Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-05
FRIDAY. SEPT. ), 1890.
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

turner LOT governor
1t is said that President Harrl-
son will call an extra session of
Congress to meet November 10th
to pass the Federal Election bill.
The eighteen ear.Old daughter
of Swaine Kite, of Madison county,
died last week from lOckjaw, super
induced by the pulling of tooth.
Hon. VIM, H. Mckinley, father
OF the Mckinley tariff bill, was
last week renorinated for the office
of congressman in his district, the
10th Ohio.
Captain G. Il. Causey, ex-state
senator, died at his home in Suf'
folk, Wednesday afternoon, after
a brief illness of hepatic collie. His
age was 50.
Queen Margaret of italy likes
nothing so much as the museum OF
gloves, fans, boots and shoes used
and worn at different periods at
the various courts of the States of
Italy.
Congressman Lester, of Virginia,
attended the recent meeting of the
Primitive Baptist Association in
Caswell county, North Carolina,
and preached to a congregation o:
5000 persons.
The decOmpOsed body of a white |
women was found, few days ago,
on a mountain side on the New
River division of the Norfolk &
Western railroad. Nothing is
known concerning her.
John /. Sullivan formally de-
clared at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
W ednesday night that he had sur
rendered prize.fghting for good, !
and that his path in the future
would be the f1Owery one of an
actor.
A revolution is taking place in
the drinking habits of the Japanese.
The rice brandy called "saki,j
which has been so long their
national beverage, is beng sup
planted by beer brewed after the
German method.
A bureau has been established
in London where men who have
no engagements for an evening
may register themselves as eds
engaged diners" and there may be
sought by hOstesses who have in
yited fourteen people to dinner,
bat whom an uDlucky chance has
set trembling through fear of hay
ing Thirteen at the table.
a barn belonging to Mr.. John +
H. Downing, OF upper Fauquier t
county, Va, near Fiery Run
Church, was burned early Friday s
morning. 1t contained wagons, q
fifty tons of hay, thirty barrels of c
corn and farming implements. The {
fire is supposed to be OF incendiary z
origin. Mr.. Downing lost last year q
a barn by fire. T
John Brown, son of John Brown, c
OF Harper's Ferry fame, lives quiet. +
~ at Put-iD-Bay, Ohio, where he 7
culhyates a small vineyard and +
fruit farm. He is an old man now, 7
having been one of the prominent '
persons in the stirring period in 0
which his father figured. He is
much annoyed by tourists, who in. d
sist upon hunting him up and dis a
cussing the exciting events around
Harpers Ferry just prior to the 0
war. q
The people who refuses to take =
any part in politics for the reason
that it would hurt their business,
don't seem to realize the fact that {
they wouldn't have any business If
everybody acted on that prl1 clDle. q
There would be no profit in bust
ness in a country ruled by the
viscious element of society, aud yet
this is the element which would "
rule If all good and we'll behaved
people would refuse to take part Z
in politics through fear of hurting
their business. Whatever we at
present enjoy In the way of good :,
government has been fought for and "
won by men who had the courage "
to discharge the duties of RESPONSE ="
ble citizenship without regard to
the effect upon their business ''
Our system of government would -
speedily go to ruin if somebody 80
were not willing to take the risk of a
hurting their business IN their ef- &c
forts to save it. Those who refuse ="
to bear their share of this response.
bIlity are reaping benefits which ~
they have never earned, and which "
they have no right to enjoy. They ~
are building their property on the 'n'
sacrifices of other people, while IN. pr