Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-28
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Col. Polk, president of the National AL
lance, says that the Alliance will have
national ticket IN the field next fall.
The San Francisco Weekly Argus sug'
gests United States Senator Leland
Stanford as Republican candidate for
the presidency.
Hon. Redfeld Proctor has BEEN ten
dered the United States senatOrship from
Vermont left vacant by the resignation OF
Hon. Geo. F. Edmunds.
The wytheville Dispatch philosophically
remarks: "a shot gun and fourteen buck
shot is the only solution of suits for defa-
nation of character. Tears AMI Jurles
don't meet the requirments of such a mo-
ment. Use the former and let the tears
aud flowers come afterwards.
They said when "Old Hutch was cavort-
in about the country that he had lost
bis mind. If that was the case, the old
man must have found it again, for he has
Just made cool 100000 out of the recent
wheat flurry.-IRder appeal.
Can it be possible that "Old Hutch"
was merely playing the insanity dodge on
the grain market Washington Post
The county court of Greenbrier county,
w. Va, lat month raised storm by
granting a license for bar room in the
"dryr town of Ronceverte. The Farmers
held a meeting and denounced the act,
and the Salem church Sabbath school did
the same. The papers have many letters
about it, from which it appears that boys
as we'll as men get liquor and get drunk
on it.
REPORTS Indicate that the government
experiments in Texas for producing rain
by the discharge OF explosives were sue
cessful. Further trials are to be made
aud the question as to whether rain can
be arti6cially produced will be definitely
settled. A decision in the affirmative
will mean millions of dollars yearly IL
the pockets of American farmers.
One of the Alliance press committed
made the statement in Richmond thai
the members of the convention are al
much opposed 20 Gen. FItz Lee as they
are favorably inclined toward Senator
John w. Daniel. He said if Lee ran fol
governor again or for any other office the
farmers of Virginia will be almost solid
against him. They think be is In sym
patty with corporations.
The Nashville american says: The
South is the only sectlen with rea
American population, and for that reason Is
distancing the rest of the country In every
line of human activity. Its increase 10
school enrolment can only be compared
to its own advance in railroad building
in mining, manufacturing and IN farming
No other country has ever equaled, at
any time, the progress made by the South
ern people in all of these lines during the
last twenty-five years.
Richmond State : Everybody may not
endorse the Alliance declarations or be-
lieve in the Alliance doctrines, but every
body has been most favorably impressed
with the personel of the Alliance Con-
v,ntion. Never was there finer body OF
srmers gathered in this or any other city
ihan those who composed the convention
here this week. Honest, intelligent,
patriotic mCn-many of them men OF the
highest ability, these representative farm
ers are working for the good of our agri-
cultural interests and for the material
advancement of Virginia.
Eighteen months ago news came to
Norfolk that Walter F. Hughes, of Hun
tersYille, had jumped from one Of the Old
Dominion steamers in Hampton Roads,
aud that his body had come ashore at
Newport News and was there buried on
the shore. After waiting long time his
widow, Mary S. Hughes, married gentle
man named Jackson. Two weeks ago the
supposed drowned man returned to his
home. His wife would have nothing to
do with him. and has entered suit in the
circuit court of Norfolk county for di
vorce on the ground of abandonment.
The Richmond correspondent to the
Petersburg IRder-4Ppeal says: 1t is likely
that if the alliance can do so they will
change nearly every state official when
the legislature comes to choosing the
auditors, treasurer, etc. The adoption o.
demand for the tenure of office by con
vention will give the members of the as
sembly a good excuse for putting some
of the men in the places now held by
harye, Hartman, FlOurnoy, etc. All o
the officials have served more than two
consecutive terms.