Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-02-17

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II. L. SNYDER, Publisher,
sHEPHERosToWa, WEST VIRGINIA.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1888.
Mr.. BLAINE knows when he has
enough.
THE Reading strikers are still on
strike, but they are getting hungry.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, the widely
known editor Of the Toledo Blade, died
on Wednesday. Hisproper name was
d. r. Locke.
Hon. C. E. HoGG has been selected
as member of the Democratic Con-
gressional Campaign Committee for
West Virginia.
THE fashionable world wagged along
at a pretty rapid rate this winter, but
is now becomingly arrayed in its sack
cloth and ashes.
THE modest and charitable editor
of the Philadelphia Ledger, Hon.
George w. Childs, is being extensively
spoken of as Presidential candidate
on the Republican ticket.
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No one will approve more heartily
of Mr. Blaine's declination than John
Sherman. He has already modestly
announced that he will lead the for
lorn hope that Mr.. Blaine won't.
THE labor party in New York is
going to pieces DIR, McGlynn and
Henry George have fallen out with
each other, and il won't be long be-
fore they will fall out with themselves.
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SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER has re-
Gently been making a sad spectacle of
himself in the Senate. A good cause
the abolishing of secret sessions OF
the Senate-has an unfortunate cham
pion.
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WE are looking toward Hon. VIM.
L. Wilson, Of Jefferson county, West
Virginia, for the speakership of the
next Congress- Wheeling Register.
You couldn't look at better man
for that place.
AN attempt is being made to revive
the labor party in this State and
meeting will be held in Parkersburg
on the Goth Of this month for reor-
ganization. Greenbackers, Republi-
cans and dissatisfied Democrats will
Join together as band of brothers.
A MEETING of the Charlestown Dem
ocrats has been called for next Friday
for the purpose Of organizing CAM
paign club. 4 call will shortly be is
sued for the formation Of Democratic
club in Shepherdstown, and similar
action should be taken throughout
the county generally.
JUDGE HAND, of Pennsylvania, re-
Gently decided that in a case of disa-
greement of the jury in capital case
the accused can not be tried the sec
ond time, and is virtually acquitted.
II this ruling shall be sustained by the
Supreme Court, lawyers need not
waste much time in proving their eli
ents' innocence. All that will be need
ed is the securing of one stubborn
juror. -
ANOTHER rich New Yorker is in
trouble because he made love to a
PENNSYLVANIA girl and then refused to
marry her She has big bundle OF
love letters from him which she will
show up in court, and il they are like
samples published in the newspapers
he will have hard work to face the
music infatuated but insincere low
ers should write their sentimental
thoughts on the sand very near the
sea.
THE Crown Prince of Germany IL a
doomed man. Notwithstanding the
hopeful reports sent out in regard TO
his condition, the throat disease from
which he is suffering is steadily grow
ing worse, and last week the opera
ton of tracheotomy-that is, the cut
ting Of an opening in his windpipe, so
that he can breathe through tube
which is then inserted-was resorted
to. He is face to face with dreadful
death, which he is awaiting bravely
and peacefully.
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Mr.. JAMES Ct. BLAINE has written a
letter to Mr.. B. F. Jones, chairman OF
the National Republican Committee,
in which he says he will not be a can
didate for the nomination for the Pres
idency this year. Notwithstanding
this announcement, however, he pro-
fesses to think that Republican sue
cessis almost assured in the approach
ing Presidential campaign. 1t is very
generous Of Mr.. Blaine to withdraw
from the race when he is so confident
his party will win.
REV. FATHER WHELAN, OF st.
Patrick's Catholic Church, Ottawa, i'll
a sermon on Sunday denounced the
prevailing social custom which re-
quired young ladies to appear in semi
nude costume at balls and parties
He also denounced round dances, as
well as the custom of supplying wines
and liquors at social gatherings, and
said Ottawa society was strewn with
wrecks of fair womanhood. Catholics
could learn something from Protest
ants in this respect, and he urged the
so-called leaders of Catholic society to
bring about q much-needed reform.