Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-08-23
FRIDAY. AUGUST -. 1850.
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

says he must" Well, AlliS' inc
law says you must.
At Martinsburg, W. Va, on
Saturday evening Senator Faulkner
had his knee cap fractured by a
fall caused by the turning OF a base
ball bat which he trOd upon on his
lawn.
Mr.. F. S. Blair says he will,
under no circumstances, be a can
dldate for the Republican nOmina'
ton for Attorney General Of Viz
ginia.
Some of the foreign governments
now supply their armies with pow
der that produces neither smoke
nor noise when it explodes. A
man killed by ball propelled by
such powder would certainly not
know what hurt him.
To think that the nine lives that
we're lost in the New York tenement
bouse FIRE we're sacrificed TO the
cupIdity of a wretch who wanted 10
Obtain a thousand dollars OF IN
surance money, is horrible beyond
expression.
Mr.. James II. Crocken long con-
nected with the Virginia Military
Institute. died at Lincoln, Kansas
TO which place he removed recent
IT, His death occurred from
erysipelas. He was buried with
Masonic donors.
Congressman Laird, of Nebraska
died at Hastings in that state on
the 18th. He had been i'll for some
time. bnt of late was reported as
improving. HIS district Is strong
" Republican, and a Republican
successor will be elected before
Congress convenes.
Anthony Burrows, of Walker
county. Ga, has a small pine
stump that has been petrihed. 1t
is as heavy as stone, cuts hard,
and resembles a rock, though the
streaks of resin and growth can
he seen, and beyond doubt has
been a small pine stump, when
shows the marks OF an Ak.
Senator Rlddleberger has always
been courageous and independent
in the expression of his political
views. and We believe he will con-
unue so in the future. AT any
rate his paper, the SHENANDOAH
HERALD, rebukes with no uncer'
tain sound the bossism OF Mahone'
Winchester Times.
A colored womaR's husband has
left Lexington with another woman
and the deserted spouse says she
has been conjured by 3 rabbit foot
She saws she has a hind foot from
the left leg OF graveyard rabbit
and that the woman with whom
her husbund has eloped stole .
piece of that foot and enticed him
of.
The lower legislature OF Georgia
has passed, without a dissenting
voice, a bill declaring that on the
18th day of January shall be a
public holiday in respect to the
memory of General Robert Z. Lee,
who was born on that day. 1t is
certain that the Senate will also
pass the bill and Lees birthday
will become the most interesting
and important of all the holidays
in Georgia.
The special committee OF the
West Virginia Legislature which
has been in session for four months
past examining dispositions in the
gubernatorlal contest will to day
complete reading the evidence from
all the counties except two, Mercer
and Mcdowell. Gen. COTS plurall
~ so far as the investigation has
gone. has not been WHIPPED out
and with the two counties yet Il
he read he still has the advantage
If about fifty votes, his original
pluralit, having been 40.
Just a. cur erstwile judicial
minded contemporary the Philadel
ohia Eceaing Telegraph is rsvin!
over the evidence Of race preJudlc'
at the South displayed in connec
ton with the Atlanta post-otiic'
incident, this item comes frou
Montgomery county, Pa:
A negro who bad served in To
Union army and made creditaol'
record as a soldier died. llis friend
asked permission to bury him II
tlsn,lional cpmctery bnt 1t wa
refused
Oh, NJ! Ther' is no sch thin'
asra.s pref udice in pennsylvania.
Charles Finch, Il talented youn
l,eyer of Mecslenburg county
Va. mas been adjudged insane. II
crea,ed quite a heated dIScuSsio
in bis delegation at the DemOeratl
convention last week. His del'
eatiou decided on Wednesday I
east its vote solid for Scott for a
toruey general. On Thursday b
insisted that after prayer and rea'
ing his Bible the Lord had toll
him to vote for Pollard.
IL was with difficulty that b