives 252, the Chamberlain and Hart
ington party 9G: the Gladstone and
Parnellites 297, with % not voting, thus