Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-31


herdstown does better than that.
Move the capitol to ShepherdStown.
AT Port Huron, Michigan, on Mon
day. a negro man was lynched by a
mob of white men with such cruel
and revolving brutality that, had it
occurred in the South, the Northern
papers would never have finished
writing about it.
WORD comes from Charleston that
another gang of dreadful outlaws has
been broken up by the Eureka detec
tives. We tremble to think what
would become of West Virginia if
these Eureka sleuth-hounds should
die or go out of business.
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\ FEW days ago the President APP
pointed jolly old Beverly Tucker of
this State TO be a special envoy to
Hayti. The awful fact was I'M
earthed, however, thar Mr. Tucker
was an x-Confederate, so the APP
pointment was at once revoked.
IT is said that the President is like
ly to appoint his law partner, Mr..
Miller, to the vacancy on the Supreme
Court bench AS Mr.. Miller is several
sizes too small for the place he now
occupies-that of Attorney-General-
it is safe to say he would not be much
OF an addition to the Supreme Court.
\ DINNER given TO Grover Clevel
land last Monday evening by the
Young Mems Democratic Club of
New York, and which was largely at
tended by the prominent men of the
country, shows Enthusiastically that
the tide of public opinion is flowing
toward him as Democratic presi-
dental candidate in 1892.
THE Ladies' Confederate Memorial
Association of Winchester have I'M
dertaken to erect headstones on the
graves in the Virginia lot in Stone
wall Cemetery. There are nearly
four hundred of them, and the cost
will be about 81, 500. General Jubal
A. Early has accepted an invitation to
be present Memorial Day, June 6.
ABOUT one thousand of the iron
workers employed by Andrew Car
negie at Pittsburg have been obliged
to accept reduction in wages that
amounts to one-fourth of their earn
ings. They have signed the scale for
three years, so they are bound until
the next presidential election, when
they will no doubt again become
dupes of their protected master.
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WILLIAM POWELL, late of the L. s.
Army, is the latest beneficiary of our
beneficent pension commissioner.
Shortly after he had been mustered
out of service Mr. Powell was struck
on the head with a demijohn by a
companion. Of course he was not
entitled to pension and never got it,
but seeing how things are going now
he applied for and has obtained the
usual monthly allowance.
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It's very queer, but somehow or
other it is almost an impossibilty for
the government to have good ship
built. An immense sum of money
has been spent on the new cruiser
Charleston, yet she seems to be a fail
ure, for repeated trials have shown
that she is anything but satisfacto-
ry vessel. While all these failures are
being recorded on government work,
private firms are having constructed
the most magnificent ships, each new
one showing some great improve
ment over its predecessor and even
more than meeting the demands of
its purchasers.
THE Minnesota House has passed a
bill making drunkenness a crime
the vote standing 81 yeas to 3 nays,
and the Governors signature will
make the measure a law. The pen
alties prescribed are: For the first
offense, a fine not less than so or
more than $40, or imprisonment for
not less than ten nor more than forty
days; for second offense, a fine not
less than $40 nor more than $50, by
an imprisonment not less than thirty
nor more than sixty days; for the
third and later offenses, imprison-
ment for not less than sixty nor more
than ninety days
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THE school elections in West Vir-
ginia last week, which doubtless are
pretty fair indications of the political
pulse when it is unexcited, reveal a
very comforting state of affairs to the
Democrats. In Kanawha county the
Republican candidate for county
superintendent received only $50 ma
jority, while Golf got 1911 last fall
Preston county gave LOGO Republi-