Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-09-17
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

IL. - IaIkS WIN opOhO hOAN W.
Monday last was pardOned out OF
the Moundstille penitentiary. His
Offense was ENLIGHTENMENT.
The gentleman from Moundsville
had better think better of his mis-
sion than to call everybody hard
names.
Col. O'Ferrall read the letter OF
W. II. Fowle on Monday. Could not
the Colonel let w. II. f. rest ? That
Montpelier fraud and the expulsion
of a member of the Legislature are
still smelling around these parts.
Col, O'Ferrall said the Republi-
cans taxed Bibles. Not quite, Col
onel. The best evidence of taxa
ton is the stamp. You will find
the stamp on Oleomargarine, but
not on the Bible.
Is it true that several Of our large
farmers pay some of their hands in
whiskey at fifty cents pint There
is a striped suit ready made for any
who do. The same clothes fit Just
as well if the whiskey is exchanged
at cost.
Now is a good time to send for
the gentlemen in Washington who
swear that they "actually reside"
in this county to come up and work
the road two days. 1t is well, too,
to see that they pay their county
and district head taxes. If they
have not paid for every year they
should be on the delinquent list.
The Democrats of Kansas have
nominated a colored man for State
Auditor, and the PrOhibitionists OF
Pa. have nominated, for Congress-
man at Large, J. NJ. Palmer, u col
ored man.
Things are really getting so
strangely mixed that we begin to
doubt which is the odd niger
party Up to this time we have
been told there was no room for
doubt on this question.
The Labor Convention, cOmpos-
ed of representatives from the
Knights of Labor of the Richmond
congressional district, have nOmi-
mated w. IL. Mullen, district work
man, and a member Of the Nation
al Executive Committee of the
Knights of Labor, for Congress.
Mullen excepted the nomination.
Wonder if George d. will not now
repent that he used the word "non-
descript,n and also that he admon-
ished the Knights Of Labor that
they could get no recognition from
the democrtic party in Washing
ton.
The moral of this paragraph
teaches to look well to your own
boys:
John COlly, the Waterman OF a
pork packing house in East st.
Louis, detected some boys setting
fire to the pens and sheds. Hepur-
sued them, and after cupturing one,
discovered that the prisoner was
his own son, aged fourteen. Colly
took the boy before the president
of the company, when a confession
was obtained that he and some 9TH
er boys had kindled three fires in
the National Stock yards, causing
a loss Of 5000, 900.
The next noteworthy experiment
in labor reform politics is to be
witnessed in st. Louis, where a con
federation Of workingmen are soon
to put a full municipal, legislative
and congressional ticket into the
field. The leaders in the movement
assert that if they cannot elect theiI
own candidates they canat least dis
criminate between the other parties
and use the balance of power fol
the benefit of one of them. The
suggestion ofthis alternative shows
that the wOrkiGgmen of st. Louis
are not unwisely fascinated with
the idea of making themselves into
an independent party.
We are the Jeffersonian demo
Gratis say the bourbons of to-day
For some of these there ought tC
be established a Kindergarten
school and for others a founding
hospital. Why Jefferson was so
thoroughly snti-English and ultra
American as to express the wish
that the "Atlantic Ocean were a
wall of fire." And Madison, who
succeeded him, propOunded the
first tariff bill in the U. s. Congress
These simpletons ought to be muz-
zIed for their own "protectiOn."
And now it appears that the late
Samuel j. Tllden was a little OveI
conceited. He was considered to
be a very able lawyer, and nc
doubt thought himself so. But the
good judgment Of his younger days
did not guide him in his last years
He wrote his own will that it nigh
be certain and beyond controversy
butit "turns up that the docu
ment is so faulty as to require muCl
construction, and no small proper
ton of his millions will likely b,
lost In litigation.