Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-04-27
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.
Mrs. Aver, the wife of the pill
man is SAID to be worth S25,OOO,-
600. From this it will be seen
there is something in patent med
icines after all.
Cleveland carried Trenton, New
Jersey, by 70 majority IN 1884. At
the city election last week the Re
publicans carried the city by al
most 1000 majority.
Sam Jones is telling the people
down in Georgia that if they "don't
divide the Democratic party pretty
soon the devil will get the whole
lump Mr.. Jones is rapidly de-
veloping the attributes for a great
and far-seeing statesman.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, again comes
to the front in the persons OF Mr..
Wilson Winter, and Miss Ella
Spring who we're lately married.
AS in nature spring always follows
winter it is hoped in this case she
will do likewise.
At a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the penltentiary the con-
tract for rebuilding the shoe shops
was awarded to Mr.. W. o. Burton
for S25 SIG. There were fifteen
bidders, all from Richmond. The
highest bid was S3O,O05. Work is
to begin at once.
The feeling IN Republican cir
Giles IN Washington is growing /
that Mr.. Blaine will be nominated /
40 Chicago, and the idea prevails /
that Allison will be the Blaine /
choice for the Vice Presidency, so /
that should Mr.. Blaine's health |
ftl, if elected, the succession would .
vest IN a safe and popular man.
50 SAYS the Washington cores
poudent OF the Boston Transcript
It is rumored that Secretary
Blyard Is to become tather.in-law
OF the administration, or in other
words, that he is to marry the
mother.in.law Of the President
Gossip says the marriage will take
place the 2nd of June, which Is the
anniversary of the marriage of
Grover Cleveland and Mis- Frances
Folsom
The second election in Rhode
Island when there was no choice Of
members of the legislature at the
regular election, resulted in Re
publican success in every instance.
In Newport Republican Senator
and four Representatives were
elected. In CrantOn a Republican
Senator and Representative were
chosen, and West Greenwich, a
staunch Democratic town in past
years, elected Republican Senator
and Representative by 70 majority.
There's no comfort in all this for
Cleveland and the free trade
Democracy.
The Bristol Ne'cS says w. ID.
Jones, OF Philadelphia, has larger
interests in Southwest Virginia
than any one man We know OF. lie
owns 81 farms in Scott and Lee,
aggregatihg $1,000 acres of land,
and owns 100000 in stock and
bonds of the Big Stone Gap I'm
provement Company. He also
owns considerable real estate in
Bristol, and is interested in all her
large enterprises. In eastern Ken
lucky he owns large bodies Of land
on which there is the finest coal
and timber in America.
The death of Mr.. A. s. Abel,
tie founder and for more than
City years the proprietor Of that
useful and prosperous public jour
nal, the Baltimore Sun, removes
from the newspaper calling one Of
its most successful members. Mr..
AbelI took his first lessons sat the
case" and showed from his begin
ming those qualities which after
wards won him both reputation
and fortune. He lived to ripe
old age. leaving his great news
paper property in the skilled and
worthy hands of his three sons,
who have been engaged for some
time in its management.
The New York San says a free
trade campaign III New York state
will insure the defeat of the De-
mocracy. 1t gives figures to show
that three industries alone-iron,
wool aud woOd-give employment
TO 10000 voters, receiving wages
amounting annually to S75,O0O,-
900. The operatives in these in
dustTies are only a small part of
the great body of workingmen OPP
posed to any movement in the di- !
rection of free trade. But how can
New York support Cleveland for
denomination and dodge the plat :
form he made for himself in his /
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