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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
THEY MAY HAVE BIG FEET, BUT THEY
DON'T USE SLANG.

A Chicagoan visiting in Boston
wakes indignant at the article re-
garding Chicago girls, which APP
reared in an eastern journal The
article charges that Chicago girls
are in the habit of using such ex
pressions as getting left 'rustled
round went back on him. cor
raled her handkerchief in the
SWIM made the rifle and put IN
his best ticks The Chicagoan
writes to the paper here TO say
that since his arrival in Boston,
six months ago, lie had not seen
pretty woman. We think 1t highly
probable. But, regarding this
charge that Chicago girls use slang
in order to obtain the facts a re.
preventative of the Rambler called
upon a Michigan avenue young
lady, who is a typical belle OF the
Garden City. The reporter was
ushered into a resplendent saloon
furnished in the style of Lois Kane
or NAV be it was Louis katorze.
He seated himself upon an old god
fauteuil, and presently the young
lady referred to mateTialized, herald
ed by the frou frOu OF her sllken
dress upon the stairs. The article
referred TO was shown to her, and
she became exceedingly indignant
observing: m
That is a fish story. The fellow
who wrote that is way off his base.
You think, then, that there IS
no truth in the assertion that CHI
cago girls are addicted to slang!
well, now, hold on. l don't
mean exactly that. There may be
some of them who sling slang, but
never work the slang racket my
self. suppose some OF the girls
do use slang sometimes, . but this
child is not one of them now, you
hear my bazooT
what ia your opinion of Boston
bellies, compared with those OF CHI
cagor oueried the scribe.
i think we can discount Boston
on beauty, and as for accomplish
ments, why, that's where we hold a
full hand. Take me, fol- example
Il should be most happy said
the reporter, CALAMITY.
Come off, she calculated, play.
fully. Take Me, for example l
can paw the worries with the best
of 'em. l can MARBLE a few WARDS,
and | can elocute, too. No, sir, l
can tell you, Boston girls have
got to hustle to keep even with us,
and it's very seldom ! hear any OF
the girls use slang. Well, must
20 and get ready for the matinee,
so over the river
'Aurevoir,j responded the jour
nalist, making his best three'ior'a
quarter bow, and Withdrawing
with his usual grace.
This interview effectually gives
the lie to the allegation that the
daughters of this metropolis are
addicted TO the use OF slang.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
A Confederate Match Factory,

From the Atlanta Constitution.
The first match factory in the
Conlederacy was in or rather near
Atlanta. The 0wcncr was an At
lanta man. These matches were
sold from Richmond to the gulf
Unlike some Of our recent 'xpcri-
mems in that line, there was no
trouble about igniling the matches.
4 man did not have 10 strike one
sixteen times, and finally Int it on
the head with Il hammer, or light
it by the fire.
His main trorble was to keep the
thing from going of prematurely,
and the only ellectual safeguard
was to keep it in a bottle of water.
They were the most utterly too
previous matches ever seen in this
or any other country. The enter
prise was never profitable, because
half the stock was invariably lost
by spontaneous combustion. Wag-
on loads Of matches on their way
from the factory to the city would
burst into blaze half way on the
road, soaring the driver and his
mules out OF their senses. Several
Atlanta stores handled these USE
ful marvels Of home enterprise, but
customers were cautioned TO tread
lightly for fear of Earring the
matches into a conllagfalion, aud
clerks were detailed to sit up every
night to watch the troublesome
stock.
The owner Of this match factory
put up the stun in which the
matches were dipped, aud sold 1t
for rat poison. 1t certainly killed
the rats, but the haSty character of
Che stnn created such a panic in
the city that the industry had to
be squclched. a Whitehall street
merchant bought a box Of the
poison one day, and carrying it to
his store, ,rIed to spread dab OF
it on a piece Of dry bread as bait
for the rats. lie gave it one spread
when there was a "whishW and
the whole affair blazed up in his
face, singing of his whiskers. A
few similar experiments prejudiced
the people against the new poison.
They said it was too rough on the
rats to burn ont their stomachs
with such an explosive. a com
plcte collection of Atlanta's manu-
factured products from go to go
would be worth seeing. AS a.
museum of curiosities it would
draw crowds in any part of the
country. But it is too late in the
day to secure such COLLECTION.
~-------.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
WHAT ClEVELAND'S ELECTION HAS COST
n. Y Tribune.

According to Democratic prom
Uses, we have been enjoying great
business prosperity during the
past year. One year ago, in the
country, farmers were going up
and down solcmnly beseeching their
neighbOrs to vote for Cleveland,
reform and prosperity for had not
Cle\ Gland been OF incalcuable ser
vice to the butter interest," About
this city, a great army Of business
men, who should have been more
intelligent, paTaded heTOically, foot
sore and some times wet, but fired
with zeal for Cleveland, reform,
and = r,Iyt . of Southern trade.
For the first time since 1860, the
business interests of the people
were successfully used, in some
measure, to delude them, and the
perpetual clamOr of Free Trade
journals, which took care not to
state that they were the organs of
importers or foreign spectators,
really impressed the minds of many
with the belief that prosperity
would come by express train, if
they would only trust the old
Democratic party once more, and
vote for cleveland and reform
These multiplied pledges and repre-
sensations, and the strong delu-
sions which they then produced in
the minds of some men ordinarily
shrewd, may be prolitably recollect-
ed at this time in connection with
a few facts to cast light upon the
result of the experiment.
The facts are painfully familiar
to most people. Probably there is
nobody in this country who needs
to be told that the country has
endured a more industrial depres-
sion during the past year than 1t
had seen for many years. Within
sixty days after Cleveland's cleo
tion,it was reported by Bradstreets
that over 100000 men were out OF
employment, and yet the depres-
sion has but Just begun. 1t con
tinued with closing factories and
reduction of wages on every side,
until midsummer. If it be true, as
economic journals maintain, that
the reduction in wages has not eX-
ceeded 10 per cent. on the average
it may be proper to remember that
the wages paid yearly to wage
earners IN this single State ordl-
narily exceed $1,000, 100000, so
that the loss in wages alone, even
if none of the workers had been
left without employment, would
have exceeded SlOO,OOO,OOO. This
was the first and most impressive
feature of the DemOcraticprOsperlty
which We were promised.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
Life In Kentucky.
From the New York Sun. }

Farmer Truman, of Kentucky,
was up an apple tree the other day
Manipulating a choice lot of seek
nO-furthers, when along came Far
mer Joslyn. AS Farmer Joslyn
had a shotgun with him, a care
less observer might have reasoned
that he was out cunning for quail.
There was nothing OF the careless
abScrver about Farmer Truman,
however. He didn't tumble from
the tree right away, but he did
tumble to Farmer Joslyn's errand,
aud he halted in his picking and
called out:
After me, ell 2
'Jist so, nayburn
well, / was sort O. expecting
you, but not quite so early. Is
this the same old leud-the one
starting over line fence rs years
ago.
'Yes, the same old thing which
has caused the deaths of there
Humans and four Joslyns.'
'Oh | didn't know but some
thing new had comeup. Say, nay.
bur, I'll be down IN just mint
q know you will, and you'll prob.
ably come head fust I've come
over this morning to shoot anoth-
er Truman, aud kinder even up
numbers
But amt armed. Ny shot
gun is in the house
That's all the better fur me nay
burr
But you'll give me few min.
utcs in which to say my prayers
'Oh, as to that, don't mind low.
ing you three or four minits, though
I'm in IA hurry t. git back home
and 60 to cutting corn. Go ahead,
nay hur.'
Farmer Truman settled himself
in crotch and seemed to be pray
ing, while Farmer Joslyn kept an
eye on him, and lmpatiently waited
to catch the concluding amen
lie was in this state of mind when
Il hole about as large as his arm
was bored through him from back
to front, and a boy of fourteen
came running up and called out:
Pop arc you up there ?
yes, my son.
81 saw he had the bulge on you,
and | got the gun and dropped
him?
'Right, my boyl That's what |
was praying for.
IIow many Joslyns does this
masei
Five. We've only two more to
kill off to wesd out the lot
well, I'll tell one of the niggers
to 20 over and see if the family
waut the body. G0Od.by, pa. |
shall be late to school,
Good by, my son. Always strive
to be a good boy ifyou want success
III life
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
Mistakes Of Life.

Somebody, says the Suffolk Her
aid, has condensed the mistakes OF
life, and arrived at the conclusion
that there are fourteen of them.
Most people would say, if they told
the truth, that there was no limit
to the mistakes of life that they
we're like drops in the ocean or the
sands ofthe shore innumber. But
it is we'll to be accurate. Here,
then, are the fourteen great mis-
takes: at is a great mistaketo set
M our own standard Of right and
wrong, and judge people accord
ingly; to measure the enjoyment
of others by our own; to expect
uniformity of opinion in this world;
to look for judgment and expert
ence in youth; to endeavor to
mould all disposition alike; not to
yield to immaterial triaes to look
for projection in our own actions :;
to worry ourselves and other with
what cannot be remedied; not to
alleviate all that needs alienation
as far as lies in our power; not TO
make allowances for the in6rmlties
of others; to consider everything
impossible that we cannot perform;
to believe that our finite minds can
grasp everything ; to expect to be
able to understand everything.
The greatest mistake of all is to
live only for time, when any mo.
NIT may lead rs into eternity"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
The Latest Agony.

The latest, the newest, the most
agOnlzing, the most excruciating
and the most facinating thing out,
according to the authority of a
young man whose life is but an end.
less round of fashionable dissipa-
ton, is the silk handkerchief quilt,
craze. "No, my dear fellow, you
mustn't laugh, you know. Really
it isn't fair until you know all
about it. 1t isn't any relation to
the crazy.quilt craze, which be-
longs solely to the ladies. All we
have to do with that, you know, is
to supply pieces of our cravats TO
our lady friends. But this is some
thing for men. You'll appreciate
it. | know you will. Well, I'll
tell you all about 1t. You see, in
the first place | buya number of
plain white silk handkerchieis.
Then | distribute them among my
lady friends, one to each. The
lady is expected to embroider her
initials or monogram in her own
HAIR in the corner. Could anything
be more beautiful : The idea came
from abroad, but it has taken i'm
mcnsely here. You see, the lady
who has long, luxuriant hair has a
chance to deity show the fact,
while the girl VIII hasn't-well, |
suppose she either buys or borrovs
some Of the same shade as her OWE.
Only the short.haired girls are
fighting the craze. I'm with the
longhairs' in the contest, because
It's the proper thing, you know
Washington Letter.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
A STARTLING STORY.

The Baltimore American Of
Tuesday last gave the details of a
startling story Of an attempted
murder. 1t seems that a young
and handsome woman called upon
the keeper of a notorious place in
Boston recently, and told him
plainly that she came from Baltl-
more, representing a wealthy clti-
zen of that place, who wished to
lind a man who would put out OF
the way his sons wife. She ex-
planned further that the wife had
formerly been a servant in his
family, and that the marriage was
clandestine. She offered 81, 900 or
81 800 for the job, STIMULATING that
the sons child should not be in.
jured. The police were informed,
the detectives overheard a subse-
Quent conversation between the
woman and the man whom she had
employed. He went to Baltimore
"A week ago and saw the woman
whom he vas expected to murder.
Last Friday the emissary in Boston
gave him u package containing
; 600, he agreeing to start I'M
mediately for Baltimore to commit
the murder. Saturday night, while
in the act Of telegraphing to the
Baltimore man, she was arrested,
and is said to have confessed the
whole plot.
Another version of the story is
that a young Bostonian while visit.
ing friends in Baltimore met a
pretty young servant girl of Irish
parentage, ALSO from Massachusetts,.
He fell desperately in love, and
secretly married her. His people
were furious, and after The birth of
his child, became tired Of his wi fe,
his father decided to release him
by numbering the girl. lie secured
the services of the woman who, for
a promised reward of $1,000,
guaranteed to remove the young
wife. The woman procured con-
iederates, through whom the affair
was exposed. 1t is reported that
the woman is the wife OF a police
officer of Boston. The latter is
ignorant that his wife is being con-
cerned or that she is arrested. He
is being Swallowed. His wife is
described as being a handsome
woman, aged about thirty.three
years. She solicited the aid of a
well.known tough citizen to asst
her. He, with another man, were
to accompany her to Baltimore,
where the victim resides, but get.
ting frightened, he turned states
evidence, and left last Sunday
night in company with District
Attorney Timothy j. Dacy for
Baltimore to apprehend the princi.
pal and the other hired assassin
who are in Baltimore awaiting the
arrival Of their accomplices. They
know nothing, as yet, of The ex.
posture. The woman is in solitary
confinement, being carefully watch
ed to keep her from committing
suicide. She is nearly craZcd over
the exposure. The Boston authori-
ties have been in communication
with the Baltimore police about
the case.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
A NOVEL LAWSUIT.

GALVESTON, TEX, November l.
important damage suit was
began here yesterday in the United
States Circuit Court 10y the window
of William Stewart Gibbs, OF
Wharton, Texas, against Eugene
n. Brooks, a prominent citizen Oh
Wharton. The plaintiff claims
100000 damages for the assassl-
nation of her husband at the handS
of Brooks. This is believed TO De
the first instance in Texas where
the United States court has been
appealed to in such case. Both
parties to the suit are wealthy an
highly connected.
Gibbs was killed last April at
Wharton. His death was the re-
suit of an old feud between the
Brooks and Gibbs families. In the
summer of 1884 this feud was at
white heat, and the entire com
munity took sides in behalf oil one
family or the other. Clarence
Brooks was then sheriff Of Whar-
ton county. One day in the sum
mer of 1884 Gibbs and the two
Brooks brothers, Clarence ana
Eugene, fought a pitched battle IN
the streets of Wharton. Gl0Os
was one of the best pistol shots IN
Texas. He sent a bullet through
Brooks's heart and another through
the breast of Eugene Brooks, very
close TO the heart, and was himself
very severely wounded. Eugene
and Gibbs both survived to meet
again. ,,.
Sheriff Brooks, and when the
grand Jury turned the Indictment
into court the Judge ordered Gibbs
TO he rearrested and placed under
$50. 900 bonds. 1t was while pro
curing this bond on April "a that
Gibbs met his death. AS he pass
ed out of the courthouse door to
visit bondsman he was met by
Eugene Brooks.
"You need not look for bonds
men, said Brooks. otis l VINO
require ball." and he emptled Doth
barrels of shotgun into GlDCs
breast before the deputy sheriff
could interfere.
Brooks gave bond and was final
Ily tried for murder and acquitted
Some of the ablest lawyers IN
Texas are engaged in the present
case, which is already attracting
marked attention. The SUIT VIII
be tried at the coming term OF the
District Court.
Gibbs was a m ember of an ola
and very prominent Alabama iaml-
" of great wealth before the re-
bellion. Barnett Gibbs the present
Lieutenant. Governor OF Texas, IL a
member of the same family.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
A RAILROAD IN THE AIR.
A Buffalo Man Devises Cross Coun-
try Aerial Balloon Gable.

A Buffalo Man Devises Cross Coun-
try Aerial Balloon Cable.
special Correspondence New York World.
Buffalo, Oct. 30.-Mr. Andrew
J. Morrison has just made known
his scheme for aerial navigation TO
his friends here. The seal of secre-
CIV which has hitherto envelOped
his operations has been removed
and he rejoices in the possession
of a patent which was granted last
week.
Morrison was not content to en-
Joy renown simply as the inventor
of carcoupler or necktie fastener,
but sought the broadcast field in
which man can labor to the illiml-
table expanse of air.
The new system Of rapid transit
consists of continuous series OF
balloons, anchored to the ground,
adjustable as to height, with wire
cable stretched from one to the
other. Along this cable cars are
made to travel by the always re-
liable INSTRUMENTATION. The
courageous passenger enters the car
from a convenient housetop or ele
waited station, after which the an
chor.rope is paid out, and the bal
loon allowed to rise high enough
to make the cable between it and
the next balloon an inclined plane,
down which the car coasts at great
speed. At the next balloon sta
ton the operation is repeated, 80
that the line becomes succession
of inclined planes.
The inventor evidently does not
regard his idea as a mere play
thing, but believes in its CONNER.
cial success for the purposes of
both passenger and freight traffic.
Therefore he does not tell you to
imagine a life-car traversing the
rescuing line at one of our life
saving stations, but rather to con
template an understood passenger
car, wheels and all, lifted bodily
into the air to a height sufficient
to enable it to run by gravity to
the next balloon. The car hangs
below the cable, the wheels being
above the roof of the carr The
cable is continuous. 1t must be Of
great strength to prevent it from
being rnptured by its own weight
and strain, let alone that OF the
cars. To lift any one point of this
cable to a greater height in order
to get the necessary inclination be.
tween it and the balloon at either
side must, indeed, be task for a
balloon to accomplish, but then our
province is not to judge, but to re
cord. Guy ropes are provided at
each balloon to induce steadiness,
it is said.
Granting the feasibility Of Mr..
Morris0n's aerial railroad scheme,
however, he is, like all great in
ventOrs, slightly in advance OF his
time. The idea of being hoisted up
in the air, and sent coastiag down
a rope, will hardly kindle the de-
sires of the more timid and cOnser-
vative of the travelling public
The fact that a stiff gale might
move the railway bodily into an
adjoining State might be rather an
advantage than otherwise, as the
traveller would thus be provided
with a pleasing variety of scenery
along the route, according to the
direction and velocity of the wind.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06

Just published, new edition Of DR..
Culyerwell's Celebrated Essay on the
radical cure Of Spermatorrhoea or Semi
nal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal Loss
es, Impotency, Mental and Physical Inca
pacity, impediments to Marriage, etc.:
also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, in
duced by self-indulgence, or sexual ex-
travagance, &c.
The celebrated author, in this admira-
BILE essay, clearly demonstrates from
thirty years successful practice, that the
alarming consequences of self-abuse may
be radically cured pointing out mode
Of cure ut once simple certain, and eifec-
tual, By means Of which every sufferer, no
matter what his condition may be, may
cure himself cheaply, privately and radi
cally.
This Lecture should be in the hands OF
every youth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in plain envelope, to
any address, postpaid, on receipt Of four
cents or two lpostage stamps. Address
THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL
Al Ann St., New York, n. Y; Post Office
Box $50. Oct. 2-ly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
BIOOdshed Over a Post Office,

ST. LOUIS, Nov. "A special
dispatch from Des MOines, Ia,
gives additional particulars of the
shooting of Joe Barlow by David
Duke, at Richland, Keokuk county:
The trouble grew out of post of.
flee fight, both parties to which
were democrats. Some time last
winter n democrat named Barlow
was appointed postmaster, and he
filed the Office acceptably. But
Gen. Weaver had promised this
post Office to a man named Stock
ton, an old bourbon, but not popu.
lar with his fellow democrats; so
he prevailed on the post Office au-
thorities to take the appointment
away from the one democrat and
give it to the other, in order that
he might redeem his pledge. This
change brought out protest from
eighty democrats in that vicinity
and q lively row between the fac
tons. The commission was with
held for a time, but finally came a
few days ago, and ever since the
quarrel between the two sets OF
democrats has been at white heat.
On Friday man named David
Duke, leader of the Stockton fac
ton, got into q dispute with Joe
Barlow, the father of the democrat
first appointed postmaster, and
hot words led to blows, when Duke
drew a pistol and shot Barlow
through the breast, inflicting a
fatal wound. Barlow is over sixty
years of age, and his assailant is
almost as old.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
Man and Woman.

Rev. Smith NJ. Baker, of Lowell,
lass, in recent sermon, SAID A:
THE first man was not develop.
ed from a seaweed or monkey,
but was made in the image of God.
Woman was also a creation from
man, that forever they should real
ize the oneness of their natures
and be bound together with a COM
mon love and destiny. A perfect
human character is found only in
both. No man is a perfect image
of God no woman is, but each
supplements the other. Both have
fallen, both are sinful. Man is not
greater or better than woman, or
woman greater or better than man.
They are equal but different. Any
attempt to destroy all distinction
save that of the sex will forever
fail. They were each made to
represent God; man to represent
the sterner, legal, kingly and
fatherly side; woman to represent
the equally strong, firm but ailec-
tionate, loving, mOtherly, patient
side. Man represents strength {;
woman represents grace; man,
power; woman, beauty. Christ
had both. Mans strength does
not imply ugliness or coarseness;
woman's beauty does not imply
weakness. In all the finer instincts
of the mind, in delicate perception
of the true and beautiful in nature
and in thought, woman is the
superior of man. In the moral
graces of patience, heroism, en-
durance and suffering, woman is
the superior of man. Mans mind,
as a rule, is stronger; wOmans
finer. To bring forth the aggres-
sive side in the image of Christ is
mans sphere. To represent his
beauty of character is woman's. In
these there is no more conflict than
in the mission of heat and light,
or than in the two halves of a pair
of Shears-they complete each
other. Mans is TO glorify God by
the building up of a noble aggres.
sive work; wOman's is to gIorify
God and develop her own soul in
the no less positive work of reflect.
ing the beauties OF grace. Sick
ness, suffering, poverty, are not the
saddest things in the world, but
failure to live a true life isl