Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-12-21
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED,

cause she was in good health is
more ambitious to incur doctors
bills than most.
Libby prison will be removed
from Richmond to Chicago early
in the spring, and rebuilt so as to
present its present appearance.
Roger Q. Mills threatens TO bring
ND his free trade bill, and he may
do 20 if he chooses. But that bill
is like a bogus dOllar-it won't
pass.
Even the Democratic brethren
now admit that the new House is
Republican. If this isn't progress
we should like to know what to
call it.
The silence of President-elect
Harrison Is just as eloquent as ever.
A man who can hold his tongue so
admirably can scarcely fail to make
a successful executive.
The President pardOned on e
hundred and thirty-six cOnvicts
during the fiscal year ended June
3Oth last, and granted amnesty an
der the Edmunds law in three
cases.
BY nearly one hundred thousand
majority North Carolina adopted a
constitutional amendment increas
ing the number Of justices of the
Supreme Court OF the State from
three to five.
The melancholy Mugwunps are
still rebukiug Mr.. Cleveland for
having ignored civil service reform
in his farewell message. Their re-
buke is nothing, however, as CON-
pared with the one Mr.. Cleveland
received on the 9th of November.
Jack the Ripper notified Mayor
Hewitt that he has located IN New
York and will begin operations at'
ter January LIST. Judging from the
time announced, his full name is,
probably, Jack Frost, and his rip
ping work will be limited to water
pipes.
There are increasing evidences
that President Harrison proposes
TO construct his own ca in t.
There seems to be no help for this,
but it is mighty rough on the anna
teur Cabinet.makers who have sat
o nights trying to save him the
trouble.
John Chinaman is developing a
remarkable capacity for acquiring
American vices. The latest in
stance comes from San Francisco,
and tells how a sleek MOngOl acted
as private banker, and lost all the
depositors' funds in gambling. de
rounded up his iulquities by incon-
tinent fight.
1t is an odd fact that many of the
Democratic organs which only a
wear ago we're scOlding Mr.. Cleve-
land tor not completely ignoring
the Civil Service law are now in
sisting that President Harrison
shall stick to it IN letter and spirit.
This is one of the eccentriciues of
Democratic alteration.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, who has been
ranting over both continents cry
lug for vengeance for her hus bands
execution, is going to be married
again. If the new husband is a
man of spirit, we may soon expect
a complete cessation OF the eulogles
of the first husband, Second hus'
bands can stand some things, but
they usually draw line at that.
ItIsnow more than Ave weeks
since election, and there is no check
to the increasing tide OF enterprise
IN the South, despite the lurid fore
holdings Of ante-election Cassan'
dras, who saw in Mr.. Clevelauds
defeat nothing but industrial ruin
and desolatIOn. The catalogue Of
new business ventures in the
South during the past week covers
a vast variety of works, with an
aggregate capital of many millions
Of dollars. Never before in the
history Of those States was there
such a development of resources
and such an upspringing OF impor'
tant, wealth-produclng industries
as now. Evidently they realize
that the election of man who will
be President OF the whole Nation
is a good thing for the whole Ma
tion.-Ne,o York Tribune.
The figures shown by the records
Of the Post.Office Department do
not bear out the boast of the Presi-
dent in his message that the Elf
cheney OF the service has increased,
despite unusually great expansion
The number of pieces OF mail mat
ter handled in 1888 showed an III
crease OF 80 per cent over 1850,
while the number handled in 1889
showed an increase of Al per cent
over 1882. This does away at once
with the claim of unusually great
expansion. On the other hand the
number of errors for 1882 is 9O2, 4S9
for 1885, $751; and for 1888, l,
765,S2l. Thus, with an increase of
A per cent in the total pieces
handled, the errors were actually
less in 1885 than in 1882, while