Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-01-06

pose of fixing the time and place for
helping the next national convention.
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TIE war clouds of Europe appear
TO have a silver lining just at present,
but they have been too long gathering,
and are TOO thick and heavy still, for
very strong hopes that they will blow
away without a storm.
Ir is said that the production OF
minerals in the United States was
S36. 600. 900 more in 1887 than il was in
1886. ~ far a. our experience goes,
we don't think there was much in
crease i'm gold or silver.
\ REPORT comes from Kentucky of
the discovery of tremendous and
very wonderful cavern. 1t may be
true. but our private opinion is that
the liar from the back counties Of
West Virginia has migrated.
THE New Year : reception on Mon
day at the White House 10y the Presi-
dent and his wife was a very brilliant
affair The toilettes of the ladies were
magnificent. and no unpleasant incl
dents married the festive scene.
THE people of kingwood have got
ten out of the woods by the compile
ton Of Il railroad To the main line of
the Baltimore & Ohio. The road has
been built after many discourage
ments, but al last it has got there. -
GOV. JOIN :. MARMADCKE, of Mis-
souri,, died in Jefferson City on Decem-
Der 29th. aged 50 years In his early
life he fought duel in which he killed
his antagonist. and ii j. said the horror
of that event ever afterward Swallowed
his existence.
THE leaders of the Knights of Labor
have been trying very hard TO get up
strike among the employees of the
Reading Railroad. but most of the
men refuse TO quit work. Work with
wages is much better than striking
and starving in such season as this.
THE Alexandria Gazette on Monday
entered on its eighty-ninth year,
though 70 read il no one would ever
suspect that it is such an old stager.
We hope the Gazette may live and pros
per many years yet-and that it may
make up with the administration.
GEN. GOFF, of this State, is being
talked of as candidate for Nice-Pres-
ident by the Republicans One would
natu ally think the General would
rather be an elected member of Con
gress than defeated candidate for
Nice-President. Still, il is none of our
funeral
THERE i talk of increasing the
number of judges of the supreme
Court of the United States. There is
more business before the court than
it can handle, and the docket is two
or three years behind in some inStan-
ceS With more Judges, decisions
could be rendered more promptly.
y LARGE proportion of the glass
workers of the country have struck
because they don't want their wages
reduced. This will suit the manufact-
urers exactly They will sell the stock
on hand at big price, and about the
time the surplus has been cleverly dis
posed of the workmen will have been
starved into submission and will go
back to work for what the bosses
choose to give.
THE Chesapeake 4 Ohio Canal has
been given q new lease OF life by the
announcement that the interest over
due since January !. 1887. on the $500,
600 of repair bonds of 1878 Is now
ready for payment. This does away
with the danger of foreclosure for
awhile. at least. and in the meantime
the Maryland Legislature will have an
opportunity TO come to the relief OF
the ditch-the last ditch, as II were.
CONTRARY 10 expectation speaker
Carlisle did not announce the com
mittees of the House when Congress
reassembled on Wednesday. 1t was
stated that they would be made on
Thursday or Friday. The most i'm
portant of all is the Committee on
WAYS and Means, aid ii is said Mr..
Mills will be chairman of ii. Our
Congressman, Mr.. Wilson, will be a
member of it. The committee will be
a tariff reform one.
Hon. DANIEL MANNING, eX-Secre-
tarv Of the Treasury, died in Albany,
Y, December oath. As is we'll
Mr. Manning had never fully
from the stroke he sustained
his death was not unex-
rs one of the ablest
mt Clevelands cab
md conservative
the Treasury