Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-03-12

Mr.. c. A. Heerlnans will begin
the republication of the Biacksburg
Ne,os next week.
An order for ten hours work and
increased pay has gone over all the
b. & o. lives, affecting 10000 men.
Possibly Mr.. Garland may yet
surprise the world By giving up
his telephone stock and DOMINIC a
claw-hammer coal.
Printing from zinc plates is
gradually reyOlutiOnlzing litho-
graphy, after having been dormant
for nearly a quarter Of century.
On the Northern Railway, Rus
STA, the locomotives are being
adapted for peat burning, at a saw
ing over wood and coal of 30 per
cent.
Thomas J. Cluverius, charged
with the murder of Fannie Lillian
Madison, whose trial was fixed in
the Court Of Appeals for the Sth,
is continued until the Goth inst.
It is estimated that the cost of
printing bills in Congress this year
will be 100000. Only fraction
over one per cent. Of all bills pre-
scented are ever passed.
The fossil remains of an arch@.
opteryx, the oldest known bird,
which seems to form the connecting
link between birds and reptiles, has
Just been sold to the Berlin Museum
for 5000.
The Detroit lady's uncOnquerable
aversion to Senator Jones is now
explained. He sent her nearly a
ton of public documents, chief
among which were his speeches.
Nothing more need be said.
some of the colored people of
Lexington who were scholars in
the Sunday-schOol taught by Stone
wall jackson before the war have
put on foot movement to secure
means TO assist in erecting the
jackson monument.
A Washington belle has created
something Of a sensation by marry
ing policeman. Apoliceman may
make quite as good a husband as a
congressman, but his wife won't be
able to find him when she wants
him. Nobody can.
The roller.skate manufacturers
are now turning their attention to
making imitation tortOise-shell but.
tons. There is large demand for
the buttons, and the makers see
their way clear to thus get rid Of
their over.supply of lockwood.
An exchange commenting upon
the decline of the skating rink craze
in Pennsylvania, says that it Grip
pied some characters, ruptured
some hearts, snapped some legs
and ankles, but it is now disappear
ing, and the prayer-meetlngs are
filed up again.
4 farmer dropped into a store
with a basket Of eggs and sold
them at the market price, the mer-
chant to pay half cash and the bal
ance in trade. The farmer got his
cash and took the trade part in
eggs and took them to another
store, receiving cash for them, and
then trudged home with all cash
for his eggs.
Some time ago J. c. Wilson was
lynched in Patrick county for steal
ing a mule. At the last term of
the Patrick court the grand jury
found bill of indictment against
all parties concerned for murder.
This IS the first time within recol-
lection that a lynching party has
been formally presented by a grand
jury for murder.
According to the predictions Of
Professor Couch, the Nebraska
weather prophet, the number of
wind and snow storms during the
month of March will be fully up to
the average. The professor also
promises a fine April up to the
10Th, when cool and rainy weather
will set in, a drOuth about June LIST,
and a hot harvest.
Free Traders have lost all hope
Of accomplishing any Of their
schemes with the present United
States Senate in sight. But they
will continue to agitate just enough
to keep manufacturers nervous and
keep capital from seeking invest
ments in all such uncertain ven
lures as manufacturing with posi-
bile Free Trade legislation ia the
future.
A Brooklyn man named thinner
man drinks a gallon Of alcohol
every week of his life, is ~ years
Of age, in fine health, and declared
to a friend, who was anxious about
his situation, that he cant conceive
how he could have "prized through
the recent cold winter snap on any
reduction of his usual ratiOns." He
said also that he was q "lOcal OPP
ZIONIST" but thinks every man
should be his own optionist in a free
country. He expects TO live at least
ten years longer, and says his life
is insured at $4,000 for that pc
Rod. Happy philosopher, that fell
low Zimmerman.