Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-05-21

The Senate has confirmed the

23rd.
John c. Henning, a murderer,
confined in the Charlottesville,
Ind, jail, says that he has become
converted. For a month he has
studied his Bible almost constant
", and on Easter Sunday he was
baptized by a Methodist minister,
who immersed him in a bath tub in
the corridor of the Jail. HennlDg is
to be hanged on May %, and says
that his sins have been forgiven,
and that he is prepared to die.
A substitute for sugar is made
from coal tar, which has $50 times
the sweetening power Of the best
cane and beet sugar, and can be
used without injurious effects upon
the human system in cases where
other sugar cannot. This is a
great discovery as it will greatly
cheaper the expense of living,
without at all interfering with the
extensive sugar crop of the South.
1t is much used in Germany.
Sometimes it by no means pays
to be a postmaster. General Nc
Arthur, ex-postmaster Of Chicago,
must feel this keenly. He gave up
the Office in 1875, but the govern
ment has just gained a suit against
him for $4,000, which amount of
the funds of the Office had been
deposited in a bank that after
wards failed, and paid none of it
back to the government. A few
more experiences of this sort will
probably induce office-seekers 10
give this branch OF the civil ser
vice wide berth.
The Bible contains $500, $50
letters, 715. 7lG words, 81, 173verses,
l,lS9 chapters, 20 books. The
word "and' occurs 1921 times,
the word "reverend" occurs but
once, that is in the 9th verse Of the
18th Psalm. The Sth verse of the
l1Sth Psalm is the mid die verse of
the Bible; the DIST verse of the
9Th chapter of Ezra contains all the
letters except the letter 7; the
10Th chapter Of the second Kings
aud the 37th chapter Of Isaiah are
alike the longest verse is the Sth
chapter of Esther; the shortest
verse of the Bible is the 2jth verse
of the 11th chapter of John; there
are no words or names Of more
than six syllables.
Mayor Carter Harrison, now
that the rioters have been reduced
to quietness and submission to the
laws, is having an immense amount
Of trouble with another class of
citizens. The law and order men
are critlciSing him with the ut
most severity on the ground that
he was fully advised long ago of
the threatening condition of affairs,
knew in detail of tho dynamite
manufactures and the Anarchist
preparations for an uprising, and
yet took no steps to prevent the
dreadful Occurre noes. The minis
tiers at their weekly meetings on
Monday we're among the last to
denoance him and the rest of the
authorities, but one of them was
sensible enough to lay the blame
on the voters.
. 10 is believed that the recent de-
cisiOn of the Supreme Court of the
United States in the case of Elder
Snow, of Utah, will result in send
ing a number OF prominent Nor
mons to the penitsntiary, as it in
effect establishes that the first wife
Of a Mormon is his legal wife,
whether he recognizes her as such
or not. 1t is regarded by those
familiar with the Mormon cases as
a very severe blow to the saints,
and it may be noted in this con-
nectiOn that the emigration to
Mexico, rumOred some months ago |
as likely to occur, has begun al
ready. The arrival OF some fifty |
families at FL Paso is rep Orted,
making over one hundred families
in the course of two weeks. Few |
Of these people, though, come from
Utah, most of them being from
Arizona and New Mexico; but the |
vigorous enforcement of the laws
in Utah will almost certainly in
duce an exodus from there. Mexi-
co is, perhaps, to be pitied, but
every inducement should be offered
by the United States to forward
this movement.
The decision of Referee Stephen
Il. Nash, one Of the most able and
prominent lawyers of the New
York bar, in the case of Alice |
O'Keefe VS.. Ross X. WinanS, in
favor of the defendant, in all
probability ends a litigation which
has been before the courts of New |
York for over two years. In this
case the plaintiff, Mrs. O'Keefe, |
sought to establish a marriage be-
tween herself and the defendant, |
based upon certain relationsalleged |
to have existed between the parties
some fifteen or sixteen years ago. |
She, probably, supposed that a
man of Mr.. Winans' wealth would |
rather compromise such claim
than subject himself to the nOtO-
riety OF a trial-that he would pay
a few thousands OH condition that