Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-02-06
FRIDAY. FEB. 6, 1891.
NEWS AND COMMENT.


ing the Office of Fourth Assistant Post
master General with q salary of $4,000 a
year.
Missouri comes to the front with girl
eight feet high. This is another result
of the monstrous Mckinley law.-Vash-
ingtOn Post.
Rev. John Jasper, OF "sun do move"
fame. will not accept larger salary than
$50 a month, although nearly double that
amount has been offered him.
Representative O'Ferrall of Virginia has
appointed Edward Barrett Gold cadet
at West Point. The appointee is the son
of T. D. Gold, chairman of the Clarke
county committee.
Another name has been added to the
list of those sentenced to be electrocuted
in New York. Already nearly dozen
men there are under sentence of death by
lightning. Only one has been executed
so far.
Second Auditor Frank G. Ruffin, has
received a letter from an authoritative
source which says that as soon as the
sixty days expire, the bOndhOlders will
be ready to make a proposition to the
State.
There has been so much trouble in
Cherokee county, Ia, caused by the res
ignation of teachers for matrimonial pur-
poses the past year, that the school board
now requires every teacher to sign con-
tract not to get married during the school
year.
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Indiana providing that
any man who shall be proven guilty OF
whipping his wife shall himself receive
sixty lashes, and that the public shall be
admitted to the Jail yard to see him whip
ped.
Governor Mckinney has received a let
ter from Secretary of War Proctor, asking
that the State of Virginia cede to the
Federal Government all Jurisdiction over
the lands of the Federal cemetery at Win
chester, and seven other cemeteries in the
State.
The Chicago Worlds Fair directors are
becoming worried oyer the increasing es-
Inmates and decreasing collections for the
enterprise. The latest estimate of the
amount needed is SIS 900, 900, and of the
amount of subscription in sight s9923,-
600.
Turn about is fair play. The Indians
in Dakota have been dancing a long time
to the great entertainment of the whites
and now the whites, in the guise of come
ly chorus girls, led and directed by Fran
els Wilson with the "Merry Monarch"
are dancing in Washington for the enter
taiument of the red men.
The L. S. Senate, all its expenses told,
including salaries, incidental expenses,
&C., cost the country last year S1,Ol9,-
639 S.. During the year 814 pen knives
or ten for each member-were bought
for it, and 200 pairs of pocket scissors.
Among the items charged are six bottles
of Italian cosmetic, gallon of castor oil,
and three thousand nine hundred grains
of quinire!
The output of coal in the POcahontas
region was about 100000 tons last
year, an increase of 300, 900 over the pre-
vious year. Three-fourths of this coal
was shipped to Norfolk. Several new
mines are being opened, and it is expect
ed the output this year will reach $780,
900 tons if facilities fol its transportation
can be furnished by The Norfolk and
Western road.
A very interesting and elaborate argu-
ment was made in Christiansburg, on |
as to the cOnstitutiOnality of the
State law which prohibits the running of
freight trains on Sunday so far as the |
'ame affects interstate commerce. The |
question was argued by Phleger and |
Johnson, counsel for the Norfolk & Yves !
tern railroad company, and Mr.. c. A.
Herman, commonwealth attorney. The !
Judge declared the law invalid, aud YER
licts were found for the company in two
,ases.
A letter from New York says: "Goy-
,rnor Hill, it is asserted, is now willing to
enter into negotiations that will cause TIE |
from his State to go the next
national convention pledged as unit for
nomination. Hills avowed |
purpose is to thereby hold his present in
luence after he leaves Albany, and by
lis control Of the Federal patronage, to !
make even stronger his power in the par
y organization. This plan, if carried |
out, would give Governor Hill the I'M
divided delegation from bis State in 1896 |
Woman's capacity for the successful |
of multiplex affairs is dem !
onstrated beyond the shadow of doubt
in the person of Mrs. Salter, the mayor of
Emporla, Kansas. During the past year
she has not only ably attended to the
pnblic affairs of the municipality over
which she rules, but has discharged her
social duties, performed her own house
work-washing ironing and cooking for
a family of five-and increased her family |
from five to six. Will some miserable
nan rise and explain what woman's
Iphere is anyhow i-Iader-APpeal.
Under the apportionment bill which has
low gone to the President for his sigma
ure the House of Representatives, of the
ifty.tbird Congress Will consist of $50 |
members. The states gaining representa-
ion under it are : Alabama, Arkansas.
,alifcruia. Colorado, Georgia, Kansas,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Missouri, New
Jersey. Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin,
me each; ILLINOIS, Minnesota, Pennsyl- !
Iauia, Texas, two each, and Nebraska I