Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-07-18
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

Dl9Ueu anu III q 10" 9COSiO"S
ing has begun. Reports from sew
eraI counties indicate that the yield
Will be fully % per cent. better
than was predicted q month ago.
One hundred and fifty men, wo-
men and children at church PIC
mic at Scion, o few miles north OF
Iowa City, were Frustrated Satur'
day with serious symptoms OF
poisoning. The use of the water
from a we'll long abandoned is CIV
en- as the cause OF the sickness.
A citizen of Charleston, W. Va,
has long been troubled with a
smoky chimney, and the other day
he got a mason to investigate. In
the fue was found a tin box con-
tanning $4,000 in cash, which some
one had hid away during the war
and never returned to get it.
Virginia is undoubtedly advsnc-
ing. The State has a female bar
Der. A Falls Church letter in the
Fairfar Herald says: The sensa-
ton over the advent of a female
barber in town has not yet subsld'
ed. She is doing q thriving bust
ness, and is said to be quite an
adept In the art.
Mr.. POwderly, Chief of tn e
Knights of Labor, we'll says: ga
new Declaration of Independence
is needed, and the men who
should make it are the labor
ing men. They should
study honest politics until they
can vote for their homes, their fami-
lies, their country and their God,
regardless of rule and party.
The State convention OF the
Farmers Alliance Will be held in
Lyncbburg next month, and as this
order has grown to such great pro-
portions IN Virginia the proceed
ings of the meeting will be watched
with great interest. Delegates are
now being chosen by the sub chart
ers throughout the State, and many
well Unknown gentlemen will be in
attendance.
The dispatch concerning the as
sembling OF strong British fleet
in the waters of Behring sea, has
given rise to uncomfortable rumOrs
at Washington, which are, how
ever, completely set at rest by the
emphatic denial of Sir j ulian
Pauncefote, who says that while
British war vessels are there to
protect the flag and British inter
ests, there has been no interruption
of good feeling between the two
governments.
The farmers of the entire Union
seem to be more united than ever be-
fore, and we believe that if they will
refuse to lend their aid as body to
either political party they can make
their power felt and accomplish
much good. They should support
such measures and such candidates
as they know will be best for them
and for the country. But if they
ally themselves with either of the
old parties, or attempt to torn a
new political party, they will surely
fail.
While the walls of righteous
wrath are poured out over the fool.
ish American girl who elopes with
her fathers cOachman or sells her.
self to a roue for a title, little is
said aud less done to correct the
impression of the young man who
frequently drinks and always car
ries a revolver, that for a sensible
girl to refuse to sacrifice her peace
and happiness by becoming his
wife is a crime deserving instant
execution. A taste of the whip
ping. post for every such selfap-
pointed judge, jury and executiOner
of women might save many sensi-
BILE girls for worthy mates.
Gen. John @. Fremont, who died
IN New York Sunday, bad an event
fol career. The son OF French
immigrant, he was born in Savan'
nah, Ga, IN 1913, and received Q
collegiate education. Appointed
to a heutenancy in the United
States corps of engineers, he pene
trated the Rocky Mountains at two
points, and Won the title of "tht
pathfinder" He also defined much
OF the geography between the
Rocky Mountains and the Pacific
Coast, and bore a conspicuous par
IN the conquest of Upper California
He represented California in the
United States Senate from 1S49 tC
1851. The first candidate of The
Republican party, he was defeated