Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-06-14
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

BoIixi, thriving town in Mis-
slssippi, suffered a severe loss by |
fire Wednesday morning, June 9TH.
The loss will reach 100000. The
fire was of incendiary origin.
The telautograph will soon be
introduced here. 1t transmits the
handwriting. The old Hayseed,
conspicuous in stage comedies and
newspaper bumOr, will not provoke
so much laughter hereafter when
he reads a dispatch and scrutiniseS
the handwriting to see whether it
is Wash. Post.
An extensive fre IN Jacksonville,
Fla, on Wednesday morning, June
;, broke ont IN a building formerly
used tor the electric plant a high
wind was prevailing at the time,
causiug the fire to spread rapidly
norrhward until it had consumed
every bnilding in an area OF FIVE
blocks. At least sixty buildings
we're detroyed, mostly homes OF
colored people. The loss will
probably aggregate 100000.
loss and damage by the recent
freshet in Bath and Allegheny
counties are very great in proper
ton to their wealth and population
beng about 100000 in each of
those little mountain counties. The
Cowpasture river ard Jackson's
river are reported to have been
higher al the recent treshet than
they have been IN the memory OF
the Oldest inhabitant. The bridge
across the Cowpasture on the Har-
risonburg and warm Springs road,
which had stOO d for sc years, was
swept away.
A bicycle engine, description OF
which we Published sometime since,
has been tested at Portland, Me-
and experts who have seen it en-
dorse the inventors claim that 1t
will revOIutionize railroad travel
IL is described as "simply bicycle
running on smooth steel and push
ed by steam From $50 or GOO
revolutions or turns, equivalent 10
80 miles per hour, are its piston
speed and valve action. 1t Is ex-
pected to take four cars, each seat
ing IS passengers, 100 miles per
hour, if necessary.
IL is impossible 10 conceive,
mrch less describe, the horrors at
Johnstown and vicinity, though,
As was natural under the circum-
stances, the number of lives lost
was, as we had supposed, greatly
exaggerated. The estimate Is now
between four and five thousand,
which. we hope and suppose, Is
still an exaggerated estimate. We
doubt whether it will reach three
thousand, and think two thousand
fve-hundred is rearer the true
number, and we hope it will be as.
certalned to be less than that.
Within one week after the dread
iu! calamity at JohnstOwn was
made known 10 the country gener'
ally the i'm mense sum of two and
a halt millions of dollars, besides
contributions of clothing and pro
visions, were donated. ContTibu-
tions were generously and prompt
~ made IN all parts of this country
aud some in Europe. This speaks
we'll for tie humanity and generos-
. ity Of the people. They acted
wisely, too, in giving not only
cheeriully, but promptly, for the
necessity was pressing and one dol.
lar early given vas worth ten given
later.
The New York Times published
a caDle dispatch from Rome, IN
which it quotes a Roman prelate,
whose name is not given, as saying
that in tile event of the death Of
Leo XIIL ut is more than possible
that European iealOusies, no less
than the present situation of the
American cardinal, Archbishop
Gibbons, OF Baltimore, to the
chair of Peter" I'm Catholic circles
in Baltimore, especially among the
clergy. very little importance Is at
tached 10 the statement that
Cardinal Gibbons would probably
succeed Pope Leo XIII, as the
head of the church.