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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15
FARM NOTES.

Strive for the best, and provide
for the worst.
Both temporary and permanent
farm Improvements are now in
order.
Labor in the farm workshop on
rainy days pays better than fish
ing.
Don't work by fits and starts.
The even going individual is al
ways the most comfortable.
Promptness in preparing for and
planting crops generally proves
profitable.
Drain your land, manure well,
cultivate thoroughly, and farming
will pay.
Hedges that are in good order
should not be pruned until sum
mcr.
1t is a mistake to set fence posts
before they are thoroughly season
ed.
Don't allow the briers and
bushes to get the start of you this
season.
Holstein cattle seem to be grow
ing rapidly into favor throughout
the country.
4 mixture of bone dust and ashes
is said 10 be the best fertilizer for
strawberries.
The demand for permanent grass
es is on the increase.
There is about II per cent. OF
solids in healthy milk in normal
condition.
Connecticut established the first
agricultural experiment station in
America.
Shrubs and trees about farm
house give it a pleasant appear
ance. Plant them.
There is nothing brightens a
home so much, no matter how low
ly, as love and good nature.
It's a Dad year to go in debt fol-
what you don't need.
The Southern States are now the
largest producers of beeswax.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

Potatoes when fresh cut and put
into the ground, are more likely to
decay than If they were allowed to
remain a day or two, and, as it
were, to scar over. The cut sur
face will dry a little, and there will
be sort of skin coming over it,
which, think, protects it, and
keeps it from rotting sometimes.
Sprinkling little plaster over the
potatoes when first cut has an
admirable effect in soaring over
the cut part and keeping it from
decaying.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

Numbers offices With good roots
and well pl 'nted die after removal,
simply frG a Weakened condition
brought abb. 10y poor living. 1t
has always been understood in this
country that a transplanted tree is
safer for being prunel, but the
pruning generally consisted of
shortening Ia all The bfanches,
strong as we'll as weak. BUTT is now
found that the tree should not be
shortened b, but merely thinned
out. Tue weaker branches should
be cut out aud strong ones left.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15
4 Grateful Mother.

Ny little boy when only two
years old had what was said to be
a stroke of paralysis, affecting his
right limb, and for many months
he could not walk. His health be.
came exceedingly feeble. No one
dreamed he wonld ever recover
from his misfortune, and hope had
left my own heart Of ever rearing
him to manhood. Finally he com.
menced to use his limbs a little
but the ankle joint had become
impotent, and in attempting to walk
his foot would turn to one side,
and the ankle bone would touch
the floor. With that anguish
which only n mother can feel, ]
first realized he was to be q Grip.
pie all his life. With the aid Of a
steel ankle brace he was enabled to
get around the house. His health
was completely shattered, and with
an aching heart and gravest ap-
prehensiOn watched the llvid OK.
preston Of countenance and splot.
ches on his face that would come
and go. What a widowed mothers
affection could do was done, but
with little permanenubeneft. Being
assured by friends that Swift's
Specific would do him good, through
their kindness | secured several
bottles. | commenced TO give 1t to
my child about the first Of last July
1880. The first bottle acted like
a charm upon his system. After
taking the second bottle his com
plexiOn cleared up and strength be-
gan to increase, lie threw away
his braces several months ago, and
now walks better than he ever did
with it. The ankle joint has re.
gained it's strength and the foot it's
proper position, and the large lump
on the ankle, caused by friction
aud unnatural use, has disappear
ed. lie is now in his sixth year /;
his health is as good aud he is as
lively as any child Of his age. He
has taken six bottles Of S.S. s. only,
but the change has been wonder
full, and everybody who had seen
him before he commenced 10 take
the medicine are astonlshed at his
appearance now. For the first time
since his illness feel in my heart
the hope of rearing him. With
devout gratitude to Him who gave
him, | bless the day | ever heard
Of this remedy. II has saved to me
my child.
MRS. g. w. SHINHOEsER.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

II there are not now q sufficient
number of grape-viDes growing
upon The premises to furnish an
abundance for family use, do not
let the present opportunity pass
for planting one or more Of the
standard varieties at the corner Of
the wood shed, house or barn, or
any other favorable locality. There
is nothing planted on the farm or
home lot which remunerates so
richly for the expense aud trouble
in cultivation as the grape. Vines
trained upOn the south side OF q
building thrive nicely and yield
wonderfully. SOapsuds is good
for them.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15
EASTWARD Nail "a x T.. si:.4.

TRAIN NOTES.
Trains lsc and 29i daily. iss daily to H.rrissE.
burg only.
Connections ct Hausr's Fsrry for Gil poisis
West az strasburg with MANASSAS Bran ca Va.
Midland At stanton With Chesaps.ks 4 Dale
<. n. a. Lsuueson With Rlehmond 4 All sshsny
BIB.
WESTWARD.
Fast Limited EIpress, daily, for CAtosso .sI
finsburg leave Baltimore ats 90 O. m KAsA.
lngton ss0 .. N. Arrives ~ Chicago oos .. n;
Pittsburg 6 % D. m.
Express daily for Cincinnati and ST. IsshL
leaves bsltmors a. l % noon Nsshinston 4 -
p. m, and harper's Ferry al sc7p. m. Arrives
a. Cinei9nah 81 -, .. N. stLouis 80 D. n
Night LIpress daily for 81. Louis and Chio.ss
leaves Baltimore at . 70 p. m. Washington 10 10
p. m, aud harptf's Ferry II 81 y. 10. Arrives a.
Cineinnau BOP. m, e.. Louisf so a. m, CHS.
70 5foa.m
Night Express daily for Piasburf Leaves B.lti.
more At 50 y. M wAsh stoB 40 D. N D., aDs
hsrp.Tt Ferry At 10 II y. N, Arrives q, tifss-
burg 30 .. m.
b. a o. Palace Sleeping Cars are sun tAroush ~
Cincinnati, -. Louis. Chicago snd Pttsburs 81
all express trains
For ucks.s and furinst inforhssioz apply 10 ..
y. Agents or 20 Is. p. Bond, Pass A gent, Balti-
more, c. =. DudroS, Travelling rssa AsssL
stanton, Va.
L, N. COLE. GsaT Tiehsi Agent
O. x. LORD, Gen. Pass. Agt.
W. N. CLEMENTS. oes Isspt
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15
Rutland, Ga, Feb. 2,1SS5.
Cafarrh In the Head

For years have been the vic.
tim Of catarrh. one Of the most
treacherons and fatal of all dis
eases. After exhausting all the
remedies that came to my knowl-
edge, | was attracted by the adver.
tisement Of S. 8. s. :, and determin-
ed to give it a fair trial. To my
infinite surprise and the astonish-
ment of many sympathizing friends,
| have been thoroughly cured. AS
to the virtue of Swift's Specific, |
can find no words or language to
express my praise thereof II it
had not been for s. ). y. | would
not be able to write even this much.
l.. s WAssUM, Gettysburg, q.
Jan. II, 1884.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3,
Atlanta, Ga.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

A PRECOCIOUs CRITIC.-SOme
criticisms in Boston newspapers Of
concerts that did not take place re.
call the fact that the great Hans.
lick, q few years ago, left a concert
before it was over, and next day
his discussion of the beauty OF ex-
preston ETC., with which Herr
x sang some Schubert feder
was enjoyed by those who we're
present at the concert and heard
the excuse sent by Herr u, who
explained that 3 sore throat kept
him from appearing.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

1t isnot only by bodily exercises,
by educational institutions, or by
lessons in music, that our youths
are trained, but much more effect
ually by public example.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

Good deeds lie in the memory OF
age like the coral islands, green
and sammy amidst the melancholy
wastes of ocean.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15
VIRGINIA MIDLANr RAILWAY

The greatest thoroughfsre between the
North and the SOuth. The only line
Offering double daily Pullman Buffet and
Sleeping Car service, between Washing
tonland New Orleans This line offers TO
Tho travelling public accommodations and
facilities such as cannot be found on any
other line entering Washington.
On and after SUNDAY, April 9th, 1850,
nasseu ger trains will be run as follows
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

An exchange asks: How shall
We prevent mice from gnawing the
bark OF the fruit treesf Kill the
mice Of course. A dead mouse
never gnaws bark.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

Write your name 10 love, kind
ness and charity, on the hearts Of
the people you come in contact
with, ana you viii be loved by ALL
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

There are poems unwritten and
songs unsung.' Yes says an
editor, 1T is this that reconciles US
to life
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

He laughs at scars who never
felt wound.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15
NorARIKsPUBLIo.
JUS ncEs OF THE rEAcE.

DAVIS Dist DIR. @. A. Brown, 0bed Runh and
Abishsm Baker.
sToHEvALL. ~ H. 0rabill, ". o. bnaff, Snow.
whitaker
JoHssTON.-l L.Roberts Levin. Cutler. fSAiah
Gem.
NIDisor.-s4nusi c. Campbell jacob IAntr
Jos. Gomez,
AsHBr-Jos Wndls y. D. Printsr, LsmuSl
LEa-ohristi4n shirley, ~ W. Baker, Am 90
Peters
CoNsTABLRs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-05-15

RoBT. ANDREWS, Eng. and sup
Nov. 1l--tf
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-09
A Meth0dical Traveller.

eyes" said an elderly and sedate
passenger, Il I'M a commercial traveller,
but not one of the new school. l belong
to the old regime. My tendency is to-
ward quiet modesty and slow-going.
Beside, l am very methodical. | work
by system. My route is laid out to cover
just nine months of travel every year,
and year after year it is the same. My
sleeping car berths are always engaged a
year ahead. I always have the same
berth, ride in the same hack, and have
the same room in the same hotel as on
the former trips. This is all arranged
in advance. When I call upon a Gus
toner and get his order tell him that
at the same hour exactly one year hence
I will he with him again. At every no.
tel my room is ready for me, with a fire
in the CRATE, my slippers before it, my
dressing gown hanging in the wardrobe,
pictures of my wife and family upon the
walls, and my letters and kilograms upon
the centre table. This, too, is all ar
ranged months ahead. have four sets
of slippers, gowns, pictures, ETC., and
as soon as l leave a hotel these are
packed up and sent ahead Of me by OK
press to be arranged previous to my ar
rival in another hotel. I even order my
meals a year in advance, and by refer
ring to my schedule can tell you within
q minute where I will dine and what |
will eat any given day months hence. Of
course ] am called q crank, but l take
delight in these things, it costs but lit
tie and makes travel for me a constant
pleasure. The greatest satisfaction l
have in life is in carrying out these pre-
else methods. Excuse me, but | get off
here, and over there I see my hackman
with the seat in his carriage reserved for
me which l ordered exactly q year ago.
-CAjcugo 1rareler.
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Getting q Wife "On Tick"

81 will tell you an incident connected
with telegraph ng by sound" says tele-
graph operator in al exchange. After
I came to New York l lived in a quiet
street, which is now a noisy thorough
fare. l spent most of my time when
AWAY from the office in my room. One
evening, while sitting at my window, |
happened to look across to the opposite
house, where I saw a pretty girl at one
of the windows. She was leaning against
the easement tapping on the glass with a
pencil. After this I saw her at the same
place many times. We had got 50 far
as a nodding acquaintance: but had no
opportunity of speaking to her. One
afternoon, having come home somewhat
early, | was seated at my window think
ing of my pretty friend Opposite. l
almost unconsciously tapped a salute to
her on the window pane with my pencil.
using the telegraphic signs. l was very
much surprised when a reply came from
her in the same way. She understood
the signs and could use them. After
that we had long talks across the street,
and as our interest in each other deep
ened into warmer feeling many a tender
message was sent by the airline. You
NAV not believe it but we were engaged
to be married before we had ever cx-
changed a word or before either had
heard the other speak a word. After:
ward I was introduced properly, and
married the young lady the following
Christmas, and that is what | call getting
q wife son tick.'n
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PROMINENT PEOPLE

GOVERNOR OGLEsBY. Of Illinois, furnished
the briefest Thanksgiving proclamation OF
the season.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE has worn out five
satin robes since he first took his place on the
supreme bench.
GEORGE w. CHILDS has the largest collec-
ton of canes Of any man In America. Ihey
we're gathered from all quarters Of the globe.
AN American has been appointed by the
King of COrea to he chief farmer, with q
view to introducing our vegetables into that
country.
EDGERToN AND TaENHora, the new civil
service commissioners, are said to be the
handsomest men in tho services of the gov
eminent.
SECRETARIES ENDIcoTT n WHITNEY dis
courage further attempts to reach the North
pole, saying such explorations are OF no prac-
tical value.
SENATOR German, of Maryland, Congress-
man ". L. Scott, OF Pennsylvania, and
Townshend, of Illinois, once served as pages
in Congress.
FRANCIS MURPHY, tn, temperance advo-
cate, is so much liked aud wanted IN Fits
barr, that there is talk of raising all endow'
ment fund, tho interest Of which shall suffice
to pay him a salary OF $lO,0W.
EN- hES1DEN1 tlhON
novel reader. While he was Vice-President
be spent hours in the alcoves of the Congress.
sional library looking up new novels, and ne
liked love stories as well as q girl in. her
teens.
KING HUMBERr, of Italy, is thirty-eight
| wears old. His face habitually wears a sad
and sober expression. The rare smile which
lights it is one of marked sweetness and char
acter. His manners are courteous. He takes
| great interest in the education Of his only
son, a boy Of ten years.
LORD SALISBURY, the British premier,
dresses very plainly and neatly; his rough,
dark blue overcoat and dark gray bags"
are quite unobtru>ive, and there is absolutely
no peculiarity about his attire. Unlike Mp
Gladstone, his collar is not conspicuous nor
ara his trousers too short. A beaver conceals
his philosophic brow. His eye is calm. his
presence full of conscious power, and ne IL
in no wise a pretentious man.
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A GREAT STORM
Much Damage Done Along the Allan
tic COdSt.

Much Damage Done Along the Allan
tic a
A great storm which ragged in New York
and vicinity for two days spread devasta-
ton in its track. The tidal wave
created by the easterly and northeasterly
gales rolled up over the coasts Of New Jersey
and Long Island, raining property to the e3-
tent of tens of thousands of dollars. 1t united
with the downpouring rain to inundate the
streets of New York and the adjacent cities,
wherein there was also serious damage to
property. In New York the tide was the
highest ever known, and many cellars were
flooded.
A full rugged ship was wrecked on the Jer-
sey coast at Ocean Beach. and one sailor was
drowned. The stranded schooner Peacedale
went to pieces. The roadbeds of nearly all
the railways leading out Of New York were
more or less damaged. Coney Island was
cut in two by the high tide. Several bad
washouts are reported. h passen-
gers of train crossing the
Newark meadows became panic stricken
when the engine of their train was derailed.
They had to be rescued in rowboats from the
surrounding waters. Among the New Jersey
summer resorts the destruction was heavy,
many cottages and bathing houses at Long
Branch, Seabright, Asbury Park and other
places being washed away.
Travel was delayed everywhere: telegraphlc
communication was impeded; business was
brought almost to a %standstill; loss, trouble
and discomfort were the order of the day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-09
PERILS OF CITY LIFE
Tragic Result of a New York
Tenement House Fire.
A Widow and her Two Children
Burned to Death.

The New York papers give the following
details Of a fire in a large tenement house on
East Sixty-fourth street, at which a widow
and her two little children were burned to
death:
An alarm of fire had been sent out and the
engines arrived promptly, but the stairs
were soon ablaze to tho sixth floor, and
escape by them was impossible. Not more
than d dozen persons reached tue street
that way. The Others either went to
the roof or to the front and rear balcon-
les. Although there was much excitement
and the women were screaming the
children were crying, there was ample time
and opportunity for every one in the house
to have escaped. When the lrenen arrived
they got out life-saving apparatus, and
nine persons were taken down from the
balconies Of the second and third
floors in this way. No report was made
at that time that any one was missing. The
tenants at No. 406 escaped easily to the
stl eel, many, however, in their night clothes.
The homeless people were cared for by the
neighbors and in an adjacent saloon, the pro-
prietor Of which made a number OF them as
comfortable as possible. .
The fire spread oat Of the third floor Of
No. 40t, and above that destroyed every de-
partment to the 70 If, which fell in ami ex-
CenQeu 10 GIlo TedT updEGLueuuS III Ino SIAuA
floor of No. 400 and the roof OF NJ .Breslin's
cigar mandatory at No. 400. When the
fire was completely under control and COM
panies began to overhaul the wreck
of the three under floors of No. 404, q
rumor was started that Mrs. Mary Fialka and
her children-Mary, aged SEVEN, and Annie,
aged six-were burned. The woman, who
was a widow about forty years old, lived and
made cigars on an apartment on the front OF
the sixth floor. She was not seen by her
neighbors when they escaped, but they sup
posed she was safe, as they heard no cutlery in
her apartment. The iremen began a search
in the wreck Of the sixth floor, which had
fallen to the fifth floor, and came upon the
bodies. It was evident Mrs. Fialka had been
surprised by the flames, as she had only one
of her children near her, and she appeared to
have fallen while endeavoring to reach the
fire escape balcony. The other child was
found in another room. The bodies, which
were shockingly charred, were taken to the
morgue.
Henry Kohut, a young Bohemian cigar
maker, was arrested OH the charge of having
set fire to the building for the purpose OF
getting the insurance upon his furniture: The
other tenants were SO Infatuated at kohu,
that they wanted to lynch him.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

COMPOSER SULL1vAN's co-laborer, GIL
bert, has gone to Egypt for material for q
new opera ibretto.
"A o Of ten years, Friedrich Kreissler by
name, has obtained the first violin prize at
the conservatory OF Vienna a.
HARPs, flutes, trunpsts, drums and bells,
nearly 5000 years old, have been found
among the ruins of Memphis, Egypt.
MoDJEsKA is to receive q certainty OF
$1,000 for q retur.l elSaS,neut OF one week
in Chicago at the new Chicago opera house.
NINE. NILSSON has created a furore among
the critical music loving public Of Berlin,
where she has appeared in a series of concerts.
JOHANNES BRAHMS, Germany's greatest
living composer Of symphonies at the present
period, has just finished his fourth symphony.
MRS. SCOTT SIDDoNs has received some
very tempting offers to revisit this country
next season, AMI will, in all probability, &C.
cept.
"RoMEo AND JULIET" has just been played
in two New York theatres simultaneously
Mary Anderson being the star at one and
Margaret Mather at the other.
GouNoD is engaged in the preparation OF q
pamphlet describing the reforms which ne
believes necessary to placing opera on asouno
basis for success in the future.
AMONG the new plays owned by Lawrence
Barrett, which he intends to produce, Is
"Glauous, or the Last days Of Pompeu," py
George II. Boxer, who has followed Bulwer's
romance closely in constructing his drama.
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KING ALFONSO.
Death by Consumption Of the
Young King Of Spain.
His Widow, Queen Christina, Ap-
pointed Regent

The death of King Alphonso, the young
ruler of Spain, on the 25th was not unex'
pected, as he had been ailing from consump-
ton for some time. A Madrid dispatch OF
the 25th gives the following particulars:
Monday night the king had spasmodic fits,
the result Of fever and debility. Six doctors
from Madrid and two doctors of Ell Pardo
were in constant attendance upon him. They
decided on Tuesday morning that the king
was in a dangerous condition. The fits con-
tinued throughout Tuesday, and the king
died at S:45 o'clock this morning. The
pope's benediction arrived before he expired.
All the officers OF state and the cabinet min
listers, except the minister of war and the
minister Of the interior, were present at the
moment of dissolution. The cabinet met
Immediately, and the queen was appointed
regent. In accordance with the law, the
members Of the cabinet have rendered their
designations, but will remain in Office pend.
ing the regents pleasure. The body of King
Alfonso will be inferred in the palace Of the
escurial. 4
Large forces Of military and police were
CHARTERED throughout the country as q pre-
caution against Carlist uprisings.
Princes Mercedes. the fve-year-o.d daugh-
ter Of Alfonso, will be queen under the re-
gency Of her mother. Christina. Senior Sa-
gasta will form q new cabinet. The streets
were crowded with people eagerly discussing
The situation.
All the European rulers sent messages Of
coincidence and sympathy to the dead kings
widow.
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FOroirns

ATEHR1BLE cyclone swept over the Philip.
pine Islands. Eight thousand buildings. in
GLIDING numerous churches and school
h,u es, were destroyed, and twenty-five per.
SONS were killed.
A CoNSTANTINopLE dispatch says the
Turkish government has warned Servia to
withdraw her troops from Bulgaria or
Turkish troops will invade Ssrvia.
ADvICEs from Calcutta, India, state that s.
900 people have been drowned and 10 villages
submerged in Orissa by a cyclone, and that
l,2!4l square miles Of territory have been de-
vastated.
ONE English official was killed, three others
wounded and five natives were shot by the
police during the progress of a religious riot
at Breach, India.
LADY CHURCHILL. the American wife OF
Sir Randolph Churchill, has been wo! king
}ersoraly for her husbands reelection to
the British armament.
A DISPATCH from Bs!Crn'e. Rnl~arin. says
that the Servians have evacuated all the pc
sitions hitherto occupied by them.
THE British steamer Iberian, from bostor
for Liverpool, with a cargo valued at S2oo'
OJO, has been wrecked on the British coast