Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-12-14
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

HarrisOn's cabinet, and the returns
are not all in yet.
The President is buslly pardon
ing Democrats out OF the penlten-
tiaries. He wants TO increase the
party vote somehow.
Three men were killed by an ex-
plOsiOn of meal dust in an Oat meal
mill in Chicago last Tuesday. Loss
of property about $4,000.
General Harrison, up to Thanks
giving Day, has had a mountain
named for him, two big gas-wellS,
a new variety of apples, and forty
four babies.
y prOtracted drouth threatens
famine aud ruin to many districts
in Australia. Thousands of sheep
have already died on the ranches
from starvation.
II has been held by some of The
courts of the United States to be
admissible as evidence in divorce
suit that a husband tailed 10 kiss
his mOther.in.law.
The Governor of Maryland has
fixed the time of execution OF a
condemned murderer in his State
for February %, 1889. There will
be no such day, and the convict is
happy.
\ new bridge :, 42j feet long is
to be erected over the Mississippi
river at st. Louis. There will be
three spans over the stream channel
each 522 feet long. The structure
will cost a ha If million dollars.
Venezuela and Bolivia have each
a rebellion on hand. The Spanish
American race, especially when
mixed with Indian and negro
blood, is poor material out of which
to construct a republic, it seems.
The Hon. CALVIN Brice has
bought an opera box for $4,000.
This is not the sort of box he put Mr..
Cleveland into. 1t is cosier and
much more comfortable IN every
way than the one engaged for the
Presi dent.
Nee dless taxation should be re
duced and the passage he
Senate of a tariff bill and its re-
lection by the House will not ac-
complish this. The repeal or re-
duction of the tobacco tax, on which
both chambers are agreed, will.
Secretary Whitney has ordered
three naval vessels-tbe Richmond,
Galena and antic-tO Hayti to
demand the release of the steamer
Haytien Republic. The Richmond
will be the flagship and Admiral
Luce will command the expedition.
The Ossipee will follow later.
Connecticut, the only New Eng
land state that voted for Cleve-
land, has apparently Iepented.-
Hew Haven, which has been a solid
Democratic city for ten years, went
Republica n in the municipal cleo
ton last week. The Republican
gains made in that city alone
would have wiped out Cleveland's
plurality and given the State to
Harrison.
Somebody guesses, or calculates,
or estimates, that the wealth Of the
United States ia increasing at the
rate of g, 800, 600 a day, or S9l2,-
100000 a year. This is over Sl5
apiece for the GO,OOO,OOO of pOpula-
ton; and as the public debt, state
aud nat ional, averages S33 per
capita, the debt could be Cancelled
from the increase of wealth alone
in two years.
The word "windjammer" is com
ing into use, in political slang, to
characterize noisy and demagogiC
orators, who deal in words rather
than ideas, and m axe up fol
their poverty of thought by un
stinted alb use and windy declama
ton. Its origin is obscure, but II
was very probably first a bit Of
street slang, and applied to the
player on the trombOne-whlch
instrument produces different notes
by having a sliding tube pushed
up aud dOwn-the energetic Gam
mi ing of this tube in playing a
lively air, first suggesting that the
from bone player was a "winG-
iammer,' which term soon was ap-
piled to the performers on all the
wind instruments 10 brass bands,
and fIom thence is but "a step 70
its present s,gnidcatiOO.- Toled0
Blade.
Seal skins are much higher this
season, ard the reason is gwen by
the sealers in the Pacific, in their
complaints against Secretary Bay
ards lack of backbone. They do
not scrupIe to charge him with
shameless desertlOn Of them and
their cause. The instruction issued
TO the revenue cutters in 1884 we're
70 seize vessels in Behring sea
which infringe on the Alaska com
pany's privilege. The activity Of
the officers effectively scared of
both British and Americans who
had been accustomed 10 pursue
their calling in those waters. Then
the secretary, so the sealers say,
:.ll.or- from his pOcitiOn and