Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-09

New \ Ork at present. gives ciu-
ployment to over four thousand
men, and about fifty thousand
pounds of explosives are used
every week.
Judge Henry w. Flournoy,
Secretary of the Commonwealth OF
Virginia, received few days ago
from friend in Charlotte county a
large diamond in the rough, which
was found a few days ago in that
county. 1t will be placed on en-
hibition.
SAT Charlottesville last Sunday
Mrs. Susie Hartman, wife of Jacob
Hartman, tied some cloth strings
around her neck and hung herself
on the door. Her little girl found
her when she was nearly dead and
gave the alarm. She was resusci-
tated.
Boycotts are becoming very
fashionable. In Westchester coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, a preacher has
boycotted his congregation. They
were behind in bis salary, and lie
took possession Of the church and
held it until the amount due him
was paid, when he gave the usual
allowance of gospel.
Gen. William r Terry, late SUI
perintendent of the Virginia peni-
Tertiary, was late Friday nominal
ed by the executive committee OF
the Confederate Soldiers Home to
be superintendent of that institu-
tion. The board meets again April
Is, when General Terry Will be
elected.
A dispatch from Scranton, Pa,
Sunday, says that General Master
Workman Powderly is in a precari-
GUS condition, and will be unable
to attend to any work for a long
time. His physicians will not per
nit him to know what is going on
in labor matters and have given
strict orders to allow no correspond
ent to see him.
Rev. Sam Jones is doubtless an
efficient missionary to the ungodly,
but his random shots sometimes
miss the marks at which they are
| aimed. For instance, he recently
said, "Hell is filled with women
shopping" The Boston Post sug-
gests that perhaps it is, but the
cratic evangelist cannot turn
feminine sinners to repentance
with any such representation,
On Monday the House by a vote
Of 15S to IS passed the Mexican
pension bill. 1t gives to all survlv-
ing soldiers and sailors who served
Lor any period during the Mexican
war and were honorably discharg
ed, and their surviving widows, a
pension at the rate of s. month,
from the passage of the bill, but
the act does not apply to persons
under political disabilities. The
congressional library bill also pass
ed.
The New York HU0H tells a
very pathetic story about a man
who married a wife with a wart on
her cheek that so disfigured her
face and made her so horribly ugly
that no one else would have her.
But by and by a surgeons knife
removed the wart and the woman
became indeed beautiful to behold.
She soon found this out, became
cOnceited, began to flirt, and now
has run of with a bandsOmer man.
This is the HeraldS moral: "Warts
are good things to have about the
holse."
The outlook for Free Trade in
the South does not look encOuTag-
ing. South Carolina denOunces
Free Trade in rice Louisiana in
sugar Alabama in iron Virginia
IN tobacco. And against the re-
peal of the tariff on raw cotton,
which keeps the Indian and Egyp-
tian product away from the New
England mills, the entire South
would rise in arms to oppose and
resist. Free Trade is beautiful
theory on paper only, but you gore
a mans OK with it and see how he
rushes to his prOtecti0a.-HaRtSrilic
(AIG) Mercury.
The Secretary Of the Treasury
has prepared and transmitted to
the House Of Representatives a
draft of a bill to amend the immi-
grafton laws. 1t provides that the
"head tax of fifty cents shall not
be exacted from alien tourists land
ing in the United States and i'm.
poses a penalty Of $500 for the land
ing of alien paupers, idiots, con
victs, and insane persons. The
bill also empowers the Secretary Of
the Treasury to appoint COMM $.
siOners OF immigration, not TO eI
coed three in number, at Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Key West, New Orleans,
Galveston, and San Francisco, who
shall take exclusive charge and
provide for the support and relief
of s1ch alien immigrants as may
fall into distress.
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