Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-09
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Mrs.. Leland STAFFORD has donated
property valued at 500. 600 to the Society
for the Relief of Orphans and Destitute
Children in Albany, N Y.
st. Louis Globe Democrat (Rep.) The
best plank in the New York Republican
platform is the quotation from President
Harrison's Albany speech In favor of the
one hundred cent dollar.
The Alabama State Board of Medical
Examiners has just admitted Hale Tanner
Dillon, young colored woman, to the
practice of me dicine, after successfully
standing rigid examination, in which
her rating was 70 per cent. She is ma
tive Of Pittsburg, Pa.
A new counterfit fifty cent piece has
made its appearance. 1t is one of the
series of 1877 and hes the clear ring Of the
genuine article. 1t is a trihe thicker
than the genuine coin. The figure on
one side is rather obscure and there is
slight depression in the shield. A large
amount of the spurious coin is said to be
in circulation.
The most death dealing sentence in the
legal annals of South Carolina, except in
cases of nsurrection, was passed at Lau-
rens Friday. ten negro men being sen
fenced to be hanged on October % next
for the murder OF another negro. The
charge was conspiracy and murder. Ike
Kinard, colored was convicted of the
murder of Lemuel G. Oxner, white man,
and was sentenced to be hanged on Octo-
Der 16.
Mr.. William Bear, of Bolivar, Freder-
lex county, Nd, seyenty-seyen years old,
has a son ffty-four years iOld and
daughter but one week old. He has
second wife and is the father Of sixteen
children, eleven of whom are Lying. He
is republican, and one of the children
Is named James Grant, another Ruther-
ford B. Hayes and another Dolly Gar
field. He expected to name the new
conner Benjamin Harrison, but 1t will
have to bear Mrs. Harrison's name.
Murat Halstead closes an editorial letter
IN the Cincinnati Commercial Gdsette..with
these pregnant words: If the, Presidential
Office at last seeks Mr.. Blaine, we presume
1t can find him, and that he will be NOM
mated by reclamation and elected by the
grsndest political demonstration and the
most splendid expression of generous
confidence and substantially unmeasured
good will that the country has evei
known"
There is in Virginia a law which pro-
yides that all fines imposed by the State
courts shall be donated to the Literary
fund. The Board of Education, COM
posed of the Governor, Attorney General
and Superintendent of Public Instruction,
each year invests this money in Virginia
new per cent. bonds, and the interest is
used for the benefit of the State free
schools.
The sum this year amounted to S24,-
466.63, and has been turned oyer by
Auditor Marye to the board.
The conference between the rep
resentatives of the Canadian government
and Secretary Blaine, which was arranged
to take place in Washington Oct. IL, has
been postponed by mutual agreement. ln
an informal way an intimation was given
to the Canadian government through
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British min
lister, that it was improbable that Sec
rotary Blaine could participate in the
conference ON that date. 1t was presumed
that the Canadian representatives desired
to confer directly with the Secretary OF
State, and In that view of the case post
ponement of the meeting would be de-
sirsble. The Canadian government has
assented to the proposition, and the
conference has been postponed to date
!, to be fixed by Sir Julian Pauncefote and
Secretary Blaine when the latter returns
to Washington.
There are some people in this world
that will learn in no other school than
the fools, which is that of experience.
Line upon line, and precept upon precept
avail them nothing. In this day of free
schools and cheap papers it would seem
even fool would know better than to be
imposed on by. such thread-bare swindles
as green goods, gold bricks and the like.
Bot tho papers every day contain the
record of some dupe TO these devices.
The latest is one Mr.. Appleman, of Penn
sylvania, who bought what purported to
be two gold bricks worth $1,000, for
which he gave $500, and TOOK them to
the Philadelphia mint where he found
them to be worth just 50. Appleman, of
course, was not subscriber to a news
paper, or be would today be $3.50 better
off, to say nothing of the disgust he must
feel with himself at being such fool
Indez-Appeal.