Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-02-05
The diamond necklace worth $40,

to be the property of Miss Mary
Anderson.
Representatives Reed, of Maine
and Loutit, of California, were once
respectively school teacher and
blacksmith in the same California
village.
AS usual, New York is leading
the rest of the country in wicked
ness. Its latest enterprise is tC
found a theater where plays shall
be produced only by amateurs.
Capitalists who are shrewd
enough to buy their way into big
Offices are not foolish enough to
leave a record of their crimes ON
their bank
\ Georgia murderer escaped
punishment because the indictment
charged that he shot his victim in
the left shoulder, when the proof
was that it was in the right should
er.
The Boston Herald says that in
1SSS the Mugwumps will vote
neither the Republican nor the
Democratic ticket. This is the
first intimatiOn that the distin-
guished discontents are going to
vote for Belva Lockwood.
The request made Of the Con
necticut Legislature to pass a law
imprisoning boys who smoke ciga-
rettes will be supplemented by one
imprisoning girls who make ciga-
rettes. And such is Connecticut
English politics seem to be a per
petual struggle, in which the oppo-
sition strive to turn the rascals out
and put themselves in. Mr.. Eaton
ought to go over there and teach
them little service reform.
The bill to erect a monument to
General Grant has been fayOrably
reported. SO far so good. Now
let it be passed. 1t is small
thing compared to what the nation
owes to the memory Of one of its
greatest and grandest heroes.
The Virginia Legislature will
not give free books to the scholars
of our public schools.
Did not the democrats promise
it in their platform
What will not the Democrats
promise to get office
The Legislature says Woodstock
can have local option but Rich
mond, Lynchburg and all the other
large cities in Virginia, can not
vote on that question.
The reason is that all the large
Cities are Democratic, and the
Democrats do not wish to set
themselves in opposition to the
whiskey men.
\ man in Richmond, Va, has
built a house by most singular
mode of industry. For many years
past he has picked up from the
streets one brick at a time, and a
year ago he had accumulated a
sufficient number of bricks to build
him a small house on the suburbs.
Ii such an enormous amount Of
gold has been discovered in Hon
duras as Chicago makes out, per
haps the sudden great increase in
the amount of the worlds supply
Of the precious metal may depreSs
its value tOa level with that Of
silver. This hint is thrown out for
the benefit of the much muddled
gentlemen Of Congress.
In Russia the railway companies
have been experimenting with rails
made of paper. The result is high
ly satisfactory, as the cost is one
third Of that Of steel rails, and the
paper is nearly ifnot quite as dura-
BILE. In this country, many rail
ways are run solely on paper, while
others owe their success mainly to
water.
TO the statement that "the Dem
Ocratlc argument against the ad-
mission of Dakota is simply this
that it would be creating another
Republican stats,' the Boston Post
naively remarks: "Well, isn't
that argument enough 2" Il may
be enought from a standpoint Of
unreasonable partisanship, but it
is not enough from standpoint Of
justice and decent fairness.
The statistics of immigration for
the year 1885 show a decrease of
from iO3, $50 in 1884 to 32G,4l1 in
1885. The falling of was the great
est in German immigrants. II was
also felt in the figures for Great
Britain aud ireland. More Scotch
men and Russians and Italians
came here last year than ever be-
fore. Perhaps 80 many Irishmen
remained at home in order to send
u strong delegation to back Mr..
Parnell up in London. If 50, we
congratulate them on their success.
An interesting damage suit was
tried last week in the Circuit
Court Of Henry county, Va. In
March, 1888, John s. Reynolds
jumped from a train on the Pensyl-
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