Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-09-06

Ohio Canal seems TO have gone into
hole and pulled the hole in after him.
NEWS comes from Europe that Ba-
ron Schinmelpenninck is dead. It's
a wonder he ever grew up, with such
a name.
TRUST Tanner to get rid of the sur
plus. During the month Of August
there was paid out $4,000 for seven
teen re-rated cases alone.
Those two eminent detectives,
MessrS. Burnet and Baldwin, OF
Charleston, have dissolved partner
ship. Now let both of them go TO
Alaska.
THE one hundred and fifty cotton
weavers of Wilmington, Del, have
Just been forced TO accept areduction
of 10 per cent in wages. And the
tariff is still high
Mr.. WANAMAKER may be very
fine business man, but if the postal
affairs of the country are not in worse
shape than for many years we are
nightly mistaken.
The controversy between Postinas-
ter General Wanamaker and the West
ern Union Telegraph Company seems
to have been settled. and it is sur
missed that the p. NJ Ct. has taken
water
BY the recent death of Congress
man the Republicans have only one
majority in the House of Representa-
tiveS. And their anxiety for an extra
session of Congress has been suddenly
relieved.
The fastest time ever made between
this country and Europe was that of
the great steamer City of Paris last
week. She crossed the ocean in five
days, eighteen hours and nineteen
minutes.
THERE is great strike among the
labOring men of London. tens of
thousands of workingmen having
quit work until their wages are adj
vanced. 1t is the old story Of capital
grinding down labor.
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BALTIMORE is making great prepa-
rations for its big celebration next
week. There is TO be a whole week of
jollification-parade fireworks, bonn
bardmentS, and so on. The President
is TO be there on Monday.
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THE three leading candidates on the
Republican State ticket in Virginia
were Confederate officers during the
late war. The northern journals,
however, have not yet found any
fault with the ticket on this account.
The Shepherdstown REGISTER con
tinuesits hebdomadal abuse and villili-
TO say, Tanner doesn't mind it bit
WiHiam$pOH Transcript.
NEVER mind, our hebetudinous
young friend. Well get his meat.
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THE doughty General Golf is very
much put out at the way his fraudu-
lent votes have been treated by the
contest committee, and in Washing
ton the other day made divers Zero
cious threats against the Democrats.
Softly, now, General.
THE REGISTER has received a letter
from the Chicago committee asking
its influence in having the Worlds
Fair in 1892 located in that city
We regret to be disobliging, but the
truth is we think Washington the
proper place for holding the fair At
the same time, however, we do not
wish TO entirely crush Chicago.
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THE Ohio Democrats have nominated
Hon. James f. Campbell as their
candidate for Governor, and he will
make strong fight against Foraker.
The Democratic leaders have strong
hopes of winning, and we hope they
may bury the great American dem
agogue so deep that he will not be
resurrected until Gabriel blows his
trumpet.
Elk SENATOR HENRY G. DAVIS has
been appointed by the President a
member of the International Congress
of the Three Americas to meet in
Washington shortly. 1t is said that
Mr. Davis was appointed at the ur-
gent request of Baltimore business
men," This is very fattering, to be
sure-but were there no Baltinoreans
suitable for the place?
THE commission to select site for
West Virginia's new Reform School
has decided that Pruntytown, in Tay-
Tor county, is the best place for the
institution. The people of that place
donated the old courthouse. the Jail
and the jailer's residence, and $4,000
i'll cash as an inducement. The fifteen
other counties that didn't get the plum
do not approve of the site.
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n STATEMENT of the public debt
shows that there was in increase of
S6,OOO,OOO during August. The in
crease in July was $1,000 Even
the United States Treasury has a bot
tom, and Tanner and his fellow Off
Gals are finding it even sooner than
was expected. Where will the money
be by the end of this four years of
Republican administration?
JUST as we predicted last week, tn e
work of the investigating committee
frauds in Mercer county last fall