Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-17
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Democratic clubs are to be established
in every election precinct in the United
States.
Gen. SpinOla. member of Congress
from New YOrk, died in Washington on
the 18th.
Gov. Mckinney and Gov. jackson, Of
Maryland, will go over the oyster fields
OF the two States together some time in
May.
The colored man Crany convicted in
the Rockbridge county court of murder
ing another man named Oliver, will be
hung on Friday, April oath.
Fifty million year saved to the peo'
pie by the free sugar provision of the
Mckinley bill, illustrates the kind Of free
trade the Republicans favor.
Wheat is SO per cent. higher than
year ago, corn IS per cent. ard oats 100
per cent. while sugar is 2 cents lower in
the pound.
Mr.. Blaine's last letter to the Italian
representative was like Davy CrocKet's
gun POINTED at the coon. Italy "came
down" and said don't shoot"
The Governor has refused to remove
the POLITICAL disabilities of Benjamin Lee
Rosser, convicted in Petersburg of petit
larceny, and of Joseph Davis, Jock Tyler,
and Chas. Garter, convicted in Page cOun
ty of burglary.
1t is the law IN West Virginia now that
anyone convicted of skipping his hotel
bill is adiudged guilty of misdemeanor
and shall be punished by Imprisonment
in the county Jail for term of not more
than SIX months.
A locomotive has been invented by az
employee in the Erie shops at Jersey
City, which, it is claimed, will attain
speed of more than eighty miles an hour
The wheels make three revolutions to one
exhaust.
A gold mine has just been discovered
within ten miles of Greensboro, n. C..
whish is yielding the finest specimens OF
quartz gold. The shaft has only been
sunk eighteen feet. and vein several
feet thick been struck.
The grippe is prevailing all over the
country with fatal effect. 1t has been
more destructive OF life than ever was
cholera Oh yellow fever IN this country
and 1t is restricted to no locality or Gil
mate. 1t claims all classes and commu-
mites for its prey.
The Jones county calf case, IN Iowa
which mas cost the litigants fortune
and was thought to have been finally set
tied in favor of the plaintiff last fall, is
to come up again IN the supreme Court
of the State The defendants have petit
toned for a rehearing.
OF the half million dollars Virginia
will receive from the refunding OF the di-
rect land tax, it is estimated that at
least one-half of that amount will remain
in the States Treasury for the lack of
the requisite evidence upon which to
draw it theretrOm.
The unwilling OF the heroic bronze
statue at the tomb OF Gen. T. J. Jackson,
at Lexington, will take place on the 2lst
of July next, and the veterans of the
StOnewall Brigade have been called to
meet at Staunton the 9th of June to make
arrangements for participating in the
ceremonies.
The Stanton TirgiRian says it is esti-
mated by a sagacious produce dealer of
that city that there is in Augusta county
at this time about $3.50, 900 worth of pro-
duce that but for the impossible roads
would have been marketed and the mon
ey be in circulation.
The Alexandria Gazette seems to think
there is more available Presidential tim
Der in the Democratic party than either
Cleveland or Hill, for 1t says the former
"killed himself with his party by his
right letter In opposition to free silver"
while the latter "killed himself by his
wrong letter in favor of protection"
The Basic City Adeance says that "Mr.
W. w. Brenaman, formerly editor of the
Highland Recorder and more recently con-
nected with a newspaper in Roanoke, has
been chosen associate editor and business
manager Of the Talley Virginian, soon to
be moved to Clifton Forge. Mr.. BreBa-
man is a newspaper man of considerable
experience and is we'll fitted for the posi-
ton for which he has been selected"
A bill has been introduced in the Mis-
souri, Legislature providing for the en-
ploymeut of the States cOnvicts In the
construction of system of public roads.
The bill coutemplates grand system of
turnpikes and the employment of the
penitentlary convicts on the work until
the system is completed. AS far as the
leading papers of the State may be an in
dcation of public sentiment it seems to
meet with much popular favor.
Europe's Wheat Crop a Failure