Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-02-10
Free trades figures are figures OF

Free trades figures are figures OF
speech. Projections figures are the
statistics of prosperity.
Somo extraordinary convulsion
of nature must be about to occur
neither the Mugwumps nor the
Democratic newspapers have start
ed lie upon Mr.. Blaine for the
last two weeks.
Tammany gives Cleveland the
cold shoulder. At the recent meet
ing of its executive committee for
organization this year, no attention
was given Cleveland's attitude, but
an open avowal in favor of the pro-
tectlve tariff was made.
Old Commodore Vanderbilt, be.
ing asked one day what he consld'
cred to be the secret OF success III
business, replied;
"Secret 7 There is no secret about
it. All you have 20 do is to attend
TO your business and 60 ahead"
An exchange says: 'There are
but three silver dollars of the coin-
age OF 1904 in existence. Two OF
these are accounted for, the third Is
somewhere in circulation about the
country. The value fthis missing
dollar of 1904, as quoted in the last
numismatic circulars, is $500. 1t
is natural, then, that this coin
should be much sought"
The U. S. Senate passed the bill
to refund to the States the amounts
collected under the direct tax act or
1861. The amount to go to the
Southern States under the bill, ii a
Democratic House should suffer it
to pass, would be s2,52O,5 $50, OF
which Virginia would &c, $5l5, 500,
North Carolina, S3s6,l9i, South
Carolina, sS77,96l.
4 Miss Wood, of Marysville, Ky,
has sued her beau, Mr.. Poe, for
breach of promise. An account
says; ga fatal letter was produced
that brought her verdict for
$500 damages. In that letter he
wrote: Il send you thirteen kisses,
twelve hugs and one pinch These,
added, make twenty.six in all, and
so each one of them cost him S119,-
2S.n
The United States Senate has
passed a bill making the Both Of
April, ips'ead of the 4th of March,
for the beginning OF terms OF the
Preside It and each Congress. 1t
the House should concur it will
make April 3Oth the day of inau-
gurstion. OF course the President
will sign the bill, as it will be near
" two more months TO the present
term.
Mr.. Thomas O. Chandler, at
whose house in Caroline county
the immortal Stonewall Jackson
beathed his last, is still living at
the age Of ninety years. An ex.
change says: "Last year, Mrs.
jackson. as a token of apprecia-
ton of the marked kindness of Mr..
Chandler and his family upon this
heartrending and great historic
event, sent them handsome gilt,
together with a most cordial greet
lug from herself and daughter"
The construction of a railroad
through the mountains of Ken
lucky has been stopped by a man
With a rifle. As is noted by pa
per of that state, there is probably
no place on the American Cont
neut where this could occur but IN
tine mountains of Kentucky. A
man named Asher didn't want the
road built through his land, and
when the workmen began grading
on his laud he appeared with q
cooked rifle and threatened death
to the man that lifted a shovelful
OF earth.
One night an apparent tramp in
Bent county, Cal, gave brakeman
on a coal train City cents to let him
ride to the next station. The brake
man took his place on the cabOose,
and the tramp got on coal Car, and
as soon as the train started began
throwing off coal. He had thrown
off two tons or more by the time he
reached the next station, when he
got of and went back to meet a
wagon that was following after and
picking up the coal. The tramp
was shrewd and dishonest Bent
county farmer.
To what extent the necessity of
protection as a means to the devel-
opment Of southern manufacturing
industries pervades the southern
public mind, is made manifest al.
most every day, either by express
siOns contained 10 resolutions adopt
ed at public meetings, or by the ut
terances of the press. But nothing
quite so emphatic has been heard
IS the declaration made by Editor
EilinwOOd, of Georgia. He has
published card in the Atlanta Con-
stitWtiOA, iu which he says;
III am protectionist, not because |
any one else IS, but from patriotism.
/ love my country better than / do
the Democratic party, or any candi-