Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-04-30

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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. WEST VIRGINIA.
Friday, April 30, 1856.
Iris estimated that not less than fifty
Thousand laboring men are out on
strikes in the United States.
GENERAL Corr has been selected as
the member for West Virginia of che
national Republican congressional COM
mittee.
MANY West Virginians are more in
terested in building railroads now than
they are i'm politics. West Virginians
have sense.
THEREis so much attention direct ed
to strikes and base ball now that the
statesmen laboring at Washington are
hardly thought of any more.
LAST week President Cleveland sent
a special message TO Congress, recon-
niending the establishment of commits
sion to arbtrate on labor troubles.
IT is said that the Government con-
templates sending another expedition
to hunt for the North Pole. The friends
of the explorers may us we'll begin on
the obituaries now.
WE don't know which is being copied
and commented on the most extensive
Ex-senator Camden's speech on inter-
state commerce or his wonderful alli-
gator adventure ia Florida.
The President shows a most provok-
ing indifference to the gossip in regard
TO his marriage. He neither atfirms or
denies the story, nor will he blush,
giggle or frown when the subject is re-
ferred TO.
FATHER RYAN, the poet-priest so
well known throughout the South, died
i'm Louisville, Kentucky, last week. He
is famous for his stirring and earnest
poems on the war, and was o writer OF
great merit.
AMAN in Chicago has invented an
air ship. 1t will probably be put in
successful working order by the time
Congressman Randall finds tariff bill
to suit him and the New York alder.
men are convicted of bribery.
Hon. WIN. l.. WILSON has accepted an
invitation to address the Philanthropic
and Union Literary Societies Of Hamp-
den Sidney College, Va, at the coming
commencement. He goes at the invita-
ton Of the PhilanthrOpic Society, Of
which he is an honorary member.
Asa Presidential candidate Senator
Edmunds has been laid out as fat as
founder, and he will have hard work
to keep his place in the Senate, for Mr..
Blaine has his knife into him and Is ahx-
ious to kill him politically. BY taking
il on himself to get rid of so many Re-
publican candidates Mr.. Blaine is doing
a great service for the Democratic par.
ty.
The Democratic administration is not
doing so badly. During the first nine
months of the present fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1886, there was an increase
of over 81, 900, 900 in the revenues of the
government as compared with the cor
responding period of last year, and the
expenditures for the first nine months
of this year were over $4,000, 900 less
than the expenditures for the same pc
Rod of last year, making a net gain of
over s23, 5000
The efforts of his enemies to prove
that Attorney-General Garland has been
guilty Of corruption in connection with
the Pan-Elective Telegraph affairs have
proven vain. The investigation which
has dragged its weary length along has
proved exactly the opposite of what was
intended-it has INDICATED the Attor {.
ney-General and the administration,
and no amount of abuse from paid
newspapers will shake the public con-
fidence in Mr.. Garland's integrity.
A FRIEND of Senator Kenna of West
Virginia says that since his speech on
the right of the President to withhold
papers from the Senate his experience
and intercourse among Senators is so
wholly different from what it was that
he can hardly believe that he is the
same man living in the same condition
Of life. The correspondent of the Troy
Times writes that men who have hith-
crto been distant and reserved are now
almost enthusiastic in their expressions
of regard and esteem. 1t seats all what
one good strong speech will do to break
the ice for a novitiate in the Senate.
Kenna is delightful fellow in all re-