Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-10
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT


A number Of United States Senators
are agitating the question OF increasing
a Senator's pay to 100000 year.
John NJ. Langston's colored friends OF
the 4th district, on Wednesday, nOminat-
ed him for Congress.
Chewing gum, says prominent ply
stefan, sometimes causes weak minds.
That is a mistake. 1t merely indicates
Netcs.
Since Congress passed the anti-lOttery
bill Gen. Jubal Early doesn't mind a
little thing like brick house falling on
him. Washington Post.
Mrs. jefferson Davis has received e.
2l9, her half royalty on the two-months'
sale of the memorial volume of her hus-
band, prepared by friends for her bene-
6t.
A statement comes from Montgomery,
Ala, that the Farmers Alliance Ex-
change manager has the money to adj
vance sS5 per bale on 100000 bales OF
cotton.
A bill has passed the Senate appro-
priating one thousand dollars to pay the
II. Z. Church, of Martinsburg, for the
use Of their property during the war.
Judge Tyner, of the Postofice De-
partment, decides that advertisements OF
raffles come under the provision OF the
anti-lottery law.
The Roanoke Land Company has
sold to an investment company the
tract Of bottom land just north OF Roam
oke river and east Of Franklin road
bridge, embracing fifteen acres for sl2O,-
900.
The grand jury before whom the in
dictment against Cadet McCOnnico was
tried at Lexington, upon the charge Of
killing Cadet Taliaferro, failed to find a
true bill. McConnico has gone back to
his Texan home.
Bette Thomas Lewis, cOlored, OF
Va, daughter Of William A.
deceased, who is making a le-
gal fight oyer the estate Of her father,
which is valued at over 100000, has
mad an offer of $4,000 to surrender her
claims to the property, and has refused.
standardization Frank G. RufiA, Sat
lrday informed a Richmond Dispatch re-
porter that Of the s27,OOO,O 10000 Of Vir-
yinia bonds outstanding eel, 100000 had
already been FOOLED under the provision
If the Olcott- Committee plan, and that
% 100000 more would probably come
n before the end Of the present month.
A man known as T. G. Henderson
lied at the house Of a Mrs. Pannell,
lear Birmingham, Ala. Before he died
le confessed to her that he was Charles
William Quantrell, the famous Missouri
'utlaw who was supposed to have been
Tiled in a fight with Federal soldiers in
near the close Of the war.
VIM. II. Spencer, of New York,
raveling salesman, dropped dead at the
table in Chicago Saturday
morning. A card in his pocket read as
ollows: "Should I be taken i'll, please
end word to Miss Julia Spencer, care
t VIM. Ellis, Shawsville, Virginia.
Yish to be cremated when dead not
uried. Be sure 1 am dead first"
While Gen. Jubal A. Early was in the
ecOnd story Of the ruins Of burned
uilding in Lynchburg, in which he had
ad his room, last week, the walls fellin,
urging him and his body servant under /
lem. An immense crowd gathered
hen the news was heard. The SER
ant got out, but the old general who
as buried had to be dug out. Some g
mbers in an inclined position had saved '
m.
The Richmond correspondent Of the c.
etersburg Inder-Appeal under date Of \
ct. 1st, says: II asked the Governor Il
day if he had any information regard t.
g the plans of the Olcott committee. .
e replied that he knew nothing what "
er about the matter except what has pl
.en published. 1t Is learned here to- N
" that the committee has succeeded in
,oling $24, 900, 900 of the States securi-
So
It is very amusing to listen to the ST
ailings of the English press over the III
re effect upon American industries ~
lich will result from the new tariff in
Il and then see English and German en-
making peparatiOns to p,
lnsfer their establishments to the DIT
lited States. Bring along lots of that L.
TT OF ruin l-Inder-AppeaI. 49, ~,
The Norfolk Ledger says: The de- tb
orable death Of young Taliaferro at
: Virginia Military Institute a few
Us ago emphasizes the necessity for
porous action on the part Of the man Oh
ers Of that institution, reinforced il tn
cessary by the State authorities, to SCI
event the continuance Of a brutal az az
lctice which may, as in the case men, so
ned, result in the death Of the partici" m'
nts. ~ ~
Hon. Frank Hurd has been interview oil
at Chicago and declares his implicit
ief that Grover Cleveland will be the
ninee Of the Democratic party for the
in 1892. He says that Cleve- la'
d is the embodiment Of the Demo inns
tic doctrines and that no power can sta
vent his nomination. He proposes an ~.
axe off his coat and work for Cleve- he,
d first. last and all the time in 1892.