Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-19
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

The tlncaSIlo doT~t~ Se"O~S
that Jacob Hipes, of Botetourt
county, has marketed this season
2,O12 bushels of tomatoes raised
on FIVE acres Of land.
j. w. Patterson, the tallest
man known except Chang, will
settle down in Oklahoma with his
wife. He is feet 8 inches high,
and his wife is over 6 feet.
James NJ. Stubs, Republican,
who has announced himself as an
independent candidate for Con-
gress in the first Virginia district,
claims to be an alliance candidate.
Justice Bradley, OF the national
supreme court, is an expert mathe-
matlclan. He has been known to
make almanacs and calendars Just
to keep his mind in good working
order.
WornIley Hughes, the negro
preacher of thlevlng prOpensities,
who has so irritated the LOudoun
people for a long time, has been
sentenced to a term of five years 10
the State penitentiary.
There was a street duel at
Charlestown, w. Va. Saturday
night, between L. L. Kaufman
and G. q. Halter. Kaufman was
slightly wounded. The cause OF
the trouble is not known.
Mrs. William Frazier, of MiDgo
Junction, Pa, Monday afternoon
barnt her husbands eyes with hot
mortar. Frazier's drunken abuse
led up to the assault which result
ed in the loss of his sight.
On Sunday at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
$50 girls employed with BaTnum's
show as ballots in the spectacle of
Nero refused to dance unless their
wages were increased front $40 to
Sl2 per week. The demand was
granted.
The Democratic Convention of
South Carolina at Columbia last
Thursday nominated Captain 3.
R. Tlllma1 for Governor and a
full ticket. A platform demand
ing national and State reforms
was adopted.
Probably the smallest millionaire
IN the country Is Jacob Seligman,
who is hardly more than four feet
high. He came from Germany
when a boy ant went to Michigan
twenty years ago without dollar.
His fortune is now estimated at
S15,OOO,OOO.
The official majority in Arkansas
for Eagle, Democratic candidate
for Governor, is 2l,OS6 over Fizer,
union labor and Republican can
didate. The total vote in the
State was 191, 44S, of which Eagle
received 1O6,267 and Flzer S5,1S1.
Average Democratic majority in
balance of State ticket is about
29,5OO.
1t is a risky thing to receive in
to the bosom of the family a long
lost son who has no strawberry
mark to identify him. A Pennsyl-
vania farmer has been victimized
by clever sharper, who person
ated the returned prOdlgal long
enough TO eat the fatted calf and
secure s., 200 in cash. Then he lost
himself again.
The subscriptions to the fund for
the erection of a monument to the
memory of the late Henry W.
at Atlanta, Ca, are being
rapidly collected, About $4,000
was subscribed. Of this about
$4,000 has been paid in and is
now in bank. The work on the
is progressing finely
but the spot upon which it will be
placed has not been selected.
A ''hustler," sitting on the top
of one of the cages OF Wallace &
Co.'s circus, in Denver, COL, with
bis legs dangling down the side,
attracted the attention Of a lion.
The beast reached out with one
Of his claws and fixed It's nails in
the mans leg near the knee and
the flesh from the bone to
The heel, and before the poor fell
ow could be released ii was neces-
,ary to pry the beasts jaws open
With iron bars.
The wife of John Beam, Of
MitchelIvilIe, N. Y, aged So years,
rave birth to twins Monday even
ng of last week. Her daughter,
drs. Strstton, who lives 10 a
leighborIng township, presented
Ter husband with twins the same
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