Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-06-26
NEWS AND COMMENT.

A baby in New York has been born
without eyes. He will probably be a
bank examiner when he grows to nan
hood .-HarriSburg Patriot.
A COW al Kennot, Pa, few days since
in moment of forgetfalness ate stick OF
dynamite. Her owner Is now afraid to
attempt to milk her.
Col. r. B. Berkeley, formerly the editor
Of the Farmville Herald, has resigned from
that spnghtly paper and taken up his
residence at Newport News, where he ex-
poets to practice law.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss has been invited
BY Lieut.. Gov. j. Hoge Tyler to deliver
an address before the convention which
meets at Pulaski on July 18th, to con-
slider what part Virginia shall take in the
Worlds Exposition at Chicago in 1893.
A large building in New York city has
been rooted with American tin-plate, still
some of onr friends, the Democrats, persist
in saying that American tin-plate is not
being made, except for advertising pur-
poses.
How many Democrats have given
President Harrison credit for the gener-
oslty re displayed in appointing two
Democrats out of the five judges of the
new private land claims court Not one,
as far as we know,
On petition of number of citizens
Judge Richardson, of the Virginia Court
of Appeals, has granted an injunction
restraining the city of Bristol from issu-
ing the 100000 in bonds voted under
certain conditions to the Danville and
East Tennessee Railroad.
The secretary of the Indian society has
filed seventeen different charges against
Uncle Sam, each one showing breach Of
faith with different tribes, and the decla-
ration is made that he has lied, swindled
and robbed until history should blush
for him. What has he to say in defense
Woman never swesrs, but when man
steps on the hem of her dress and ruins
couple of yards of expensive trimmings
the thoughts which pass through her
mind afford the devil as much amuse-
ment as though she had let out a string
of oaths mile and a half long.-Er.
far
less than the tariff on them and yet Mr..
Cleveland says that the price OF manu-
featured articles, both foreign and do
nestle is increased to the consumer By
Just the amount of the tariff. Then &C
cording to Mr.. Cleveland calicoes would
sell for less than nothing if there was no
tariff on it.-HGrrisORbarg Spirit.
Just how profitable will contests are to
the contestants is Illustrated by the re-
suit of one of these suits in New York
The testator left $4,000; $4,000 to his
widow and $4,000 to Henry George for
the dissemination of single tax literature.
The contest closed with the award of
S296 to the widow and 1913 to Henry
George. The lawyers got the rest.
The n. Y. Press tells of a high tariff
Democrat who sends them word of firm
of large manufacturers of fiannes at La
Porte, lad, whose business has been so
stimulated by the Mckinley law that the
cost of manufacture has been reduced, and
they now sell tiannels for forty-seven
cents yard which they sold just before
the Mckinley tariff bill became law, for
sixty cents yard. Yet some people still
keep up the parrot cry of "the tariff is a
tax"
"The free trade Democratic leaders are
endesvOring to undermine by unrestrain-
ed competition from abroad what we al
ready have, and are offering every from
of opposition to the Inauguration of new
enterprises. The people will come to see
and understand this If they do not al
ready, and their votes will 90 where their
material interests lie, They will not
spend their money to build up and give
their votes to pull dOwn."-Nchmley s
COpreRtien Speech.
The champion family of Iowa is living
on a farm near Hartford. There are
twebty-nine living children, Robot
Packard and wife being responsible for
the entire crop. The first, a man now
forty-nine years old, is married and lives
on farm adjoining the parents. The
other twenty-eight are single and live at
home. There is only one girl among the
number. The first child was born alone.
The next five births produced triplets and
the remainder are sets of twins.
Mai. Mckinley, the next Governor Of
Ohio. stated a rock bound truth when he
told the largest State convention ever as
sembled upon Ohio soil that "There is
one thing can be said of the Republican
party which do not believe can be said
of any other party known to political his
TORY. III mas Dceu IiSuO VI oNOty B'Oob
public question that has confronted the
people Of the nation within tie last
thirty years" Isn't that a proud record
The following good western yarn has
been set sf )at. Some years ago Kansas
preacher who was stationed at town in
the northern part of the State did not get
on we'll with his congregation. To get
rid of him the Governor was prevailed
upon to appoint him chaplin of the peni-
Tertiary. When the time came for him
to depart be preached farewell SER
mon to his congregation. There was
nothing in the sermon at which anybody
could tai. offence, but some of the men,
bers did not like the text, which was; II
20 to prepare for you, so that where / am
ye may be also"
eve prefer to tax the imported rather
than the domestic product. The Demo
cratic party prefers to tax the domestic
product rather than the imported. 1t
c.-o.c., ,,roInof Tho likQ