Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-04
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

Happy New Year May you ieafn
wisdom from experience.
Its estimated that the total re-
duction of the public debt for the
month of December will be a0out
900.
Whiskey is so scarce in Leaven-
worth, they say, that man is
glad to chew revenue stamp
Topeka Journal.
The Roanoke Times and IeIe-
qram have been consolidated, and
will be published hereafter as the
Times Telegram.
1t is said that Christmas festive
celebrations are responsible for the
loss of seventy lives and for mil
lions of dollars worth of property.
a North Carolina Justice OF the
Peace fined a citizen 60 for con-
tempt of court in not bringing out
a pail of water for the Justices
horse, while he was travelling.
A citizen of Winneconne county,
Wis. has succeeded in tempering
brass, and b a exhibited brass
knives and axes that will cut sea
soned hemlock knots without turn
ing the edge.
The good will of the Richmond
Wing, including the subscription
lists and anexpired advertisements
have been transferred to the Times
Publishing Company, and the pub
LEGATION of the Whiq discontinued
Thursday.
On Christmas night, Robert Hull,
brother of Allen G. Hull, travelling
passenger agent of the Norfolk and
western railroad, committed
suicide at the Noryel-Arllngton
Hotel ID Lynchburg by taxing
laudanum.
A vote has been taken by a
Deadwood, OAK, paper on the
question of single or double state
hood, and it is shown that a little
more than hve-sixth of those an
swering are In favor Of division
and admission as two States.
A mob collected Saturday night
in Belgrade and marched through
the streets to the Austrian consul
late, where they shouted, "Down
with Austria! - aud smashed the
windows. They then visited a
number of residences occupied By
Austrians and m ade similar dem
onstrations.
Sheriff Ragsdale, Of Dlnwiddie
county, a Saturday levied on the
stock, fixtures and farming imple-
ments of the State Central Lunatic
Asylum, near Petersburg, to satisfy
a claim for rent for $500 for the
building formerly used for asylum
purposes in Richmond. The board
OF directors of the institution VIII,
it is understood, fight the matter in
the courts.
A young boy came in contact
with a fallen electric light wire in
Philadelphia and was instantly
killed. The contortions OF the
body, caused by the wire being
wrapped around it, made a by
stander think him still alive and he
threw a bucket of water on him.
The electric current passed up the
stream and knocked the man down
and injured him severely.
IL has been several hundred
years since a new year has been
ushered in With such celestial pomp
and circumstances as will fall &c
the share of 1889, and it will be
several hundred years before such
an event will again come to pass
A solar eclipse is the spectacle by
which the advent of this new veal
is distinguished. 1t was not yisi
BILE 10 this section, but it got there
just the same.
There was a terrible ending OF
Thursday night to Christmas fes
tivities at Austin, Mo. \ sabbath
school gave q Cbristmas-tree en-
tertaament and the young people
gave a dramatic performance t(
wind up the evening. During th'
coarse of the performance th'
heavy william dies by his own hand
The part was taken by walter
Webb, a we'll TODD young farmer
aud wheu he made the supposed
fatal blow he tripped and fell for
ward, the knife piercing his hear
and he died instantly.
A student a: the Institute o.
Technology, Boston, was i'll in his
room on fremont street at leasl
he thought he was in his room, When
suddenly awakened Oy a DO" oi
the head but on looking about be
found that he was in the hallway
of a strange house. He heard
voices IN an adjoining room, aud
rapping at the door, was admitted
to the room by two fellOw.student'
whom be knew we'll. They hardly
knew whether the visitor was theil
friend, whom they thought was
living i'll SIX houses down the block
or his ghost He assured then
that he was very much alive, but
couldn't tell how be came there
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