Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-11
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

master. G eneral is called upon to sign
three thousand warrants IN one day
he Will wish his name had never been
born.
In Berks and neighbOrng coun-
ties, Pennsylvania, IN strange
sight of farmers blowing and pre-
pairing the ground for their spring
sowing was witnessed Saturday.
A White Cap residing out in In
diana is still living with a dozen
balls in his corpus. AS soon as he
RECEIVERS he will attempt to hire
ont to q dime museum as living
shot pouch. A western man sell
dom gets left.
James L. BabcOck, the former
Chicago young man who Will be
heir to 100000 of his uncle's
property provided he marries with
in five years, is still receiving let
tiers from anxious young ladies who
are willing to sacrifice themselves
If the Democratic Senators at
Washington would keep t hel
mouths closed and their ears open
the country wouldn't find out so
much that they don't know about
the tariff and they would learn a
great deal that could not fail to be
useful Observation-Disclosures Press
We do moi wish to be crowdlng
our advice upon the esident-elect
with such profusion as to become
burdensome, but we do desire to
say one thing more, and that ia
that the first thing the President
elect has to do when he becomes
President is to recognize the civil
service reform Of his predecessor
as fraud Washington Republic.
A new prison Labor bill to be
introduced in the New York Legis-
iature this winter provides that
convicts shall be employed in the
reclamation of the States swamp
lands, in eultivatlng the lands at
tached to State institutions, and IN
the manufacture of articles needed
for use in penal and charitable In
stitutions. Under such law the
population of the penal Institutes
assigned to the Adirondacks would
soon skip to Canada.
Harrison has not informed the
newspapers as Ojust who will be in
his Cabinet. Such information
will be in time about March 4'h.
Ii is well to let the several asplr-
ants and their friends nourish a
hope tor two or three months.
The newspapers must have some
thing to fill their columns and the
Cabinet question is good matter
for long article every day, hence
General Harrison will not be so
IncOnsiderate as to cut off at one
blow hopes of the men who expect
to be honOred and the hard worked
reporters chance of earning a live
lihoOd.
Senator Allison says that the
Senate substitute for the Mills bill
will be adopted by the Senate and
sent to the House by January "a
The Senator thinks that the bill is
such a good one that it ought to
command the support of the Dem
ocrats in the Senate. But he says
whether they vote for 1t or not ii
will have enough friends to pass it.
as there are no differences among
the Republican senators which will
hinder its success. The opinion
among many of the prominent
Democrats of the House is that i
a bill should be presented to the
House during the present. session
providing for a 80 per cent. reduc-
ton on sugar and total repeal o.
the tobacco tax il would pass.
The growth OF the protectionisl
sentiment IN the South IS stronl
aud rapid, as BELTS a region wher'
varied industries are springlng ul
on every hand. Among the mos
notable of recent utterances Il
that effect was that of the Hon
John Ireland, of Texas, ten day
aso, at San Antonio. IL think thA
the South will change views Oh th'
tariff. The time will come wheI
the protected South will stan'
solidly arrayed against free trAd
New England" AS he SAID in th'
sane breath that the young men o
today will probably never see an
other Democratic Administration
in tho United States, he doobtles
realizes that the growth Of protec
ton means growth OF Republican
ism. Mr.. Ireland has been Gov
ernOr OF Texas tor Two terms an'
is nov leading candidate fo.
United States Senator, so that h'
may fairly be taken "a represen
iatiye man.-Neio York Tribune
The agent of the British Eas
African Company on New-Years
Day presented huudreds.of slayes
with papers giving them their free
dom. THIS action of the country
buying up the slaves within theiI
territory to free them naturally ere
ated much enthusiasm among The
East Africans. Not long since
the latter, after a similar proceed