Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-01-03
A HAPPY NEW YEAR to all

Governor mChluuOJ onN ASN
tenant. Governor Tyler we're sworn
into Office on Wednesday.
Christmas and Congress come
but one ca year. But then Con
gress lasts about six months.
1t was a green Christmas, but
we hope there will be no fat grave
yard.
Ifsome fellow would invent New
Year resolutions that were warrant
ed not to break, he would be a pub
lie beuefactOr.
Seven persons were killed Thurs
day by locomotives at railroad
crossings in Chicago, making 9
total of about go durIrg the year.
The new Brazilian government
Is not getting on so we'll. The reac
ton has come, and the people are
beginning to revolt against the
new rulers.
1t is probable that the House Of
Representatives will indulge in
small salary grab and vote Itself
money to make good the amount
stolen by Silcott.
Thirteen thousand men and boys
have been thrown out of work in
Pennsylvania, owing to the Sus
pension OF operations of GOA
miners on account of the mild
weather.
\ we'll organized band of horse
thieves has been operating In
Davidson and adjoining counties in
middle Tennessee for months. It Ia
estimated that within the last two
weeks, 200 horses have been stolen
and run into Kentucky.
Mrs. Davis has written to Mayor
Ellyson of Richmond, acknowl
edging in appreciative and besuti-
full terms the resolutions of the
City Council and saying that she
will walt year befor making a
selection OF the place for the burial
of her llIustrlouS husband.
Christmas day all over the coun-
try was characterized by exceeding.
ly warm pleasant weather. The day
in New York was the warmest on
record, and the heat eclipsed the
highest temperature ever recorded
in December since the establish.
ment of the Signal ONCE.
At last ! A New York grand
jury has indicted the superinten.
dent of an electric light company
for manslaughter for the killing,
by an electric shock, of one of his
employees. 1t would not be a bad
policy to proceed in the same way
against railroad directors and
others through whose parsimony
or negligence human life is lost or
imperilled.
Governor Wilson has issued his
call for the extra session of the
West Virginia Legislature, and
that body will convene at Charles
ton on the third Wednesday in
January. 1890. The first aud most
important business the Governor
names for consideration is to de.
termine the contest for the guber.
material chair between A. B. Elem.
ming and Nathan Golf.
Henry W. Grady, the brilliant
southern orator and editor of the
Atlonta Constitution, died at his
home IN Atlanta, Georgia, on Mon
day Dec. %. His last sickness was
pneumonia, resulting from expos.
ure in Boston a couple of weeks
ago. The death of Mr.. Grady
cannot be regarded otherwise than
calamity TO the South, whose
earnest advocate and defender he
at all times was. The entire oouu. |
try, North as we'll as the South,
mourns his nntimely end, and
many prominent men have publicly
expressed their sorrow. Congress.
man P. A. Collins, of Boston,
says he regarded Mr.. Grady as
the most brilliant man in the
United States.
In decision rendered at Rich.
mond a few days ago. Judge r.
W. Hughes, of the United States
Court, held that citizens of the |
United States cannot be arrested ID
and tried for alIedged violations of '
The election laws simply upsn the f
information" of a United States a
Ittorney. Says Judge Hughes Is
The grand jury represents the 8
'ubllc conscience. If an act is
onmitted offensive to the public
eace, morals. interests, or policy, r
nd is made criminal by Law, the q
rand tnrv ia fhQ inafifnfion On