Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-23
Doctor Mary Walker is writing
spectacular play. The costume of
the ballet is expected to be unique.


spectacular play. The costume of
the ballet is expected to be unique.
IfMr. Cleveland wants to know
exactly where the Democratic party
stands in the matter of Civil
Service reform, let him appoint
Senator Pendleton to place in
his cabinet.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher says
the report that her husband will
succeed James Russell Lowell is
ridiculous. That is so, but what
would it be if the report were
truei
II was one Of Buffers claims for
Presidential support that his money
was ready. The logical sequence
now appears in a mortgage on his
Washington house for 'ready
money
Thurman, Hoadly and Pendleton
are making faces at each other. In
the meantime, Cleveland fixes up
his Cabinet aud entirely overloOk
the three good boys.
The people ought never to forget
that if they want their children
aud their neighbors' children edu-
Gated they will be obliged to vote
against every Bourbon who runs
for an Office.
The number Of failures in the
United States and Canada for the
past week is 400, a decrease of 81
as compared with the preceding
week. This would seem to indi-
cate that the period of business
depression is nearly at an end.
A telegram from Lynchburg says
that a very heavy wind-storm pre-
vailed there throughout last Friday
night, interfering with telegraphic
communication and doing much
damage to barns and other prop
erty in the surrounding country.
A large frame church in Rock
bridge county was blown from its
foundation and wrecked.
Let them take notice now that
the badly-salaried public school
teacher of the State is not being
promptly paid, even after one gear
Of partial control by the school
hating element. Four years Of
Bourbon intermeddling with our
school system will kill it as dead as
a mackerel.
The annual report Of the Depart
tnent OF Agriculture, now in press,
makes the record of corn produc-
ton for the year 1884, 1876, 600, 600
busbel; that Of wheat, nearly
5I3,0O0,OOO, and Of oats, $4,000,
COO. These aggregates are the
largest ever recorded, and are the
figures for permanent record.
2. 7. Baruum, the great sbSw-
man, has offered General Grant one
hundred thousand dollars cash
and share Of the gate money for
the privilege orexhibiting the Gen
eral's vast collection of trophies.
General Grant should accept the
offer. 1t would be good thing
for him as we'll as-Barnum.
A tremendous rumpus has been
stirred up among the managers OF
the New Orleans exposition. They
need s250,OOO cash at once. Some
ofthe workmen who have waited
for weeks for their money have
threatened to burn the buildings
unless they are paid. Director
General Burke has asked for TWEEN
ty-fOur hours more time to raise
the money, and unless 1t is forth
coming trouble Will ensue- Evil
IDENTIFY a crisis is at hand.
The democrats of the Indiana
legislature are proposing to gerry
mander the state so that the repub- |
leans can only elect three men,
bers of congress in the future. Ma
ior Steele has persisted in getting |
himself elected 10 a very close dis
trict for the last three elections,
bat 1t is proposed to everlastingly |
bury him in the new appOrtiOn-
ment. GeiTymanders do not al.
ways gerrymaBder though, as both
parties have moro than once had
demonstrated 10 them in Indiana.
The great iron firms OF Oliver
Bros. & Philips aud Oliver q
Roberts, of Pittsburg, have sus'
pended. The liabilities are from
a., 100000 to s5,OOO,OOO. 1t is
thought the assets will be large
enough 10 meet this. Their pay
roll was S25O,OOO a month, and dull
times and low prices compelled the
suspension. This is a strong argu-
mcnt against the action of laboFers
in striking. If this strong firm
could not stand up before present
wages, what must be the condition
Of smaller ones!
DIR. Payne, Of the banking firm
Of Payne & Co., died suddenly at
warrenton, Va, recently. 1t was
found, after his death, that the
bank. of which he was the prac-
teal manager, was in bankrupt
and consequently its
doors we're closed. Judge Jas.
Keith was the other member Of the
firm of Payne & Co., but the man
agement of tue business was left
with Mr. Payne. On learning the
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