Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-10-29
Letter from wnshington.
wAsHrsoroS, October 2s, 1885.

ator Kenna Is credited with the opinion
that the House of Representatives OF the
5Oth Congress will have twenty-five
Democratic majority. The Journal Clerk
of the House thinks there will be seven
to ten majority; but some smart Repub-
licans claim a majority for their side of
the House. Nous Uerrons.
A large lump of consolation is offered
to the hundreds of discharged work
men from the Navy Yard in the shape
of prophecy, Of course emanating from
the Navy Department, that in four OF
six months most of them will get back
ayain TO work in the Yard. In the
meantime they can live or die as best
they may, or get grocers and provision
dealers and drygoods men to trust them
OH the strength of said prophetic official
utteranees. 1t is mos; probable that II
there had beer no Brooklyn Navy Yard
there would have been no Secretary
Whitney. His blessings in this direc-
ton have not been particularly rich or
such as TO excite a very profound sense
of gratitude.
When | reported that the President
was TO 90 to the Richmond State Fair,
we were all told that the whole family
from the White House, and considera-
BILE additions from the Cabinet families,
were ready and agog to go with hin.
But, after all, they didn't! Case why?
Who knows? Only, perhaps, he who
knows who struck the famous William
Patterson. Anyhow, the mischievous
gos.ips have it that the Washington Ia
dies were struck with sudden panic
when they heard at the last moment be-
fore starting, that Miss Winnie Davis,
an ofshoot from the redOubtable jeff,
was to help Governor Lee and the visit
ing ladies i'm the reception business.
The subject is one little dwelt on in
court circles.
Our unique Samuel Sunset has thor
oughly concluded OIL quitting his Tur-
key, which so charmed his Imagination,
at his final and "foreyer" departure
from Congress. Either Samuel has ex-
p:oded his supply of jokes, or else the
Sultan is too dumb to relish them, for
Samuel has had Turkey enough, and
now with his characteristic self-sacri-
flee resumes his once faded affection for
seat in the House.
can't say how it happens, but it does
seem that our heads Of Departments for
the most part, heads of Bureaux, and
the like, have resolved OH q concerted
plan Of compelling the astonished admi-
ration of the country for their unpar
alleled virtue and vigilance. Thus
there is controversy going on between
the Acting Secretary Of the Treasury
and the District Commissioners as to
whether the latter shall or shall not
hand in to the former detailed state
ments of the new streets and street re-
pairs, &C., that are to be undertaken be
tween now and the 1st July 1883. Then
the head Of the Pension office is taking
lessons in the "ways and means"
whereby Pharosh made things SO sa-
luxurious and agreeable for the children
of Israel, so as to apply them to the
thousand or so over whom he yields his
gentle sway. As for the Navy Yard
enough has already been said. And
now the new Printing boss is driving
things with high hand and an out
stretched arm over his 800 reduced
force, also threatening some awful rev.
elationI relative to his predecessor. 1t
might be we'll enough for him to re-
member how Congress is constituted be-
fore he lets off his big bundle of fire.
crackers.
Very, very strange news, indeed, has
come from Rome, being no other than
the report of consistory in which the
question Of the Pope's leaving Rome
was OH tho carpet. AS one might ex-
pect, no decision was come to, but that
such subject should be mooted at all
shows that the Italian government evil
IDENTIFY means business. 1t may have
come to the conclusion that Rome would
be better off without the Pope than with
him. If it should end with Q policy Of
finding home for the Pope In the
United States, Baltimore would be the
very spot. The question next to arise
would be the transportation Of St. Pc
ters' and the Vatican. In such a case
the zuchettas and berettas would be
manufactured on this side, Another
boom for our native industries.
The fates, or some incendiary, scored
victory for the fire fend last night Oh
Capitol Hill between End and 3rd
streets, on Pennsylvania Avenue,
whereby six frame but well stored
buildings were destroyed, and sixteen
persons injured. There was tremsn-
dous explosion of gasoline which blew
windows to atoms and spread most in
furious fusillade of splintered glass, pu:-
ting out an eye each for two persons,
with other serious injuries. Loss $50, 900,
with here and there competent insur-
ances. Brick buildings will, of course,
take the place Of these frames. Sails
bury is being rebuilt OH this plan.
The cats-paw office assumed by France
on behalf Of Russia to push England
out of Egypt will do no good. France
was originally offered an equal share in
Egypt but ign obly refused. She must
now abide by her choice.
Yours, &C., JADIs.
The Great National Drill.