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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-04
Some 0Id-Time Newspapers.

The oldest newspaper in the collec-
tion brought together in the exhibition
at Cologne, Of the early triumphs of the
printing press, dates from 1929. 1t de-
scribes the entry of the Roman Emperor
into Bologna, and tells how his Papal
Holiness met his Imperial Majesty on
that august occasion. The next oldest
gives an account Of the overflow of the
Tiber in 1880. Other newspapers, COM
ing down to 1914, tell OF wars with the
Turks, the attacking of cities, and other
remarkable events. There are fourteen
of these sixteenth century papers, and
all except two consist Of four small
quarto leaves. The latest was evidently
a campaign extra, get up to add glory
to the King of Spain. 1t has formid-
able title, which runs thus: "True
Newspaper, describing how the Mighty
King Of Spain has lately acquired In the
East Indies an Incalculable Treasure
worth many Hundreds OF Millions, the
like Of which has never been Heard of
before" The precious boomerang was
issued from the press of Peter Won
Brachel in Cologne,
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

BERNE, Neb., if a Swiss town.
FRANCE claims l,OO).0)O Socialists.
CLEVELAND has 25, 900 Bohsmians.
THE Unitei States have 80, 900 Swiss.
ARIZONA has Boekeepers' Association.
The rice crop is reported above the aver.
age.
FLOODS at Toyama, Japan, damaged near
ly 5000 houses.
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, is building
a wheat palace.
FRANCE is accumulating gold to pay for
American wheat.
FOREST and grass fires have done great
dauage in California.
THERE are eleven cables running from the
United States TO Europe
The blueberry crop OF New Hampshire
has been an enormous one.
RAIN has ceased in India and crop pros
poets are again growing worse.
The permanent tramp population of
the United States has been estimated at Co.
700.
REPORTS from South and Central Amer
ca bring news Of large crops and great pros
perity.
Provision dealers say that fruit and
vegetables have never been 50 plentiful or
80 cheap.
JACOB SrEyLE, the oldest man in Pennsyl-
vdnia, died at Uniontown few days ago
aged los years.
GALES and hurricanes along tho Spanish
coast have wrecked many vessels and caused
serious damage.
ENGLAND is now suffering from the potato
blight, which caused so much distress in Ire
land last winter.
THE financial crisis in Portugal is becom-
ing acute. Gold and silver have disappeared
from circulation.
The Attorney G G,Eeral OF Texas has de-
cided that nuns maJ teach in the public
schools Of the State.
THE catch of Irish macISerel this year has
fallen off one half. IL Is feared the business
will be ultimately destroyed
TaE testof powder with the army twelve
inch breach loa1iny rifs at Sandy Hook, n.
j., vas not wholly satisfactory.
THERE Is danger that the prics OF grain
may be forced SO high as to curtail tie c)l-
sumption in European countries
o. S. CAMPBELL. by defeating Hobart, win.
ner of the All Corners Tennis Tournament.
at Newport, r. l., retains the Championship
Of America.
THE annual report OF the Bureau OF Sta.
tistics OF Labor in Massachusetts shows that
the capital invested in industries amounts to
S39l, $50, 26l.
FINAL decree in the suit OF the owners o;
the steamship Iberia against the Cuuari line
for the sinking Of the Iberia by the Umbria
in 1883 allows the Iberia's owners 500 $3.50
damages.
MRS. JOHN HARE, OF Youngstown, Ohio,
lost her left eye some tins since AMI while
standing in the yard the other day her rigat
eve burst from its socket, rendering her en-
tireIy blind, from the eff ,cts OF which she at
onco Lost hor raaeon
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A Colt With Horns.

Scriven County, Georgia, has genu-
inc curiosity in the form of a colt, which
carries pair Of unmstakablc horns on
his head. He is now nearly year old
aud in no way remarkable save for the
horns, which have grown with him until
they are nearly n foot in length aud as
handsome pair as any COW ever carried.
The animal is the property, or was until
recently, Of a farmer named Kavanaugh,
who has sold 1t to an agent of dime
museum in Boston.
Kavanaugh says the colt came of par
ents differing in no way from their kind,
and can only account for the peculiarity
by the fact that the colts mother was
severely gored bya savage COW few
days before he was foaled. The animal
has never attempted to use his horns,
aud, it is said, seems not to know that
he possesses any such adornment or
weapon. The other animals with which
he is stable and pastured, however, ap-
pear to recognize that there is something
abnormal about him. aud arc unanimou,
in giving him wide berth, even threat.
cning him with hoof and horn when he
ventures too near them.--NeU York Jonr-
nal.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The tomato is a native of South
America.
In the interior of South America choco-
late, coco nuts and eggs are used as cur
rency.
1t is estimated that it takes so, 900
tons of binder twine to do up the annual
American grain crop.
j. w. Hood, of Frankfort, Ind, has
turned blue from the effects OF medicines
taken for cpileptic fits.
Paul Revere, the hero of the famous
ride, was the President OF Boston's first
Board of Health. 1t was organized in
Fancuil Hall in 1893.
A Lewiston (Me.) girl drowned a kit
ten the other day, and buried 1t behind
the barn. The old cat dug it up, took
it into the kitchen, aud brought it to
life, and it is living now.
Hannibal Hamlin's grandfather had
four sons, named respectively Europe,
Asia, Africa, and Americl, bnt the late
Vice President was son of fifth, named
Cyrus, and was named for the lattcr's
twin brother, Hannibal.
A recent applicant for teachers GER
ti6cate in Lake County, California, wrote,
in answer to question, that "the vege-
table kingdom Of Australia was divided
into two grand divisions, known as the
animal and mineral" and, in answer to
the question as to how our laws were
"enacted," answered that they were
"enacted by the grand jury"
1t is estimated that the population of
the world in 1890 was !, 1,4S7, 500, 900,
representing an average of thirty-one per
sons to the square mile. Of the con-
tinents Asia has the largest populatloh-
$50, 900, 600, Australasia has the smallest
population-4, ,73O, 900. Europe is the
most thic&ly settled continent, with a
population of 3so, 10000 which is lol
to the square mile.
The Breton peasants make all their
butter from sour milk. The milk, as
drawn from the COW, is cmptied into II
large earthenware jar, aul alIowcl to re-
main, in the sumner, till it is sour. IN
winter it is continually warmed at
moderate fire till it has turned. The
whole contents Of these jars arc emptie
into a churn worked by hand or horse .
gear. The butter from this, if properly .
handled, is as sweet as that made from
cream in the usual manner.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED,
Eastern and Middle States.

GOVERNOR PAGE, of Vermont informe'
Reddeld Proctor, Secretary OF War, that h'
would be appointed TO succeed Senator Ed
munds as Senator from Vermont.
PRESIDENT HARRISON journeyei from
Saratoga, N. Y, to st. Albans Vt; HI
made eight speeches in the course OF the
trip.
THE National Convention OF the Daugh
ters Of Liberty was held at Waterbury
Conn. membership of over nine thousand
persons was reported.
THE American Bar Association met in
Boston, Mass.
THE Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, in con-
vention at Harrisburg. nominated W. w.
Hague for Auditor General and George
Drayton for State Treasurer.
THE Mayor and City Council Of Altoona,
Penn. were arrested on complaint Of the
City School Board for refusing to do away
with sewage nuisance.
THE body of Herbert Mloes, the Colun-
bia College athlete, who was drowned while
bathing at Fire Island, off New Jersey a few
days ago, was discovered in the surf at
Water Island, eight miles east Of the Surf
Hotel.
president HARRISON spent the night AZ
the house Of Ex-Governor Smith in st. Al
bans, VT. Nextday he addressed great au-
diences at Richmond, Waterbury, Mont
pelier, Plainield and St. Johnsbury. VT; at
Montpelier he spoke in the Capitol TO tue
members Of the State Legislature.
TIE search for bodies in the ruined build
ing in Park place, New York City. was
ended, sixty-oue corpses having been re-
covered. or these, fifteen are unidentified.
SECRETARY Tracy witnessed the fleet
manoeuvres of the North Atlantic Squadron
and the Squadron Of Evolution OF Bar Har-
Dor, Ne.
ROBERT w. CARPENTER, Trial Justic,
lawyer and Chief OF the Fire Department Of
Toxboro, Mass, has disappeared, charged
With embezziement and malfeasance in Of
zee.
SAMUEL CLARKE PoMERoY, formerly
United States Senator from Kansas, died 4
few days ago, at Whtensville, Mass. He
was born in Southampton, Mass, January 3,
1916.
PRESIDENT HARRISON made an address at
the fair Of the Vermont Association of Road
and Trotting Horse Breeders at White River
junction.
F. w. VAYDERBILT's imported yacht Con-
queror has been seized by Federal officers in
New York Harbor for customs duties esti-
mated at S3j, ,0O).
MUCH damage was caused in Newark, N.
j., by tornado which swept through part
Of the city.
THE President delivered speeches at Rut-
land and Proctor, VT, aying the last named
place at night on his return journey to Cap3
May. \. J
THIRTEEN Of the victims Of the Park Placs
New York City disaster were buried TO-
gether in Evergreen Cemetery from the
Morgue, where they hal been since they had
been recovered. They had not been identi-
Gcd
JOHN BANTER, a painter in New York
City, committed suicide. after the murder in
cold blood OF his wife, Mary, aud his two
children, Kate. aged five. and John, aged
three. No reasons for the crime were
given.
CROPS were destroyed and houses were
carried away by a storm at Berlin, n. Y.
Miss Addie Taylor. aged fifty-five, and
Charles Smith, young boy, were drowned,
and others had narrow escapes. At Hoags
Corners Dunham's mill, one tenement
house and two iron bridges were washed
away.
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Americas Great Inland Ocean.

Did you ever compare Hudson Bay
with other and lesser bodies of water
and landl If you never did, aud will
take the trouble to do so, you cannot
help uttering exclamat;ons of amazement
when the immensity of this great miami
ocean dawns upon your understanding.
From Fury Strait on the north to the
most southern indentation at the mouth
OF Abbitbbe River it is exactly 1880
miles, while the width from Bitton's
Bay to the mouth Of Whale River is but
little under 700 miles. 1t is as long as
the first Atlantic cable, AMI nearly as
wide as the combined l;ngths Of Lakes
Huron, Erie and Ontario. II extends
over twelve degrees of latitude and covers
not less than half million square miles,
including moro territory within its limits
than can be found within the borders OF
Great Britain and Ireland, Sweden, Nor
way, Greece, Switzerland, Denmark, The
Netherlands aud Belgium combined. 1t
drains 5000, 900 square miles OF terri
tory, receives rivers from the Rocky
Mountains, Labrador, the Arctic regions
and some which have their source almost
within the limits of the United States.-
81. Louis Repa5lic.
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Washington.

THE closing meetings of the Geological ST.
ciety of America and Of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement of Science
were held in Washington. They adjournei
to meet i'm Rochester, N. Y, In August. iS92
The War Departments has declared for
feited the contract given to Mr.. Sheehan
for the construction OK new gymnasium
building for the Military Academy at West
Point, N. Y.
THE collections OF internal revenue for
July. 1891, were $l4,lSS04l, an increase OF
81, 529, al, as compared with the collections
for July, 1890.
The Fifth International Geological Con-
gress met in Washington.
THE Treasury Department has recognized
Senior Baruch as Consul General Of Salvador
at New York.
THE Canadian census returns show that
the population is in the vicinity OF 4,900OO.
Nova Scotia, Ontario. Manitoba, the North
west Territories and British Columbia show
an increase of population, but Prince Ed
ward Island. New Brunswick and Quebec ara
about stationary Montreal ranks as the
first city in Canada, with population OF
nearly $4,000.
THE Ministry Of Saxony has decreed that
drunkenness shall be considered G criminal
offense.
The only surviving officer Of the battle OF
Waterloo, General Whichcota. diet Oh a
recent day in London.
A TREMENDOUS hurricane prevailed
throughout Great Britain all night. Serious
damage was done in England ani Ireland
by the storm.
The Solicitor OF the Treasury has given
an opinion 10 the effect that an appeal from
n decision OF the Board Of General Apprais-
ers Is valid only when taken within thirty
days from the date OF said decision.
PosTMAsTER-G GENERAL WANAMAKER bss
sent personally signed letter TO the post
master at each county seat throughout tne
United States asking him to make psrso11l
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-04
visit to each postoffice in his county anI
make detailed report upon its condition
Foreign.


NEWS has been received of hurricane in
Senegal, in which an Italian steamer AMI
two cutters were wrecked at Rudsqus AMI
fighteen persons were drowned.
The population OF Canada Is 4,S23,34, an
increase Of ll.52 per cent. in ten years.
A TERRIBLE thunderstorm swept over the
Trieste district Of Austria. Lightning struck
a church at Tualis. Three women were
killed. At Plan a hunting party was struck
by lightning. One member Of ths party was
killed on the spot.
AT the Electric Works In Posen, Germany.
the conductors on the roof OF the works were
being repaired by number Of employees,
when by some mshap the full current was
turned into the wires and three of the men
received fatal shocks.
MARIE TAGLIoSI, the famous danseuse
who retired from the stage in 1866 and was
married to Prince Joseph Windisch- Graetz,
died at the Chateau Heilgen, near Taschau,
Austria, in her fifty-eighth year.
A COLLISION occurred inside Fort Phillip
Heads, Melbourne, Australia, between the
steamers Gambler and Easily. Seven min
utes after the collision thu Gambler gave a
forward lunge, her bows rose high out of the
water and she sank stern first carrying
with her five saloon passengers fifteen steer
age passengers and six Of the crew. All
were drowned.
IHE Norwegian collier Frey bounu ,ryui
an English port for Drontheim, caught fire
and was burned to the waters edge when
near Bergen. Eight OF her crew wers
drowned. Seven were saved.
EXTENSIVE floods are reported In West
moreland County, England.
SMALLPOX is epidemic in Teguecigalpa,
capital of Honduras.
4 GANG Of five hundred armed pirates are
creating havoc in the Province Of Wenchow.
China. Their progress through the country
has been marked by the most cruel and cold
blooded crimes. Villages have been burned
right and left by them when refused hospi.
tality, aud the inhabitants-men, women
and children-slaughtered by the miscre-
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and trembIed little; looking down,
hotly flushed.

and trembled little; looking down,
hotly flushed.
What was he going to say now9 Some
thing, she was sure, she could not bear
She felt nervous and fearful and
wretched enough now, and another word
would be too much. She knew it, and
she wished
But the words Mr.. CRANKY uttered
were "By Georgel' in excited tones.
"By George" he repeated, staring at
Ida and far back at the groom, and again
at the object which had calle1 forth the
remark.
The object was a young man at some
distance ahead in the bridal path, on a
slowly walking horse-not an astonishing
sight.
There was sort of furry before
Ida's wondering eyes. Mr.. CRANKY was
gone, suddenly and without farewell.
Did he chuckle as he touched his
"crop" to his horsel She almost fancied
it. And then
"Harryl' she cried, and her voice sank
to the merest whisper. "Harryl" "
"Well-Ida" the young man on the
leisurely horse answered, his voice no
less shaken.
He was dark eyed, broad -shouldered,
manly and his eyes sought hers with an
anxious directncss, while he thrust back
his hat from full forehead.
"Harry," she whispered--he had
reined close-'T-I-oh, Harry, how
wrong was! Can you ever forget it,
I-Mr. CRANKY has been talking aud
telling me, and see it so plainly, how
foolish I was and how cruel. Say some
thing, Harry"
"Hush" he said, gently. His hand
was on her horses neck. "Foolish and
cruell So was l, and confoundedly OBJ
stinate besidesl How dear of you to
speak, Idal 1 suppose 1 should nave
ridden by like the pig-headei rascal
am. l don't know what Mr.. CRANKY has
to do with it. Good for him he's en-
gagged to Mrs. Campbell, or he'd get
punched head. But you've made me
happy, dear. What fools we were! 1t
shall never happen again, shall itf Not
if 1 know myself Shall itl" he queried,
teuderly
"Neverm she answered, her fair
face raised to his in sweet solemnlty.
"what had Cranky to do with it, any
how" he blurted forth, with lingering
jealousy delicious to her.
"Ill tell you some time, dear" she an
swered, softly. "You--you haven't lost
the rlngl want it again"
"I've kept it in my inside breast-poc-
ket every minute" he replied, half
laughing, all his fine face softened.
And nobody else was in the bridie-
path Just there, and the groom pretended
not to be looking-Harry leaned to Ida
till his lips touched her chcek.--Satur-
day Night.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

CHICAGO has woman engineer.
HARLEM has woman upholsterer.
NEW YORK grocers will build a hall.
ITALYs labor market is overstocked.
LIVERPOOL has $1,000 dock laborers.
SAN FRANCISCO has Chinese coopers.
New York laundry hands are fighting
Chinese.
NEw YORK compositors will hold State
Convention.
INDIANAPOLIS tInd.j laundry girls average
$3.50 week.
New YORK has an Italian shoemakers' X.
OF L. assembly.
A coLoRED man is boss over gang Of
New York whites.
THE President of the Boston Walters AL
lance is colorei man.
NEW YORK working girls have a society
for sending poor children on vacations.
TRAc ION car conductors in Philadelphia
have to pay for broken car windows and the
like.
THE Socialist Labor party OF Italy is
growing rapidly. 1t has now over 10000
members.
AN association comprising 300 employers
mas Dttl SldIbtl III Nln IIdDtl>CO W iooi,b
the encroachments OF trades unions.
The Paris walters not only insist upon
their right to wear beards and no uniforms.
but also to smoke when not actually serving.
The production of cloth at Fall River,
Mass. has been curtailed ., 900 pieces in the
past two weeks. owing TO scarcity OF wesv-
ers.
The Municipal Council Of Piacensa, Italy,
has granted $500 annually for five years to
the labor unions In that city for their free
employment bureau
THE Socialist Workmen's Congress at
Brussels, Belgium, has passed resolutions
condemning the sweating system and piece
work
BISMARCK recently entertained trade
society Of limeburners and brickmakers at
Friedrichsruhe where he has extensive
kilns.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact OF the depres.
sion in the iron and tan plate trade. and the
falling off Of the demand for coal. 10,0cJ
miners in Aberdare District South Wales
have gone on strike
In the Chicago City Directory just pub
Iished many names were omitted owing 10 a
refusal OF the members Of labor orzaniz stions
10 give their names and address because II
was printsdat scab printing z-houss.
The railroads OF the country employ 40.
oO0 men. Each year they loss 110 OF their
number ia killed, and 20 900 OF them are In
jured annually. Il is estimated that V1.-
800 people depend on these employees for
living.
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Indian Printers.

One Of the greatest curiosities among
American newspapers was the Cherokee
Phenir, published in both the English
and Cherokee languages. The latter
portion was printed with characters IN
vented by a Cherokee Indian, whose
curiosity had been excited by hearing
white man read from what he termed
speaking leaf" After years of patient
labor and thought he succeeded In pro-
ducing an alphabet, which he taught to
other members of his tribe, and event
ually, with assistance, started the above
named publication.
In referring to Indians as printers,
mention should be made OF "James
Printer" the first American Indian who
learned the ''art preservative. He was
educated at the Indian school in Cam
bridge, and served his time as an ap-
prentice in Boston about 165O. lie be-
came an excellent compositor and
worthy citizen, although when King
Philip started on the war-path he could
not resist old associations but dropped
his composing stick and joined his former
chief. After the death of Philip, James
returned to the case, and afterwards
helped to print the Indian Bible and
other similar works. In this la0or his
services were OF inestimable value, since,
according to John Eliot, he was the only
man who W as able to set up these books
with accuracy and to correct the puzzling
proof sheets with complete understand
ing of what was required. British
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EYclisiai Houf.

A French doctor has discovered a new
form Of gout, accompanied by a defor-
nation OF the foot, which he has OBJ
served in cyclists. lie says it is much
moro general than he hld suspected at
first, and with the development Of cy-
cling it would become much moro fre'
ouent. lie has sent a number Of cyclists
to hospital for treatment. The muscle
of the calf OF the leg was also affected
by this form Of gout. = Chicago Times.
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In one OF the large caves in the pro-
vince of Salerno, Italy, great archaeology
cal treasures were found. The sesrchcs
came across large quantities Of arms Of .
prehistoric age-ax heads, hammers,
daggers and knives Of flint, agate aud
other hard stones.
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TIE REFINER's FIRE

Pure ss the heart of little chill,
A stream from its mountain cradle wild
Crept into the town and away, defiled.
An insect dipped its radiant wing
in sweets forbidden, and, fiuttering,
Sank down TO earth, helpless thing.
A poet was born with a voice divine,
He stained his soul with passion aud wine,
And daily fed with his herd of swine.
The stream was met by the cleansing tide;
In dewdrop the moth was purified;
The poet sang one true song. ani died.
Willis Boyd Allen, in the Cosmopolitan.
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The Austrian census shows that in
Galicia seventY-four per cent. OF the
population can neither read nor write.
and only nine per cent. can read.
Middletown transcript., 1891-04-30
Encourage the Editor.

As rule the editor gets thous-
and kicks to one caress. Once in a
while he gets kind word, and il
warns and cheers his weather beaten,
storm racked heart to the innermosi
core. Most people are afraid to tell
an editor when he writes an article
that particularly pleases them for fear
of making him proud, we suppose,
but if they find anything that does
not accord precisely with their views
they will neglect their bushes to hunt
him up and tell him of it. Pshaw
dear friends, don't think you will
spoil the editor by giving him an oc-
casional word Of cheer any more than
you will spoil your child by compli-
menting her upon piece of patch
work she has finished. Of course you
could beat the job yourself, but that
doesn't deter you from heaping words
of encouragement On the child.
1t has done its best So you could
doubtles beat the average editor at
running paper2 OF course you can.
The man does not live who can't beat
an editor at running paper. The
editor is willing to acknowledge that
you can. He only does it because
you have not time to, but this fact neeC
not deter you from giving him word
of encouragement occasionally.