Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-19
NEWS AND COMMENT.

A call for a convention to form a third
party has been issued. The convention
is to meet February 90, 1891, at Cincin
natl.
The result of the anniversary sale o
lots, December 18th and 18th, by tb'
Salem Improvement Company, of Salem
Virginia, was $2Ol, 725 and the total sale
of the Company for the year, S71O,4S5.
Governor Tillmau. of South Carolina
has shown in a practical way his faith
fulness to the Farmers Alliance by cbOOs
ing for private secretary a man named
Bean.
Ex-Attorney General Ayres says the
case before the United States Supreme
Court to establish the boundry line be-
tween Virginia aud Tennessee will not
be argued until the term of Court to com
mence next October.
Virginia and North Carolina have more
tobacco factories than any States in The
Union, the number operated in North
Carolina last year being 234, and ia il
Virginia. Kentucky has 80, Missouri, S.
New York 10, and Tennessee, 60.
State Senator b. J. Smith, of Hancock
county, w. Va, died on the 5th inst.
Senator Smith is the Republican member
who was carried 800 miles on sick bed
to vote for Golf during the gubernaiorial
contest in the Legislature.
The State treasurer of Virginia has re-
ceived $4,000 from the federal govern
ment for Blacksburg College and Hamp-
ton Normal School This is under an act
of Congress appropriating this amount
annually for the benefit of this class of
institutions.
"The tariff is a tax" says the Demo
cratic demagogue but all the same his
tory plainly demonstrates the tact, that
this land has prospered most when most
protected by tariff laws and has suffered
most when tariff rates have been lowest.
Pin this on your coat.-LOadOn Ttle-
phone.
Wanted-An able bodied man of sound
Judgment to assist me to decide whether
I shall stand for the SenatOrship in 1881
or wait for the Presidency in 1892. All
communications treated as confidential
and correspondence cordially INVITED.
One Grover Cleveland need not apply
Address D. B. Hill, Executive Chamber,
Albany, n. w. y. Tribune.
The Postmaster General in his annual
report, in abiding to the fact that the
miles travelled in the mail service in 1890
increased over 100000. states that J.
5ss,5O6 miles of this increase must be
credited to Virginia. which IS more than
three times the increase of any other
State. He adds that this large increase
in Virginia was occasioned by the addi-
ton of 12S miles of railroad lines in the
State.
The editors are considerably excited
lust now over a bill introduced into the
Georgia Legislature by State Senator
Todd, known as the Todd Quart bill"
1t provides for the sale of the beverage in
that State by the quart only. AS the
Georgia editors never have enough ahead
to buy the ooh be-joyfup by the whole
sale, OF course they are furious. 1t Is a
direct blow at the liberties of tho press.
An old hen in one of the suburbs of
Chicago has been trying with all the
earnestneSs of her nature for several
weeks to hatch something from ball OF
Irvine, a piece of cOrncob and a piece OF
dry putty. Her owner has given up try
ing 10 dissuade her from the job, and is
now awaiting the result of the incubation
with as much anxiety as the old hen her
self.
The building of a Henry W. Grady
hospital is an assured fact, and the corner
stone will be laid at Atlanta, Ca, on
Christmas day, tina first anniversary of
the death of Mr. Grady. 1t will cost 500
600, and it will consist of a group of eight
buildings, with accommodations for white
and colored people. and all the modern
improvements. The work will be pushed,
so that the hospital can soon enter upon
Its career of usefulness.
Eighty-fve miles of the 10 miles neGes-
sary to make a connection on the main
line at Radford, Va, and Irontou, Ohio,
of the Norfolk and Western have been
completed and work is in progress on the
remaining IS miles. The principal tun-
mel on the line, 9, 900 feet in length, was
made by mining through coal. Owing
TO the immense development of coal and
other minerals the line is being double
tracked.
The country press regards the Baltimore
Sun as its most valued exchange. 1t IS
independent and fearless in all things, and
is edited and managed with an ability
second to no paper in the land. Careful
and palnstaking its news always the best
aud latest, and above all reliable. Cbaste
and pure in every line and utterly devoid
of the sensational stuff that sullies the
pages of so many OF the big dailes, it is a
welcome visitor to the family circle, It's
circulation is far beyond that of any other
paper through this section, and constant
increase proves the high estimation in
which it is held by all and how necessary
;t has become to the people of Virginia.
The very latest weather prophet states
that last fall the trail of the grOund-mole
plainly marked the earth with a series of
'W.'s". This indicated a warm winter,
now the upbeavings OF the restless trace
etter &C" and from this we are to be
that this will be a cold winter.
number Of writers who profess to have
he gift of forecasting the weather, have