Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
NEWS AND COMMENT.

TIE pay roll of the Roanoke Machine
works for October was $4,000, against
$4,000 for the previous mouth.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has selected Holly
wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va, as the
final resting Place of the remains Of her
husband.
Ex-Governor Bob" Taylor, of Times
see, who fiddled his way into the Coy
ernor's chair is to deliver hundred lee
lures in Southern cities on "The Fiddle
the Bow"
While silver cut some figure in the
Ohio contest the main issue was on pro-
tective tariff. On Major McKinley's part
it was clean, fair fight for protection to
American industry and American indus
tries.
The Winchester Nacs says: 1t is re-
ported that John Browns Fort, at Har-
per's Ferry, has been sold to northern and
western capitalists and will be removed
to Chicago where it Will be exhibited with
Libby prison and other famous buildings
and relics of war times. 80
The Richmond Dispatel 81 there is to
be another meeting of-thes debt commission
ana the BOndholders' Committee on the
18th OF this month. The proposition now
TO be made is known to be more favorable
than the former ones, though its exact
terms have not transpired."
The arm of Gen. Stonewall Jackson,
which was amputated just after the bat
tie of the Wilderness, is still buried in the
garden of Maj. J. Horace Lacy. The
monument marking the place where
Jackson fell is inclosed by iron palings
ten feet high, to prevent relic hunters de-
spelling it.
The Virginia State Board of Agricul-
ture last week, Maj. Absolom Koiner OF
Augusta voting with the majority, re-
solved by a vote of to 3 to recommend to
the legislature the passage of laws pro-
hibitlng the sale of liquor on, or within
a quarter of mile of, any fair ground
while fair is being held, and prohibiting
any game of chance whatever on such
fair grounds. or within a half mile OF
them.
We greatly fear that some of these
days Col. O'Ferrall and other speakers
who follow his unfair, not to say dish
genious, method of discussing the tariff
will receive a rude shock from some ques-
TONER who will want to know, you know,
why it is that necessaries of life have not
increased in price if it be true, as they
assert, that the tariff Is tax, and is add
ed to the cost of Amercan-produced ar
ticles. Instead OF going up, the neeessaries
of life are steadily coming down.-Inder-
Appeal.
At its recentsanual meeting the State
Agricultural snitty of Georgia, in FORM
al resolution unanimously adopted, recon-
mendel and uged upon every farmer OF
lndI Oldlc lQeUlliuH 0olOO VI AVN -
to ten acres d1and around the home
stead. said acnage to be known as "The
Wife's Farm. TO be devoted exclusively
to the culture on the intensive plan, OF
grain, grasses Vegetables, poultry, pigs
&c, and thatln hour or two each morn
ing shall be eyoted by the farmer and
his force to cltivating this "farm." The
idea of the ociety was to make each
farmer self-sstaining and independent.
The womeIpcstmasters have measured
fulIv M fo~.t.e standard in the visits OF in
spection they have been called on to make
to the country post-ofices, under Mt
Wanamaker's order. An Idaho post
mistress rode 254 miles on horseback to
make her inspection. Another in Ken
tucky travelled over 100 miles and spen
SIS for horse-hire alone. A postmlstres'
in Mississippi reached the post-offices OIL
the railroad line in a sail-boat. Another
in Mississippi travelled through pine!
woods inland without hesitation. An
other. a New York woman, visited forty
four post-offices with horse and carriage
travelling 29l miles. A Texas woman
omitted to visit one Office because i
renuired horseback ride of thlrty-hve
miles. Virginia and California postmis
tresses visited every office in their coun
ties. A Pennsylvania woman attacked
the tremendous undertaking OF visiting
l2s offices, many of them among the
Allegheny mountains, and disposed o.
II A West Virginia woman wrote that
some of her Offices were almost impoS
sible TO be reached, but she would reach
them just the same.