Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-07-19


and kicking.
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THERE is deficit of Sl,30O,OOO in
Ohio's State Treasury. But Foraker
big mouth has not revealed this I'M
pleasant truth.
A BOY baby in Indiana has four
legs. Won't he be terror TO the
Young men if ever he grows up and
has daughters?
THERE is not very much difference
between John Wanamaker, Post
master-General, and John Wanama-
ker, haberdasher.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN has had several
rounds in Chicago this week with
John Barleycorn. The latter gained
every knock-down.
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WE are pleased TO notice by the
Martinsburg Herald that the appoint
ment of its editor as stamp collector
gives such general satisfaction.
THE seat of government is now at
Deer Park, and President Harrison
will spend little time at Washington
until after the warm weather Is over.
THE Hon. Jake kilrain announces
his intention of again challenging the
Hon. John l.. Sullivan. If Jake Will
take our advice he will never monkey
with Mr.. Sullivan again.
IT has been rumored the past week
that Mr.. Blaine intended TO resign as
Secretary of State. Mr.. Blaine and
President Harrison, however, who
both ought to know, say it is not so.
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The splendid new war-ship Balti-
more had her trial trip last week,
and it is said she behaved splendidly
and is a first-class vessel. The next
thing is to get first-class officers on
her.
THERE is said to be a good chance
of defeating Foraker for Governor of
Ohio this fall. We hope he may be
beaten out of his boots, but Ohio can
stand almost anything politically
even Foraker.
Mr.. WILSON, tariff reformer, and
Mr.. McComas, high tariff advocate,
are both in Europe loading up for the
next fight Well bet the ammuni-
ton of our Congressman will bring
down the most game.
We are informed by recent dis
patches from Washington that the
fish commissioner has recently found
fine specimen of modern apiocis-
nus. very much like the jurassic
apiocisnus. N.Y. Ny!
THE salt trust is getting itself ready
for business, and will start on cap
ital of S20,OO0OOO Still, we mustn't
kick, for Mr.. Blaine says trusts are
private affairs with which Mr.. Cleve-
land or no other citizen has any right
to interfere.
IT is said that the President and
Secretary Noble are very weary OF
Commissioner Tanner, and the prOba-
bilities are that he will soon be re-
moved. If Tanner makes his own
friends sick it's no wonder the balance
of the country is nauseated.
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THE schemes for disposing of the
surplus in the treasury are numerous
and novel, and Congress will have to
closely watch the plunderers if dis
honest and reckless extravaganza is
to be prevented But we are afraid
the next Congress will not be built
that way.
THE g. \. X. is up in arms because
the railroads refused to give them
special rates of cent a mile for their
encampment at Milwaukee, and
threaten not to have the encamp-
ment at all 1t is well to let the O..
A. r. be reminded every now and
then that it doesn't own the earth.
THE employees of Carnegie's steel
works at Homestead, Pa, have won
their fight against a reduction of
wages. The Carnegie managers
only gave up when their entire force
of steel workers in Pennsylvania
threatened to strike if the Home
stead men were not given fair wages
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THE Democrats of Winchester, Va,
recently allowed the Republicans to
elect majority of the town council.
The first thing the Republican did
was to appoint negro as superin-
tendent of streets. The people are
now kicking about it, but we don't
see that they have any right to COM
plain of their own performance.
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SENATOR CHANDLER has again
rushed into print in regard to that
ear-twisting scrape between Senator
Blackburn and himself. He tries to
wriggle ereditably out of the affair
by directing his venom at Senator
Faulkner, but the more he wriggles
the worse the exhibition he makes
There is something remarkable in the
extreme meanness of certain pub
lie men down east"
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THAT infamous murderer, DIR. Nc
Dow, of Charleston, s. c., not con
tent with numbering Captain Daw
son, for which foul crime unhappily
he was acquitted, is now prosecuting
the family of his victim by continu
ing his efforts to destroy the nurs,