Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-03-07
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENTS.

damaged the green peas, Straw
berries aud fruit trees on the truck
farms around Norfolk.
A man IN Chicago whose wife
made him a custard pie of stale
eggs is suing for a divorce. Here
is another subject for the ducking
stool.
Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison, By his
capture of a real, live burgler has
gained for himself the everlasting
contempt of the entire Chicago
police force.
A city councilman at London, Ohio,
has been arrested for safe. blowing.
Safe blowing Is becoming mora and
more unsafe every day, even when
attempted in executive session.
And now we have additional
proof of the saying advertising is
tho keystone of success" A Penn
sylvania man has just left for the
West to marry woman who ad-
vertiSed for a husband.
Franklin, Ohio, is excited oyer
new born babe whose head IS
seven times the normal size. Chica-
go is the only city in tue country
in which that child can be success
fully reared.
There is a great boom in phos-
plate lands in Southern Florida,
and many poor men have become
rich by the sale of their farms to
spectators. One man is reported
to have refused 100000 for a
tract of land held by him.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, in a decision rendered a
teS days since, decides that States
can compel railroad companies to
provide separate accommodation
for the two races, on the trains
running through States whose
statutes require it-such statutes
being constitutional.
The number of lives lost by the
bursting of the dam near Wicken-
burg, Arizona Territory, is now
estimated at forty.nine. Thirty
nine bodies have been Unidentified,
while ten more are known to be
lost. The dam was not construct
ed properly, adequate means for
the escape of water in time of food
not being provided.
The Ontario government has in
troduced a new license law, which
provides that no liquor shall be sold
to boys or giIls under Is years OF
age, and that no liquor shall be
sold to a person under 81 years OIL
age If a hotel keeper receives no
tice from the parents, guardian OIL
master of such person forbidding
such sale.
at New Albany, In Indiana, no
far from Louisville, Kentucky, OF
last Monday night, a number o
grave robbers were surprised il
a cemetary while actually at wOIE
attempting to unearth a body
There were FIVE persons in th,
party, and they we're fred upon al
they attempted TO escape. One o
them was killed and three wer,
captured the fifth got away.
The FIRST Virginia Regiment o
cavalry was organized in Richmond
Wednesday under order from tn
Governor, requiring all calvar.
companies of the State to meet 70
that purpose. Maj. Thomas r
Marshall'was elected colonel; j
Y. BidgOOd, lIeutenant-cOlonel, ant
Captain Percy Halves, major
This is the only cavalry regimen
in the State.
A rnffian in Troy, New York, /
a fit of jealousy, lay in wait 70
the object of his hatred, and mis-
taking an honest and inoffensv
merchant tor the man he sought
be rushed upon him and lacerate
his face with Of shears, dlsfgurin
him for life. There is commun
Gated with the account of this on
rage the Interesting infOrmatlO
that when he discovered his mi
take he nearly went crazy. An II
dignant public ought to have mac
an example of such a reckless brut
The Virginia legislature passed
law prohibiting the sale of be
from other States 10 the Common
wealth, and, as result, the reta
price of that useful article of foo
has advanced from twelve and
halt cents to fifteen cents per pOuu
aud there is loud complaint fro
all parts of the State. The farmer