Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-12-10

ence oil great dxkFekattoHSos PcVP'e'
withstanding the unpropitious weather.
Besides the Speaker, ard one or two
others. your district Representative In
the House was honored with desk-top
covered with complimentary bouquets.
The attendance of members was unusu-
ally full for the first day of session. A
thinning ont of the crowds followed the
reading of the Presidents Message,
which contains nothing specially strik.
ing. He favors tariff notifications; is
against excessive mintage Of silver; re-
news his preference for arbitration In
the labor troubles between masters and
men. and sticks with characteristic te-
nacity to his civil service confession OF
faith. As to District matters he sug-
gests the reduction Of our District laws
to a uniform digested code; the i'm
provements of our bridges: the extern
Sion of the police powers of the Commits
sioBers; the confinement of the rail-
roads in the city within better restric-
tions, and the erection of suitable build
ings for the accommodation OF the
several branches Of the District govern
meht. The invitations of last year to
citizens to express their ideas on District
matters before the Senate Committee on
the District of Columbia, are this year
renewed, and will quite likely be made
good use Of. This opportunity is val
liable one not only to the citizens but
to the Senators themselves, who no
doubt get many a valuable hint from
those who will be sure to feel when aud
where the shoe pinckes. Though of the
same nature as the lions mouth in the
city of Venice, it is Of milder type and
under safe control. After several
months vacation with good pay all the
time, Congressman in both Houses
ought now 10 lay themselves out in good
earnest 10 give the country just equiv
alent. Sunset Cox is member Of the
House in Pulitzer's place. He was cor
daily cheered.
The press comments on the Presi-
dents Message are generally commend
atory. The n. Y. World of to-day
speaks well of it, but remarks OIL Mr..
Cleveland's habit of association with
the party of which he is presumed 10 be
the head. Mr.. Carlisle. the Speaker,
said that he had not been invited to hear
the Message in advance of its delivery.
hich seems to be something contrary
to previous practice when the Speaker
of the House is of the same politics as
the Executive. Ii has been the custom
with Presidents in the past to be pth
and of the leading lights among those
designated by the particular names
they respectively wear.
A large and destructive fire broke out
about half-past / o'clock on Sunday
morning i'm Herzos's theatre on D street
close to ninth, in the large and snowy
building also partly occupied by Spen-
GERS Business College. 1t was burnt
out completely and it took fourteen
hours work of the Fire Department to
make an end Of the burning. Losses on
defective insurance and in the stores
underneath may amount to $l5O,OOO.
No lives were lost but several escapes
were very narrow. Mrs. Spencer had
to be very nimble to save her life.
Two snowstOrms have filled our
streets with perhaps six inches of snow,
but at present the appearance is fair
overhead weather. But compared with
the storm swept far West, we reindeed
blessed.
Public attention is called to the hor-
rid Voudoo proceedings in Hayti in
which murder and cannibalism are so in
excess that the interference of civilized
people, as the United States and the
British government in Jamaica, is
loudly invoked. The worst features OF
African barbarisms on American soils.
The publication of the Memoirs of the
late Gen. Geo. b. Mcclellan brings up
come of the most exciting events Of the
lntersectional War. In respect 10 Hal
leck, Mcdowell, and Secretary Stanton
he is the very contrary OF 'mealy
mouthed." Stanton is his especial dis
like. He says that Stanton did all he
could to gain his confidence in order to
get him 10 take premature and false
steps and thereby seal his ruin. This
was before Stanton became Secretary,
for afterwards he was changed man.
He alleges that take East and West to-
gether and the losses by disease, more
than 500. 900 men were unnecessarily
sacrificed for the sake of insuring the
success of a political abolition party.
He says that Stanton during their early
acquaintance used to abuse President
Lincoln, his administration and the Re
publicans. He was in the habit of
speaking Of Mr.. Lincoln as the "origi-
might have easily got in Springfield.
Illinois, without the trouble Of going
TO Africa for. Stanton pretended 10 be
against the Aboli;ionists whilst he was
secretly furthering their policy in every
way. McClellan's memoirs is clear
per contra TO several previous histories
Of the war.
Sergeant Amiss has been appointed
TO the vacant lieutenancy of the late
Richard Arnold, so that there will be
no step backward. The Commissioners
adhere to their decision.
The news from Europe is that Ger
many, as shown in Won Moltke's late
speech, will insist on Frances disarma-
ment, or fight. 1t is thought that Ger
many, Austria, Italy and England are