Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-25
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Leonard Golf, aged rs years, of Kama
wha county, and Maria Lanham, aged 90
years, of Putnam county, w. Va, were
married last week.
The Virginia Manufacturer, hithertofore
published at Buchanan, as scientific,
technical and commercial journal of min
ing and manufactures, has suspended pub
LEGATION.
The heat for the past week has been
very excessive in the Northwest-the mer-
curry registering at 100 degrees in the Da-
kotas. The stubble and grasses in the
fields have been very inflammable AMI de-
structiye fires have prevailed. The heat
has been more general and uniform
throughout the United States than las
been ever known.
A novel contest has just been decided
at the Sangamon faiRin Illinois. A piano
worth $500 was offered to the best lady
maker of jelly cake. Six hundred con-
testants entered the lists, and finally
when one of them carried off the prize
the other five hundred and ninety nine
Immediately raised the cry of fraud. The
piano literally proved to be piano oil
discord.
Ex-Judge James P. McTeer was found
dead in his room IN the Hancock House
at Wytheville Tuesday morning OF last
week from an over dose of morphine.
Deceased was a prominent Readjuster
Republican. When made judge by the
party in 1879 be was the youngest judge
in Virginia. He joined the Methodist
ministry three years ago, and has been
preaching and lecturing since. He was
thirty-fve years old.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has written a let
ter to the committee having the mat
ter in charge that she expects TO
be in Richmond in o few weeks
when she will select the site for the pro-
posed monument to her husband. The
committee has decided to have grand
reception OF Confederate veterans in
Richmond in November for the purpose
of arousiDg interest in the erection of a
memorial in honor of Mr.. Davis. General
John B. Gordon, of Georgia, and Senator
wathall, of Mississippi, have accepted in
yltations to make addresses on behalf OF
their respective States. The purpose Is
to secure at least one orator for each Con-
federate State.
The Petersburg Inder appeal is entirely
too late IN advising thorough Organi-
cation for the Fall campaign of the Dem
ocratic party. The Alliance has the bulge
just now, and will keep it until after
November, at least. The Democratic
leaders have been playing the game of
soft-s older with the Alliance, hoping to
seduce them into Democratic ways this
Fall; while the Alliance has been going
right along attending to its own business
in its own way. The result Is that the
Alliance is in the saddle, and as the aver
age Alliance man was partly raised on
horse, be knows how to ride IN the sad
die. 1t is the Alliance inning this time.
No Democrat, pure and simple, has
place in the procession. -Valley VrqiaiGn.
The refusal of the Georgia Legislature
to accept for the State the control and
support of the Soldiers Home, near At
lanta, will result in at least its temporary
closing. At the meeting of the trustees
last week after long discussion a reso-
luton was adopted providing that the
doors of the Home be closed until the
next Legislature shall have had time to
act upon the matter; that then, if the
Legislature refused to accept it, it be
be sold and tho proceeds divided equt-
ably among the original contributors of
the fund. The Home was erected upon a
subscription plan inaugurated by the
late Henry W. Grady.