Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-12-18
NEWS AND COMMENT.

admirers to elect him to the United States
Senate.
Chairman v ilsou, of the Republican
State committee of the State of Washing
ton, has secured two immense live eagles
which he will send 10 the National Re
publican Convention at Minneapolis with
the Washington delegation. He has named
the eagles Jim" Blaine and "Bill" NC
Kinley.
The Richmond Dispatch Of the 29tS
says: Yesterday Mr.. Garrett Gooch, OF
the firm of Gooch L Waugh, contracted
with the State for the labor of two hun
dred convicts. These convicts will be
used in building the boulevard from the
Hot to the Warm Springs. distance OF
five miles.
The Identification of Henry L. Norcross,
the young Boston broker, as the man who
caused the explosion in Russell Sage's
Office in New YORK on Friday, December
4, was completed Monday by an examina-
ton of the teeth. The filings were found
to correspond with those described by the
young brokers' dentist.
The Virginia Court of Appeals has re-
versed the Rockingham Circuit Court in
the verdict for damages against the Nor
folk g. Western Railroad for the death OF
Thos. II. Sites, a deaf-mute. The Cour;
of Appeals held that road must keep a
a reasonable look out, but it has a right
to assume that persons walking on Its
tracks have sight and hearing, and will
exercise both for their safety.
The report Of Postmaster General Wan
amaker recommends the establishment
of telephone postal service, the abolition
of box rents at free delivery offices In
small places, urges the erection of smaller
and more useful public buildings, favors
postal saving banks, and says one-cent
postage is not far off, but should not be
undertaken until the service is self-sup-
porting at the present rate, which VIII
probably be accomplished next year.
The Baltimore Sun, both the Daily and
Weekly editions, have been for many years
the favorite city papers through this Sec
ton. This is not at all surprising. The
Daily brings the news of the whole world
in condensed and Delightfully."- readable
form in few hours after it leaves the
press, while the Weekly comes with every
word that is worth reading of the events
of the past seven days. Its Washington
Bureau is equipped with some of the ablest
and best posted writers in the country,
while its wide spread corps OF correspon-
deuts cannot be surpassed in any respect.
Backed by ample means, with areputstion
second to no other paper, no expense Is
spared 20 keep it in the front ranks of
live journalism. Especially south Of
Mason and Dlxon's Line Is the Baltimore
Sun best known and 1t is there that it has
long been the great favorite with so many
people. Slngularly reliable and always
clean, for its columns are kept scrupulous-
" free from the sensational and often
downright indecent stuff that character
ICES the big newspapers of the day, it is
eminently the iou rnal of the homo circle.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Alexandria Gazette, under date of the 18th,
says:
"virginians here say that ex-Congress-
man John T. Harris, of their State. is
making a still but vigilant hunt for the
place of interstate commerce commits
sioner, and that he has some influential
backing"
"As Congressman O'Ferrall was Crisp
man in the late Speakership contest, the
impression is general that the chairman
shin of the elections committee OF the
House will be gwen to him. If that be
80, he will have the appointment of
clerk to that committee, with salary
of g., 900 a year, for sitting in the COM
mittee room for six months in the first
year and for three in the second. Of
lTs
to one of bis constituents. The committee
will have little or nothing to do, as there
are only seven contested cases for 1t to
consider, three of which are from Penn
sYlvanIa."
4 story comes from Kansas, where the
Farmers Alliance and its platform OF
principles are the chief topics Of CONVEX
sation. A man of rather questionable
character died in a remote part of Water
loo township. The nearest preacher was
summoned to preach funeral SERMON
Not knowing the man, the preacher con-
tented himself with a few general re-
marks on the solemn nature of the &C.
casion, and then said he would be glad to
have any of the company present say
word about the dead man, if they desired.
No one moved or spoke, and again the
preacher extended the invitation TO the
company to offer remarks, but again his
invitation met with 81 lence. Finally, an
old farmer, who sat in the corner of the
front room, rose aud said ''If no one has
any remarks to make about the deceased,
would like to make few remarks about
the Alliances subtreasury plan"
According to a cablegram from LEIPZIG
Prince Henry of Reuss-Greitz in opening
the Diet of that principality attributed
the commercial stag nation which pre-
vailed 10 that country to the Mckinley
tariff. As tending in some measure to
help lido over the distress he requested
all subjects to abstain from festivlty on
the occasion of his approaching Jubilee.
And vet the Germans of the United states
will be appea led to by the Republicans to
sustain that measure In the coming cleo
tions.-- WarrentOH True Under.
This extract, if 1t proves anything
shows simply that as result Of the Nc
Kinley tariff the people of the United
States are to q greater extent than
heretofore producing the articles which
they have been buying abroad; that
much of the money heretofore sent to
Germany aud other countries is now
spent at home or not spent at all. What