Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-06-21
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

cases entire wheat crops were
ruined.
The New Hampshire girl who
drank chalk water to make herself
look pale fooled the doctors nicely.
1t took two post.mOrtems to tell
what she died Of.
At the election held 10 Pennsyl.
vania, Tuesday, against the prOhi-
bitiOn amendment, resulted in a
majority of about 100000 against
the amendment.
A large section of the manufac-
turing district OF Jersey City, n. j.,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday
hight. Loss between $4,000 and
100000.
Last Thursday night the Har-
monte Society of Charleston, w.
Va, gave an entertainment for the
benefit of the JOhnstown sufferers,
from which 1t derived about $500.
Seventeen thousand houses in
the poor districts of Naples Will be
demolished, the streets repaved
and new buildings erected TO I'm
prove the sanitary condition Of the
city.
A Kentucky family named Hum
phries consists of five girls, named
Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee,
Florida and Virginia. But the
state they are most anxious TO be
in Is Matrimony.
Nathan Banks, photographer,
died at Grafton, w. Va, Friday
from drinking four ounces of lauda'
nun with suicidal intent. He was
despOndent, but assigned no cause
for the act.
The rumor that Port an Prince,
the capital of Hayti, was captured
by Hippolyte's army, which de-
feated Legitime's forces, is con-
frmed by sdylces brought by the
steamer Alene.
Believing that 1t is better to have
the truth late than never We are
glad that the New York Sun has
been frank enough to cOotess that
every ballot cast on November 9TH
for Cleveland told in favor OF the
pro-British policy Of free trade.
II is, however, no use to speak
of the thousands of votes cast by
prOtectionists in favor of a policy
with which they had no sympathy.
The important question is, will
these protectiOnists again vote for
free trade on the plea of party in
terests
The June foods have worked dis
aster to the farmers of Southern
Indiana who have crops in the bot
tom lands. The damage to all the
Southern Indiana and Illinois
counties along White and Wabash
rivers will amount to many thou
sands of dollars, and it is feared
worse trouble may ensue.
The spectacle OF poor little Sa-
moa waiting away of there in the
South Pacific soup for something
20 agree TO, reminds one OF little
red fiddler crab trying to look ami
able in a church oyster stew while
the parson, the deacon, and the
Sunday school superintendent de-
eide which one shall eat it, Wash.
jHgton Post.
An infant in a cradle, which was
swept away by the flood at Johns
town and rescued at Verene, sixty
miles below, has been restored TO
its mother, Mrs. Jennie Moore.
When the water came Mrs. Moore,
her husband and two children were
washed away from their home in
Jobnstown. The body Of the hus.
band and the other child were re-
covered.
The death of a wealthy and &c
centric old man at Tyler, Texas,
says Southern exchange, has
brought to light a remarkable will.
The Old man had no relations, and
in his last will and testament he
directs all his property to be d.
vided equally among all persons
living in the Southern states who
we're bcru on his birthday, the 9th
of March, 1885. The amount OF
the fortune TO be distributed IS not
mentioned but it is said to be very
large.
Judge Rye appears in the Pitts.
burg Dispatch as Patriot, PhllOso.
pher, Hero, Statesman and Duplex
Elliptic Martyr. The Judge Omits
sOne very important incidents IN
his .ventful life which he ought to
supply, and he might also modify
much NAT he gives forth IN self
laudatim at the expense of old,
and some long dead, citizens OF the
county.
We saw DO autobiography to.
day for the fist time. More anon
One OF the survivors of the Johns.
town food explains: ~ escaped but
left my clothes. WASN'T very pre.
sentable, but my wife thought I
could explain afterwars. / was n
a tub when she called to me that
the food was coming and 50 fright
eDed was she that jumped out,
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