Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-02
NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK,
Anril %. 1890.

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April 80, 1890.
DEAR REGIsTER-Some time this
week, probably before this issue of the
REGISTER is published, William KEN
mler, the first victim of electrocution,
will have been executed. Every paper
i'm the country is full Of it, but no one
seems to care less or be more indiffer-
ent about il than the brutal murderer
himself, now awaiting the mysterious
stroke, the circuit of which he is to
complete i'm the terrible chair with its
weird clamps and straps. The MUIR
der was committed in this city, but as
the readers of the REGISTER have
probably read the details so often it
is of no use to give them again. The
execution will probably take place on
Wednesday, April 30th, but the law
saws it must be some time during the
present week. Governors from dill
ferent States have applied for their
representatives to be allowed to wit
ness the execution at the State prison
at Auburn. but Warden Duston has
not yet announced the names OF the
twenty-seven persons who VIII be
present at that time. This may revo-
iutionize executions in this as well as
other countries, and the public will
know of it too, for no matter how
strict they are, there are sure to be
some reporters present.
How strange it is that the unwilling
of General Lees monument in Rich
mond on May 30th should again cause
the bloody flag to be waved. SO
many years have elapsed since our
terrible civil war that one would I'M
agine that it was time such things
were forgotten, or at least forgiven.
The Seventh Regiment OF New York,
which is the crack regiment of this
State. fished for an invitation to be
present at the unwilling and got one.
Now they have voted not to go, giving
as an excuse that as they have to
parade here on the 31st, they would
not have the time and would be two
much fatigued. Two Of the companies
voted to go, and the truth OF the mat
ter is that the older ones and the ofll-
GERS thought there would be too much
of the "old flag" business about it,.
Gen. John r. Corke, chairman of the
General Monument Committee and
who will be chief of eX Gov. F1tZ-
hugh Lees staff on unwilling day,
said: IF the people of the North wish
TO take no part i'll it, all well. 1t Is Il
home matter and | guess we can get
along without them. This attempt
to wave the bloody shirt is all wrong.
The Seventh Regiment has been In
vited. 1t was in accordance with
their known wishes and with their
approval Now they can accept the
invitation or not, just as they see tit,
and there the matter stands. 1t
would be we'll to state here, that the
Seventh Regiment is one OF the kind
that will march up through the city
in q parade and then come down
in the elevated.
They are trying to pass law at
Albany permitting saloon keepers in
this city to sell liquor during certain
hours on Sunday For one to consider
this impartially, they will find that
the proposed law contains some good
points A big majority of the people
of this city use wine or beer on Sun
day. and no one can say that eating
or drinking on Sunday, in modera-
ton, is sinful or is forbidden any
where. The rich can go to their wine
cellars or clubs and get what they
want and why should the poor class
be forbidden the little enjoyment
they derive from their glass of beer?
One might say they could lay in their
supplies on Saturday, but this Is
neither sensible or logical. You might
as we'll close drug stores, where on
Sunday principally cigars and such
are bought, and hundreds of other
stores of all kinds. If the law per-
United licensed places to keep open
about two hours in the middle OF the
day it certainly is hard to see in what
manner the Sacredness and purity or
the Sabbath day is violated-especl-
ally as the saloons are run all day
Sunday anyhow. The only way to
keep lawlessness down is by the law.
Mary Anderson, the great actress,
who by the way is Il Kentucky girl,
has announced her intention of never
appearing behind the footlights again.
This on account of her engagement
to Mr. Navarro. She has always been
called "Our Mary but Judging from
her partially for foreign countries
it is question if she deserved the
title.
cut the following from a daily
paper: Wanted, but impossible to
find: A Democrat big enough to
wear the mantle that dropped from
the shoulders of Samuel j. Randall.
-Repubtcam Organ.
Wanted and tolerably easy to find:
A Republican President big enough
to properly wear the hat left by the
late William Henry Harrison"
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