Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-05-07
There is a movement to make
two Sfafes ont of Kansas.

thing for Louisiana, but it VIII be
intensely saccharine for the rest Of
the country.
Thenewsof ex-President Arthur'S
improved health will be gladly re-
ceived, and many good wishes will
60 forth for his speedy recovery.
Three red blossoms on note pa
per is the Japanese symbol OF
happiness. One red blossom on
the nose is the Kentuckian's sym
boil.
Henry Watterson is reported to
have said that he could survive the
obituary notices published at the
time of his illness, but the portraits
hurt his feelings.
The Democratic party has either
got to "fsh or cut bait' in the
struggle for tax reduction. 1t can.
not always straddle the fence
PhId. Record.
Pullman, Illinois, has enjoyed a
wide reputation for some years as
"a model town. Its last cred'table
act is the raising of 81, 900 to pay
the expenses of three dOg-bitten
policemen to Pasteur at Paris.
The cost of licking a New Jersey
state senator Is fixed at $50. At
least that was the amount decided
by the Ocean county court against
Miss Louis Blackman, a young and
pretty school teacher, for thrashing
ex-State Senator Ephraim Emson.
Piueky girl.
Several years ago an Illinois
man quit chewing tobacco, but
recently he began again. The first
day he enjoyed it so much that he
used up thlrty.fve cents worth Of
navy plug, and then was taken
sick and for two or three days
acted very Ikea man with delirium
uemens.
Charlestown, w. Va, is about to
go through a hot "we;" and "dry"
season. The county commissioners
refused to grant licenses for a year.
The saloon men say they will sell,
come what may. The prohibition
party say they will do all in their
power to prosecute those who sell.
There was a great demonstration
upon the decision of the court.
The wealthlest heiress in Chicago
is Miss Louise DE Koven, who, by
the death Of her mother, will in
herit the vast Hadduck estate that
will swell her present fortune to
something like $20,OOO,OOO. The
household, which includes but tive
father and daughter, will be
closed for the mourning period,
after which Miss De KOven will be
married to a young New Yorker.
Among Sam Jones Chicago con-
verts is a "young newspaper man.
That is nothing to brag about
ANY clergyman with a soft, IN.
sinuating tongue and pleasing ad-
dress can convert a young jour
nalist. Let him tackle the old
ones. Take an old fellow who has
been in the harness forty years and
get him on the mourners' bench,
and you have an item for the As.
ISOLATED Press.
Jacob Miller Of Foun taindale,
Pa, married his first cousin, and
between 1860 and 1874 eleven
children were born to them. OF
these all were of unsound mind
save one, daughter by no means
bright, who is married. Eight others
are alive and FIVE of them are idiots,
aud the others little better. Mrs.
Miller is dead, and her husband, a
prosperous farmer, lives alone with
bis eight unfortunate children. He
says thathi misfortune is "stroke
Of providence"
Hiss Roxie Cox, Of South Caro-
lima, elOped with her, Mr.. Gold
smith Long, from a graveyard in
that state lately. This beats Bur
gers "LeOnora" all to pieces. As
marriage concerns itself principally
with life, Miss Cox thought the
best place to seek il was in the
midst of death, and Mr.. Long
wasn't long in arriving at the same
conclusion. Miss Cox had another
beau who wanted to marry her, but
though he was a sailor he wasn't
Coxs swain, and got left. Miss
koxie went of singing gaily, al
want but little here below, and /
want that little Long"
Last year, Capt. James b. Sta
pies, a freight conductor on the
Virginia Midland railroad, already
having a wife in Alexandria, mar
red Miss Rose Colvin of Culpeper.
Last week he was pardoned by
Gov. Lee, to whom the Alexandria
wife wrote a touching letter saying
il he pardOned her husband he
would have the Stumble blessing
Of a heart-brOken woman He
returned to his Alexandria wife
but, astonishing to say, only in
fine to see her elope with Patrick
Mannegan, whom she had fallen in
love with during his absence IN the
peniientiary.
Conversation was easily carried
OF last Sunday night between
Washington and New York two
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