Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-01-17
FRIDAY, JAN. IL, 1890.
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT.

house in New YORK, and died on the
stairway where this beng and his
wife finally consented to let the
shlverlng, delIriOus, old creature
remain all night.
A horse weighing 1,1O0 pounds,
owned by a man in Dover, N. h.,
got hungry in the night, left his
stall and climbed a long, steep and
narrow stairs, into the hay loft,
where he was found the next morn
ing.
AT Petersburg, on Friday last,
Randall Watson, on his second
trial for the murder of Joe Robin
son at Belfeld two years ago, was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to be banged
OIL the DIST of next March.
Some scientifically inclined Port
Huron Mich boys fastened one
end of a copper wire to an electric
wire, and the other end to the tin
cup at a public drinking fountain.
The result was that some shocking
drinks were bOisted in that day,
and the police are now looking for
the boys.
DR.. Theodore Pryor, the veneer
able father of Gen. Roger A.
Pryor, and for more than fifty
years pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in Nottoway county, Va,
celebrated his eighty-fith birthday
last Thursday. He Is the oldest
member of the General Assembly
of the Southern Presbyterian
Church.
We publish in this issue the
message of Gov. Mckinney, which
treats of the debt question, and
gives a candid and fair statement
of the condition of affairs in Vir-
ginia, from which it will be seen
that 1t would be wise on the part
of the creditors of the State to &C
cept settlement on the basis of
the Riddeberger Bill.
A DOvelty is announced in the
shape of a recording and alarm
compass, which. 1t is declared, will
greatly increase the safety of
vessels. The apparatus is said 10
be composed of a pinnacle aud re-
cOrding and alarm instruments
connected by electric wires. The
principal, in brief, is to sound an
alarm whenever the course is not
kept.
The Baltimore Sun OF Tuesday,
says that the grain elevator No. 3,
at Canton, was destroyed by fire
Monday night, with 100000 bush.
els of wheat and corn and four
empty Pennsylvania Railroad cars.
The British steamship SacrObascO
So as also destroyed. Three men
were supposed to have been burn
ed to death in the steamship. The
whole loss will amount to about
seven hundred thousand dollars
By an act of the Georgia Legis-
lature at its last session, January
10, the birthday of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, was made public holiday IN
that State. AS the anniversary
falls on Sunday this year. Mon.
day will be observed. There will
be publia meetings in various cities
of Georgia, with addresses and ex-
ercises appropriate to the occasion.
The Confederate Veterans Asso.
citation of the State has invited all
veterans of the COntederacy to
participate in general memorial
meeting to be held in the State
Capitol on Monday, January Goth.
a touching incident is reported
by a New York paper. A lady In
deep distress was trying. with four
cents, to buy five cent ticket on
Que Of the elevated railways. With
tears in her yes she pleaded with
the stony hearted agent. The four
cents was all the money she had,
and she promised faithfully to re-
pay him if he would trust her for
the one cent lacking. He cOldly
refused, and she was about to turn
away when a noble, generous re-
porter, deeply moved by her
misery, rushed forward impulsive-
|, and gave her a cent. Heroic
soul Deathless benefactor ! He
gave her a whole cent
The farmers OF the neighborhoO6 |
6f niawatha, Kan, are burning
corn for fuel, finding 1t cheaper
than coal. Corn is sold ON the
farm for 81 cents per bushel, while
the average price Of coal delivered