Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-26
CURRENT NEWS AND COMMENT

Alabama, on October l.
Irish leaders In jail get more ap
plause from the civilized world than
BaIfour with all his freedom
Baltimore american.
The Republicans of the ninth
district have nominated George I.
Mills, of Pulaski, late of Pennsyl-
vania, for Congress.
The Fairfax Herald, a democrat
ic paper, oppoS es the re election of
Congressman w. H. F. Lee, and
indOrses the candidacy of Mr..
Frank Hume, independent.
The English syndicate which has
bought the Laird property adjOln-
ing Buena Vista, Va, will, it is
said, expend 81, 25O, OOOin building
manufacturing enterprises.
After taking 800 ballots with
out making a selection, the Demo
cratic convention of the Seventh
Congressional district of Tennessee
has adjourned until October l.
The anti Bowden element carried
Norfolk county Wednesday in the
precinct election of delegates to
the county convention, but the
BOwden men carried the two cities.
The Lynchburg Adrance says
the conversions resulting from Rev.
Sam Jones' meetings in that city,
which closed Monday, may be safe
y put at from 1900 to 1000 persons,
John NJ. Langston, the negro
contestant, was awarded the seat
n Congress of Mr.. Venable, of the
lth Virginia district, who had been
gwen the certificate of election by
the State Board.
A special to the Press from AL.
bsny says: G. F. r. Coe, private
secretary to the Lieutenant.
Governor, is authority for the re.
port that Gov. Hill is out of poll
tics.
Major Jed. HOtcbklss, of Staun-
ton, has accepted the invitation to
deliver an address before the Vlr-
ginia Press Association, which
convenes in Richmond in October.
His subject will be "Virglnia's
Industrial Flu ture."
1t said that notwithstanding
what Governor Mckinney had said
on the subject, members of both
houses of the Legislature Will
sign a call for an extra session for
the purpose OF redistricting the
State.
The Rt. Rev. J. J. KeaDe, late
Bishop OF Richmond, Va, has
transferred by deed to the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Van de Vyver, Richmond,
Va, 100000 OF church property,
all within the limits of the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Virginia and
West Virginia.
The Washington correspondent
Of the Alexandria Gazette, under
date of the 22d, says: "The Chap
LAIN OF the House, in his prayer
this morning, looking at the Dem.
ocratic side of the chamber, pray.
ed for the welfare of the absent
members. There were certainly a
good many of them, as Mr.. OFFER.
rail- of Virginia, was tho only one
present"
For some days the Democratic
papers we're cheering over what
they called a great Democratic
victory in Wyoming. They claimed
the State Offices, and the Legisla-
ture, which will elect two United
States Senators. But they were
counting without there host. The
returns show that the Republicans
have carried the State by 1000
majority; have two thirds of the
Legislature, and will consequently
control the State and elect two
Republican Senators.
Ga motion of Representative
O'Ferrall, the house last week con.
Cured in senate amendments to
the house bill to provide for hold
ing United States courts In the
western district OF Virginia. The
bill as passed provides for the
regular terms OF the United States
circuit and district courts as fol-
lows: At Danville, on the Tuesday |
after the second Monday in April
and November; at Lynchburg,
on the Tuesday after the second
Monday in March and September;
at Abingdon, on the Tuesday after
the first Monday In May and
October, and at Hsrrisonburg on
the Tuesday after the first Monday
in June and December.
The cost OF pu ting the Austria
Ian Ballot Law IN force is always
alleged by its opponents against
its adoption. 1t is too shallow, OF