Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-02-28
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENTS.

Inc IOWA legislature VIII elcCI u
United States Senator next Tues
day. There Is no question but
what Senator Allison will be his
own successor.
Two little sons of Willie Temp
kins got lost in the woods in Nc
DOwell county one day last week.
They were found three days later
dead, lying side by side, having
died from cold and hunger.
Talmage Is drawing greater
crowds than ever. He preached on
the Life and Death of Henry w.
Grady, the editor and orator, last
Sunday, and so great was the crowd
in attendance that the police were
busy for some time before the ser
vice keeping the multitude in line.
The contract for the erection IN
Bristol, Va, of three iron furnaces,
each with a hundred tons capacity,
has been awarded to a Pittsburg
firm. The cost OF the furnaces will
aggregate about 100000. Work
on them is to begin before the first
Of March.
The attempt to locate ex'Cashier
Silcott in a sewer was not an emil
nent success. The idea had 100
much of a Chicago flavor to COM
mend it to a man of SllcOtt's deli
cate tastes. Besides, as place OF
residence, tie average Warrington
sewer makes no pretenslOns OF CON-
petiug with Canada.
All honor to the sheriff of Ches'
ter county, South Carolina, who
protected the murderer OF bis
father against the fury OF a mob !!
His actis the more pralseworthy
as the very depths of his nature
must have been stirred upon con-
templating the horrible crime OF
which his ODD father was the victim.
Sheriff Hood has set the people OF
So1th Carolina an example by
which they will do we'll to profit.
Last Saturday night a house In,
Stanley county. in which lived
Juda Cunningham, colored, beyond
doubt the oldest woman IN North
Carolina, caught fire and burned
to ashes with her inside the walls.
"Aunt Juda," as she was common
ly kuOwu, claimed to be 112 years
Old, and this was believed by those
who had known her Longest. S@e
lived in q house I'm another fam
~ and occupied room up stairs
alone. She was accustomed to sit
in bed and smoke her pipe during
the night, and it Is supposed in
this manner she set fire to her bed.
An important bill is pending be-
fore the Kentucky Legislature and
bids fair to become law. The
measure is a proposed law to pun
ish circus proprietOrs for not pre-
senting what they advertise. The
penalty is made a fine ranging
from $40 TO $50 for each and every
ofense, and the case may be
brought before the proper court by
anv one who has visited the circus
and come away dissatisfied. The
vigorous enforcement OF such a law
would bankrupt even the wealth
lest circus man.
The Montana Legislature has adj
iourned sine die without transacting
any business of Importance except
the election of four United States
Senators. The treasury is empty
and the State is demOralized-all
on account of the effort Of unscru-
pulOus politicians TO add two Re
publIcans TO the majority in the
national Senate. Will either If the
two sets Of Senators from Montana
be seated9 1t was for a time be-
heved that both would be sent back
to their homes, but the opinion now
prevails that the majority of the
Senate will make partisan decis-
ion.
A London physician has a pa
tient who has defect in his speech
of a most singular character. The
patient, lad of ten, and English
man by birth, is unable to speak
his native language but articulates
a jargOn which cannot be under
stood. He was examined by may
doctors, none of whom could decide
whether he spoke the same thing
twice in the same way or not. The
assistance of the photograph wai
called in, and the lad, in the pres
ence of several gentlemen, was ask
ed to speak the Lords Prayer and
the alphabet. When compsrisOI