Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-12-11
NEWS AND COMMENT.


of buying piece of land in that city fol
a park and erecting in 1T monument u
Lincoln.
Hon. Z. E. Meredith, of Prince William
county, was elected to Congress from the
sth Va, district, to fiji the vacancy oc
casioned by the death of Genl W. h. +
Lee. His opponent was Jno. Amolel
Brooke, Republican, of Culpeper county
The finance committee of the city coun-
Gil of Richmond are considering resolu'
ton looking to the appropriation OF 80
900 for the purchase of residence iol
Mrs. Jeffsrson Davis provided she Will
make Richmond her home.
A letter to the Roanoke World says that
the Kelley institute for the cure OF drunk
enness has opened its branch hospital ID
Salem, and that applications for admission
have already been received from hcn-
mond, Lynchburg, aud Southwest VIZ
ginia.
Among the men who have gone wrong
Is Mr.. E. NJ. Soloman, a well-known ana
prominent member of nearly every beneY-
olent order in Norfolk. He has skipped
to parts unknown, leaving sick wife be-
hind and taking with HIM quite little
sum of money belonging to his brethren
His wife has since died and the sheriff has
seized upon his household effects for the
benefit of some of his creditors. Cause,
whiskey.
The first Speaker Of the House OF Rep
resentaves was a preacher. He was Fred
erick Augustus Muhlenburg, a Lutheran
of Pennsylvania. Fourteen States have
been represented in the chair, Kentucky
leading all the rest with reference to time
% years. Virginia comes next with Is
tLen Pennsylvania, IL ; Massachusetts, III;
Indiana, 9; Maine, g.; New Jersey ana
North Carolina each 6; South Carolina
and New York each 3, and Connecticut
Georgia and Ohio, years each.
promiuont business man whose trade
is in SIX or seven southern States, says
that business is better in Virginia than
il is in the rest of the South. The crops
in Virginia were better than usual TINS
year, which accounts for better conditions'
The low price for cotton accounts Tor COM
paratively dull times in the cotton States
On the whole, business throughout the
country is better than it was last spring
and promises to be very brisk indeed
next spring. Business men are looking
for a really lively spring trade.
A year or two ago an acquaintance oil
ours who lives in Buffalo, in the State OF
New York close to the Canada line, gave
MS practical illustration of the working
of the tariff IN that city. He said that
the price of hay IN the city was twenty
dollars ton, and the tariff on Canada
hay was two dollars a ton. The New
York farmers hauled in tteir hay and
got twenty dollars ton for it. The Can
adian farmers hauled theirs in also and
got the same price, but the Canadian lar
mers had to pay two dollars on each ton
to help support orr government. This
showed who paid the tax.-HarriSon6arS
Spirit
Randolph county, w. Va, has some
thing extra to send to the Worlds Fair
1t is a blackberry VINE with no brlers
A Morgantown letter says: Prot. c. f
Millspaugh, of the West Virginia Agrl
cultural Experiment station, discovered
this season new blackberry, which
grows luxuriently in the mountains o.
Randolph county, where it bears INT
trnit and no briers. Not being sure of it
unioue nature, specimens were sent t.
Prof. Britton, of New York, who unhesl
tatlngly pronounced it new to science ant
horticulture, and named it in honor OF 1T
discoverer, Rubus Millspaugh. This new
blackberry will be cultivated at the TX
periment station next year.-Moorefet'
Examiner.
A romance in real life became public il
Tacoma, State of Washington. . few day
ago. when William Lurty. clerk of tn
Municipal Court was qaietly married u
Lucy II. Lurty. Once before, away oscl
in Virginia, IN the year 1873, these sam
parties were united in marriage an
three children we're born to them. Tn
marriage proved unhappy, however, an'
in 1887, one gear after their coming I
Tacoma, they separated by mutual con
sent and were divorced il the Distric
Court. though Mr.. Lurty contineud t
nrovide for She mother and children an
was an occasional visitor at their home
Last April Mrs. Lurty and her childre
returned to Virginia. They stayed ou
four months. Returning to Tacoma, the
were established IN snug home on I'd
hill provided by Mr.. Lurty, and the mai
rage last Friday re united tne iamIy'
Attorney General Miller, in arguing tn
Mckinley tariff bill before the suprem
court, last Tuesday, stated csnoisely an
most accurately the principal and justlb
cation OF gthe policy of protection. ID
said that ut was the duty OF Congress-
bis opinion, to build up our industries so
to be independent of the world in tim
of need. In time of peace the government
could get everything, but In time Of wa
it could not. In time OF peace the sout
had devoted itself to cotton and corn au'
had prospercd. but when the war cam
the south found that 1t would have bee'
to it's advantage to have fostered its IN
dustries 30 that it would not have bee
compelled to buy abroad" He could no
have stated the truth more fcrcibly in
volume, and 10 this aspect of the question
IL rises above mere rsrty concern and &c
comes an Issue of patriotism and Of nation
81 safety .--Ixdex-AppeaL