Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-05-05
News Items.

of the Harnden express Compa-
ny in Baltimore last May, and broke Jail
and was captured in,Indiana, was convict
ed on Saturday and sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
On Friday night disturbance took
place between SOME members Of circus
troup and citizens at Elkton Nd Several
persons were beaten and one man named
William Rudolph fatally cut by colored
man.
Ex-Governor Wells was rendered the
appointment of United States District
Attorney for Virginia on the day that he
suffered by the Richmond disaster. 1t is
believed that he will accept.
On Saturday last as the down freight
train on the Southside railroad was NOV
ing over the the temporary track recently
built around the High Bridge, the engine
exploded, killing the engineer, almost in
stantly The fireman and one of the
brakesmen received serious injuries, but
were doing we'll at last accounts.
General Lee arrived at Wilmington
Thursday, on his way home and was
warmly greeted The Cadets of General
Colston's Academy acted as an escort.
His health is thought to be improved.
The fishing Sc ason is now dra wing to
close. At some of the lower landings
on the Potomac, preparations are being
IN ade for ''cu;ting out" in case the run
of fish ecreases much, Alexandria ia.
zette.
The remains of Pat Cleburne, the ia
nous Irish Confederate General, received
funeral honors in Memphis, Tennessee, on
Thursday. The fire department, the
Irish societies, the Fenians, and the ex-
Confederate soldiers turned out, and
among the prominent individuals in the
procession were Jefferson Davis, ex-Gov-
ernor Harris and General Pillow.
At meeting Of citizens of Phiadel-
phia, on Saturday. committee of forty
was appointed to solicit subscriptions for
the relief of the Richmond sufferers.
1t is rumored that the Central Pacific
Railroad Company has purchased the
California Pacific railroad for three million
dollars
The MOrm0ns Aiming.
OGDEN, May IA circular ordering
the Brethren to convene at the ward
school-houses for drill. was privately
circulated through Salt Lake on Friday.
Drilling and arming continue throughout
the territory of Utah. Fifty Danitcs are
said to have been enrolled since Brigham
Young's return. Meanwhile Brigham
declares Mormonism is peace.
Louis Napoleon's Proclama ton.
PARIS, April 25.-Louis Napolcon's
proclamation concludes as follows
'To the call which I make on you to
ratify the liberal reforms realized during
the last ten years, reply, Yes AS for
myself, faithful to my origin, shall con-
tinue penetrated By your thoughts and
fortified by your will, and confding Prov
idence, to work without cessation for the
prosperity and grandeur of France
NAPOLEON"
According to the report of surgeon,
man who was lately killed In Paterson,
N. j., was dissected, and his lungs found
to be, TO all appearances. turned to soap
stone, or something very like it!
Gen. Sheridan yesterday telegraphed to
the War Department that he should leave
Chicago without delay for Sioux City, as
the Indian troubles were growing more
serious overy day.
Hildebrand, the Missouri bushwhacker,
has gone to the Red River county to
take a hand in the coming fight with the
Britishers.
THE INCOME TAXA Tax payer sends
us number of facts concering the gross
injustice and inequality of the income tax,
as derived from his experience as trus-
tee and guardian for widows and orph-
ans, as we'll as in his own individual
case. 1t happens that the incomes of
these widows and wards are in every
;ns,scce less than one thousand dollars,
and We. they ss.-e deprived Of the benefit of
the exemption ofsmall incomes from taxa
ton, because their meagre funds are IN
from which the law compels the
to exact five per cent. tax before
paying interest or dividend There can
be no better illustration Of the injus- !
tice of the income tax, but it is
only one of its many inequalities. |
We have started the same case, with |
many others of similar character, in the |
Ledger scores of times. The utter i'm
possibility of framing an income tax bill
that can be just an equal in its operation,
Or be anything else than odious, unjust,
and oppressive, was demon
'trated by the political economists of Eng
and before some Of the champions of our
law were born, and yet the latter cling
o it as though it were inspired by the
7ery genius Of wisdom and justice.
There is no way to make it right by
amendments and supplements.
Except with reference to the incomes of
1863, the law is now dead by liminta-
ion. and We feel convinced that no men,
'er of Congress and no officer Of the gov
'rnment who is really governed by repub-
lean or democratic principles Of equal
~ will lend himself to its resuscita alton ia
my form Philadelphia Ledger, !