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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

WE publish in this issue an articl
explanatory of the changes proposed by
the House Committee on Constitutional
amendments. The first, third, and
fourth amendments relate to the same
subject and would, we believe, receive
the hearty support of our people. But
why tack on to these amendments one
relating to different subject to be sub,
mitted under the same head,to be voted
on and adopted or rejected together !
Even in the same amendment two sub
jects are introduced, for one of which a
large majority ofthe people would vote
while as regards the other there would
be a greater difference of opinion. We
hope that the Legislature will submit
The amendments relating to different
subjects separately. Many persons
who would vote for capitation tax of
two dollars would vote against the
proposed change in the system of vot
ing, and many who would vote against
the present registration law would
vote for the secret ballot. A change
IN the constitution of the State is of so
much importance, that it should be
fully explained to the people and the
largest possible liberty in voting upon
each separate measure allowed. We
can not see any reason why amend.
ments relating to different subjects
should be voted on together. While
many OF the proposed amendments
may meet with the approval of the
people, if there would be one change
proposed to which they were opposed
the natural result would be that they
would vote against all Let each stand
or fail byits own merits. We cannot
adopt an amendment to which the
people are opposed by uniting it with
others Of which they are in favor, bnt
may by this scheme defeat those inn
portant amendments which the interests
OF the State demand.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

qualifications to be established. Thus
not only will the heavy expense and SCI
rious Inconvenience Of egistration be
saved to the people, but the identifca-
ton Of the voter will be secured with
a. provision from which there can, be no
escape. Intending this paper merely
for the information of the public as to
a subject Of paramount importance to
the welfare Of The Commonwealth, it is
not deemed proper here to argue the
great questions involved in the fore
going propositions.
In. future communications other
amendments will be stated and ex-
planned. JAMES Fl. DooLEY,
Chm'n House Com. on Con. ,Amtlts.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

WOODSTOCK vtR ilNIA.
THURSDAY Morning. December a, is74.

WrrM this issue, our labcrs for tn e
present year close. 1t has been enc o
unusual monetary stringency, and no
business interest has felt it more sensi
bly, than the publishing houses of the
country. Many have lived only by
sinking large amounts of money; and
some after loss of hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars have been compelled to
suspend their publications. That we
have been able to continue under the
circumstances We, are endebted in no
small degree to the promptness of many
Of our patrons. The year just drawing
to close has been very eventual one
in the history of our country 1t has
been one marked by many disasters up
on sea and land, b. political wrongs,
and by political revolution. The great
business interests of the country now
appear to anguish, but soon, we hope,
are destined to revive and, based upon
surer foundation, to increase with the
development of this great country.
Every community has had its peculi,
ar changes during the last year. Ours
has bad many. In respect to business
interests, the change we think has been
favorable, and our people will begin
the year 1875 with greater zeal and a
more earnest confidence in the self sus-
tanning resources of our favored section
Many have been the social changes in
this community. Some of our leading
spirits have gone. Their familiar faces
are no longer seen epon our streets
There is vacant chair in many homes.
Those who assembled around the Christ
mas table last year will not meet there
tomorrow. Perhaps he who sat at the
head of the table f'oIn our earliest reco'
lecti and n lcomed to the cd home.
stead his children will not be there to
extend that happy greeting. His voice
is hushed The vacant chair brings to
eur minds and to our hearts the pleas
ing associations of past years. The old
homestead may have passed into other
hands, and where we were happv
last year others may now be happy.
Other forms may now be occupying
our places, other happy hearts may be
enjoying the annual welcome and the
old homestead may be the scene. of hap
py festivities, while the hearts of others
are sadlened by the association of the
present with the happy scenes of the
past.
Whatever may have been the achiev>
ments of the year, they are now fixed,
Each individual has made his own his
tory. Whether we have embraced ev
cry opportunity of doing good or not,
we cannot now change the deeds Of the
past year. We can only review them
and from errors ofthe past learn lessons
for the future.
To our many readers we extend the
compliments of the season with the
earnest desire that the new wear may
have much good in store for all.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
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NDoAH I'll Err ALI AND VALLEY A DvERTIs Err

:. 5WAsuINaToN, December l6. The
House Judiciary committee have adopt
ed An entirely new civil rights bill
The new bin provides thatrwhe-e pub.
lie schools Of equal facilities, capacity,
tatilage, leugthof session, &C.. are pro-
vided for The. blacks. the penalty shall
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
THE AMERICAN FARMER.

This pioneer journal of agriculture maintains its
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crops of the Middle and Southern States: Fertilizers
Homemade and artificial; Live Stock; The Dairy
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Ills Farm Paper for the working, thinking, Rad
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
Thaodoro T,;lton ,1aol.,,

Theodore Tilton, declares, they say.
that he has not been in as good health
for the ten years past as at the present
time, and ''his interior life is more
agreeable and self posed" And yet he
is still down on Beecher, who has done
nore for his health, it would seem,
than would have been accomplished by
= SIX mopth's.stay at tae springs, or the
swallowing Of a-wboie dug store.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
ANOTHER FIRE.

After four hours hard work the FIRE.
men started for home, when, without a
moments warning, the flames broke
out on the water end of the wooden
building which extends the entire
length Of the northern side of Hit
fingers wharf. The flames worked
their way to the west end of the wharf
and swept through to the north side.
along the length Of the wharf. The
extensive salt mandatory of Warner
q Freeman was destroyed. The ship
Rep orter was saved only after hard
struggle, aud the fire was at length
subdued. The fires are all thought to
have been of incendiary origin.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
Forneys Sunday Chronicle

Forneys Sunday Chronicle places
the Indebtedness of the District of
Columbia at the enormous figure of
S'5,475,537 SO. This is a debt of
about 81 per head on every man,
woman and child that tho last census
csts5itS to the Dfu ic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

The Legislature has passed a bill re,
curing that three regular terms of the
Circuit Court of each county and of
Richmond city shall be held annually,
besides special terms, which may be
held as provided by law.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

John Neville, aged eight years. resi-
ding with his parents in West Hoboken,
New York, was Kidnapped on Thurs
dayInigiit, willie playing with com
panion.
An express car On the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad caught isRte from the
sparks from an engine on Monday, at a
point pear Weverton, and the. ear was
burnt. The express messenger rolled
the safe out before he was forced to
leave the Car. 1t was loaded with
goods for the Valley of Virginia.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

BY request We publish in this issue
the law enacted last winter for the pro-
lection of sheep in the counties of Fred
erick, Clarke and Charlotte.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
viii contribute; during the year, frequent Essays
and Poems; and WILLIAM OULLEs BRYANT And
HENRY W&DSwoRTH LoNGFELLoW
will publish Poems ana Papers of special interest.
MARK TWAIN"
Will contribute Sketches of Mississippi River Life as
he used to see it from pff5t house.
BAYARD TAYLOR
Will write of Life in weimar and Gotha, and on
topics suggested by his recent residence in GERMANY
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Win furnish, during his soforrn in the East;
Sketches OF Oriental Life ana Travel
ROBERT DALE OWEN
Will continue from time to time, his Chapters OF Aul
photography. FRANCIS PARKMAN SIN Contribute
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picturesque episodes OF the old colonial life IL Qiebee
and Montreal
The Atlantic will follow Mr. Eggeston's "RecoIlec--
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The January number will have Poems by Long,
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Poem Stodfard, Elizabeth Stuart Pheloe; articles bv
Bayard Taylor (Iife in Wei arr, Robert bsle pwer
Recen Spiritual Phenomenal, the beginning of Henry
James, Jrs Novel (iodsrck Hubs n.y. the hrst of Mr.
Ssnborn's Papers on John Brown and story by
sMark Twain"
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

LOB PRINTIM,ofall k3nals At the lonw
y estTffess ,hesifys txttNtfNSt a.. siwsS
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-12-24

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Will contribute. during the year FREQUENT yssavs
snd Poems; and william CULLEN BRYANT And
HENRY W2DSwoRTH LoNGFELLoW
Will publish Poems ana Papers of special interest
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-04-07
4 FataIist Justified by Experience.

The bank burglar known "a Big
Frank who escaped from Tie Newcastle
(Dcl) Jail, recently, has some reason for
fatalis;ic belief in the circumstances OF his
rc-arrcst in Philadelphia, rs thus t0i to- =
reporter: MY arrc-l is fate he exclaim.
cd, "simply fate and nothing else. That
late which begins with all such creatures
as myself, which follows Us night and
day like a shadow, which interrupts our
private peace. which disiurbs our dreams,
and which finally brings US down here in
such place as this. It's this fate wLich
holds me now = captive. Listen 10 my
story. MOI remarkable arrest can he
found in criminal record. No natter
where had my Gu. r:crs after MY arrival
in Philadelphia. suffice ieto say tia; nj tho
moment of my capture had only been
in daylight five inmates. saw u horse
car passing down Master street, aud, up
on looking al it, saw man steady gaz-
ing at me from one of the windows ;clt
uncaiy, though did not recognize The
face, and stepped into the first .l,tn |
came 10. | was forced 10 come out in
order 10 get something to eat. You know
what followed The man .oInd con-
stable and arrested me. Think Of il -
Had come ont OF the place where was
staying one moment later the affair could
not have taken place. Had the car been
behind tine, TO day. instead Of being
here | would have been free. The man
who recognized me is Il resident ol an
oihcrciiy. lie passes down Master street
only once in so many years. AID yet this
man, at the hour, nay, al the very moment
appear upon the street recognizes ne
aud brings me 10 This dreary cell Sir, it
is !alo, tate ana nothing less"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-04-07

Oh. how | loved that child | often
wondered if all mothers thus loved their
children. And from the love born with
its birth there sprang such rcw feeling
tenderness towards my husband that
[ never dreamed could exist. Had !
realized then rs do now the mission OF
that child should have been prepared
more Tor what follows. But that was not
revealed TO me until my heart throbbed
with the agony oil desola;ion.
For three years this messenger oil mercy
chccred our homo and hearts. Then
death robbed me of my treasure. Never
was death more dcsoating nor sorrow
more deep aud murmuing, followed by
4 sweeter, caImer, holier submission.
Though years have passed since then
my old love ofgaieIy has mover returned.
The whispers of vanity have been TN.
needed, The loyalty ol my heart has nev.
er been questioned, because find 4
purer joy in life OF devotion to Him.
who, when lolly had well nigh ruined
ne, raised His holy arm in my behalf.
And to-day as scatter fresh spring
flowers over the grave Of her whose
guilcles. soul lei ncr mo.hor's feet back
to luty and right bless in my inmosI
soul Him "who gave. who took, who
will restore who doeth all things WE'LL
El.slS UJUfhly.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-04-07
NUMBER II.

self name, and be received - he then
comparatively small sisterhood OF States,
when she adopted for her proud motto,
"Dirigo7-"I Lead; and from that day
TO this she has borne her banner proudly
in the very front rank Of advancing civil
izalion. She has larger representation
heIe 10 night than any other one oil the
New England States. The most beaull'
lul city in this State, and what is to be, IN
the near future, the most beautiful city OF
the United States.-Minneapolis-is
owned, controlled. and mostly populated
by the sons and daughters Of Maine. She
does not boast so III ca OF what she has
been as OF what she is-the grandest
nursery for the producing OF men and
women on oil this broad Contincnt.--
Look at her representatives around this
board; observe their broad shou ders,
massive forms, well shaped heads. and
sparkling eyes. Maine grows no pigmies,
but men and tCOmen; she does not turn
her children out upon the world unpre-
pared Tor lie conflicts of life she endows
them first with physical form, gotten MP
on Il massive scale, aud then puts them
lulbh - AhSA'Hrh NA"a"'HP 80 '''N
guessing school, she tells them to "git"
and provide for themselves, and they do
git" everywhere. aud rs general rule,
they manage to get all that belongs TO
them wherever they 60. They 20 10
Massachusetts, and Get into the guber-
material chair; they monoplize .lhc same
seat in Illinois, and Wisconsin; one of
them ran for the same seat in this State,
but the son OF n Green Mountain boy
crowded him of the track for the time
They 20 to Washington. and are at once
boosted into the Speakers chair. ana arc
recognized as leaders among the leading
men of the Nation.
There is quite a general impression that
Maine is cold, barren, dcsolate region.
Her statistics certainly do not tell any
such a story. Her manufactures, and Tho
products OF her soil for 1873, amounted
in The aggregate to over $6J,OJO,OJ0 IN
value. Her hay crop alone was worth
S2j, 100000.