Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-05-18
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

having refused him Is times. She
was IS, he was 2S, and had just
$4,000 in the bank.
The Coosa River NelcS gives
utterance to a sensible bit of phi
lOsophy when it says: Train up a
child in the way he should go, and
keep little ahead OF him in the
same way, during the training, to
be sure he goes.'
The Atlanta Constitution an
nounces that a New York publish
ing house has offered MISS Amelie
Rives, of Virginia, $4,000 if she
will write a novel ana give it the
copyright. This is the best offer
ever made an American writer.
The Democratic party, since the
organization of nominating conven-
tons, has never nominated but two
of ITS Presidents for reelection,
Andrew Jackson and Martin Van
Buren,, and it only reelected one
of those, as Van Buren, was most
disastrously beaten. 1t will repeat
the Van Buren, experience this year.
1t is stated that there are one
million persons out of employment
in the United States-about one in
every sixty. Will Mr.. Roger Q.
Mills please figure out how many
times this number would be multi
piled, if bis free trade theories
were to prevail and the American
xorkingman be brought into COM
petition with the pauper labor of
Europe l-Inder-APpedl.
The Congressional campaign
this fall should be devoted by the
Republicans TO carrying a majority
Of the next House of Represen-
tatiyes, thus settling the free trade
agitation, and giving the business
of the country rest from the
annual disturbance it experiences
at the hands Of the free trade
theorists.
The Norfolk (Va.) Democrats, so
as not to get out Of practice by
November, cheated each other in a
primary election, and now the
cheated party is exposing how the
fraud was done. In one ward the
returns gave 1875 votes to Zachary,
a candidate for the mayoralty
nomination. The VirginiaR con-
tains list of 900 men who swear
they voted for Zachary in that
ward. This is the Democratic
method now.
A schoOlmistress in Maine being
poor, was content TO sport lover
who was not rich himself, though
he was given to speculation in
small way. To show his good will,
he invested a few years ago in
some one or two townships of
California desert and made deed
Of ebe same to his lady lover. A
boom came and the lady sold her
laud for $3.50, 900 and she lmmedi-
ately sent the sack to the young
man saying she did not wish to
marry a mere fortune hunter. She
suspected that the young man loved
her for her wealth only.
The Mills bill IS ameDg the rocks.
It's friends fear that the Democatic
Dhalanx can not be kept in It's sup.
port. A Democratic caucus of
Representatives has been called to
determine what amendments shall
receive the support Of the party
representatives in committee of the
whole. The pressure against
special features of the bill is be-
coming strong, and Representatives
are growing anxious for their own
chances Of reelection next fall as
they read the petitions and re.
monstrances OF their constituents
against this or that feature Of the
measure.
A magnetic girl rivalliug Lulu
Hurst, "the Georgia wonder" is
now sojourniDg at Marion, Smythe
county. Va. She, Of course, cat
the especial request of numerous
friends" will give an exhibition
"of her wonderful powers She
eau lift the heaviest male citizen
by grasping the back of a chair,
&c. The heavy male citizen she
will finally diff" may be taken to
Je a person who has got more than
an apochryphal interest in craw-
fish land farm or a few COWS or a
railroad contract in prospective
Hurst made herself solid by her
magnetic power, for by 1t she ac.
quired fame, money, and hus-
band. This last one ought to do
as well.
The Boston journal, which is
free trade in its tariff views,
faments the fact that Frank Hurd
is barred out of Congress, and adj
mits the extreme unpODularity of
his theories in the following para
graph:
If Mr.. Hurd were a man OF dull
understanding or little real ability,
or we're a common political trick
ster, his enforced retiIemenC from
Congress would not be difficult to
explain, but as it is, everywhere be
goes and makes his earnest speeches,
he serves as a living illustration of