Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-07
NEWS AND COMMENT.

SPEAKER " NCftottf Lt""Vf'
Anumber Of recently married people at
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, are in state OF
mind over the discovery that Rev. Albert
Cushion, who officiated at their we'd
djpgs. is not an ordained minister.
The Basic City Adranee says Major Jed
Hatchkiss, of the Virginia delegation, at
the National Editorial Association at ST.
Paul. Min, got into the Western papers
as "Judge" Hotchkiss, but was called the
"Jim Blaine" of the convention by tie
shouting ones.
A well-known citizen of Richmond
recently read an advertisement in a
Northern paper-"Positive cure for STAN
mering. By mail 81" He sent 81 and
received the answer promptly and neatly
printed. as follows: "Keep your mouth
shut"
The upderhanded attacks made upon
Mr.. Blaine by mlsrepresenting his health
have proven to be bOOmerangs in more
than one sense. Experience is the Only
thing that will teach some people the lei
low who once picks IN piece oil Wni'e
hot iron will hardly repeat the expert
ment willingly.
It is reported that there is school dis
trict in Connecticut in which there mas
not been child born during the past
nine years. That the population is about
500 and the youngest child attending
school is nine years of age. The trouble
must be that the people in that school dis
trict have been too highly educated
know entirely too much.
A telegram in the Washington Post
dated Houston, Tex, July 29th, says;
"While preaching to large audience
here tonight, and VIXEN in the middle OF
his discourse, some people on the outside
turned out the lights and rOtten-egged
Rev. Sam Jones and his audience, most OF
whom were ladies. There Is great In
dignation felt and t;ouble may ensue."
We have been asked if this paper has
candidate for the Presidency. We have
no hesitation IN saying that 1t has. Our
choice is the man upon whom majority
of the delegates to the next national
convention shall agree as the proper man
to lead the party to victory. We trust
that this explanation Is sufficiently cX-
plicit.
At the Virginia Bar Association at the
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, the
following officers for the ensuing year
were elected: President, John Randolph
Tucker. of Lexington; vice. presidents,
Thomas D. Ransom, A. A. Gray, j. f.
Croker, ]. P. Fitzgerald and Il. a.
Routh; secretary and treasurer, James T.
Lamb. of Richmond members of the
executive committee, T. II. Mcclure and
RIB. Davis.
Secretary Foster deserves credit tor
having refused to allow the sons oil tW'
promlnent Treasury department Officials
to be appointed private secretaries u
their fathers. The practice among OF
ficials of placing members Of their III
mediate families upon the Government
nav rolls is at best bad one, and should
he entirely abolished as far as Republican
are concerned. 1t has been the cause
more than one scandal. We tip our ha
70 the man who dares to do light, ever
though he thereby ofends some OF hi
friends.
An elder in charge of church at IN
dependence, Mo-, tried to introduce GER
tain reforms in his congregation, and II
doing so has disrupted his membership
sadly. He required the sisters to dress Il
plain black dresses and sun-bonnets with
out ribbons, laces or frills. He fOrbad
the men TO use tobacco. Dlsobedlenct
he said, would be punished with expul
sion. The frivolous brethren and sisters
however, rather than give up their to
bacco and their frills, gave Sp thel
church, which now consists OF onl
thirteen members.
Oh yes. the Mckinley tariff law is de
stroying our foreign commerce. and TN
is the way it Is doing it A statemen
recently issued by the Bureau OF Statl;
tics of the Treasury department show
that our foreign commerce for the iisca
year ending juno so, was the largest il
our history, amounting to l,729 $50, e90
II also shows that under the first nln
months of the Mckinley tariff law W
imported merchandise to the value
$3.50. 2O6, OO5, while for the same period i
the year before our imports amounted
only sos, 1863, 9O5; also that under tn
Mckinley law the goods admitted free
duty amounted to S295, 1868 .665 agains
sos. 9s3, s73 for the same period in tn
year before. How the Democratic lies b
which they secured control of the Hous
of Representatives last year are goi1
home to rOOst.
Col. VIM. L. Sims, United States Con
sui at Colon, United States of Columbia
died on the Goth ulto. William Edwar
Sims was torn on the plantation of hi
father, John Hampton Sims, near Wood
VILE, Miss, in 1912. At the age of ffteel
he entered Yale College, graduating fou
wears later in 1861. He then entered tn
Confederate army as private; was fou
times wounded duriag the war, at tn
close of which he was Assistant Adjutan
General of brigade, with the rank 0
Captain. He was admitted to the bar il
1870, when be moved from Mississippi
and settled at Chatham, Pittsylvsni'
county, Va. He was for several years
director in the Virginia Midland Railroad
Company. He left the Democratic party
with General Malone, and was the GEN.
trail figure in the famous Dsnville riot
he was delegate to the two National
n1r.-u.. No,uanfiora of 1924 and 1853