Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-09

is rapluly DelnS cOlnpleleu'
Ex-Governor Wn. Smith, of
Warrenton, Virginia, who is in his
S9th year, attended Culpeper Court
last week.
Mrs. Langtry has introduced a
new dodge into the cOmmemOratiOn
of a fftieth performance by dis
tributing her photograph.
An extensive mine of rubidlum, "a
rare metal worth $4,000 per pound,
has been discovered near Rock
Greek, Washington Territory.
James Dennis, ninety years old,
an inmate of the almshouse at
Reading, Pa, hanged himself be-
cause he was ordered to move from
the old hospital to the new.
The stock in Southwest Virginia
came through the winter in good
order, and are now in condition
to improve on the spring pastur-
age.
The strike of the clockmakers OF
New York has ended, by mutual
concessions of the manufacturers
and the employees. Although the
men have ceased to strike it is
hoped the product OF their labor
will strike as usual, once an hour.
More than $500 babies have been
entered for the international baby
contest in Paris. One OF the en-
tries Is a Belgian boy Of FIVE years,
who is four feet one and a half
inches in height and weighs l5S
pounds.
The woman suffrage party OF
New York has forwarded to the
Pope an address of thanks for the
Pope's "just and benshcent de-
cisiOn in the case of the Primrose
League of England sanctiOning
women taking part in politics"
The trial of DR.. White at Abing-
don, Va, charged with shooting
Judge Ward, was concluded Satur-
day, the jury finding the accused
not guilty of the felony charged in
the indictment, but guilty of an as
sault, and assessing his fine at 1919,
The Rev, Henry Ward BeecheI
estimates his earnings during the
last forty years as follows Salary
as preacher, $500, 900 lecture fees
100000; wedding fees, $4,000
sundry publications, 100000 in
cidentals, $4,000, making a grand
total of $4,000.
Sam Jones concluded his re-
ligious exhortations in Chicago
Sunday. The collections at yester-
days services were given to Messrs.
Jones and Small, with the salary
guaranteed them in advance, and
Melted them $4,000 apiece for their
four weeks work.
Mr.. Woolford, of Kentucky, a
Union soldier, and now a Demo
cratic member of Congress, intro
duced a bill on the 10Th, directing
tue Secretary Of the Interior to
furnish artificial lin bs, or their
equivalent in money, to Confeder-
ate soldiers or sailors who had lost
legs or arms in the war.
Christopher Columbus is teach
ing school in Michigan and VII
liam Shakespeare is expounding
law in Iowa. In the last few years
James X. Polk, George Washing
ton, Henry Clay, John G. Calhoun
and Daniel Webster have served
terms in the Virginia penitentiary
George Washington is there now.
IL is stated that some Of the
leading colored men of this State
have formed an organization to be
known as the "Virginia Industrial
and Agricultural Association" and
that a fair under its auspices will
be held in Petersburg next Fall.
This effort to better their material
interestsspeaks we'll for our colored
citizens, and is deserving of help.
Miss Abigail Bates died recently,
IN Massachusetts, aged eighty-nine
years. She was one Of the two
heroines who during the war Of
1912 drove the British forces from
this harbor by cOncealing them
selves in the bushes and playing
vigorously upon the fife and drum
thereby leading the enemy to be
lieye that a large force was ready
to receive them.
An Ohio editor expresses the
hope that as Mr.. Edison is now
married, 'he will invent an illnmi-
mated paregOric bottle, so that it
can be easily found when the old
man has 10 hunt it up in the night
time, and an electric-It keybole
which will not bob around when it |
is wanted when a man comes home
from the club He'll do it for mol
other reason than selfdefence.
The Maryland Legislature is
over bill to reduce |
the marriage license fee. A Senate |
bill reduced the fee to one dollar,
aud the House, not to be Outdone
in so good cause, amended the
bill by reducing it to fifty cents.
But now the Senate refuses to con-
cur, and conference committee is
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