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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
GID Letters


Never burn kindly written letters it
is so pleasant to read them over when
the ink is brown, the paper is yellow
with age, and the hands that traced the
friendly words are folded over the
hearts that prompted them, under the
green sod. Above all, never burn love
letters. To read them in after years
is like resurrection to ones youth.
The elderly spinster finds, in the i'm.
FASHIONED offer she foolishly rejected
twenty years ago, a fountain of re-
Juvenescence. CHANGING over it, she
realizes that she was once belle and
beauty, and beholds her former self in
a mirror much more congenial to her
tastes than the one that Confronts her
in her dressing room. The "widow
indeed" derives a sweet and solemn
consolation from the letters of the be-
loved one who has journeyed before
her to the far-off land, from which
there comes no. message, and where
she hopes one day to Join him. Nc
photographs can so wildly recall to the
memory of the mother the tenderness
and devotion of the children who have
left at the call Of heaven as the episto.
larry outpourings Of their love. The
letter of a true son or daughter to
true mother is something better than
an image of the features-it is a reflex
OF the writer's soul. Keep all loving
letters; burn only the harsh one, and
in burning forgive and forget them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
Going to Paint the Mountains.

Max Adeler, the Philadelphia humor-
list, writes:
1--WE met our friend, Daubs, the ar
fist, the other day, and asked him what
he was going to do this summer.
81 think, said he, 'Ill take a run up
into the interior Of the State, and paint
the Alleghanies."
''Daubs has big. job on hand for
the warm weather. We should think
it would take him all summer to paint
the Alleghanies, even if lie did it with
a whitewash brush. We don't exactly
perceive the use ofpainting them; they
look very we'll as they are. And sup
pose Daubs takes it into his head to
paint that whole range OF mountains
pink, or cream color, or to fresco thema
We never saw a cream colored noun.
tain; but somehow we feel as if it
would be as interesting as a light blue
horse, or brown moonlight. But if
Daubs paints those majestic hills pink
we shall emigrate from the State. We
should rather live in a humble brown
stone house on eight or ten thousand
dollars year in some part of New
Jersey, than to dwell in the most gor-
geous frame residence on less money in
Stat, with pink hills"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
4 SUNBEAM.

The greatest physical paradoxes is
the sunbeam. 1t is the the most potent
and versatile force we have, and yet it
behaves itself like the gentlest and most
accommodating. Nothing can fall more
softly or more silently upon the earth
than the rays of our great luminary-
not even the feathery flakes of snow
which thread their way through the at
lhosphere as if they were too flmy to
yield to the demands of gravity like
grosser things. The most delicate slip
OF gold leaf, exposed as a target to the
suns shafts, is not stirred to the extent
of a hair, though an infants faintest
breath would set it in a tremulous mo-
ton. The tenderest of human organs
the apple of the though pierced
and bufeted every day by thousands of
sunbeams, suffers no pain during the
process, but rejoices in their sweetness,
blesses the useful light. Yet few of
those rays insinuatmg themselves into a
mass of iron, like the Britannia tubular
bridge, will compel the closely-knit
particles to separate, aud will move
the whole enormous fabric with
as much ease as q giant would a
straw. The play of these streams upon
our sheets of water lifts up layer after
layer into the atmosphere, and hoists
whole rivers from their beds, only to
drop them again in SHOWS upon the
hills OF in fattening showers upon the
plants. Let but the air drink in a lit
tie more sunshine at one place than an
other, and it deso1ates the whole region
in its lunatic wrath. The marvel is that
a power which is capable of assuming
such diversity of forms and of pro
ducing such stupendous results should
come to us in SO gentle, so peaceful, land
so unpretentiotls a manner.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21

The following comes with the spring
time. 1t sounds like Danbury, but
Danbury has gone to see Naples and to
die: ''To those who are going to move
we would say, ifyou have to get up
and change your local habitations, just
go off without cleaning house, and leave
it ifpossible, in a nastier condition than
when you first went in. Throw al the
old broken bones, shoes, hoop skirts
and broken lamp chimneys just where
they can be Taked in a pile-but don't
do any raking. The incomers know
what it is to make garden. If door
or gate is nearly off the hinges give it
kick and help it to go; itpleases the
proprietor to fix such things up at this
time Of the year. Tell your Oldest hope
full to throw the old dead cat in the
well because itimparts delicious taste
tplthe water, and you know the doc
Hors can't always beidfe. If you have
"a surfeit Of rusty stove pipe, broken
bottles, and cabbage in the cellar, leave
} it, 1t shows neighbesls spirit,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21


before twelve o'clock, Mrs. Morton
called to her and said: "Alice, would
you like to take your lunch and play
party with Nellie, to day2"
30 yes! Mamma"
Il few minutes after, she was hurry
ing down the street with we'll filed
basket in her hand. Again she climbed
the dingy stairs; again she tapped at
the door, and sweet little voice said,
"come in
Radient with delight, Alice threw off
her wraps and said, 80 Nellie! l have
brought my lunch to share it with you
and We'll have party in good earnest
now"
Nellie's pale face lighted up and she
exclaimed, GLOW nice that will be. for
mother didn't have any apple sauce for
me to day, and 1 was most gong to
fret over it..
8Wel}, now, you just see what we'll
have. Wait! that chair isn't big
enough let me pull the table up to the
bed, There! that will be nice"
What lunch was there, packed
away in that willow basket! Nellie
clapped her hands and laughed such a
merry little ripple, when she saw a
a great lemon aud a paper of white
sugar. go, we can have real lem
ade!'
Alice squeezed the juice into brown
pitcher, Cit it M in slices, put in sugar
and water; they tasted and stirred
added more sugar and water; stirred
and tasted again, until beth declared it
about right. Then Alice took from
the basket delicate biscuits, nicely but
tered, thin slices of pink ham, on lit
tic gilt edged plate two daintily scall-
oped tarts filled with delicious ielly,
two frosted patty cakes, ard lemon
pie, baked in small tin plate. O! it
was so nice, SO like a fairy dream to
Nellie, she could scarcely believe it
was true. When all was ready, she
said, ''W ait a minute, Alice"
Clasping her hands together, she
asked blessing in her sweet, quaint
words, then was ready for the feast.
Although they had a splendid time
''playing party" Alice learned new
lessons from the Suffering child, and
went home with still stronger deter
limitations in her heart to be a better
girl
Day after day she climbed the long
long stairs to carry some little delicacy
to tempt Nellie's failing appetite, or
something bright and pleasant to Eelp
while away the lonely hours. Day
after day, Nellie led her little friend
nearer and nearer to the Savior; until
she at last found Him there at Nellie's
hedsids; and He gave her new heart,
and she became sweet, loving child of
God.
The Winters snow falls softly over
Nellie's grave but her mantle seems to
have fallen on her little friend. Happy
as the day is long, cheerfully confer.
with whatever comes to her in lie, she
is the Joy and sunshine of her home;
and loving her Saviour with all her
heart, she is drawing many others to
the same sweet fountain of life and
peace Interior.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
NE11.E'S MISSION

Alice Morton was a pretty little girl,
with long, golden curls, lovely blue
eyes and rosy cheeks. She lived in a
great stone house, with flowers and
fruit growing about it; was always
beautifully dressed, and could ride
when she pleased in great easy car
riage, drawn by two jet black horses.
Best of ALL she had kind, loving
parents, who spared no pains to give
her every possible advantage ard ev-
cry suitable pleasure; and yet she was
a very unhappy little girl, making her
self and everybody about her as miser
able as possible.
The fact was, she had so much to en-
joy, SO many delightful things about
her, she had an idea that the whole
world and everything in it was made
to contribute to her particular pleasure !;
and if by chance anything crossed her
plans, or interfered with her comfort,
Miss Alice stormed and screamed with
passion, or fs'etted and sulked, so there
was no peace or Quiet in the house.
Her parents were troubled enough
about it. They talked and reasoned
with her, they shit her up alone by
herself; they punished her severely,
still she was the same unhappy dis
contented child.
One day her mother said 'sAlice
dear, | want the washerWoman, Mrs.
Gray, who lives in the blown house, on
Clinton Street, to come and help about
cleaning the house to morrow. There
is no one else at leisure just now, and
l wish you to do this little errana for
me-"
Fortunately the idea pleased Alice,
and she went without word of OBJ
lection. When she arrived at the
brown house, and inquired fof Mrs:
Gray, she was directed to 'sthe third
story, left hand door" She elimed the
dingy staircase, half frightended at the
gloomy discomfort of the narrow halls;
but once on the top, she raped lightly
on the left hand door, and a week;
childish voice said, Come ill.," Alice
opened the door and found herself in a
small garnet room, which contained a
bed, stove, a rough table, covered with
an old shawl for a spread, and t@o or
three wooden chairs. But all she saw
there was little deformed girl lying
on the bed, propped up by chair and
some pillows, with thin, pale face,
great wistful eyes, and little rings of
soft brown hair curling about her
temples. Alice stood gazing at her
until the weak little voice said, ''Did
you want to see mother"
eyes, mamma-Mrs. Morton-wants
her tomorrow. Are you Mrs. Gray's
little girl?'
Eyes. am Nelly Gray. Are you
Alice Morton?"
eyes; but how dia you know?"
90, mother has told me all about you.
l am glad to see you. Won't you sit
and talk with me just a little while?
get SO lonely sometimes
''But what is the matter with your
backe Can't you get ups"
"No, | can not get up or walk q step;
but you see l can turn, just little, to
rest my back, and can use my hands,
and that's saoh a blessing"
Alice's blue eyes opened wide with
surprise. al.
''But you don't stay here all day
alone, do you'"
eyes mothers gone most every day
but Sunday. | don't mind it much now.
I've got used to it, you see. I've been
here three years, and I'm only ten now.
If l want anything very much l rap
hard on the floor with this long stick,
and Mrs. RELY comes up"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
2netirAl.
A STIRRING POEM.

Who the author of the following poem which
appeared.in the KNICKERBocKER MAGAZINE, many
years ago? 1thas genuine Saxon ring and its
artistic merits show it to be the production of
genuine poet
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
CARMEN BELLICOSUM

CARMEN BELLICosUM
In their ragged regimentals:
Stood the old Contnentals,
When the grenadiers were lungfng,
And like hail fell the plRnging
Cannon shot;
When the files
Of the isles . -
From. the smoky night encampment, bore the banner
of the rampant
Unicorn,
And grummer, drummer, drummer rolled the roi! Of
the drummer,
Through the morn,
Then with eyes to front all
And with guns horizontal,
Stood our sires;
And the balls whstled deadly,
And the streamers flashing redly
Blazed the free.
As the roar
On the shore.
Swept the strong battlebreakers DER the green-sod
OF the plain,
powder
Cracking again
Now like smiths at their FORCES
Worked the red st. Georges
Gannoniers;
And the ''villanous sa tpeterer
Rang fierce discordant metre
Round their ears,
As the swift
Storm-drift,
With hot sweeping anger the horse-guards CLAN
gor
On orr tanks;
Then higher higher, higher burned the old fashioned
fire
Through the ranks!
Then the old-fashioned colonel
Galloped through the whiteinfernal
Powder cloud!
And his broad-sword was swinging
And the braZen throat ringing
Trumpets loud;
Then the blue
Bullets few
And the trooper jackets redden at the touch Of the
laden
Rife-breath,
And rounder, rounder, rounder, roared the iron six
FOUNDER,
Hurting death!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21

Peru thinks she will be able to pay
off all her debts and have a handsome
surplus out of the rich guano depos-
its which she is row known to possess.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21

Some people lose their temper upon
the least provocation. A young man
who was offensive 10 the parents of a
young lady on Wooster street was
caught there by the irate father Sun
day evening, and after being freely
cuffed on tie side Of his head, was
deliberately kicked into the street
Gaining his feet as soon as possible, he
turned passion distorted face back at
the old gentleman and screamed
through his white lips: @Youi do that
again, and I'll punch your black snoot
for you! and Immediately left to pre-.
pare the punch.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
n REEN's MANSION HOUSE,
" ALEXANDRIA, VA,

" ALEXANDRIA, VA.
JAMES GREEN, ................ .PRoPhiHroR
Is irstclass hotel in every respect. The citizens
of the valley having bushes Alexandria or Washing
ton, and travellers going North South win find this
agreeable resting place the route does not
require the early start by several hours Wash
ington Baltimore. Cars and Steamboats, leave Al
exandria for Washington and return every hour from
4 A. NJ. to ~ P. NJ. jan 7-tf
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21
SHENANDOAH HERALD
ADVERTISING RATES;

Advertisements will be inserted at One Dollar per
square ofteu linesor less, for the first insertion and
30 cents for each subsequent insertion.
Unless the number of insertions be marked upon
the manuscript, it will be published until forbid
and charged accordingly
Notices in the local column viii pe inserted at
double the advertising rates.
Advertisements for three months or ianger will
be inserted Mt lower rates.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-21

A severe lady says: sMale is only
mule spelled wrong" She was dream
ing Of herself.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10
The Official Returns.

We print elsewhere the official re-
turns of the vote on the defunct Con-
stitutlon and the tag articles. This
vote is phenomenal, and will be the
subject of much curiosity. The vote
was much larger than was expected.
The whole number of electors voting
at the election was 361 ,480. The to-
tai vote in the Presidential election in
1872 was 526, ,173 in the State election
in 1873, 448,599 The vote for the
Constitution was 1O2,S85; against,
$50, O,169; majority against, 147, ,284.
The majority against the minority
representation article was 1S5, 800
against the railroad aid article, $780,
242; against the license article, 7,242
Of those voting, 8,426 did not vote
on the Constitution; 28,45O did not
vote on the minority representation
1906 did not vote on railroad aid,
and $500 did not vote on license.
Probably thousands neutralized their
votes on the various questions by not
canceling either side. The whole vote
fer the license article was 172, 1852
against, l79, ,538 the aggregate 351, ,79O
which is less, by 96, ,809 votes, than
the small vote of 1873, and 174,3
than the full vote cast in 1872. Thus
the silent vote was about as large as
was cast on either side of the license
question. AS to the body of the Con
stitution, SO many parties are claiming
to have been the death to it, that the
vote against it is better accounted fol
than the vote for it Gin. Gazette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10
An Act of BarbarOus Cruelty.

JEFFERsoNvILLE, IND, August 3d.
A Frenchman named August Gardner,
who said he was from Seymore, Indi-
ana, while walking on the track of the
Jeffersonville, Madison and Indiapolis
railroad, near Henryville, Indian, about
10 O'Clock last night, was attacked by
thee men. They took his pocket book
and five dollars, then tied him on the
track with ropes over small culvert
and left him. He succeeDed in getting
the ropes that held his body united,
but before he got those that held his
left foot lossened an approaching pass
enger train was upon him. He in
that desperate moment threw his body
off the track, and the train passed over
and severed his leg from the body
He fell in the culvert, crawled out,
lay there all night, and was picked up
at an early hour this morning by CON
ducter waterhouse, ofa passing freight
train, and brought to this city, where
he revived sufficiently to make the
above statement. He relapsed and died
at 9 O'Clock this. There is no clue of
the perpetrators of the heinous crime
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10
A Dreadful Trunk.

The Detroit Free Press says: Sat
urday morning there came over the
Great Wes tern road, on its way West,
trunk which made the hair of the
baggage SIN ashers stand right up. 1t
was thirty -four inches long, three feet
wide. and was made of solid boiler
iron, an eight of an inch thick The
handles were of iron, riveted on with
great bolts, and the lid was fastened
down with an immense paddock. On
one end Of the trunk was painted the
words: "Shecan stand itI'' and on
the other: "More coming!" The
railroad men greaned aloud as they
walked around ''them trunk" and
viewed it from every angle, and two
omnibus men, who thought the owner
was going to stop over, made tracks
out of the depot.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10
The New York Sun in well writ

The New York Sun in well writ
ten editorial says:
eff Mr. Tilton had known anything
certain and fatal against Mr.. Beecher,
he would have brought it out boldly at
once He would not have dealt in in
situations and innuendus. He is a
weak, bad man. He was a protesting
Christian; but he forgot the Scriptur-
al caution against the strange woman,
and the Scriptural warning: Her steps
take hold on hell He embra ced the
Woodruff; he has experienced the loss
of position, of reputation, of fortune !;
he has experienced a dismembered
family, destroyed home; and if that
be not sufficient hell there may yet be
another on which the steps of the
strange woman take hold.''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10

"You never saw such happy lot OF
people as we had here yesterday" said
a landlady in Indiana, to q newl var
rived guest. "There were thirteen
couples Of them" "What, thirteen
couples Just marriedr' eOh, no, sir;
thirteen couples just divorced" :"
A man who was about to be hanged
in Alabama, sang, as he stood with the
moose about his neck: "Ohi the
bright angels are waiting for me-"
Whereupon the local editor fiendishly
wrote, s'And the angels stirred up the
fire and looked brighter than ever"
Two young men out riding were
passing a farmhouse where a farmer
was trying to harness an obstinate
mule Wont he draw!" asked one
the men. "Of course" said the farm
er, "he'l draw the attention of every
fool that passes this way" The
young men drove on.
A down East gentleman showed
considerable alarm the other evening
when he discovered that his wife had
loaned the family Bible. When he re-
turned from the house where the BIZ
BILE was, he had placed in it for safe
keeping.
How's business now?" inquired
one Nashville merchant of another.
Yesterday "Dull, fearfully dull, . was
the reply. ''The fact is, nobody buys
anything just now but provisions and
whiskey-the bare necessaries of life,
as it were"
1t is estimated that the peach crop
of this county will bri ng $4,000. Mr.
Baker, of Massieville, shad made 3d.
600 boxes last week, and had orders
for IO, 900 more Chillicothe Gazette
The New York World says the gen
eral impression now is that Hon. ;. >.
Cox will be the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Sixth New York
District, which is largely Democratic.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10
The Attorney General (accordin

The Attorney General (according
to Washington specially reports that
there is much cause for alarm in the
present condition of things in the
South. He is said to have advices
from Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida,
Texas, South Corolina, Louisiana and
Alabama, showing that war of races
is almost unavoidable. Our dispatch
es this morning show that it is ready
to break out in Kentucky. The ex-
rebels, North and South, have been
hOwling tor seven years about the in
reference of the central government,
and saying that we never shall have
peace until the States are left to TAX e
care of themselves. Lately the Presi-
dent has seemed inclined to try the
experiment of leaving the States to
preserve order for themselves, and now
the cry is raised all along the line that
there is a war of races. 1t would
seem from this that the blacks and
carpet baggers, instead of being sup
ported in all their deviltries by the
National government, have only been
waiting for the government to get out
of the way, in order to precipitate a
war of races! That is fair specimen
of rebel logic. 1t is off the same cloth
with the logical reports of negro ri
ots," where two or three dozen color
ed men are generally killed and no
white (unless he is a carpet bagger) is
injured. BY the same sort Of logic,
when there is chance medley or a
street affray between a white rebel and
n black man, in the reconstructed
country, it happens invariably that il
the white man kills the black he is
discharged on bail, and acquitted after
ward on the plea of self-defense, and
on the contrary, if the black man kills
the white, he is banged into Jail with
his head beaten to a jelly, and before
m orning is taken out and hung by {
mob. 1t Is no rash assertion by the
Chicago Inter Ocean
l. That since the war no negro in
the South, convicted of numbering {
white man, has escaped hanging.
2. That during the same time nc
white man guilty ofmurdering negro
has been hung for the offense,- Co
bus journal.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-09-10

Application has been made to
Judge Bingham for an Injunction to
restrain the Commissioners of Picka-
way county from building free turn
pike through the western portion of
the county. The attorneys for the
plaintiffs are Hall & BostWick, H. P.
Page and Courtright & Krimmel, all
of Circleville; contra, Smith & Hurst
and A. T. Walling, of Circleville, and
Harrison & Olds, of COlumbus.-[O o.
S. Journal