Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-05-08

ing very vexatious to some prom
inent West Virginia Republicans.
The President has become alarmed
at the situation and is crying hands
off,"
EX-SENATOR EDMUNDS, OF Vermont,
has his eve on the Supreme bench,
and hopes for the seat OF Justice
Bradley, who is growing old and
feeble.
IT is suggested that the old battle
field of Bell Grove. on Cedar Creek,
be laid out in villa lots and called
"Sheridan Park" What will Gen.
Early think of it.
The President was surprised at
what he saw and heard during his
visit TO the South. He thought he
was going to foreign land where igno-
rance and superstition prevailed.
Mr.. CHAUNCEY DKPEw says
when you come to think about 1t,
the South is the only part Of our
country which is purely and especial
" American. 1t has not been invad-
ed by the foreign immigrant"
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THE election contest in Connect
cult is hard to decide. They are now
recounting the vote cast more than
six months ago There is no law for
this proceeding, but each parts hopes
TO discover something.
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GROVER CLEVELAND gave the Ma
ton one of the best and safest ad-
ministrations it has ever had. 1t was
broad and patriotic and included the
whole United States. Can the same
be said of Harrison's administration?
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THE Investigating Grand Jury OF
New Orleans has made an elaborate
report of the Malta affair and find
that several of the jury that tried the
case were bribed and that about
5000 of the best people Of the city
were engaged in or sympathized with
the actors in that tragic affair.
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THE next Congress will be called
upon to appropriate large sums to
pay off the obligation created by the
late billion-dollar Congress. The treas
ury is now threatened with collapse.
The old adage is proven true, "a
fellow can't spend his money and
keep it too"
SOME Of the friends Of Rev. DR..
Phillips Brooks regret his election as
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese OF Massachusetts,, because
they fear it will result in loss to the
pulpit of their church. A loss TO that
pulpit would be a loss to the worlds
pulpit. Phillips Brooks stands at the
head of the pulpit orators of the day.
THE Martinsburg Statesman refers
to Shepherdstown as being remote
from some places, but it is probably
a little more lively than Martinsburg,
il the following item, which W, clip
from the Statesman, is true: Mr..
Benjamin Slane, living on Maple ave
nue., near Fits mill dam, shot and
killed fine canvas back wild duck
on the dam on Saturday last 1t is
not often that wild fowls alight on
the waters in the midst of town and
in full view of hundreds OF people,
NEW ORLEANS has not heard the
last of the Malta. Philip j. Palermo,
a naturalized Italian, Informs the
Mayor Of New Orleans that he is lin
daily fear of assassination" by mcm
bers of the Malta; that three men are
thirsting for his blood, his brother
being one of them, and he wants pro-
lection. By going into court against
other Italians he has incurred the
Malta penalty which is thus pointedly
expressed Death to the traitor who
complains against a brother Italian
before any other than the secret tri-
bunal of the oath-bound fraternity"
Another Malta murder in New Orleans
would let loose all the furies.
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THE annual Expenditures of the Uni
ted States are at present in round
numbers $3.50, 900, 900. The annual ex-
penditures for the next two years will
be above $500, 100000. So gradually
has this enormous Expenditure grown
that the people have become insensi-
bile to its magnitude. Something of
the latter may be comprehended by
comparison.
The United States is the greatest
wheat-producing country in the
world; it is the greatest oats-produc-
ing country in the world. The value
OF last years wheat crop was 1884, OOO,
600; the oats crop, 1929, 100000
1t will take nearly the entire crop
Of wheat and oats in this country to
pay next years expenses of the Gov
eminent.
There is in this country an annual
product of gold Of s33, 900, 900; of sill
yer, SCI, ZOO, 900, of copper, S33, 900, 900;
of iron, S107, 900, 900; of coal, S191, 0OO,-
600; Of petroleum S24,0OO,0 900; of Lead
$4,000, OOO
All the gold, silver, copper. iron,
coal, petroleum, and lead produced
in this country last year could not
pay the expenses of the Government
for the same length of time.
All the cotton, all the wool, or all
the rye, barley, wine, potatoes, and
tobacco produced in this country in a
year could not do it.
The national banks OF this country
have a combined capitalization OF