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

Lionel Burnett, the original of the
character, Little Lord Fauntleroy," in
Mrs. Burnetts novel of that name, died
IN Paris Sunday of consumption.
Among those in attendance at the Farm
ers' Alliance Convention in Florida were
Messsrs. Robert Beverly, Mann, Page,
George Chrisman and G. T. Barbce of
this State.
The correspondence between Secretary
Blame and Minister Miner over the Bar
Iundia affair shows that Miner was Sc
verely reprimanded for exceeding his
powers and was then recalled.
1t is rumOred that General Malone
and associate capitalists will soon have
control of the Atlantic and Danyille
Railroad. The General and his friends
are largely interested in the coal and MIN
eral lands of the Southwest.
The will If Daniel b. Fayerweather,
the millionaire leather dealer, filed in
New York Monday, gives 100000 to the
University of Va, 100000 to other
colleges, and $4,000 to hospitals in New
York.
The Court of Appeals of the State of
New York has sustained the judgment
for s45, 600 won by Miss Clara Campbell
against the millionaire coffee merchant,
Charles Arbucble, IN the famous "Baby
Bunting" breach OF promise suit.
P. T. Barnum, before eating dinner
on Thanksgiving Day, decided to the
Universalst Church of the Redeemer of
Bridgeport, Conn, of which he is mem
Der, house and lot worth $4,000. He
affixed his name and passed the dOcu.
ment over to the trustees as q gift.
Grover Cleveland is opposed to the re-
peal of the Internal Revenue laws, and
has declared himself against silver coin
age, and yet the Democratic party which
processes to favor these things, talk about
nominating him to represent their views.
-HarisOabmg Spirit.
The Manufacturers Record, of Bal
tlmore-the ranking industrial paper of
the United States-ioes a grand work
for Virginia in influencing outside capital
to come this way. Its able and witty
industrial writer, Mr. Thomas P. Grasty,
is always in the field writing up the
bOOms.
With the debt question settled, Virgin
ia, we predict, will make extraordinary
progress, and attract capital and enter
prise both at home and abroad. The re-
sources of the State are almost unbound
ed and they only Feed development to
make Virginia one of the richest and
most prosperous States IN the Union
EI.
Three patients in New Hagen, Conn,
who have been treated under DR.. KOch's
newly discovered cure for consumption,
are attracting the attention of medical
and scientific men. The patients are
progressing finely and give good grounds,
so the doctors say, to believe that the
lymph will accomplish all that is claimed
for it.
1t is fact worth considering that the
railway companies received more for car
rying the Georgia melon crop to market
than the growers received for the product.
The growers received an average of
$50 per car load, or a total Of $50, 900,
while the railways charged an average of
$40 per car for transportation, or a total
OF 1886, OCO.
Dr. Mary E. Walker, who was reported
dying at her home at Bunker Hill, six
miles west of Oswego, n. Y, is much i'm
proved, and she will soon commence work
preparing papers to be presented at the
second session of the Fifty-frst Congress
relative to her pension claim, She is de
termined, she says, to live until she OBJ
tains justice at the hands of the Govern
ment.
Some of the county clerks have made
handsome fortunes this year in fees for
recording deeds. For instance, it is said
that the fees in ROckbridge amount to
$4,000. Buena Vista and Glasgow are
both in that county. The clerks of Ale
ghany, Roanoke, Wise, Scott, Washing
ton, Tazewell, Augu sta, Rockingham,
and other counties have also come out
financially better off by reason o. the
land boom.
A company has been organized for the
manufacture of soap from corn. 1t will
be controlled by Council Bluffs capital.
From experiments made during the last
week it has been ascertaIned that the
new soap can be put on the market for
less than l cent a pound. 1t is made
wholly of corn and alkali, and one bushel
of corn makes 400 pounds of frst-class
washing soap. 1t Is claimed by the gen
tlemen embarki1g in the business that
the finest toilet soaps can be made.
The lot sale at Glasgow last week foot
ed up $l57 900. The Duke and Duchess |
of Marlborough was present, and Gen.
Fitz Lee bid in 81, 900 lot for the Ouch
ess By her direction. The Duke had bis
kOdac making photographs of the sur
rounding scenery, but the enterprising
fellows with kodacs on the ground pho
graphed him nearly as often as he photo
graphed the scenery. The Duke cabled
to London to purchase $4,000 of the
Glasgow stock there, and the Duchess
says she intends to build a summer home
10 Glasgow.
In the confusion that followed the
SOhnstOwn flood, James stockton, who
had only been married few days, could
not hear of his wife, and thought she
was drowned. He moved to California.
His wife made the same mistake with re-