Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-16
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The Senate bill spprOpriating $4,000
for public building at Staunton, passed
the House on Wednesday.
Hon. Calvin S. Brice and others have
formed company to mine cOklng coal in
Mcdowell, Highland county.
Nebraska might place her gubernatorial
display on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair.
Secretary Windcm has fixed the salary
of Miss Phoebe Cousins, president of the
Board of Lady Managers of the Column
bian Exposition, at $4,000 per annum.
On Wednesday the Senate passed bill
for the free coinage of silver by vote of
80 to 81. Mr.. Ingalls,, of Kansas, voted
for the bill after having advocated 1t in
powerful speech.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the American
authoress, is seriously i'll in Paris. She
has not left her room for six months and
she has not Quilted her bed since early in
December.
On last Monday the A ret female deputy
county clerk in We st Virginia was sworn
IN. her name is Miss Sallie Tierney, and
she was appointed by E. A. Bennett'
clerk of the county court OF Lewis coun-
ty.
TheValley (Luray) Land and Improve
ment Company, was recognized in Bal
timore Wednesday of last week, by the
election of Martin Lane of that city Pres
ident, in place OF D. F, Kagey, resigned
1t is reported that during the past two
weeks General Malone had made two
special trips over the Atlantic & Danville
Railroad. 1t Is believed by some that
General Malone may probably be presi-
dent of the road.
DR.. H. S. Tanner, the man who tasted
forty days, and who now lives near Clin-
ton, NO., challenges Signor Succi to sit
down with him in Chicago during the
Worlds Fair to test the matter of endur'
snce in ninety days fast on water only.
No, Jas. G. Blaine is not candidate for
the Presidency and probably will not be;
nor was he in 'S5; but al the same be
would doubtless be President now if he
had given out no letters or interviews
prior to the last nominating convention.
Mr. Blaine is not running after nOmIna-
ton, but when the next convention meets
he will probably respond TO any call OF
his triendsr-and what legion of friends. |
-LOsdOan Telephone.
The counsel for the Norfolk & Western
Ry., with representatives from Fairfax,
Loudoun and Warren counties, were be-
fore the Senate Committee on the Dis
trlct of Columbia last week advocating |
the bill giving the Shenandoah Valley |
Ry., an entrance into Washington city at
some point between the Aqueduct and
the chain bridges. 1t Is said that the
road will run from Riyerton through |
Manassas Gap to Washington going
through Warren, Londoun and Fairfax
counties.
A special dispatch from Topeka, Kan,
says: "The Rev. B. Foster, cOlored, who
was q candidate for auditor of State on
the peoples party ticket In Kansas, has
arrived at Topeka with twenty families
of colored people from Kemper county,
Miss, en- route to hennesy, Oklahoma.
These families number about one hundred
people, Mr.. Foster says: "Ths is but
the beginning of a tremendous exodus OF
colored people from the South. Thousands
of them will leave the Southern States
within the next sixty days for Oklaho-
ma"
The eOyerness of the infant King of
Spain, Sonora Tuccus, was recently |
watching the baby monarch while he
was indulging in his rOnps, when snd-
denly he lesped into her lap and upset
her char, causing her to fall to the floor
with violence. The unfortunate lady sus-
tanned such severe internal injury that
abe died from the effect, and her Majesty
the Queen, together with the whole
court, are InconsOlable. The deceased
lady was a general favorite, and her sad
end will cast gloom over the Spanish
metropolis.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat. astaunch
Republican journal, reguards the putting
aside of the election bill in the United
states Senate as a death blow to that
measure, and it does not hesitate to ex-
press its qualification at the disposition
made of the bill. "The Republican par
IT," says the Globe Democrat, "hss thus
secured happy deliyerance from a peril
which threatened to wreck it in the presi
Dental canvass. A way is now open for
safe retreat from a position which was
full of danger, which should not have
beon taken in the first :place, aud which
could not be persisted in without disas-
trous results"
Mr.. Jno. II. Heller, well known to our
people, he having resided in this place for
some years, was robbed and thrown fIOm
a tram in Washington city, his foot lodg-
ing OH the rail and was cut off by the
wheels. We give the following from the
Bait. Sas's Washington correspondent;
"The police Saturday night carried in
the patrol wagon to the Emergency Hos.
pitai Mr.. John II. Heller. q clerk in the |
census office, residing at 1905 Ninth street |
He was found, crying aloud for help, |
amid . pile OF ciuders beside the Balti- |
more and Ohio Metropolitan track, on
First, between G and II street, with one
foot mashed off. Mr.. Heizer stated to the
police that he took the o'clock p. NJ.
tram on the Metropolitan road, en- route
for Tacoma Park, and that when |
the train passed @ street he started from
the second car to 60 into the smoking car,
but when on the platform he was seized
~.o- one ~ xvhou, rrnaoa1 HE