Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-19

ninety. He don't soar very high, but lie
gets there al the same.
The last session of the Forty-ninth
Congress will meet the first Monday In
December. According to law 1t must
adjourn on the 3rd Of March.
GossIPs announce that the Whitneys
will entertain more lavishly in Wash
ington this winter than ever. Then
they must indeed intend to spread tn an
selves.
Iris thought that there will be no AT
tempt at tariff legislation by Congress
this session. Our Representatives VIII
therefore have more time to protect the
Treasury from pension raiders.
The recount so earnestly desired by
the Republicans in this State has
proven to be boomerang. They have
uniformly lost votes by the recount,
even in their own strongholds.
Gov. WILSON has issued thanksgiv
ing proclamation. Now if the Governor
would send turkey along with the
proclamation to each one OF his constit
uents he would make himself solid.
BOB TAYLOR, the Democrat, was
elected Governor of Tennessee by abont
5000 majority. We infer from this
that he kissed more babies and fiddled
great deal better than his brother ALI.
The people of Bulgaria appear 10 be
unable to get any one to become ruler
of the kingdom. Several persons have
recently refused that honor. We re-
spectfully suggest that here is an open
ing for Mr.. Blaine.
Our in Kanawha county the whiskey
men elected their candidate for county
commissioner, and consequently Charles
ton will no longer be "dry" town. 1t
will be as wet as water-we mean whis-
key-can make it.
MCCABE, one Of the indicted New
York aldermen, has escaped justice by
getting himself declared lunatic. lie
had sense enough to get $4,000 for a
single vote. though. Well bet that
McCabe is no fool.
SEVEN Egyptian mummies were re-
Gently imported into this country, and
the tariff OH them was placed at ST. 200.
What particular branch of industry the
tariff on mummies is designed to pro-
tect we are at loss TO conjecture.
The great strike of the Chicago butch
ers and packers has been ended by M.
Powderly, who ordered the men to re-
turn to work at the old rates. The en-
ployees in the meantime have secured a
number OF new hands, and will only
take back a limited number of the
strikers. Another strike that didn't
pay.
Mr.. FLICK ordered recount in Ma
rion county. He got it. He lost one
vote himself and the official count
further showed that Carter, Republican,
who had apparently been elected by a
majority of seven, was defeated by Kim
sey, Democrat, who was elected by a
majority of six. Let the good work of
recounting 60 on.
Mr.. FLICK may have conducted the
past campaign in creditable manner,
but we think that his efforts to "rehy-
pothecate"-or, in plain English, steal
enough votes by recount to prevent
Mr.. Wilson from taking his honestly
won seat are not altogether worthy of
an honest and friendly contestant. 1t
is discreditable in the extreme.
FIRES are no respecters of houses.
The same evening that a gin mill was
burned out in New York flames de-
stroye3 the splendid church built by
Moody the evangelist in Chicago. and
on Sunday the magnificent Catholic
cathedral in Pittsburg went up in
smoke about the same time a cigarette
factory was destroyed in Baltimore.
The statue of Liberty enligttening
the world, which was unveiled with so
much ceremony in New York couple
of weeks ago, doesn't seem to be en-
tightening very much. The govern
ment refuses to pay for keeping the
lights going, and the New Workers are
too stingy to stand the expense them
selves. In the meantime Liberty is
melancholy by day and enshrouded in
gloom by night.
VIOLET CAMERON, the English actress
Of doubtful reputation, who came to
America with troupe and with Lord