Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-01-24
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT


few weeks ago, are to be hanged
on Friday, the 3lst of this month.
Edmund C. Stedman, the poet,
slys that the grippe is a result OF
vapors through which our planet is
passing on its way around its orbit.
He contends that the greater the
elevation the worse the grippe.
The Philadelphia Inquirer puts
it in this way: "General Greeley:
Dear Slr,-If you can't tell the diff
ference between a cold wave and a
Missouri cyclone, your resignation
is in order"
The oldest person In Ohio is said
to be Mrs. Margaret Arnold, for
whom the great age of 112 years is
claimed. She was born at Rich
mond, Va, IN July, 1777. She has
two sisters and a brother living, all
of whom are centenarians.
William Christian, living near
Atlanta, caused himself to be bur-
led to the NECK in the earth for
forty.eight hours as a cure for in
flammatOry rheumatism. The dis
ease disappeared, it is SAID, and he
became as sound and hearty as any
man IN the community.
On Thursday last, the jury in the
Hastings Court of Petersburg fail
ed to find a true bill against
Malone who was charged with
shooting Herbert Harrison, q
prominent merchant of that city,
on the night of the election last
Fall.
Two cOlered penltentiary con-
victs, named GllisOn and johnson,
who recently escaped from the
guard while at work on railroad
in the southwestern part OF the
State were captured IN Washing
ton Thursday. They have been re-
turned to the Penitentiary.
AID now the doctors announce
that the cholera Will very likely
succeed the grip aud do business on
much more elaborate scale than
it's Russian predecessor. However,
it Is not necessary for the American
people to take on a cholera scare
at this time. Let US devote our ef-
forts to shaking off the grip.
Nothing in Virginia since the
election has obtained such wide at
tentiOn as the record of the hen in
Page county who flew at a man
and pulled out one of his teeth.
Virginia leads, we say, in all things.
Hereafter she may have imitatOrs
in this as i'll other things, but at
present she has the proud Justine
ton ofprOducing the first and only
genuine Hen Dentist.
Mr.. Cadet, of Amherst, has of.
tered in the House a bill that ought
to be both satisfactory and crafty
ing to all parents In Virginia. 1t
forbids the sale of cigarettes to
minors. This is as necessary law,
asjust aud proper a law as the law
forbidding the sale of liquor tC
minors. The Cigarettes bill ought
to become law. No sufficient rea
sun cen be offered for its defeat.
The committees having the mat
ter in charge on Saturday last Sc
lected the fifteenth of May next al
the time for the unwilling of the
Lee monument in Richmond. Va
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was unanimous
ly chosen as chief marshal. Let
Camp, Confederate Veterans, wa
given charge OF all the ceremonies
They will meet this week to begIr
arrangements for the event.
The Philadelphia North American
thinks the recent votes in the Hous
of Repre- ientltlve5 in the wOrld'l
fair Sklrmlsh show that "ChicagC
has more strength than tue mos
conservative New Yorker has here
tOfOre been willing to cOnceed.
The North America concludes thai
81: any city is agreed upon as {
compromise it will be Washington.
OF course it will, and such a com
promise would be satisfactory Il
ali sections of the country.
A b II for high liquor license
in Virginia has been prepared anC
will be intro lueed in the legisla
ture. There is every COOL reas on
why it should be passed and not
one why it should not be. Aud Mr.
Jefferson, the father of the party
in whose principles so large a ma
iOrity of the legislature profess to
believe, was in favor of a high tax
on liquor, both as moral and re-