Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-06
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The Postoffice Department has decided
that hereafter circulars having anything
printed on them with a rubber stamp
shall be prepaid as first-class or letter
postage.
The Governor has issued writs for a
special election to be held in the Eighth
Congressional district on December 9th,
to fill the unexpired term of the late Gen
eral w. II. f. Lee in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The will Of the late Samuel J. Tilden,
drawn by himself, and he one of the
ablest lawyers of his day, has just been
set aside by the Court OF last resort as to
the trust of his residuary estate, and his
heirs at law recover four millions of dol
lars.
A Mason Co., W. Va, man had so many
apples that he did not know what to do
with them. lie concluded to make cider
vinegar. He filed all the barrels he
could get and still be had apples left.
Then be bailed the water out of his cstern
and he is now filing that with cider.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, Alliance Congress
man elect from Kansas, was in Washing
ton last week. Being interviewed, LIE
said the Alliancemen in the next House
will have their own candidate for Speak
or, and have decided not to 60 into Dem
ocratic caucuses.
An asylum tor the treatment of inebri-
ates is to be established at Salem by Drs.
Brown and Glover, of Nebraska. The
projectors control the right to use bichlo-
ride of gold in the treatment Of drunken
ness, opium, morphine and tobacco hab-
its, and will establish but one asy lum in
State.
The Postofice Department has instruct
ed District Attorney William E. Craig to
bring SUIT against the Louisiana State
Lottery for sending their literature
through the mails. Colonel Craig will
endeavor to secure indictments against
them at DaDville, HarrisOnburg, Lynch
burg and Abingdon.
There are now being liberated into the
Potomac river from the fish ponds of the
United States fish commission, near the
Monument in Washington, about a mil
lion shad which were placed in the ponds
last spring. The fish average about two
inches in length, are very active and tul-
" able to take care of themselves on their
journey to the sea. This is the second tx-
pertinent in rearing this species by the
United States fish commission. similar
number having been released into the
Potomac last fall.
There is no denying the hold that the
man from Maine has on the people Of
this country. 1t is not to reason why,
but there can be no disputing the fact
he has a stronger following than any
other man in American politics. and it is
al enthusiastic following, that -swears
by and fights for its leader. Men
who were his ardent champions in 1876
when be was first a candidate for Presi- |
dent are still for him, and insist that he
shall again be the candidate of his party.
-UashiagtOn Post.
When the reciprocity plan and pro-
gramme were put forth by Mr.. Blaine, the
free traders very generally hailed the
Few policy with shouts of triumph. They |
pretended to find in it evidence that the
Secretary of State was coming to their /
ground and was already about half way
to free trade.
Why is it then, that every apparently |
successful movement in the direction
pointed out by Mr. Blaine is misrepre-
sented and ridiculed by the free trade
organs, wbile every seeming rebuff or
difficulty in the way of extending Ameri-
can trade is magnIfed and dwelt upon
with evident JOY by these same enemies
of the protective tariff Y. Sun.
The failure OF the Tennessee Legisla-
ture IN special session to adjust the diff
serences between the miners and the con-
victs recently put to work in the mines
of that State under the convict lease sys-
tenn eliminated Friday night in the re-
lease by the minerssof over three hundred
convicts at Briceville and Coal Creek
The stockade at Briceville was burned.
The guards made no resistance and there
was no bloodshed. The cOnvicts mostly
fed to the mountains of Kentucky. The
miners resumed work Saturday.
Two hundred coDvicts working under
ease in the mines at Oliver Springs,
Tenn, were released by miners at
o'clock Monday morning. The stockade
vas burned. This makes more than five
,undred convicts released in that vicinity :
,ince last Friday.
Governor Buchanan, OF Tennessee, has
,ffersd q reward of 5000 for the arrest
nd conviction of the Briceville miners
rho released the convicts.
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