Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-08-02
ORsS4EAL AND pBORROWED.
VtesgiIls is to be lighted b.
eleesfesey In sixty days.

OH4fuHN INV SS"'S
V4aVsyiIls is to be lighted by
eleessissey IA sixty days.
The number OF lives known to
have been lost by the recent food
IN the Kanawha river, is IS.
Richmond, it is estimated, ac-
cording TO the poll tax returns for
1889, has population of SCOTS as
against s3,O37 twelve months ago.
The author of "Home Sweet
Home" died without a home, and
now the author of the homestead
law, George W. Allen, Of Ohio, has
no homestead OF his own, and is
dying in AFFECT poverty.
Two hundred men OF Wilson
county, Tennessee, have banded to-
gether for the purpose of driving
from the county Mormon elders
and ssnyerts who have interrupted
religious meetings and used insult
ing lsaguage.
One hOndred and fifty saloon
keepers were arrested in Cincinnati
Saturday for violation OF the Sun
day closing law. The liquor men
had agreed to open on Sunday and
make a test OF the Law, which they
claimed was not clear. These cases
will bring out the law very clearly.
The result of the investigation
into the efficacy Of electricity as an
instrument of death will probably
result in the repeal of tAe New
York law providing for the execu-
ton of criminals by electricity be-
cause of its uncertainty and prOba'
bic cruelty.
Tie Indians attached to the
CollvIlle agency, IN Stevens county,
Washington Territory, have burn
ed eight square miles of hay land
aud threatened the lives of the set
tiers. a request has been made
for a company of soldiers. Indian
officials in Washington, d. c., DC
not know the cause of the reported
trouble.
The new owners of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railway, with ar
eye to future business, have pur
chased the Warm, Hot and Healing
Springs ofVirglnla, and propose t
buila q branch 10 these famous re
sortg ksanl CovingtOn, Allegheny
ceustS Che present prOprietors re
tain tmssssisn for five years, bu
10 tbs nsan time the purchaser
will erect new hotels and MAKE
many other needed improvements
A murderer was hanged las
week whose final hours, in the eel
and on the scaffold, we're described
ia elaborate detail in the Mime
spoIis and ST. Paul newspapers
regardless Of the new law forbid
ding such publications. Toe famll
lar smile Of ddmming up the water
of the Nile with bulrushes wOul'
apply quite as forcibly to the effor
to sufe in the press any topi
which the reading public demand
as to the lettering of the step 0
freedom ia general.
4 New York Herald speci'
from Tonawanda, New York, says
This village has been visited by
plague of sand flies, compared I
that Skich visited Pharaoh, fade
into insignifcance. NedDesda
night at sun set heavy cloud va
noticed hanging over the Canada
shore OF the Niagara river, al
many supposed storm was cor
ing OPP. When the street LAM
we're lighted tue nature Of the stOr
became manifest. Billions Of G
madam sand flies, having a vic
spread of wing and caterpille
like body, descended on the town.
an hoar it was impossible to wal
the streets. Houses we're shut D
stores we're closed, and everybod
prematnrely went to bed. Most
the flies were dead yesterday NOR
ing, their bodies covering the sire
and housetops nearly three inchr
deep. The interior harbor and C
nal were thick with their remain
The street commissioner was bus
all dag With a force of men clearir
up the dead insects. The prlnclp'
streets are now clean, bat there
q horrible stencil from the decay
their light bodies in a thousar
other places. Nothing similar
remembered here.