Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-02
Canton, Ohio, has 5000 citizens
sick with a kind Of influenza.

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was a hard one, aud the dentist
threw off his coat in order that he
might get a better leverage. When
about to leave the Jail he found his
coat pocket had been robbed OF $50
in cash. A search Of the prison
ers, including the defaulting teller
failed to disclose the missing funds.
Hon. VIM. Ii. Smith, Of Lexlng-
ton. ILL.,, committed suicide last
Thursday. lie left the house IN
good spirits, and a few minutes
later was found IN the barn dead,
with a bullet hole through his
head. lie was a general merchant
and a large farmer and stock deal
ar. and was worth 100000. He
was formerly a member OF the
Illinois railroad and warehouse
commission. He was several eTmS
| in the Legislature and speaker OF
the House, and for a quarter OF a
century = representative Illinois
republican. He was 81 years old,
and a native of Kentucky.
There can be little or no doubt
now that Captain Crawford was
barbarously and treacherously
murdered by the Mexicans. Inc
statement of Lieutenant Maus Is
cjreumstantial and strongly con-
vincing. After it has been care
fully considered by the authorities
of the War and State Depart
ments, the government must, it
woultl seem, demand apology and
reparation from Mexico, and the
punishment of the murderers. If
a nation like Mexico, and our next
door neighbor, can so outrageouSly
insult us through her troops with
impunity, the time is, indeed, out
of joint.
Frank Hurd, Of Ohio, theapostle
of free. trade, who was defeated for
a seat in Congress by his Republi-
can competitor, Romeis, and that,
too, in district generally sure for
the Democrats, has been trying to
| get the House committee on cleo
tons to report his case to the House
with the recommendation that he
be given Romeis' seat. But the
committee decline to make any
such report, and the great free
trader is feeling bad. lIurd Is the
chap that our own John T. Harris
| said he "would have seated be store
the holiday recess" took place; but
our John was little " of" in his
calculation. He meant some other
recess, some other year, we take It,
A decision rendered by the Su-
nreme Court of the United States a
few days ago is regarded as an i'm
portant one, not only for the
amount, but for the principles in
volved. 1t was an appealed case
from the Circuit Court for tue
Western District Of Virginia, IN
which VIM. A. Glasgow, executor
of one Spears, was decreed by
Judge Rives to pay over again
about $4,000 which he had paid
for a tract of land IN Confederate
money. The United States Court
reverses Judge Rives out and ont,
holding that the first payment was
in every respect valid. The decree
was reversed with costs, and the
cause was Temanded, with dlrec-
tons to dismiss the suit. The
opinion was delivered by Assocl'
ate Justice Field.
The New York Sun publishes an
interesting case offamily oflice-hold-
ing. The position is postmaster OF
Dennysville, Me. In 1916 VIM.
Kilby was appointed. He held on
until 1925, when he was succeeded
by John Kilby, who continued IN
charge until 1858 - twenty-eight
years. There was then kind Of
interregnum 0fseveral months, dur
ing which c. II. Kilby managed
the Office, but in 1856 Benjamin
Kilby came in, and he did not let
90 until 1877. In that year Howard
II. Kilby was appointed, and he
still holds the fort. Thus, for an
unbroken period of seventy years,
has the Kilby family managed the
destinies and sold the postage
stamps in the Dennysvillc office
such a case ought TO make the civil
service reformer happy. 1t beats
all previous records.
Civil Service Reform may he
counted slain-stabbed in the house
of ITS patron saint, and by his own
hands, at the demand Of its enc
mics, bis friends. President Cleve-
land has offered to state to the
Senate in the cases of eighteen
Republican revenue collectors that
he removed to make way for Dem
ocratic applicants, that, if the
Senate will confirm his appoint
ments, lie will state that the re
movals were not made because Of
any moral irregularity or official
deficiency. In other words, his
declaration that removals should
be for cause only was a mere
theatrical scheme, which hasn't
worked well, and which he pro
poses to abandon.
This is an admission that civil
service reform with him was not a