Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-26
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Congressman Caruth, of kentucky,
has introduced in the House bill to in
crease to 500 per month the pension oil
Mrs. Bette Taylor cambridge, the only
surviving child of General Zachary Taylor
Mrs. cambridge, who Is seventy-nine
wears of age, resides in Winchester, Va =
and is in reduced circumstances.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky has
rendered an important decision on the
interesting game of draw poker. a party
who lost nearly 81, 900 at different times
in the game of poker, at certain place
with certain parties sued for It's recoV-
cry. 1t was taken through the inferior
Courts. and finally reached the Supreme
Court. where the decision was in favor OF
the "squealer."
The end of the word is predicted by
New York astrologer. February is the
time set for the event to be more paTtic-
Mar. the end of February, though the
exact date has not been fixed. 1t is hardly
necessary to assure the readers OF the IN
der Appeal that this paper. with accus-
toned enterprise, will print full account
of the affair the morning after 1T mate
Misunderstanding Inder-APpedi
Philadelphia Press: England, by an
act passed year or two ago, requires
goods to be stamped with the country oil
oririn-a measure passed to protect BIZ
m,ppham and Sheffield from foreign i'm
itations. This Is precisely similar IN IN
tent TO the sixth section of the Mckinley
bill which is keeping some of our Free
trade friends awake o nights just now
If this is a good thing in Great Britain
why not here' fit is fair against for
eign goods in England, why not IN this
countryi
The Georgia Legislature has passed
bill fixing the permanent yearly pubic
school fund at 81 ,O72, EOS. OF this amount
$3.50 900 is to be raised by tax of l5
mills on the dollar on all taxable proper
tv of the State, Sl55, 900 from the poll
tax. s2O4. lG6 from half rental of the State
road. SIP 900 from tax on liquor dealers,
and the remainder from miscellaneous
sources. This is the largest amount ever
set apart by the Georgia Legislature LOT
public school purposes.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria Gazette says Congressman
Waddill, of Virginia. says he wants to offer
an amendment to the reaFpOrtionment DILL
provldlng that no district in any Stste
shall contain more than ten thousand
people in excess Of auy other district IN
the State. but that he fears he will not be
permitted to offer it even 10y his own par
tv. without such an amendment, be
saws the Democratic legislature OF Vir-
r,nia can, if they choose, put both the
petersburg and the Richmond districts
into one.
A company of capitalists has purchased
the old Henry A. Wise farm of 732 acres
on the Eastern Branch, two miles from
Norfolk. for 100000, and will build a
manufacturing city there. Among the
officers of the company We notice the
names of Carter Berkeley, Manager, aid
W.P. Cav, Director, both of Stanton, and
both well known throughout the Valley.
Contracts have been signed for a num-
Der of important industries, and the new
city. which has been christened "Rolles-
ton" starts with fatterinE prospects.
The Ohio State formal, in advising i'm
migration to Virginia says; There IS no
section of the country that is advancing
more rapidly in the development OF her
natural resources than Virginia. Two
hundred aud fifty years have passed since
the sections now coming so prominently
before the world were first settled. AZ
immense deposits of minerals were know
TO exist at that early period, and eac-
generation since has given them more OF
less attention. But it has been left for
the active men of today to bring these
great stores of wealth before the public
in such forclble way as to claim the at
tention of the manufacturing world.
A government census officer Is at work
in the Office of the State Auditor at Rich
mond making a lat Of the aggregate val
ne Of the real estate in Virginia owned by
the colored people. At the last session OF
the Legislature an act was passed requir-
ing the assessors of land to designate on
their lists that owned by negroes. This
is the first time the assessing officers have
ever been required to indicate the race of
tax payers. This census officer has COM
pIeted the footings of the sixteen towns
md cities in the commonwealth. In
city the total valne of real
estate owned by negroes is about $780,
BOO.