Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-11-09
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

No yellow fever there J
singular To- say. there has n"'
Il, en- a disas;rou~ly fa'al accident
or any United States railroad ior
nearly week.
President Cleveland has recon-
meuded the Goth as a day ofthanks'
giving, aud asks that all business
for that purpoSe be suspended
Hon. Eumerson Ethridge VITO
recently stumptd Tennessee for
General Harrison also stamped
Tennessee for tho elder Harrison
IN 1910. The only ;"se It the
kind known.
stanley has been beard FROM o"t
the news is a year old. tits likely
however, that the brave explorer Is
still alive and is pushing some
great work iu the interior OF the
unknown continent.
During last month nine thou
sand eight hondred and thrty'slx
persons went to The top Of Wash
ington Monument, $50 feet high.
OF these 1854 walked up the steps
and the remainder, 1882, went up
on the elevator.
All the leading merchants OF
Charleston. S. c., are IN jail Tor
attempting 10 nulify an ordinance
of the city taxing their stock 10
trade. The State Court of Appeals
has decided against them, and they
tax of appealing to the United
States Supreme Court.
Thanksgiving Day cOmeth on
apaee, and already the pumpkins
are yellow and luscious, the turkey S
are rull.breas ted and aldermanic in
proportions, and the mince pie is
gradually assn ming its accustomed
shape. Those who have their
larders full for the winter should
not forget the poor who have to
depend upon a crust of bread for a
days's meal.
The latest sug gestion concerning
the origin of yellow fever comes
from DR.. Galbier, a French physl'
clan. He believes that the dis
ease is analogous to cholera; that
it fourishes only under peculiar
condition of race, climate and tenn
perature, and that Its first cause is
the development of microbes in
intestines. He has received COM
mission from the French Govern.
ment to 90 to Florida and study
the disease.
A sheriff 10 one of the Southern
States, three or four days ago, CON-
mitted suicide because short time
before he had executed his courts
death sentence Dpon a guilty wo'
man. Several of the men who
took part in the hanging of Mrs
Surratt, an innocent woman, have
also committed suicide, but one Of
them, Judge Holt, will not do so
though he has to sleep in a lighted
room in order TO keep from seeing
that murdered wOman's ghost.
4 man IN Trenton, n. j., was re
Gently drowned in a beer glass. Ill
had been drinking bard, and wa
well under alcoholic influence
when he entered a saloon and OF
dered glass of beer, which wa
brought him. He sat down at
table and fell into a stupor, hi
head dropping forward into th
glass before him. When the baI
keeper tried to arouse him halt a.
hour later, 1t was found that b
was dead, his nose being immerse'
in the liquor in such a way tha
desperation was completely stopped
When the Mayor of Oh arlestOn
w. Va, sentenced a white womaI
the other day to work seventeel
days on the streets, the AtidRtl
Constitution declared that a your
farmer arose and offered to tax
her place, saying that he wonl'
never permit woman to be work
ed as a cOnr1ct on the publ
streets. The Mayor accepted hi
otter, aud the man was marched OF
To the chain gang. He dec lined .
give his name, aud said that "Johl
Smith would do as we'll as a iara
labOrer from some place up th'
river, aud that be never saw 0
heard of the woman in bis life M
NJ he saw hen in the Mayors cOnrt
but that his sense OF manhood snl
his respect for wOman.klnd woul,
not permit hlm 10 see one of tb
sex scrapHg the public streets 4
company with tramps aud bum
n eFs.
Since 1867, twenty years age
there has been no "hangsman day
IN Pennsylvania. The legislatur
of the keystone State PRACTICAL.
decided that year that it was legal
IL az well as morally wrong {
make Friday the scapegOat OF al
the other days of the week. So
since then, though mauy men hav
..stretehei help" in Pennsylvania
40 impartial distribution Of tb
days have been made. The rub
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