Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-12-05
NEWS AND COMMENT.

near Bunker Hill, five miles west OF
OswegO, N. Y.
The large foundry of the American
Bridge COmpany'S works, at Roanoke
was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning
The Alabama Legislature last Friday
reelected Hon. james L. Pngh to the
United States Senate.
Norfolk has organized strong society
for the prevention of cruelty to animals,
the first regular organization of the kind
in the State.
The Manufacturers Record, good au-
thoriiy, states that Virginia now leads
her Southern sisters in industrial enter
prizes.
A Covington correspondent has arrived
at a conclusion that old Job was news
paper man, as he said "All the days of my
appointed time will wait for my
change"
The Baltimore american says the South
is we'll provided with money this year.
and she has already received more than
slOO .OOO, 900 for her cotton and one-third
of the crop still remains to be sold.
The Lexington Gazette says there is a
movement on foot to build a belt line
from Glasgow to the Natural Bridge
from the Bridge tn Lexington, from Lex
ington to Bnena Vista, and from thence
to Glasgow.
Governor-elect Tlllman, of South Caro-
lima, says in card that Senator Hamp-
ton will be defeated for reelection to the
Senate on account of his own scts-that
is. his commendation of the Haskell
movement, and his interference with the
"family fight" during the campaign.
Henry X. Ellyson, halloween of the
Richmond Dispatch, twice Mayor OF the
city, and a member of the Legislature,
died suddenly at his home on the 26th
ult., of heart disease. He was an active
Baptist and most liberal contributor to
that church.
Mrs. Theobald NJ. Donaldson of Sandy
Hook, Md, has, perhaps, the smallest
baby in the country. At its birth it
weighed scarcely a pound, and now, at
the age of four months, its weight is only
four pounds. An ordinary cigar box is
sufficiently large for the baby to take
nap in. 1t is perfectly formed in every
particular.
Secretary Tracy has issued an order in
creasiDg the number of stars on the
national ensign and Union jack to %.
Five new stars are added, one each for
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
Washington and Idaho. The stars are
arranged in six rows, the top row con-
tanning stars and the other 8 rows con-
taining Z stars each.
Mrs. Emma Stuart vas an invalid for
many years during which time she had
thirty-eigh different doctors, all of whom
had different treatments for her disease.
Strange to say, Mrs, Stuart lived through
1t all, and has written book on "How
to Get Well and Keep Well" Doctors
and pills are "nOt in it," Her recipe is,
in brief, to cat rare beef and drink hot
water.
Three corps Of engineers are now en-
gagged in surveying the liue through Web
ster, Pocabontas, GreeDbrier and Monroe
counties, w. Va, fol the Elkins and
Davis line of railroad which will tap the
Chesapeake & Ohio at Goshen. This is
the Southern outlet of the Davis and
ElkiDs system of West Virginia railroads,
the Northern outlet being at Pittsburg,
Pa, six hundred miles of. The object is
10 get a road from the iron ore regions of
Virginia to Pittsburg.
A trying case of conscience is that of
Mrs. Grace Woodward of New York, wife
of Edward Woodward q Broadway mer-
chant, in that city. She is suing in
Chicago for a divorce. II seems that
her husband is her first cousin, and that
she married him in Quincy, H., in 1857
not knowing that the Illinois law did not
permit marriages in this relationship. 1t
was not until this Spring that she heard
of the law, when she Immediately COM
menced the SUIT, though devoted to her
husband.
Physicians say that ala grippe" will
probably return this winter with renewed
vIrulence. Pneumonia and kindred dis
eases have been more prevalent than
usual for several months. While there is
no especial cause for alarm among per-
sons who take good care of their health,
there is sufficient danger to make 1t I'd
visable for every one to use all pOss ole
precautions at this time of the y2s.
against taking severe colds.
Mr.. Roger Q. Mills is reported to have
said: 81 have no hesitation in saying |
that belie.e the next congress will elect
me as speaker of the House" It's quite
possible that the Democratic majority in
the next House of Representatives may
do some more or less foolish things, but
il will hardly perpetrate the monumental
folly OF committing hari-kari by meeting
Mr.. Mills expectations. -IHder-APpeal
Dem.
The Richmond correspondent Of the
Petersburg Indcr-4ppeaI, under date OF
Nov. 25th, says:
HAll of the state officials, with possibly
one or two exceptions, are opposed TO the
Of Mr.. Cleveland for the
presidency. Nearly all the clerks at the
capitol arc also anti-Clevelandites. One
Of the big officials objects to the ex-presi-
dent on account OF his views on silver
coinage, while two officers who hold very
high places oppose him vigorously be-
cause he once invited Fred Douglass and