Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-04-26
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED,
The Samoan conference will open
in Berlin April 20.

in Berlin April %.
A Portsmouth paper publishes
the following copies of the ballot
slips used by a jury which tried a
man for grand larcency IN a New
Hampshire court: "Gilty, getty,
guilty. not gealty, gillty, not gull.
ty, guildty, guildy, guilty, glltey,
gealty.'
Miss Daisy, of Kentucky, has
won fame by planting herself on
claim in Oklaho ma, and defending
It with a brace of pistols. They
had better be careful about uprOOt-
Ing her, especially at this time OF
the year, when daisies are apt to
shoot out.
One day last week while a coro'
ner was inspecting the circum'
stances of the death of an old fe-
male professional beggar, found Sc
GREETED in an old flower pot in the
ward sSs 900, and $4,000 in gold,
bonds. stocks and securities con-
cealed III the walls of her shanty.
Surely there is something new
that happens now and then A
Kentucky father logged his son,
and the seventeen-year-Ol boy ran
away and married a red-haired
maiden of foTty.one. The boy was
ploughing when his father assailed
him, but it is not stated whether
he was driving a white horse, which
may probably have suggested his
desperate act.
Governor Wilson has pardOned
Enos Basham, of Summers County
sent mp for four years in Septem-
Der last for grand larcency. The
Governor gave as his reason that
Basham twas not of that degree of
intelligence TO make him capable OF
Distinguishing right from wrong"
Basham declares he will not accept
pardon on snch grounds, and re-
fuses to leave the penitentlary. He
says he has "more sense in a min
ute than Governor Wilson has
shown in his whole term
A Detroit paper publishes twelve
verses of a poem written by ex-
Senator Jones, of Florida, whose
infatuation for a young lady in that
city brought him into undesired
prominence and marked the de.
cline of his public career. lie
rhymes about his wrongs, about the
alleged intrigues in the senate,
about the "hellish work. of scan.
dal.mongers and pathetically
closes with the confession that in
sanity and want end the record.
Our minister in China points out
TO this Government that the recent
riots in China, whereby the lives
OF great many Americans were
placed in peril, are liable to be re-
pested at any time. 1t seems to be
the impression that the almond
eyed Celestial is taking lesson IN
Western civilization and doing to
Americans in China what has been
so frequently done to the Chinese
in this country. The moral is OBJ
vious.- Wash. Sunday Gazette.
For the benefit of such Of our
readers as may contemplate going
to Oklsh oma we have with much
care and crcumspection prepared
a list of those agricultural imple-
ments W hich the exigences OF soil,
climate, and society there suggest
as most to be desired. The list is
as follows:
Money enough to take you there.
One pistol.
Some whiskey.
Another pistol.
Some more whiskey.
A long box.
Money enough to bring you back
IN the box Washington Post
Whether Postmaster General
Wanamaker puts none but Re-
publicans on guard, or runs his
department without regard to pol.
itics, we want to see him improve
the postal service of the country.
He had the right idea when he
said that he wanted the mail bag
kept open till the last possible mo-
ment, the mail carried IN the short
est possible time, and delivery
made as soon as possible. If he
will do this, and give us safety in
the transmission Of letters, papers
and packages, he will baye honor
as long as there is postoflice de-
misunderstanding Inder.Ap-
peal.
How absurd 1t is to contrast the
protective tariff rate OF today with
that of Henry Clay's time. The adj
vance in science has been so great
that the means of transportation,
correspondence and all the auxil-
liaries of trade have practically an
initiated space and time. Forty or
fifty years sgO, when a trip across
the Atlantic was tedious, expensive
aud dangerous, the very remote
ness of our situation was an i'm.
portaHt element of protection to
our manufacturing interests. But
how different all this is now! A
trip across the Atlantic at this time
can be made within as many days
as it formerly took weeks, is much