Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-01-30

United States Senator by the Kansas
legislature to succeed Hon. Jno. J. Ingalls,,
the present Republican incumbent.
The Bnena Vista company has sold its
new and unfinished hotel and the sur
rounding fourteen acres OF land to
McCandish & Cloves for sl25, 700.
A ton of gold ore from the Leopold
mine, Fauqnler county, was recently
shipped to New York. This mine and
several others will probably be worked
in the spring.
Gen. Gordon. L. S. Senator-elect from
Georgia, expresses himself as being in
fullest sympathy with the objects of the
Farmers Alliance, and will become a
member Of the order at an early day.
Steps are being taken by some citizens
of Staunton and vicinity to organize a
company for building belt line railroad
around Stsunton, to accommodate manu-
fscturers who may be induced to locate
there.
The Legislature Of Virginia to be chosen
next fall will have to elect five judges Of
the Supreme Court of Appeals. The pres
emit judges were elected by the readjuster
Legislature in 1851 for twelve years, and
the term of their Office will expire in 1898
A justice of the peace in a county in
Wisconsin has had 24O appeals taken on
his decisions during the last six years,
snc only one OF them failed to be sustain
ed. He started out to decide cases "ac-
cording to common sense"
The dispute in the Colorado House of
Representatives between the faction
known as "the gang" composed of Re-
publicans, and "the combine" composed
of Republicans and Democrats, has been
decided by the Supreme Court of the
State in favor of "the combine" The
point at issue was as to the officers.
A surgeon of Decatur, ILL.,, has Just
completed novel surgical operation. He
removed part of four ribs of a cat and
inserted them in the nose of a young
lady, forming perfect bridge for the
nose. The bones of the nose had decay ed
and were removed. This is said to be
the first operation of the kind known in
the annals of surgery.
A dispatch from Chicago says that B.
P. Hutchinson, the grain speculator, famil-
iarly known as "Old Hutch,0 has been
trading so recklessly of late that his for
ture has been reduced to less than $780,
900, and he has transferred the bulk of
that to his family who threatened to
have his mental condition inquired into.
1t is said his loss amounts to SIS, 0O0, COO.
Horse shoes Of compressed paper have
been introduced into the artillery and
cavalry of the German army. The shoe
10 made OF sheets of parchment paper
csmented with preparation of terpentine,
Spanish white lac and boiled lnseed oil.
The separate layers are stamped out ce-
mented aud consolidated by a hydraulic
press. When dry the shoe is rasped to
at each horse.
The trustees of the estate of the late
a. G. Dulany have, through Messrs. Burke
& Herbert, bankers of this city, funded
the $4,000 worth of Virginia State
bonds belonging to the decendent, into
bonds of Riddleoerger issue. This fact
having been reported to the LOudoun
Circuit Court, the suits therein pending,
growing out OF the tender of coupons for
taxes, were satisfactorily adjusted
alexandria Gazette.
Whether the Chicago Worlds Fair
shall or shall not be open on Sunday is
still being discussed by the press and peo-
pie all over the country. The opinion of
those who favor q Sunday opening Is
generally voiced By Governor Campbell.
of Ohio, who says: ~ do not think it is
exactly religious or even moral ques-
ton. bat more of social one. The work
Ing people must have some recreation"
The ministers of the gospel and millions
of church members are opposed TO Sunday
opening.
That sterling old paper. the Alexandria
Gazette. catered Its 92nd year with the
beginning Of the present year. Although
one Of the Oldest papers In the country it
is one of the most vigorous ami able, and
can "hold up its end of the log" with the
best Of them. Always straightforward
and above board it never hesitstes to ex-
press itself squsrely aud forcible at all
times and upon all questions, and never
let's policy influence it against what it
believes to be the truth. Long may it
live and prosper.
Miss Hattie Mcpherson. aged twenty,
of Bacon, Falls, Pa, has been bed ridden
for some months from paralysis of the
whole Of one side. The honse took fire
last Thursday night when the family
vsre absent. She leaped out of bed, put
on her wrapper and slippers and was run
ming over the icy psvements like a deer,
whom her abtOnished father returning
home met her. She was taken to 8 neigh
boris house and put to bed. On Saturday
she seemed almost recOved from her par
elysis.
What We admire in the Democracy is
their discipline. They always keep step,
and In their widest campaigns, whether
Allied with hopeful enthusiasm. or the de-
spordency Of desperation, they move
steadily on, never losing the touch of ell
bows. In off years, or any time before the
campaign begins, they differ fercelv, and
70 extremes, both a. to men and meas
urssj but as soon as the fighting begins,
they close mp their ranks and are as
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