Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-09-18

Gov. Hoadly has succeeded in
demonstrating to honest and IN
telligent prohibitionists in Ohio
that the only real and practical
friends OF temperance in that state
are in the Republican party.
About the only benefciaries OF
prohibition in Iowa thus far are
gentlemen of the legal profession
Attempts to enforce the law have
been productive Of much costly
litigation, but have not reduced
the number of drinking houses or
the extent of the liquor traffic.
Gen. ID. II. Hill will deliver the
annual address before the Virginia
Division of the Confederate As
ISOLATION of the Army of Northern
Virginia, on the ODD of next
month, at Richmond. His subject
will be The Confederate Soldier in
the Ranks
4 decision has just been render
ed by the Treasury officials to the
effect that a certain army officer
who gave a junketlng party recent
" must pay for it himself-much
to the surprise of the officer. Jun
kets will become decidedly unpop-
ular if the iunketers have to foot
the bills.
Dan Rice, the old circus clown,
has set up a claim fOr all the land
on which stands the city of Gal
weston, Texas, and says he has
papers to prove his ownership. Dan
declares that this is no joke, and
we feel sure that by the time he is
done with the law and the lawyers
he will be fully convinced 1t is not.
General Beauregard and Gener-
al Jubal Early are paid $1,000 a
year each by the Louisiana Lottery
Company for watching the wheel
turn once month and giving their
names as advertisements. This IS
a pretty small piece of business for
two great men to be in, and the
sooner they get ont of it the better
reter Ames, of Belmont, Me-,
had a tooth extracted the other
day. and the roofs were found to
have been in contact with metal.
Ames had been wounded in the
face at Spottsylvania, YaY in the
war and the bullet was never ex-
tracted. More teeth were drawn,
a mart of the cheek bone removed,
and an iron grape shot, weighing
one ounce, was taken out, after be-
ing imbedded there twenty'one
years.
The Grayson Gazette says new
corn is being offered at 30 cents
per bushel delivered, at Old Town,
and that 1t is offered at Hillsville
at % cents per bushel delivered.
The village of Waikiki, Ulster
county, y. Y, is excited over the
mysterious disappearance of Miss
Florence Il. Vernol. She left home
on Wednesday evening last, and
when about two hours away her
parents found note from her ID
which she said she had gone away
and would never return; that she
could not bear the disgrace I'M
posed upon her by the act Of
another. She is about 81 years old
and prepossessing in appearance.
The Washington correspondent
of the New York Times is RESPONSE
bic for the story to the effect that
when Senator Voorhees, called up
OH Senator Lamar to urge the APP
Monument of Mr.. Faulkner, the
latter, on reading Faulkners letter
of application. exclaimed : "Look
here, Voorhees,, your man can't
spell. You certainly don't expect
me to give a place to a fellow who
spells appointment with one 'p and
Democrat with an 81" 81 don't
see what that has to do with it,"
replied Mr.. Voorhees,. "If you are
going to draw the line on spelling
Won will debar most Of the Demo
cratic party from Office"
The Culpeper Exponent says
:. gentleman brought TO our office
last Saturday a two.headed snake,
which ne had killed at Coles Kill,
a farm near Steveusburg. The
snake was about eight inches long,
greyish in color, and the heads
were well and perfectly developed.
It isa very great curiosity.
A land expert at Rome, Ga, re-
ceived an oIder a few days ago for
100, 900 to 800, 600 acres Of deslr-
able fam land, in a solid block, to
be interspcrsed with timber, but
not all forest. These lands aye for
emigration purposes, and the order
comes from party having a Lon
don connection.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes IN a
note declining, on account of ILL
health, an invitation to speak at
the meeting of the American For
estry Congress at Boston on Sep
TENDER % 4, says; 81 fully sympa'
thize with the noble and most i'm
portant object of the congress, and