Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-03-21
FRIDY MARCH, FL, 1890.
C URRENT NEWS AND COMMENT.


The Government is having a
hard TIM nolding Its Mississippi
levees during Lent.
1t will be better for all interested
if the prosperous young iron cities
in Virginia do not over boom them
selves.
Now that the ice question seems
to be settled let us worry awhile
over the prospects of the coming
picnic season.
President Harrison very prompt
" served notice that the Cherokee
Strip is rot sat home" to callers at
the present time.
1t is said the recent cold wealth
er in Illinois has damaged the
wheat very materially. Samples
from seven counties exhibited at
the meeting of the State board of
Agriculture, at Springfield, show,
ed that the germ had been killed.
The fact that a Washington girl
has brought suit against a Chicago
man for breach Of promise gives
prominence to the belief that the
memory OF Christopher Columbus
has a pretty strong cause of action
against the town of Chicago on the
same ground.
At Bonneville, Ind, case has
lust been tried in which one woman,
Mrs. Edna Baker, sued another
woman for $4,000 damages for
alternating the affections OF the
plaintiffs husband by means of a
cake filled with love powders. But
the verdict of the jury was for the
defendant.
In suit on a prOmissOry note
against a Chinaman in New York
city, on Tuesday, one Chinese wit
ness took the oath on this sentence
from COntucius: "If l tell any.
thing that is not so, heaven will
hate me-" Another swore on the
lightning and the extingulshlng Of a
match, which he believed signifed
hat if he testified falsely his SOU
would be extingushed.
E!mar Sharkey, the Ohio youth
who murdered his mother, that be
might secure her real estate and
marry a sweet heart who was OBJ
iectionable to the parent, has again
been found guilty Of murder IN the
first degree, be having obtained q
new trial and a change of venue
Sharkey tried the insanity dodge
bat fortunately for justice, the jury
was composed of men with sound
mental faculties.
Nxay tack ID the dim and misty
past somebody poisoned Mr.. Drew,
cattle, "down7 ia BerrieD county
Mich. He thought it was hi,
neighbOr, Mr.. Sheppard, aud Mr.
Sheppard was arrested. The cas-
has been dragging along for years
has cost the county about $4,000
and may not be settled yet, as th
Jury disagreed last week, notwith
standing the overwhelming eyi
dence Of the accused's innocence.
"Ihere is 10 doubt at al tina
the Jersey mosquito. has bee
active all winter ard that the peac
crop of the Delaware Peninsula
in a bad way. The mosquito is to
tough, the peach tree too tende
and the winter too queer for any
thing" Every year we hear til
sad lament in the biushing spring
tue Delaware peach crop Is n
more, and then in the tadir
autumn there comes rolling owe
the land avalanches of the golde
and rudy checked fruit. ooh, y
Of little faith"
An eminent geologiss many year
ago took a map OF the Unite
States and pointing % SOafhwes
Virginia, said This is sure to be
come the wealthiest part of tn
country, for here it Is that the 6es
minerals are found. Iron can b
produced with greater economy j.
Virginia than IN any O.her sectiO
Of the United states. It look
now as if the prediction was bein
fulfilled very speedily. 1t Is ger
orally Cancelled that the minera
fields of Virginia are vastly 81
periOr to the mineral fields of Ala
bama or anl other State.
SayaDnah, Ga, has beaten he
greatest record in cotton receipt
already. Previous to this seasO
the greatest amount of cotton eve