Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-06-06
CUR RENT NEWS AND COMMENT

W. L. YOst has been elected
Mayor of Wytheville.
Newport News has a population
Of about 5000 and is growing very
rapidly.
The grippe is SAID to have cost
the lives of 10000 persons in the
United States.
Hon. Geo. f. BOwden has been
selected as the member from Vlr.
giaia OF the Republican campaign
committee.
An imperial ukase will shortly
be issued in Russia, fOrbidding
Jews to engage in the publication
of Journals Of political character.
Chicago is IA pretty lively city,
but If the Chicago people do not
hurry with their Worlds Fair they
will have to postpone its Inaugural
ton until 1898 or '94.
Senator j. j. Ingalls, made a rab-
nj. sout hate speech at Gettysburg
Yesterday, in which be pretended
to speak kindly of Lee personally;
bnt really bis allusiOn to our great
commander was infamous. No
more infammatOry speech has been
maize in recent times.
When corn was down to II and 10
cents a bushel the Democrats said
IT was due to the protective tariff.
This aaS ouly few months ago.
and now The farmers are getting
about twice as much tor said pro-
,ucf. In fairness, there, this adj
,an-e should lie credited 10 pro-
ttcuOn.
The story goes around in Lsndon
that a ghost has really been seen.
: well.knoTn woman just before
appearlng IN some private thestrl'
cals saw an old friend standing
near the entrance OF her dressing
room. She greeted him, but he
only shook his head and walked
away She learned the next day
that her friend had died the day
before she thought she saw him
That wages are higher IN this
country than they are in any coun'
trv upon the globe can be shown
nv frores, but a tact which is un'
answerable is that all or nearly all
Of the immense number OF immi'
Grants who are swarming to our
shores are of the labOrlng class
while we hear ofnone OfOur working
,ecole who move to Europe, or TO
anv other country. This is a tact
which no free trader dare deny,
therefore they SIMPLY ignore it,
Onr readers Will remember that
some weeks ago we gave an account
Of 2 man. Harrison Warner, who
tboueh in his eigbty-niDth year,
started from McCOnnellsyille, Ohio,
~ wheel a wheelbarrOw to Bsltl'
more. BY looking in our news
columns will be found a dispatch
TO the Baltimore Sun, showing that
the old man has reached Cumoer-
land and that his old aunt, one
hundred and two years old, writes
him to come on and she Will nave
good dinner for him.
The Chicago Herald in speaking
Of the Lee monument unwilling
saws: Several newspapers CON-
denim the proceeding. They state
that he was a rebel and a traitor
and accordingly undeserving OF
honor. But if history repeats It,
self. as it has since the world be-
gan in. no distant future every
american will acknowledge that
pobertE. Lee was a great and good
man. What is more, they will
tale pude in him and not q few OF
them will visit the monument
erected TO his memory by the peo-
ME who knew him best. Hate IS
the usual cause of civil war, and
the war itself lntensi6es the hate.
Bat peace, accepted in good faith
sbonld be the signal for change
Of feeling. The quicker this change
. i effected, the better it will be 'Or
all parties.
The Philadelphia Press, one oil
the sblest and fairest Republican
naners in the country, IN explain
inc the inadvertence by which a
short editorial appeared in it's col
umns saying that no stars and
stripes we're used at the Richmond
pnveiung, gracefully says; !.
We begrude the great soldier OF
the Confederacy none OF the nonOrs
which a grateful section sees Ut to
bestow upon him. It's q health
tnl and reassurring sign that the
fac OF the restored Union has a