Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-11-22
Gu BRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

nation, setting apart @u" ~PPO
ing Thursday, Nov. IS, 1889, as a
day OF Thanksgiving.
General William Malone has
leased his house IN Washington
John s. Wise only gets back to
Virginia to talk.
Now that both are on the other
side of the Potomac, IT the POto'
mac will rise, we will see that they
have the compsnionship OF Frank
Hatton and WIN. Z. Sims.
II is said on what may be es-
teemed good authority that >.
Burnt Allen will room somewhere
in the ueightorhood of the Gener-
ais new quarters. Col. Allen will
be all tue time on duty at head
quarters, except the picket service
time to lookout for his own trunk.
A gentleman by the name OF
Richard A. Wise accepted the
courtesy OF the so-called kickers
meeting held in Richmond.
lie abused that courtesy by walk
iug out and stating that a iourth
class POstofice would buy every
one of them.
DIR. Dick forgets possibly that be
has been a mere Office pensiOner
for years back. We congratulate
the Doctor that there Is so much
more room outside the walls OF the
luuatic asylum than Inside, so that
his personal liberty is'not likely
soon to be circumscrlbed.
A Philadelphia inventor Is busy
OIL a street car floor, comprising
stats laid cTosswise on two endless
rubber hands, that revolve az the
car moves, and gradually roll the
people up TO the front.
Henry j. Kemper, son of the
tx Governor, was in st. Paul, MIMI,
on Friday searching for his missing
brother, Charles KeiOper, who dis
appeared in June last under mys'
terious circumstances. After an
examination of the body found at
Lake JObanne he was convinced
that il was not that OF his brother.
Parties who were digging into
an old Indian mound OF Suther-
lands Bluff, twelve miles from
Dauen, Ca, discovered an old |
earthen pot which contained petri-
fied human bones aud scull. The
teeth were still In place and were
in good condition, not being decay
ed in the least. The bones are
supposed to have been those of
some Indian warrior, who was
buried there when he made his trip |
to the happy hunting grounds.
Sturgeon, the eminent Baptist
preacher, never makes any prepar-
alton for a sermon. 1t is his habit
to choose some text on Saturday
evening to be used on the morrow.
Thirty minutes, and no longer, he
devOtes to looking up references.
On these references he jots down a
few notes, and with nothing else
at hand he steps into his pulpit on
Sunday morning, without manu-
srcipt or thought of his text other
than that given 1t during the halt
hours study ofthe previous even
ing.
John Bnckwater, owner of fine
old country seat near Phoenlxyllle,
Pa, has pig that has disgTaced
himself and bis relatives. Gaining
access to the cellar in some way as
yet unexplained, the animal was
attracted by It's bouquet to a barrel
OF particularly fne cider, the bang
hole of which had been carelessly
stopped, aud knocking the plUg
back and forth with bis snout in
prying after the cider he managed
TO get it out. The nectar within
instantly poured forth in puddle,
ard the pig drank till be was help
lessly drunk. He was nnally seized
by his legs and hanled away, where
lie slept of the effects Of his dlssi-
patton.
Hon. George T. Garrison died
on Wednesday at his home, at Ac-
comao Courthouse, after a linger.
ing illness; aged about nfty-nve
years. He had been for many
years one OF the most prominent
men in eastern Virginia. He had
served IN both branches Of the gen
eraI assembly of Virginia, and was /
forten or twelve sears Judge Of
tn judicial circuit. which latter
position he resigned in 1880 to &C
cept seat in the national house OF