Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-10
FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1891.
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Mr.. Blame scored ROOu Poin|
he refused to commit this Government 10
the punishment of any of its citizens III
advance of free and impartial trial.
Mr.. Jacob Yost has been reelected
President of the Iron Gate Company Dut
declined reelection as General Manager
and Col. Meriwetber Jones, of Richmond
was elected to that position.
Judge A. K. syester, of the 4th Judicial
Circuit of Maryland, died at his home IN
Hagerstown on Wednesday of last week.
aOed Ga years. He had brilliant career
at the bar, and was at one time Attorney
General. He was highly regarded as q
citizen.
If the farmers of Virginia had plenty
of corn now they need not suffer from
hard times, foi that article Is reported 70
be selling at 81 per bushel at some places
in Southwest Virginia, and is in great de-
mand at that. Surely better prices could
not reasonably be hoped for.
Mrs. Faulkner, wife of Senator Faulk-
ner. of West Virginia, died in Washing
ton last week. She had been i'll about
two weeks. Mrs. Faulkner's maiden
name was Miss SallIe VIM and she was
q resident If Charlottesville, Va, where
she married Mr.. Faulkner in 1865.
Senator George F. Edmunds, OF YER
mont. who bas been in the Senate oil the
United States since April, 1866, and IN
nearly if not qnite all that time has been
one of the Republican leaders, upon con-
siderations entirely personal, has resigned,
the resignation to take effect the first day
of November next.
As will be seen in this issue the Demo-
Gratis will hold a convention on Saturday.
for the purpose of nominating Candidates
for the different county and district OH
ces to be voted for this spring. The Re
publicans will not hold a convention but
let the candidates from their ranks have
free fight.
Bristol Neics The farmers OF South
west Virginia and East Tennessee, with
few exceptions. get twice as much Tor
what they sell as they did thirty years
ago. and buy for about One-half, as
a general thing. There is no earthly
reason why farming should not pay well
in this section and it will, and in every
instance where it is properly conduced'
does.
In Montgomery county there are lO,5OO
ewes, which represent as many lambs.
1O,5QO lambs at an average weight OF
seventy pounds at 81 cents per pound
would net the farmers s9S, $3.50. besides
the wool which is worth about 81 per
head more, which makes net profit OF
nearly two-thirds that of all the fat cat
tie shipped from that county. Virginia
has 4l4, 500 sheep and over half Of this
number are in the Southwest.
The report of Mr.. VIM. B. Isaac Grand
secretary of Virginia Masons, of the pro-
ceedings of the ll3:h annual communica-
ton of Grand Lodge Of the Virginis, A. F,
and A. NJ, states that the namber OF
lodges making returns is ZIG, gain of {
over 1899; number of lodges chartered, 9;
number of lodges revived, l; number of
deaths, 1876; reinstatements, s.; with
drawals, 1853 explosions, 3; nOn-psyment
of dues, l49; suspension for unMasonic
conduct, 6; number affiliated Masons.
$3.50, a gain of $50.
The Boston Herald publishes a column
in which to prove its assertion that no
American tin plate is being manufactur-
ed. The Press will undertake to fill the
Herald Office full of American tin plate at
as low a price as English TIN plate is sold,
C. o. D., within thirty Gays after receiv-
ing the order, just for the satisfaction OF
branding our Hubte contemporary a
"tn plate liar" 1t is hard to kick
against the pricks, and the Herald should
know that the free trade "tin plate liar
has bad his day. Y. Press.
1t is no wonder that the 81 counterfeit
bills have found such an extensive circu-
lation. The viguette of Hancock is as
fine as the original and the lettering and
lathework is an exact copy of the Treas
ury note. In fact. the only difference is
too minute to be visible to the naked eye
In the upper left-hand and lower right
hand corner of the genuine note is a fig
ure , and on its face is engraved il
characters so minute that they are no
legIble except under msgnifying glass
the word "two" repeated three times. II
the counterfeit the word "two' is similar
~ engraved the same number of times
but in two cases the counterfeiter ha'
made the letters read GOVT" Bat, as in
timated, this mistake is not visible with
out the use of glass.
The discovery of the counterfeit is moi
new thing. Attention was called to il
some time ago. has been called to it al
frequent intervals since it appeared, but
the unknown counterfeiters watch The
secret service bulletins closely. Wher
discrepancy was disc 1vered in note
bearing the check letter "A' and the sig
nature Of &C. N. Jordan" the counter
feiters changed the check-letter to "B'
and the name to that of Treasurer Hyatt
In this case, however, they left q mari
whereby the counterfeit note is more
identified, for the lower half Of the capita
81" in Jordan was so entwined with the
border of the note that it could not b.
erased when the name was blotted ont
But even this thin line cannot lie seer
unless attention is attracted to it. Alto
gother, the counterfeit is fully as danger
GUS as represented, and the entire circu
lation OF tie genuine may havS to be call
cd in.
Some years ago IS national bank note
was 80 sue cessfully counferfeited that the