Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-02-26
Miss Jennie Chamberlain, IL

tanned in Richmond.
What is called dangerous"
counterfeit of the Bland dollar has
been discovered. And the genuine
legal dollar is itself a dangerous
fraud.
Mrs. Desdemona WadswOrth Full
Ter Smith, who died recently in Salt
Lake City, aged 76 years, was one
Of the first of Prophet Joe Smiths
wives.
Reports from Helena, Montana,
Winnepeg, and Texas, are to the
effect that the cattle have wintered
very well. The stories of great de-
s;rnction are said TO be false.
4 great fire at Wilmington, \.
c., Sunday afternoon last, destroy
ed over million dollars worth of
property, including business houses,
residences, railroad depots, and
church.
An undoubted prairie wolf is said
10 have been killed on the railway
near North Weald, Essex, England.
The suppoSition is that it was taken
over as a cub in some ship and then
escaped.
Tramps are overrunning Florida
to such an extent that the county
commissioners have decided to an
Choir great lighters in the St. Johns
River, and corral the tramps there
Tor ninety days each.
Miss Jennie Sherman iS conduct
iug a successful revival Of religion
40 Cameron, w. Va. There have
been two hundred professions of
conversion, and the whole town is
stirred up with religious excite
ment.
The melancholy poet who peddled
poem around the newspaper Off
ces until be peddled himself into
grave is thought to have been re-
lated to the Hon. VIM. Morrison,
the celebrated pedler Of abOrtive
tariff bills.
There is a smart little girl in Ce
Oar Rapids, Nebraska. She is nine
years old, and the other day she
wrote an account of a children's
parry, set it up in type, and cor
reeted the proof, and the work was
we'll done, too.
4 Montana mob marched into a
church, few Sundays since, and |
attempted to lynch a member of
tie choir. 1t was not for an abor-
tive attempt Oh his part to assist in
the production OF an aggregation of
harmonious numbers.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of
Gen. Robert L. Lee, while visiting |
Louisville, KY, was rendered a re-
cepticn on the night of the 22d inst. |
at the Gait House by the Exon
tolerate soldiers and alumni of |
Washington and Lee University.
A Buffalo young lady discarded |
her intended husband, telegraph !
operator. because just before the
marriage she found a pawn ticket
ia, s. for a gold watch bearing his
linsIne, She told him be was begin
. ming to do business with his "uncle" |
too early to suit her.
A Texas editor was one Of the !
curiosties in Washington recently, |
by reason of his extraordinarily |
long hair. He was Wing in 1914,
and made a VOW that he would |
never shave his beard or cut his
hair until Clay was elected Presi-
dent.
The daughter Of J. @. Flood, the
California millionaire, is anxious
thst her father should be elected |
Senator, so that she can shine in
Washington for awhile, and when
she does shine it VIII be with the
blaze of more diamonds than any
Que else can show, aud Washington
always welcomes that sort Of a girl.
Ia Iowa an acre planted in tim
Der. with trees not more than II
feet apart, exempts SlOO worth Of
property from taxation. 1t is said
that the increased valuation OF
property on account Of tree planting
makes the property of the State so
much greater as TO decrease the
rate Of taxation, and thus all classes
are gamers.
4 New Orleans editor, wishing
10 prevent the dangers resulting
from concealed weapons, wants all
lawful firearms at least three feet
in length, so that they cannot be
hid. The only objection to this
from the. fire-eating heroes and
dnclists Of that region would be
that such heavy cOntrivaDces would
impede their progress when they
started to run.
The Quakers are healthy people.
They live quietly, take excellent
care of themselves, and do not les
sen their years by social dissipa-
tions and late hours. Statistics
Show their longevity. or the 81
WHO died in London last year, l4l
we're over seventy, 81 were over
eiuhty, and 8 over ninety years Of
ooe This is 2 most instructive
record. and shows that with due
care it is not difficult 70 live to a