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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
Banking and Breaking.

a bank is an activity which
must be climbed to reach the top.
A bank is also a place where PEG.
pie deposit money in the hope that
is safe from burglars and other
dishonest folk. The latter kind of
bank has a president and other
officers. The business of such a
bank is to accommodate by charging
usuriOus interest. The especial
business of such a bank is to &C.
commodate its particular friends,
and to carry on the family business.
" Family" here is Synonymous with
ring.
The Shenandoah County Bank'
suspended. There was not a more
solvent bank in the state at the
time of that suspension. The
president alone is more than re-
spOnsible for the ascertained short
age. The directory could make the
shortage gOUd any day without
Inconvenience. The suspension was
simply an act Of bad judgment
bred of a high sense of honor. 1t
was fear that what 50 quickly de.
veloped might be worse in the end
There were three mistakes, but
they were Of honest origin. The
fourth mistake is yet to be dis.
cussed.
But we hear that deposits are
drawn from this bank to be placed
elsewhere. DO depOsitOrs know
that they have no security any
where except in the ability and in
tegrity of the stockholders and
officers?
National banks have a currency
issue secured by the bonds deposit
ed in the treasury at Wash iugton
Let him who will swap b. p. New
man for Joseph |. Triplett. W.
should rather trust our house. hole
with the one than a cancelled pos
tage stamp with the other. b,
cautious Dishonesty loves op
portunities. a thief may avail o
an honest default, and cite prece
dent of integrity to cover embezzle
ment predetermined. Husband
your resources, but rely upon those
who tell of their shortage rattle
than upon those who start ma
tional bank upon borrowed bonds.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
LOGAN AND HARRISON.

Friend and foe will join each 9th.
or in admiration of the splendid
fight that General Logan is making
in Illinois to secure his own return
to the Senate. Between himself
and Colonel Morrison, the leading
Democratic candidate for that high
place, a warm contest has develop
ed neither acrimOny nor duplicit,.
Their wives are sisterly in their at
tachment for each other, as wives
of gallant gentlemen, opposites in
politics, can always afford to be.
But Carter Harrison, mayor of Chi.
cago, has felt called upon to intrude
his unsightly presence in the midst
of the friendly and knightly tourney
between Logan and Morrison, warm
friends, gentlemen and soldiers as
they are.
When this wretched demagOgue
sought to become a factor in the
senatorial struggle at Springfield,
General Logan might have with
much fitness, uttered the scorn with
which Achilles answered the de.
famer and scold of antiquity: 81
have fought with Agamemnon, |
have no time to quarrel with Their
sites.' General Logan chose an
other method, and perhaps one bet
ter suited to the brutal demagoguc
that "runs" the great city of Chi
cago in the interest of the criminal
classes, and looks to them as his
certain props and always reliable
contingent OF reciprocal sympathy
and material help. He denounced
Harrison, when the latter made Of
fensive allegations against him as a
liar and poltroon.' Harrison will
doubtless challenge Logan to prove
his charges, a task which General
Logan is too busy just now to I'm
dertake. Meanwhile this pestilent
demagogue, Harrison, has been
most ehectually sat down upon
His influence in the Illinois senate.
rial election has been discounted in
a moment by one of Logan's blows
delivered straight from the should
er. While it will CRAFTY all decent
men to know Of Harrison's disgrace,
it will please even General LOgan's
political opponents that he prompt
ly and enectually stamped out the
calumnies of creature honored
even by the denunciation of gentle
men. 1t will not take long for Mr..
Carter Harrison to find himself APP
propriately classified with Dennis
Kearney and other like demagogues
who have been remanded to the
'1imbo' BETTING extinct notorietics.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
ANOTHER VIEW.

Elsewhere we have said that We
have no right to censure or to adj.
wise President Cleveland. Never
theless we reserve for the HERALD
the right to criticize all his public
actions, especially as they shall
affect Virginia the only constlt-
uency the HERALD knows.
For some time to come the pub.
lie can judge the new administra-
ton only as it shall reveal itself
through its appointments for high
places first. and forthe subordinate
places afterwards. There can be
no dispute that the workers, the
ardent, and often reckless adherents
of the Democratic machine, IN
many states, feel themselves without
guarantee of reward should they
labor for party success as tley
have done. Very well. That Is
their own affair. For years they
have been prepared to crucily every
body that was not willing to call
himself a Democrat, no matter how
unwilling might be the object OF
their censure to call himself by any
other name than Democrat-mean-
ingless as the word has been for
years in Virginia and especially in
this Valley.
Well, who can be named among
so.called Democrats III the Valley
that can be, with reasonable re-
gard to truth, regarded as likely to
get handsome reward in the way of
Federal appointment? Commence
at Winchester and go to Stanton,
taking in Woodstock, Strasburg,
NV Market, Harrisonburg and all
the Valley towns where the apostles
of REIMBURSEMENT and Republican,
ism have been most abused, and
call the roll. How many of you
have profited by your defamation
of gentlemen that all of you pro-
fessed privately to respect, and yet
in public shamelessly maligned
Now, that the millennium of Demo-
cratic President has been reached
what can You do in the way of re-
demption Of your promises made
and renewed during all these long
wears when you were declaring
Riddleberger a recreant, when you
knew he was as true to the con-
victions he announced publicly as
YOU knew you were false to the
faith you proclaimed. You detained
Malone, Cameron, Lewis, John
Wise and Blair. All this in the
interest of sO.called Democracy.
Well, what have you gained by 1t !
Nothing, and you knew it. The
lesson Of it all is very simple and
healthful. Educate yourselves
away from prejudice. Read and
think for yourselves. The school
houses, the telegraph-wires, the
christian religion indeed, and all
other humanizing influences in this
nineteenth cedtury teach men to
think for themselves broadly, and
without too much respect for prec-
dent, and none for mere dogmas
and none for sham.leadcrs.:
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
RUSSIA'S WAR SIkEWs.


r u is we'll known that one Of Rus
sia's weakest points if not the very
wcasest-is her financial condition.
She has for years been loaded mp
with debt ; long since her credit has
. beeu almost exhausted. IL is, per
hans, possible for a nation to raise
,money at any time upon some
, terms; no other great nation would
q be now compelled, however, TO pas
SO enormously for loan as would
aRuSsia. A month ago an attempt
gYas made to negotiate one, it is
rsaid, through the Rothschilds, but
Ill resulted in failure. The debt Of
s.tlIe nation is already huge, and to
Add to it would very greatly ill.,
. crease her financial embarrass
0nenss. Just after Waterloo Rus.
osia;s debt amounted to about $780,.
e6gO, 600 roubles. Now the aggre-
sgate is nearly four and a-half bill
nLops Of rOubles, or about three bill
lions two hundred of dollars. The
sdebtofthe United States was never
as great as two billions three hun
ldped millions, and whileit has been
reduced with extreme rapidity in
,thelast twenty years, Russia's budg-
set ier a number of years past has
annually shown a deficit of ten mil
lions of dollars and more. 1t was
wellsaia by an English paper re.
seeutly lathe burden of debt which
Kussia carries is the pledge of her
1gcgds benavior aud her abstinence
iraal. hostility
1850 r-<
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
Grant Still Alive.

At, our latest accounts as we 70
to press, the old hero, whom Con
federates unite with Federal sold
iers in honoring, still keeps up his
brave fight with death. The end is
probably only deferred for a day or
two, but the struggle of General
Grant with his last enemy is none
the less sublime because it is hope.
less.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

A colored woman in Rappaban-
mock county, installing the dose OF
medicine ordered to be given, adj
ministered too much aud fatally
poisoned three of her children last
week.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

Wednesday last Mrs. Mary Wood,
wife of Philip Wood, of Botetonrt
county, was found dead lying IN a
spring near the house. Mrs. WOOD
was subject 10 fainting spells, and
It is supposed she was attacked
nv one of these aud fell into the
water
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

Col. VIM. Il. Bumgardner, OF
Stanton, has been assigned to the
command of the first brigade Nlr-
ginia volunteers until the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Gen.
Fltz. Lee is filled.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

A German carp was caught in
the Potomac river, near Balls Bluff,
last week, eighteen inches in length
and weighing five pounds two
ounces,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

Democratic ladies in Washington,
for, absurd as it may seem, women
talk politics here more than the
men do, mean controversially, are
much disguised to find the Presi-
dents sisters very earnest Republi-
cans. The story goes that a prom
inent lady who imagines that she
knows something of politics called
on the ladies at the White House
and besonght their influence to have
Republican removed from Dis
trict Office in order that a Demo.
crat might take his place. i" Please
excuse u.s." said the Presidents
sister, so the story goes, " that is
not our business, and besides we
are Republicans Upon what de-
generate days has modern Dem Oc.
racy fallen. VALLEY.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

va moro money than at anything
w 8Hd else by taking an agency for the
best selling book ont. Beginners succeede
grandly. None fail Terms free. Hallett,
Book Co. Portland, Maine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

thing. Very earlyin the history of
his administration the President is
put on the defensive, and that as.
tonishing run of luck that made
him Sheriff of Erie county, then
Mayor of Buffalo, then Governor of
New York, and finally placed him
by a scratch in the White House
may soon desert him. This is a
bad age for "men Of Destiny"
-
The White House grounds, just
south Of the Executive Mansion,
presented an animated scene a few
days ago from early morning till
late in the afternoon. The little
children gathered there in large
force to indulge in the annual Gus
tom of Easter egg-rolling. Atnoon
it was estimated that over a thou.
sand little ones bad full possession
of the White House grounds. Not
outstanding the backward spring,
the fertile knOlIs of the grounds
were covered with a carpet of vel
vety green, and the little ones
romped and rolled in every direc.
ton. Many of them were accom-
panied by their mothers, maiden
aunts, or nurses, who kept careful
watch over their charges. Many
brought their lunches with them
and enjoyed it under the spread
ing trees at noon while Ia ing
rest from the days sports.-
The participants in the eggrolling
sports were OF all ages. Well.
grown school girls seemed to enjoy
the sport as much as any one, while
the American small boy was in his
glory. In his high-water pants and
shirt sleeves he rolled eggs, rolled
himself, and rolled other boys, and
virtually took possession of the
grounds. President Cleveland, now
and then, had an opportunity DUR
ing the day to glance from his
library windows at the merry
tirong, and in witnessing the en-
jOyment the little ones took in their
sports, which were new TO him,
must have felt we'll repaid for not
forbidding them from trespassing
upon their Easter play grounds.
4 4
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

The President has already made
two public explanations as to his
purposes regarding certain appoint
ments, and the old Jacksonlan pol
iticians shake their heads ominOus-
~ as they recall the fate of politi-
clans of their own time who, they
say, wrote and talked themselves
to DEATH His friends deem his
explanation regarding tho appoint
mcnt of Postmaster Pearson, of
New York, a Republican, as partic-
ularly ill.advised and injudicious.
The published letter of the Presi.
dent to Postmaster. General Villas
is thought to be almost as injudi-
cious as the statement given to the
newspapers regarding Parsons APP
pointment. In the latter case it is
assumed 10y the politicians that the
charge of vulgar trade between
Pearson and the Democrats in the
execution of which the employees
of the New York City post office,
instead OF being allowed to vote in
November, all of them being Re-
publicans, were kept at work all
day, is now demonstrated to be
true. The publications regarding
this matter are very intere sting,
but they have not yet been as full
IS coming events will shortly re
luire them to be, if the enterprise
If newspapers shall count for any.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
Men Think

o s'''sS8tsa
they know all about Mustang Lin
iment. Few do. Not to know IS
not to have. 0pWu
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

ss '-' ''0 '' on ..s ,,,,sm Do,omns a noqa Des,r4
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10
THE CELEBRAT D.
Tennessee Wagon!


The best wagon In tho market, six
diferen. sizes, any size from light one
horse 10 heavy four horse.
Ia building these wagons nothing but
the best -
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
Where C0lOred People Came From.

There are few colored people in
this country, says anewspaper writer,
who know from what African tribes
they sprang, and just where their an
cestors lived in the dark continent, be-
fore they came to America in the
hold of slave ships. By far the larg-
or part of our Africa fellow citizens
came originally from the dense forests
of Senegambia, Liberia, and Guinea,
many from the low downs and lightly
timbered region of the lower Congo,
and a much smaller number from the
half sterilesea board of Portuguese An
COLA. The further inland station of
white slave dealers was at Bona, on
the Congo, only sixty-five miles from
the ocean. The territory from which
they filled their slave pens extended
inland only as far as Isanglia, Stan
ley's second station, one hundred and
fifty miles from the coast. The Amer
lean slave trade. except in the Niger
basin, was traffic in coast negroes.
Behind the mountain barriers that di-
vided the low-lying seaboard from the
plateaus of central Africa dwelt mil
lions of other and very different peo-
pie whom Livingstone and his success
ors have made known to the world.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24

Nonsense" said Chauncey. al.
though his bronze face colored. Don't
be foolish"
81 think you will like Mabel
Wright" said Claiice. She has been
to Mount Desert, spending the sum-
mer, and is stopping over with me a
few days before returning home"
Indeed" said Chauncey, and just
then the or-bell rang.
There she is now. the dear girl" !"
cried Clarice, bounding into the hall.
",She insisted on going out to make q
few purchases, and wouldn't wait for
the carriage"
Chauncey was turning over the
leaves of portfolio when the two
girls entered the room, and when lie
looked up. low cry escaped him.
"This is my friend, Miss Mable
Wright" began Clarice, but Chaun-
cey stepped quietly forward, and Ma
bel gave him her hand.
1--WE have met before" he said, and
then he related the story of their doub-
le chance meeting.
Well cards are out for the wedding,
and Chauncey will always treasure
the silk umbrella. Chicago Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
any other language, and its expansion
must widen with greater rapidity in
the future
Forcing the Voice.

During the summer OF 1884 u young
man, splendidly built, called on me,
having previously demanded an up
pointment. explaining that he had my
advice to ask in a matter of paramount
importance to him. He asked what
he should do under the following cir
cumstances: lie was the happy pos
SCISSOR of q very sweet tenor voice, OF
which he gave an instant proof. He
was recommended to go to certain
Italian singing master for the purpose
Of developing the strength of his voice.
This gentleman recommended him to
take hold of the back of chair with
both his hands, and then, pressing on
it as hard as he could, to shout with
all his might. Did | think that was
the right way to go to work? Ire
piled that if his object was to break
his voice lie would undoubtedly reach
that object by so doing, otherwise l
could not imagine any good it could
do. Such murderous ignorance l really
think ought to be brought before the
court, because either Intentionally or
unintentionally that young man would
have been deprived Of what he had to
make a living from. lie is now en-
gagged and sings at q theater of not too
big proportions in the sweetest way
possible, and would Gel tainly not have
a tone left in his throat had he fol-
lowed the advice above indicated. And
perhaps l may be allowed at this OPP
portunity to tender the advice of my
long experience to those who begin
singing. Before all, let a competent
master tell them what sort of voice
they have got. To treat a mezzo-
/ soprano as a cOntralto can be as hurt
! full to it as to treat it like high So
prano. The tessitura--that is the
principal position in which the voice
moves-is of decisive Importance for
the singer, and it is a well known fact
that keeping the voice in exercises of
proper limits will extend the faculty of
singing lower or higher notes, which
can only be gained by well-calculated
study.-Temple Bar.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
Piling Tn Material for History.

81 have been engaged in the busi-
ness of making scrap books for the
past thirty-ive years." said a biblio-
maniac, "and have in my collection
nearly seven tons of newspaper clip
pings on every conceivable subject
from cowboys to evolution. 1 have
complete biographies of every promi-
nent man and woman in the world,
anecdotes about them and editorial
comments on their failures and sue
cesses. My clippings about Queen
Victoria, for instance, would fill sew
eral good sized volumes. have
thousand columns of material about
Gen. Grant. 1t is one of my daily
pleasures to arrange this mass of mat
ter in a convenient form for reference.
don't know that l will ever be able
to make use of it, but the historian of
the future will find it rich mine of
information. When die shall leave
the whole collection to one of the large
libraries.-Philadelphia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
His FayOrite.

"a love for the animal kingdom is
common to everybody" said Sunday
school talker. "Some people love birds,
others like dogs, horses, goats, ETC., and
tits quite proper that they should do
so. l suppose every little boy and girl
here loves some dumb creature better
than all others. Don't you my little
friends?"
All hands went up.
"That's right, and l am glad to see
it. 1t shows that you have hearts full
of love for the poor creatures who
have not been blessed with reason and
other precious gifts like yourselves.
Now, to illustrate a point, l am going
to ask some little boy to tell me what
his favorite is among the domestic ami
mails All, thanks. This little boy
shall answer. What do you like best,
my little man. Speak up loud, 50 that
all may hear YOU"
Boy lin tones that made the win
dows rattle and put the audience in an
uproar) )-"Roast Chickenr'-Chicago
Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
Imprisonment for Debt in Mexico.

imprisonment foT DcUb Ill McAlcOs
When an American settles in Mexi-
co he should be prepared to pay cash
for everything, and if lie knows what
is good for him he will take receipt
ed bill when he pays out money, If
he omits these precautions he may
wake up some fine morning in debt.
In Mexico, to be in debt is the worst
thing that can happen to a man. Un-
der the Mexican law the creditor can
have the debtor arrested on the day
when the debt falls due. The prisoner
in such cases is chained to post
guarded by an officer.
At the end of the time, if the mon
ey is not forthcoming, the mans labor
is sold to the government for 40 cents
day for as many days as will be nee
essary to discharge the obligation.
The miserable debtor is sent to the
silver mines, where he is chained to a
gang of felons and compelled to labor
underground. He sleeps underground,
and never sees daylight again until he
is restored to freedom. Not only do
ignorant Mexicans fall victims to this
cruel system of slavery. but foreigners
residing in the country occasionally
get caught in tight place, and their
creditors send them to the mines
where the majority of them die.-At-
Zn1ltG Constitution
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
A Boston Girl.

First Philadelphian: "That was a
remarkably beautiful girl you were
dancing with last night. Know her ?"
Second Philadelphian: "No; she's a
stranger here. | was introduced by
the master of ceremonies. l should
like to know something about her."
First p: Couldn't you find out
where she belongsT
Second F.: mo; / tried to ascertain
that, but she was extremely reserved,
evaded social subjects. seemed inclined
to discuss science and art, and said
something about the protoplasm of
the"
First P; "Protoplasml That set
ties it. She's from Boston.-Boston
Curier.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
The ICelanders.

With the exception of the priests
(Lutheran) and few merchants, the
people are all farmers. Those who
live near the sea, or one of the many
fjords, combine several occupations,
and thus gain good livelihood or
even wealth. The priests hold their
positions under the government, and
are paid from the public treasury. but
they generally add farming to their
official duties. The merchants have
their stores at one of the small villa
ges about the coast, and carry stock
of almost every imaginable thing.
Sometimes they employ agents who
travel through the country buying po-
nies, which they ship to Scotland,
or perhaps they own small vessel,
which coasts around the island buying
oil and Goldfish.
The farmer obtains all necessaries
Of life from the land and waters
around him. The rocks and turf are
his building materials; the bogs fur
nish inexhaustible supplies of peat for
fuel; the rivers swarm with salmon
during the summer, and the sheep
yield wool for his clothing. If near
the sea, the almost domesticated elder
duck contributes its eggs and down,
the seals and sharks give oil for his
light, and Goldfish are added to his win
ter stores. Once year he journeys to
Rykjavik, or one of the smaller towns,
and barters his produce for things that
serve to make his isolated life more
comfortable. Usually wool and elder
down are the things brought.
For these he is given credit by the
merchant and permitted to draw his
yearly supply of goods, consisting of
rye meal, flour, coffee, sugar calico and
lumber. Upon the farms the houses
are. with very few exceptions, clusters
of low, turf-covered huts, with gable
ends, doors and window frames of wood,
and if seen from distance are not
easily recognized by the stranger.
Sheep, and even ponies, are frequently
seen upon the roofs in quest of grass
that grows more luxurantly there
than in the pastures; but within the
houses are often made very comforta-
BILE, by being paneled and noored with
wood, painted and sometimes nicely
furnished -Pittsburg Dispatch.