Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-11

w NC UllottI WHICH draws IfaQe.
| Now is the time to go around and
chase away the Involves" from neigh
bors' doors.
Ignatius Donnelly, Of the Minnesota
init Monopohst, pronounces the grange
failure, declaring that he does this in
sorrow.
Labor is the law Of the world, and he
who lives by other means is ofless value
to the world than the buzzing busy
insect.
To be unkind orrude to others, and
yet expect to be treated bv them with
courtesy and affection, is as selfish as it
is absurd.
1t is considered a pretty well-settled
fact that death has no terrors for the
man Who marries woman after thirty
years courtshlp of her.
The medical journals report the dis
covery by an Italian doctor of cure for
diphtheria. 1t consists Of the local use
Of choral and glycerine and the inter-
nal. administration Of elaborate of
potash.
An effort is being made in Virginia to
| induce the Legislature to sanction the
employment of persons convicted of
mlsdemeanors on the roads of the coun-
ty in which the ofense is committed.
instead Of sending them to the pextea-
tiary.
nople, C;rcassian girl Of fourteen. with
chestnu hair and blue eyes, brought
e200, Turkish another Of eighteen,
who played the violin, brought el30 +; a
Georgian girl brought 9l20, while a
black girl, a good cook, brought e3S.
It is wonderful to think Of that q man
who started poor, was born Of poor par
ents, and had his own way to make,
should in a lifetime accumulate for
tune of eighty or hundred millions.
This is what Vanderbilt did, and, and
he dies the richest man in America, the
richest we have ever had. and one of the
richest men of modern times.
W. A. Wooddell, who escaped Jail
| about a month ago and was captured in
| Ohio. was returned on last Saturday to
Staunton by Sheriff w. L. Mowry and
Mr.. W. A. Burnett, Clerk of the Coun-
ty Court, they having brought him back
from Ohio on requisition Of the Gov
ernor of Virginia.
W. B. Lurty, U. S. Commissioner.
issued a warrant, last week for the ar
rest of Edward Hoffman, Of Winchester,
charged with retailing malt liquors with
out paying the license tax. He was
arraigned before L. S. Commissioner
Magruder, and sent on for indictment at
the next term of the U. S. Court at
Harrison5urg. The accused gave bail
! for his appearance, and was discharged.
The men who were arrested some
weeks since for an attempt to steal the
remains Of President Lincoln from their
tomb are. NOV, on trial at Springfield, III,
and it seems doubtful whether they will
he convicted. The opinion is gaining
ground that the whole thing was plot
to bring the importance Of a national
detective force before the minds Of the
people.
As not satisfied with lis other eX-
PLOTS, the Old Year seemed bound to
reduce the census Of the United States
as much as possible before dying HIM
SELF. The Brooklyn Theatre fire, fol-
lowed closely by the catastrophe at
Ashtabula, and the loss Of some thirty
lives by the breaking up ofthe Circassion,
is indeed terrible record, and sufti-
Gent to cause a shudder OF horror even
in the most apathetIc.
After the battle Of Chattanooga the
surgeons made several missions N the
leg of a soldier who had been wounded
in the knee by murket ball. Out Of
patience at last the soldier exclaimed ::
why are you carving me up 50 ?"
We're trying to find the ball" an
swered a surgeon. why didn't you
ask for the ball i'll the first place ~ i'll
dignantly cried the soldier here it is
in my pocket !"
John Robinson or Barnum. one or the
other, should visit Marion. Ala, and
witness the latest human curiosity, with
a view of making arrangements to
crafty the curiosity Of others. A child,
born of negro parents, is said to exist
there whose body is ona-half white and
one-half black. The white portions
''are Of spades" One-halfof the scalr
and hair is perfectly white. A modern
curiosity, sure enough.
| Won Moltkc expressed himself at q
recent military gathering to the effect
that Rusaia, in making war against
Turkey, was emsarking on great anG
difficult enterprise. In 1928 the Turks.
/ with barely 40 900 raw 1av;as ras;stnd
for long tine the onslaughts of 100, 00C
well equipped and and disciplined Rus
slams, whose numbers were kept up by
continual endorsements in the pre-
sent emergency the Russians would
have still less reason to anticipate an
easy and rapid success.
CHornu-o1I