Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-06
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Kansas has passed bill allowing wo-
men to vote.
The shipments of POcahontas coal and
coke amount now to about one hundred
cars daily.
warritk county is to have $4,000
courthouse and Jail erected at Newport
News.
Twenty-Five people afflicted with len-
rosy are reported TO be at large in New
Orleans.
Spring may be the least bit backward
this year, bat the chaps who manipulate
the spring elections are as forward as
eyer.
The report of the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts shows that Virginia last year paid
out SIG, 1870 in pensions under the act OF
March :, 1888.
The Census Bureau has issued a bulle-
TIN showing that the number OF convic's
in State prisons and penitentiaries IN the
United States on June 1, 1890, was 1926
OF this number 1871 we're women.
The State paid out during the last
fiscal year on account of her iunatic
asylums tho following sums: Central
ASYLUM, $gl, 6l1.4O; Eastern, $50, 100 Is;
Southwestern, S42,9lS.97, and Western
s92 97s-a total of SSO7, 6l4.55.
The House last Saturday night passed
the Norfolk and Western Railroad bill,
which gives the road referred to authority
to cross the Potomac river after 1t shall
have constructed track from Riverton
through the counties of Fauqnier, Lou
doun and Fairfax.
John L. Sullivan had his eyes BACKED
by a train hand named Townsend on
Georgia railroad passenger train on Tues
day of last week. The big fellow began
abusing the trainmau without proyoca-
ton. After Townsend was pulled OH
Sullivan tried to bluff him out OF the car,
but he did not go.
The final and corrected count OF the
population of Virginia by counties ras
been comp leted by the Census office ana
is 1856, ESQ; Clarke, SOL; Frederick,
1850; Shenandoah, 1861 Rockingham
31,299; Madison, 10. 225 Culpeper, ls'255
Fauquier, 22,59O; LoudOun, 23,274; ana
Prince William, 9.SO5.
''To cut our grain IN California says
Senator Stanford, ave are using ma
chine which reaps swath AZ .eet wlde'
thrashes the grain as it goes along, puts II
in bags, which men stitch ap and drop III
the field, and the same machine rakes the
straw in and burns il Cor fuel upon that
reaper"
The lower branch of the Kansas Iegisla-
ture consists of 125 members, of whom Ito
are farmers, not one of whom ever sat IN
legislature before except the Speaker, T.
P. Elder, and from the chief clerk down to
the page there is not an employe who
has had any previous legislative expert
ence.
The free traders are still pretending
that there IS no essential difference be-
tween free trade and reciprocity. But
there is a difference, and Mr.. Blame tried
to make it plain to them when he said
because l buy a family horse which l
need is no reason why should also buy a
drove of iackasses which do not need"
1t is very simple. What's the matter
with the free traders that they can't see
the point
The second session of the Fitty-first
Congress expired by constitutional llml-
tation at noon Wednesday. The Senate
passed the general efficiency appropria-
tion bill, including an amendment max
ing an a appropriation for the payment OF
the French spOliation claim. Another
amendment appropriates $4,000, 600 for
paying the claims of the States of New
York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia
and South Carolina and the city of Balti-
more for advances made in the war OF
1912.
The common remark of some men that
the world "oTes them a living" needs
some modification. They must collect
this living for themselves, and in doing
IL ,of, a
as the living costs. Beside this the kind
of living that such men claim will not
pay anybody else the trouble Ofcollecting.
1t is far better policy not to rely on the
living that the world owes, which is only
charity for those unable to support them-
selves. but rather to go to work and earn
something more than a living, which,
whenever fairly earned, is never paid
grudgilgly. as the bare living is always
sure to be.
Here is another of the baueful effects of
the Mckinley tariff law. The .English
plush trade, so says dispatch from Man
chester, has been stAguant since the bill
was passed, and Sir Titus Salt, one of the
leading manufactures, will transfer his
plant to the United States. This VIII
give employment to many American work
ingmen and will put a gooily amount OF
money in circulation annually besides
stimulating the plush industry in this
country. All this might have been 50
different if the Mills coterie of free
traders had only had their way. Toe
iniquity of the tariff Law is perceptible at
first clanee--tO an English free trader
and his American fellow-Iadsr APpsat T.
Dem.
We see that the Richmond correspon-
dents of the papers outside are giving
some prophecies about what the next leg
islature will do. They seem to talk as if
things would go on pretty much in the
old way, and to set some store by this or
that thing that the Governor will, accord