Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-02-27
NEWS AND COMMENT.


Buck" Kilgore, tie Texas Congress
man, who kicked door open in the Cap
itol last fall, has had a shoe named after
him that sells famously In the Lone Star
State.
The contract for the building Of large
tsnne'y at Glasgow, was closed on the
l2th OF February. This will be one ofthe
largest tanneries in the State.
Tas Virginia Court of Appeals says
that where man buys a piece of prop
erty aud gives deed of trust the same
day, his wife is not entitled to dover in
IL.
A bill has been introduced in the Geor-
gia legislature to fine any doctor who
gets drunk 500 for the first time, and to
forever prohibit him from practicIng after
the second time.
A gang OF horse thieves are thought to
be lurking in the mountains of Roanoke
county II is said about Is horses nave
been stolen in IL at and adjoi2ing cOun e
ties in the last mouth
Such high priests of the free traiers as
Henry wstterson and Roger Q. Mills scOrn
to call it tariff reform. They mean free
trade out and out, aud do not hesitate to
say so.-Iader appeal (Dem.)
The Ohio river at Parkersburg is falling
and the worst of the food is thought to
bs over. 1t is thought that the damage
In the inundated district will reach four
million dollars. Fifteen thousand men
have been thrown out Of employ ment.
At COLUMBUS, Ohio, Monday. Col. w. J.
Elliott, editor of the Capitol, shot aud H.
stantly killed Albert Osborne, city editor
of the World. W. l.. Hughes, an old gen
tlemsn who was standing near, was killed
by stray bullet. The shooting was the
result Of newspaper ISLANDERS.
Senator German is a most methOdIcal
man. He rises at just o'clock every
morning. sits just sixty minutes at dinner,
aud never on any pretext permits an inter
ruption OF his meals. He takes walk Of
fixed length every day, battles at the
same hour, and never uses tobacco or
liquors.
On February the 18th the Directors Of
the Lexington Development Company
closed contract with Mr.. Whitman, the
controlling stakeholder, and Mr.. Kirker,
the General Manager of the company to
remove their Broom and Brush factory
from Ironton, Ohio to Lexington.
Vice President Eddy, of the Norfolk
and Western railroad, says this will be a
prosperous year for Virginia and tie indi-
cations point to plenty of money. A gcater
influx of capital and people than ever be-
fore is predicted, and they are all that is
needed h set in motion the elements of I'M
precedented prosperity in the State
An exchange tells of farmer who has
uskept flock of sheep for fourteen years,
and has not had them attacked by dogs
8even once, though focks on adjoining
farms, have been ruined. The flock al
ways wears between five and eight bells
of different sizes and tones. and there is
not dog in the world with sufficient
courage to attack flock of sheep that is
we'll supplied with bells.
The new tin mine that Is soon to be
opened and operated within 20 miles OF
Winchester, is another evidence of the
wisdom of protection. We wouldn't be
surprised If some of the very men who
have been cursing the Mckinley bill, will
be able to accumulate wealth by this
mine which that measure has made it
possible to work with good proft.-Wia-
chester Leader.
The people haven't forgotten the howl
raised by the politicians last year as to
how the Mckinley bill would raise the
price of t:nware. Well, the bill passed
and tin cans, the Scientific AmericGn states,
are selling now for 50 per 100, when last
year they brought So per 100. The fact
il the new tariG law is reviving all indus
tries, creating new ones, and as seen from
the above, is also reducing pricrs.-Pdgs
Courier.
"Bone grating" said DR.. Goldthwaite,
the physician of the Filth Avenue Hotel,
to New York reporter. abiding to the
recent experiment at Bellevue Hospital,
ais not new. Il was tried $50 years ago.
but 1t has never been successful, and /
do not think it will ever be. have not
seen the report in the Medical Journal Of
the Bellevue ease, but it Is given ont that
1t is failure Bone grating is practically
impossible. The conditions are too diff
calf and unfavOrsble. There is no record
of case Of bone grating ever being sue
eessfuIIy performed"
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