Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-25
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.


value of the presents at a Phlla'
delphia wedding last week was
S25O,OOO.
The Chicago Times is on the
road to fame and fortune. Its
whole staff is under arrest for
libel. 1t Is better to be born lucky
than rich.
Five more new stars on the flag
of oar country. The House has
passed the bill admitting North
Dakota, South Dakota, Washing
ton and New Mexico as states.
The Senate on Tuesday passed
its substitute for the House tariff
bill. by a vote OF 80 to 30-a strict
party vote. What will the House
do with it : is the great question:
now.
The New York World having
sent a man to discover Stanly,
there is nothing left for an Ameri-
can newspaper except TO locate the
precise whereabouts Of "Jack the
Ripper
A special train will leave New
York next month tor the scene OF
a great bull.fght somewhere in
Mexico. Twenty wealthy young
New Workers are said TO be ar
ranging the excursion.
Hayti's "iunny business some
time ago in Selling an American
vessel has cost that benlghted re-
public $4,000 in the shape OF an
indemnity. Hayti now wishes she
had thought twice before acting
once.
The word education comes from
educO, and means the drawing ont
and exercise Of inherent power
and talent, born with a mind for
development. OF course. the more
some minds are developed the
less they know.
Colonel a. NJ. Waddel, of North
Carolina, who is one of the defeated
candidates for Mr.. Ransom's seat
in the Senate, has given notice
that IN future he will work for the
Democratic party only for a fixed
salary.
The Supreme Court Of the
United States has at last decided
that the tax on drummers is illegal
The tax is an interference with the
free commerce of the country, and
as such is an unnecessary and
vexatious restriction.
An attempt is being made 10y
the Pennsylvania courts 10 make
the employees Of the Lehigh Valley
railway responsible cnminally for
the fatal accident by which sixty
one persons we're killed at Mud
Run in that state last October.
DIR. Parker, Of London, is going
to try an experiment that will be
watched with interest bJ the pub
lie. He proposes to conduct relig.
ious services for laborIng men
where smoking will be encouraged
rather than deprecated. He does
this IN order to get an audience Of
people who otherwise would not
attend.
Anthony Higgins, the new Seua'
tor from Delaware, was boy OF
twelve when last any Delaware
Senator bore a name other than
Bayard or Salisbury. For thirty
six long years his state has been
represented by these two families.
lie is, too, the first republican
ever sent to the Senate from the
Blue Hen state.
The farmers living in the western
part of Walsh county, Dakota, are
in a wretchedly destitute condition,
and many of them are in actual
danger of starvation. A failure Of
crops last season has LETT them
without any means Of support dur
ing the winter. These facts we're
made public several weeks ago,
but we're denied by Dakota people.
They are now confirmed by special
reporters sent out for the purpose
of learning the truth.
The United States now possesses
the fastest cruiser in the world
The Vesuvius on her trial last
week made speed equal TO
twenty.six miles an hour, and this
is better than any vessel in the Eng
lish OF French nayies. If Secre-
tary Whitney had done nothing
else but built the Nesuyius, his adj
minlsiration Of the Navy Depart.
ment would be a notable one, but
in addition be has given US several
fast, we'll armored cruisers with
effective ordinance. It Will be easy
now for bis successor to continue
the good work and carry out TO
completion The plans which be laid
down Wash. Sunday Gazette.
The deadlock in the West Nlr.
GINA State Senate, which has ex.
listed since the 9th of January, was
broken Monday on the l26th bal
lot by the election OF Mr.. K. S.
Carr, union.labOr, as President Of
that body. The result is claimed
asa victory for the Democrats,