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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13
A Strange story.
MIsFORTUNEs OF A WEALTHY MAINE
LADY WHO MARRIED HER GUARDIAN.

MIsFORTUNEs OF A WEALTHY MAINE
LADY WHO MARRIED HER GUARDIAN.
The head of one Of tho oldest and
most respected families in Maine
died several years ago, leaving q
property in real estate and bust.
ness investments valued at $l92,.
600 to bis daughter, aged seven.
teen years. She was the last and
youngest of a family of seven chill
dren, and her father was 'the last
man of his race, as he used to say.
lie died while she was attending
school in Boston. Her guardian,
Louis Roche, was "a Frenchman of
somewhat doubtful character
though her father had the utmost
confidence in him. Roche, in fact,
had managed the old man's bust.
ness for hlm several years before
his death. The will gave $40, 600
to the Frenchman and the rest of
the property 10 the daughter.
Roche induced the young woman
to marry him before she was elgh.
teen years old. Two years after
ward the property was sold, and
Roche went to Europe. They set
tied in Lyons, near his ancestral
home, and soon after their arrival
a daughter was born to them. Six
other children were alterward born,
four sons and two daughters. -Four
years ago the last Of the children
died, and Roche, firing Of his wife,
induced her to convey all her
property to him, and then cut her
throat and threw her into the Seine
She was rescnred by q peasant and
her wounds were dressed, but she
had lost her memory, had even for
gotten her name. The peasant fell
in love with her and they were
married. Last summer she had
cholera and came near dying. With
returning health she regained her
memory. The peasant interested
wealthy people in her case, and an
action was begun in the courts
against Roche. She is now in this
State in search of witnesses to aid
her in recovering her property.
Her husbands brutal treatment!
will cost him his liberty for several
years. \ decree of divorce will be
granted her on her return to France
and she will then legalize her mar
riage with the peasant, who is
said to be an estimable and in.
telligent man. Several people
from New England will accompany
Mrs. Roche on her return to France.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

All discussion as to the probable
duration of the existing extraordi.
nary session of the Senate is idle.
The new administration is evident
| ~ drifting and its policy for months
TO come will be tentative and ex-
detrimental. A cabinet officer is
credited to-day with the statement
that the administration has as yet
no programme whatever. The reg
ular meeting days of the cabinet
will be Tuesdays Instead Of Fridays
as under the Arthur rule. Despite
the uncertainty now attending the
general policy of the new admins
tration, there are few who doubt
that this weeks developments will
give unerring indications as to what
may be expected in the matter of
Civil Service Reform. But as q
Southern Senator, Democrat, said
to your correspondent to-day, 'peo'
pie must not confound Civil Service
with the tenure of Office law There
is a good deal of food for reflection
in that remark for the boys who,
having expected all the post Offices
in the country to be vacated on the
day after Cleveland was sworn in,
and having been disappointed, now
expect that performance before the
first of April-whicl, by the way
is All Fools Day. VALLEY.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

A bill has been introduced in the
New Jersey Legislature, the object
Of which is to establish the whip.
ping.post, where brutal husbands
may be punished by being whip.
ped by the sheriff. The bill specifies
that thereafter any male person
who shall beat, bruise or whip his
wife, some one else's wife, or any
female person, shall be corporally
punished by the infection of a
number of ashes not exceeding
thirty, to be laid upon his bare back
by the sheriff of a ty or one OF
his Deputies, armed with a whip OF
suitable proportions, the whipping
to be done only in the presence OF
the officers of the court or Jail.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

J. F. Zirkle and Samuel Nef, partner.
trading as J. + Zirkle 6 -..Defts
You are herebynotihed that-I have fixed
upon the Bird day Of April next, atmy Office
|. To ascertain and report the amount
of real estate of which Samuel Neh 3
seized and possessed, its actual and annual
value.
IL. To audit all liens binding said real
estate.
ILL., To settle the account Of the firm Of
J. +. Zlrkle b Co., if the member Of said
firm so desire.
Nv. Any other matter deemed pertinent
or that any party in interest may require,
required to be taken by the decree OF Shen-
andoah Circuit court rendered on the 9Th
day Of January, 1885, in q suit 10 chance
~ depending in said court between Smith
s Prince, Complts., and j. F.Zrlde f. Co.,
Defts., and if from any cause the taking
Of said accounts shall not be commenced,
or having been commenced should not be
completed on that day, the taking Of the
same will be adjourned from day % day
or from place TO place, until the same are
taken and completed.
Given under my hand as commissioner
in chancery Of the said court, at my office
in said county, the day and year first
aforesaid. NJ. B. WUNDER,
Conn in Ch'y.
w. D. L. Borum, p. q. Lhar. CIV
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

The vague reference Of Mr..
Cleveland's inaugural to the tax
alton and revenue question is
variously Interpreted. The Free
traders declare themselves satisfied
with it, and the Democratic Pro
tectiOnists equally profess to be
pleased. The latter claim that the
assurance of"due regard to the
interests Of capital invested and
wOrking.men employed in Amer.
can industries is a guarantee
against any adverse legislation
But when Mr.. Carlisle was elected
Speaker be made an inaugural de.
claung that business must not be
disturbed aud then appointed the
Committee which brought in the
Morrison bill. And Mr.. Morrison
himselfreported the Chicago Demo.
cratic platform of whose tariff
plank Mr.. Cleveland's expression
is only a paraphrase. In the
light of these facts the form of
words count for nothing. We must
judge by action.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13
secsiOnaIIsm to the Rear.

President ArthuTs brief and
pointed inaugural address on his
accession to the Presidency con-
tanned no reference to sectional
issues which for thirty years before
had marked the annual messages
OF Presidents as we'll as their
inaugural addresses. TO what ex-
tent most certainly the retiring
President will be kindly remem-
bered by the American people as
the first Of recent executives TO
initiate and to consistently depend
upon a policy taking no cognizance
Of past differences and strifes.-
Sectionalism as an issue in our pol
tiles was then regarded as already
dead. Nothing but the excitement
of q new Presidential canvass
could serve to blow any semblance
of living fire into the old embers,
and that scarcely raised flicker.
The single reference which Mr..
Cleveland in his inaugural address
found occasion to make to the old
sectional division touched this very
question of civil rights, and the
doctrine which he stated shows
that parties have ceased to differ
on that question. In the adj
ministratiOn Of Government
pledged to do equal and exact
Justice to all men," he said, " there
should be no pretext for anxiety
touching the protection Of the
freedmen in their rights, or their
security in the enjoyment of their
privileges under the Constitution
and its amendments. All discus
sion as to their fitness for the place
accorded to them as American
citizens is idle and Improbable, ex-
cept as it suggests the necessity for
their improvement. The fact that
they are citizens entities them to
all the rights due to that relation
and charges them with all its
duties, obligations, and response
blities." This covers the whole
subject and furnishes q ground for
agreement by all parties, and on
that ground parties are substanti-
ally agreed.
To politicians, whose principles
and arguments are mainly remi-
niscences, this declaration by a
Democratic President elected in
great part by boiling Republicans,
must be exceedingly disagreeable.
II leaves little hope for
future to Bourbonism even in the
South. Under such dispensation
the swashbucklers and DULLES of
Bourbonism can have no possible
occupation in politics. The negro
question is at last apparently well
cut OF politics, and with it will
disappear the half century's curse
Of sectionalism.
All there is Of serious import in
the negro question will become a
matter OF local and not Of national
contention, save as the Nation may
lend its aid to the process of i'm
provement, which, as the President
says, affords the only occasion for
discussion. Those who have hoped
to find in sectionalism the material
for future political contention will
be doomed to disappointment if the
supporters Of Mr.. Cleveland are
sagacious enough to adopt the
spirit of his inaugural address in
regard to the rights and obliga-
tons of all citizens.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

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Wives |! MOTHERS ! DAUGHTERS

Be your own Physician. A Lady, who
for many years suffered torments worse
than death from Uterine troubles, such as
Falling of the Womb, Leucorrhea (Whites),
painful and suppressed menstruation,
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13
Shall VIC curry Virginia Next
Fall?

In the campaign next fall the
motto Of our party must be work,
its organization must mean work,
its policy should be to OutwOrk the
opposing party. We can do so if
we will, for we have the inspiration
of good cause and one which is
near to the hearts of the people.
We have also the record of the
Democracy in this State to spur us
on-a record grotesque with
absurdities, childish with incOn-
sistences, cruel for the insults il
has offered to our citizens. We
must look at matters honestly,
fairly, reasonably. We have a
wary foe, o powerful foe, and, as
experience has proven, an unscru-
pulous foe. We must succeed {;
entertaining the views We do and
conscious of their vast Importance
if carried out, it is a part Of duty
to succeed; yet we cannot hope
for success unless each man makes
it an individual matter and puts
his shoulder to the wheel. We
must start out with stern deter
mination to win, and we must back
that determination with u willing
ness to make some sacrifice and to
be as unselish as we require them
to be. We have enough votes to
carry this State by a handsome
majority, if they 90 to the polls
and are allowed to vote as they
please. Whatever that majority
may be, it can be increased tenlold
if only careless men will shake of
their lethargy, thinking men break
through the cObwcbs Of prejudice,
and honest men dare to strike for
the right.-Spift Of the Valley.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13
. MARYLAND. ngr asnrrIana,


Lovely daughters and noble men,
my farm lies in araiher los and MAS
matte situation, aud
My wife!
who
was a very pretty blonde "
Twenty years ago became
'Sall0w !
'Hollow-eycdp
'Withered aud aged.
Before her time. from
Malarial vapOrs, thO1gh che made 30
particular complaint, mot being OK tAe
grumpy kind, yet causing me s'eal uA-
easiness.
A short time ago / purchased your
remedy for one Of the children, who Bad %
very severe attack of biliousness, and 10
occurred TO me that the remedy might
help my wife, a. ! found that cur little
girl, upon recovery had
'Lostv
Her sallowness, and looked as fro as
new blown daisy. Well the story D.
soon told. My wife, to-day, has gained
her old timed beauty with compound in-
terest, and is now as handsome q mairon
(if do say II mysel) as can be found in
this county, which is noted for pretty wo-
men. And ! have only Hop Bitten 10
thank for it.
'The dear creature just looked over my
shoulder, and says can ilatter equal 90
the days Of EUR cOurtship,' and that re-
minds me there might be more pretty irices
il my brother farmers would do as | have
done
Hoping you may long Do spared 10 do
good, thankfully remain.
G. L. JANIS.
BELTsvuLg, Prince George Co.. 3D.,
May 20, 1883.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

DEATH or BISHOP PARKER
Bishop Leuas Parker, Of the NJ. f.
Church, South, died in New Or
leans, on Thursday night of last
week, after brief illness. lie was
born in Rome, n. Y, in 1929, and
was appointed Bishop in 1882. lie
was to have presided at the Baltl-
more NJ. Il. Conference, South,
which met at Salem, Va, on the
18th. He was a minister Of great
Intellectual force and conspicuous
piety, and his selection for the
highest honors and most sacred
responsibilities of the church, eyi.
denced his high standing in his holy
calling. The announcement of bis
death, in the prime of life and the
yigor Of his physical powers, caus-
ed widespread sorrow.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13
The new Cabinet.

Hon. Thomas Il. Bayard, of Del.
aware, Secretary of State.
Hon. Daniel Manning, Of New
York, Secretary Of the Treasury.
Hon. l.. Q. G. Lamar, of Missis
sippi, Secretary of the Interior.
Me-. William G. Endicott, oil
Massachusetts, Secretary Of War.
Hon. A. II. Garland, of Arkansas
Attorney General.
Mr.. William +. Villas, of Wiscon-
sin, POstlnaster.General.
Mr.. William @. Whitney, OF New
York, Secretary of the Navy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

CoNvIoTED.-John Miller, the
colored boy, who stabbed and
killed Roya Matthews, head-waiter
at the Arlington Hotel in Lynch
burg on the 2Sth of February, was
tried last Saturday and the jury
returned a verdict of murder in
the second degree, with seven
years. Imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

New York spectators have been
"btten" in the trade dollar. Two
firms in that city in the past two
years have bought mp 10O,0O0,0OO
or these coins at prices ranging
from 90 TO 95 cents, in the hope
that Congress would pass a bill
making them worth 100 cents. This
was not done, although a bill was
before that body proposing to do
so, and now these spectators are
unloading at 81 cents and scoring
a loss of about 100000.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13
W. L K. p.q.
COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.

COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
~ Woodstock, Va, Feb. II, 1855.
To d. W. Maphis, complt. and Eli Peer
and Elizabeth Peer his wife, delts.
You are hereby notified chat have FIX
ed upon the 18th day Of March next, be-
tween the hours Of 6 o'clock, A. 81. and O.
o'clock, p. NJ. il fair. If not, ON the next
fair day thereafter Sunday exceptcd) To-
take and settle, at my Office, the accounts
of l, All liens by judgment or otherwise DO
order Of their prioritcs binding the real
estate prior to the conveyance To- BIS wl.e.
II, The gross and annual value of slid
real estate. III, Any other matter De may
deem pertinent OF which any party ID in-
terest may desire, required TO be taken by
the decree of Shenandoah Circuit Count
rendered on the Sd day Of January, 1855,
in a suit in chancery depending in said
court between d. w. Maphis, compit. and
Eli Peer, &c. Defts. and II from any cause
the taking of said accounts shall not De
commenced, or having been commeuc,d
should not be completed on that day, the
taking of the same will be adjourned from
day to day, or from place 10 place, until
the same are taken and completed.
Given under my hand as Commissioner
in chancery of the said court, 40 my Office
In said county the day and year first
Aforesaid.
P. VI. MAGRUDER.
VI 4 = W.. 4 D., - "a rTF.f, aH ftr-
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New Homemade Wagon tor
Sale.

nave for sale o No. heavy one horse
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painted. Any one wanting a wagon OF
this Kind. viil ind 10 TO their interest to
call on o. address
J. L. WILL,
Mar. l3-f. Mt. Clifton, Va.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

T. S. Arthur, one Of the most
prolific and versatile writer's of his
day, died in Philadelphia last week,
aged about 76 years. We cannot
agree with a contemporary that he
outlived his usefulness. His writ
ings, whether Of editorials, stories,
or books, were pervaded by a
high moral tone. He contributed
to better mankind, and we have
never read sentence from his pen
that did not glow with a beautiful
morality and strengthen by its re-
ligious paihos. The impress of his
work was for good, and no one
ever read his productions who did
not feel that re had been benefit
ted. To our mind there is nothing
more attractive than an old age
that can lo0s back upon a life OF so
much Of joyous promise beyond
the grave. 1t - a living expires
sion Of duty well performed-of
conscious service for the happiness
of fellow-beings. Such character
cannot outlive its usefulness. The
physical powers may weaken and
decay-the mind lose its vitality
and vigor, but the kind word.
uttered-the tender emotions
touched and aroused-the good
impressions made find contant
expression in the presence of him
whose life has been a well.spring
Of pleasant thoughts and kindly
feelings in others. His works live
after him and nothing but pleasing
memories will be cherished of his
name.
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S2OO.OOOIIaa

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Catarrhal Throat Affections, Hacking,
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fonf1 s-o
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

President Arthur is the son of a
Baptist minister, and Mr.. CIeve
land is the son of a Presbyterian
minister.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

ROUGH or PAIN POROUsED PLASTER
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HEART PAINS.

Clears ont rats, mice, reaches, aes, ants,
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MOTHERS.
LIFE PRESENTER.

II you are falling. bIoken, worn ont aud
nervous, uso ~ ellis Health ltenewer' III.
Druggists.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-13

The very first matter for the
new administration will be the tam
ing OF the crazy billiards.. Of
course the winds should be free,
but there is such thing as too
much freedom.
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