Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-03-05

Mary Grover Cleveland, because
Mary Jane was TOO humdrum fol
her.
The last census shows that there
were 10000 inhabitants over 81
years of age, 1000 over 90, and
$500 who had passed their Tooth
year.
y Chicago pawnbrokers shop
was robbed last week while two
policemen were in it. The place
should not have been left so unpro-
tected.
Mrs. Polk, the widow of the OK
President, has not visited Wash
iugton for more than thirty years,
or since she retired from the White
House.
Miss ClOtelle Palms, whom L. 5.
Senator Jones, of Florida, is almost
crazy to marry, is about 30 years
old and the heiress to some $40,
100000.
Travellers can journey to San
Francisco nov for the humble pit
lance Of $50 by rail. This is only
the tenth of what it used to cost to
90 by sea.
The New York Sun, in quoting
Kossuth's recent remark, IL am
only a ruin," asks: "What else can
fellow expect when he gets to be
81 years oldi"
The Knights of Labor are having
things all their own way in COnnec-
tlcut. They are making it particu-
larry lively for some of the New
haven newspapers.
At Henrietta, Texas, February
10Th, 4. \. Stegall, charged with
incest with his own daughter, and
with numbering her child, was taken
from Jail by a mob and hanged.
Mary Anderson played in st.
Louis last week. She was visited
in the green-room of the theatre by
the sere and yellow Gen. Sherman,
who has a warm side for actresses.
The colored bOOtblack in the
House cloak-room says Representa-
tive Compton, OF Maryland, has the
best shaped foot and wears the
neateSt shoes that he Is called upon
10 shine.
The Macon GA Telegraph says
"history has repeated itself. There
are no more children in the White
House to-day than when George
Washington had the run Of the
premises
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian
patriot, now in his Slth year, is in
excellent health, and is at work
upon the fourth volume OF his me-
moirs. lie writes from six to seven
hours daily.
The grand jury Of Washington
county, Va, indicted DR.. White
and his associates for the shooting
Of Judge George w. Ward, but the
trial has been postponed until May,
at the request Of the defendants.
Another American lady has be-
come a peeress in the peerago Of
Scotland. She was Miss Mary
Reade, Of New York, but married
Byron Plsntagenet Falkland, who
has now become Viscount Falkland
Representative Wolford, an Off
Ger in the Union army during the
war, made an earnest argument in
the House of Representatives on
Saturday, opposing the exclusion
OF Jefferson Davis from the Mexi
can pension bill.
Representative Beach, Of New
, York, chews more tobacco and uses
more ink in one day than any other
member of the House. This asser
ton is based upon actual measure
ment Of his "plue' and the sound
iBes OF his ink well.
'fhe last census of the United
States shows the total number OF
blind to he 10000, the deaf and
dumb 10000, the idiot 2,iO0. OF
those insane the number reaches
$1,000, of whom nearly One-third
are Of foreign birth.
The magnitude Of the dressed
beef business can be readily mag
ined when one reads Of the five
milliou.dollar contract which has
been made by a Texas man with
English parties, and which will
take five years to ill.
Saco, Maine, has a population Of
onlyG,OOO, and no liquor can be sold
there except for medicinal or me-
chanical purposes. There is but
one supply agency in the town, and
5000 prescriptions we're put up at
this shop III six months.
The present Chinese minister to
the United States was once IN his
own country goyernOrOf province,
where his salary and perquisites
were so enormous that the Emperor
OF China determined to exile bin to
this country on the beggsrly pit
lance Of $4,000 per year.
Samuel Davidson, of COrydon,
Ind, failed to supply his family
with enough wood to keep them
warm. a lot of his neighbOrs seized
him, hitched him to sled, and