Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-05-15
NEWS AND COMMENT.


on license last week, 80 went against
and 90 for license.
For the year ended May 1, $434, $50 was
spent 10 Stanton and vicinity in build
ings, factories and development.
The Secretary of the United States Sen
ate has not yet been notified of the
election of Gov. David B. Hill as Senator.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has purchased land on which to
erect a 1000 passenger station at Berry
Vile, Clarke county.
The ItaliIn government has decided
from motives of economy not to take an
official part in the WOIld's Fair at
Chicago.
Tie United State is now the greatest
iron producing centre on the globe, and
most of i. comes from the Southern
states.
Senator VIM. F. Chandler, OF New
Hampshire, spent Saturday in Roanoke
He expressed himself as surprised and
pleased at the marked evidences OF enter
prise and progress.
Mr., Chauncey Depew SAYS "When you
come to think about it the South is the
only part of our country which is purely
and especially American. 1t has not
been invaded by the foreign immigrant
Hon. J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State
went few days since to New York city
TO see his daughter off to Europe, where
he was taken sick.-the result of over
work aud indigestion. He is not consid-
cred dangerously i'll, though confined to
his bed.
VIM. Wiishtman, living near Middle
ton. Ind, who has kept several hundred
bushels of wheat stored in his barn for
wear. while removing the wheat for mar
ket, found IN the grain an old pocketbook
containing gil 800 in gold coin and paper
currency. How the money came there
is a mystery.
A railroad is to be built from Bayard
on the West Va, Central to Moorefleld'
Heavy subscriptions have been made by
districts in Hardy and Grant counties
along the proposed route. Its projectors
expect to extend it to Strasburg, and thus
get a connection with the Richmond and
Danville system. The road Will be CON-
menced at an early day.
Young of Newbern, n. c., who had
cotton a verdict of $4,000 against tie
Western Union Telegraph Co. for mental
anguish occasiOned by its failure to de-
!. ~ message TO him in time to reach
= wite's death bed, has at the second
trial of the case which the company got,
withdrawn the suit. The fact had leak
ed ont that it was not his wife but an
other mans with whom he was living in
that relation.
A wealthy Georgia planter recently
erected for himself $40, 900 dwelling and
furnished it with lightning rod. The
people IN his vicinity, and especially the
members of his church, deemed this "a
vain desire to resist the will of God"
and besoUght HIN to remove it and take
his chances with the rest of them. He
refused to do so, however, and be is now
I. oh NhQFOp
beresy.
Mr.. Thomas A. Edison, the electrician
and inventor, says he will have ready for
Chicago Worlds FAIR a combination OF
photography and electricity whereby
man can sit in hIo own parlOr and see de-
picted upon curtaia the forms of the
players in opera upon a distinct stage
and hear the voices of the singers. Each
movement and color will be plainly re-
produced. The system can be applied to
prize fights, the nOise, blows, talk every
thing being transmitted.
In the Chancery Court of Richmond,
Saturday, suit was entered against James
Mason, T. F. Rayard, Geo. E. Coe and
Geo. G. williams. individually, as parties
trading under the style of the Public
Debt Adjustment Company F. P. Alcott,
William l.. Bull, John Gill, Groyer Cleve-
land and Z. ]. Phelps, of the Central
Trust Company, and Brown, Shipley *
Company. The smt was brought by
William Il. Smith, lawyer, to recover
5000 alleged to be due him for services
rendered ~ connection with the Virginia
debt settlement.
A committee of virginians agreed upon
at recent conference at Governor Nc
Kinney's office is expected to 90 to New
York this week for the purpose of talking
over the debt matter with the OlcOtt COM
mittee. Four of the members of this
committee are Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson,
Hon. r. II. Card we'll, of Hanover, and
Hon. w. d. Dabney and Thomas Martin,
of AlbemarlN. This committee Will i'm
press upon the O,cOtt committee that 1t
wonld be useless to hope tor any settle
ment which contemplated. imposing a
greater burden upon the people than is
provided for in the Riddleberger bill.
The Virginia Court of Appeals has rem
dsred a decision that will prove of con-
siderable interest all over the State. The
opinion granted a mandamus compelling
W. p. Ballad, the Democratic registrar
of precint No. 1, newport News, TO allow
Fl. de B Clay to copy bis books, and in a
general way outlines the right OF the pnb-
lie 10 inspect the books of registrars. The