Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-01-20
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FRIDAY. JAN. 20. ISSS.
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Hon. IL. II. Riddleberger has in
trOduced in the Senate bills for pub
lie buildings at Staunton and Roam
Oke, and a bill for a road from Staun-
ton to the Federal Cemetery.
Thirty-tour months of Democrat
ic rule results in piling up $642,-
Gao, 200in the treasury of the United
States, parslyzing trade, diminish
ing values, reducing the circulation
to less than S11 per capita, and
nearly producing panic.
The Binghamton Leader says {:
sit is leap year, and it has just
been 1000 years since there were
as many SIS in the year as we have
just now. 1t is a good time for old
bachelors to cogitS, the girls to re-
ciproc.S, and not heSit-S.D
The same number of bushels of
wheat, corn, and oats last year was
worth to the farmers $3.50, 900, 900
less than they were in the last year
of Republican rule. This was be.
cause of the policy Of contraction
adopted by the Administration
How do the farmers like it ?
J. w. Smith, a life insurance
agent Of GOrdOnsville, known as
"Extra Billy Smith, aged about
50 years, was found hanging dead,
in the jail at Orange G. H., where
he had been put to sober up, hav-
ing been on a spree for some days.
lie formed a rope out of the bed
clothing to accomplish the deed.
During the year 1887 the fire
losses in the United States and
Canada aggregated 1929, 900,
which is an average of s10,77O,OOO
per month, $S59,OOO per day, and
S1i,55S per hour. This would seem
to show that a large proportion of
the fires are the result either Of
careiessness or criminal purpose.
Nancy a. Green, of Versailles
Ind, is the youngest of the thirty
eight widows who still draw pen
si0ns as the relicts of revolutionary
soldiers. She was born in 1918,
and the war ended in 1888. Her
husband was tifty.six years old
when she was born, and must have
been seventy.four when he married
her.
The people of Virginia who are
opposed to free trade, even mas.
queradlng under the guise of "tariff
REFORM should form protective
tariff leagues at every postoffice in
the State, for the purpose of dis
tn6nting tariff documents. Every
league formed that will send the
names of its members and the post
Office to the National Republican
at Washington, Will receive docu-
ments and be aided in every pos
sible way.
The day upon which the first Poo
tectIve tariff in the United States
became a law was, by curious CO.
incidence, the Fourth of July
That law was a second Declaration
Of Independence for this nation
The Fourth of July, 1776, was the
date OF emancipation of this coun-
try from the political domination or
England. The Fourth of July,
1889, witnessed the signature OF
President George Washington to
the FIRST protective tariff, which was
a declaration Of our coming indus
trial independence.
The Galveston Ne,oS says;
"Tbe tariff has caused American
rails to cost double what they
would cost without it, and every
thing which passes over the rails
must pay this cost"
Yes, steel rails were costing $40
a ton to import them when a tariff
was put upon them, and now they
are quoted at $3.50 per ton, and
the production of American mills
last year amounted TO 2,295,594
tons, with total value of nearly
$4,000, 900. The Nelcs' statement
is about as near the truth as could
be expected from a free trade Dem
ocfatIc paper.
The New York Press says: "a
policy Of repression can never sup
press the idle and starving people
of the United States. THANK heav-
en- it is so! The masses of the peO-
pie have the remedy in their own
hands-the ballot. Let them use
1t. Let them drop party prejudice
and use their power against the
policy laid down by President
Cleveland before the horrible
plague spots of free trade spread
over the industrial centres of this
prosperous country, as they have
done over the cities Of Great Brit
ain aud ireland.
The Washington correspondent
of the Alexandria Gazette says
Representative Wise and Yost call
ed upon the President and request.
ed him to appoint Colonel Marshall
Mcdonald, the present fish com.
missioner of their State, to the ma
tional fish commlssionership, an
Office created by the bill which has |
just passed Congress, the salary of !
which is $1,000. The President
said he had previously heard Col. |