Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-10-08
Letter fr.m Washington.
WASHINGTON. October 5, 1885.

ington to explain the exact terms. But
no matter. let US be satisfied. The
bloody savage can't continue his diabol-
ical work, AMI that Is very much.
Probably General Miles did the best he
could.
Our District Commissioners have
come to the conclusion that the aque-
duct bridge at Georgetown is not safe
roadway for travel and traffic. 1t is
therefore closed after noon tomorrow.
The new public printer has discharged
about 500 employees from the Govern
ment Printing Office, Of all grades and
forms Of employment, mostly males.
The usual amount Of puffery Of the new
printer appears in certain papers. The
moment man gets some tolerably
prominent Office the papers discover
that he is an Admirable Chricton. But
Mr.. Bensdict's case will be something
for the Senate to consider about.
Senator John Sherman is putting ir
his best clicks in Kentucky on behalf
of the Republican cause. His brother
Tecumseh is not thought by many to
have succeeded in proving that jeff
Davis's Confederate Government de-
signed using the Southern Army to
compel every Confederate State to stay
in the Confederacy, whether or no.
The energetic denial of this point by
Davis is supposed to be well sustained.
Mrs. Clevelands reseDtful absence
from church at Buffalo OIL Sunday is
thought to be of Importance sufficient
to justify newspaper comment. IL the
Buffalo folks wanted to see the lady in
proper person, some stimulus has been
given to their curiosity by the indef-
mite number of photos Mrs. G. has
caused to be struck off. The fault, If
any does not seem to be entirely on one
side.
A good many serious visages may be
met since last week, parading the streets.
The turning out of five hundred employ
ees from the Government Printing Office.
and over two hundred work people of
all kiuds from the Navy Yard, forms an
unhopeful introduction to a coming
winter. The Post intimates that it will
take ut least two years to put the build
ings at the Navy Yard into such trim as
will admit mere commencement of the
great ordnance work talked about, so
that the dismissed hands may chang up
their fiddle" for that time at least, and
nobody can say for how much longer.
The material used in the several aban-
doned bureaus Of the yard is to be dis
tributed between the Brooklyn, Boston
and Norfolk yards. OF course this will
increase the number of hands at each of
these yards respectfully, and give so
many additional votes to the admins
traton in power. Hence there will be
efforts made. AMI strong ones, not only
to retain New York and Virginia but to
add Massachusetts to the Democratic
column. This will be the special prov
inces of Messrs. Whitney and Endicott,
who seem to have already devoted them
selves very zcalously to the same. The
question is, however, whether they have
not let the motive for dismantling the
Washington Yard be too evidently
political matter in which the interests
not of the people or the Industrious
classes have been so much regarded, as
the ambition of coterie. Gerrymand-
ering Navy Yards is something new
even i'm an age of novelties. 1t comes
in concurrently with the Boycotting to
which the District of Columbia has been
so palpably subjected since last March
twelvemonth.
Some of our Home-Rule journals are
much interested ia the mares nest they
have just discovered in Lord Randolph
Churchhilps oratoral ability. They
talk of his "stcrling liberal thunder"
because he is disposed to put the Irish
more ship-shape than they have been;
but he doesn't mind calling on the
House of Commons to rid itself Of "a
state of slavery to the caprices Of the
radicals and Parnellites.
The Governor Of Pennsylvania, Pat
tison, has caused legal proceedings to
be instituted against the great monopo-
list anthracite coal companies OF that
state for combining to restrict the out
put, and raise The price Of anthracite
coal. This is indeed as it should be, and
should have beer long time ago. Who
can adequately describe the extent to
which monopolists rule this land?
Secretary of the Treasury Manning
thinks of trying his hand on that office
for a couple Of months, to see how it
will work, and alse to give the Presi-
dent time to look round for a suitable
successor. Our new Albany Regency
would lose big spoke if Manning were
away.
A discharged employee from the
Navy Yard took the matter so much to
heart that he attempted his life day
or two ago by cutting his throat with
razor.
Attorney General Garland has re-
turned from his summers vacation and
is again at work.
Yours, &C., JADIs.