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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT HARRISON has a gold mounted
gun.
CYRUs W FIELDS life was insured for
$4,000.
PRINCE BISMARCK has an income Of $3.50, =
600 year.
JUSTICE SHIRAs is the only member Of
the Supreme Court who wears whiskers.
REPRESENTATIVE CABLE, of Illinois. is
declared to be the best camp cook in Con-
gress.
CHAUYcEY G. SMITH. of hartford. Conn,
has been fifty years a deacon OF the First
Baptist Church in that city.
SUPERINTENDENT BYRNEs. the head Of the
New York Police Department, has just cell
ebrated his fiftieth birthday.
QUEEE VICTORIA is surrounded by cor
den of detectives as many as those about the
person o; his Czarship OF Russia.
TIE present Lord Fairfax, who lives in
Virginia, is doctor and practices his pro-
fession. In England his title is fully ac-
knowledged.
CBArNcEY M. DEPEw says tha. while on
shpboard he sleeps upward OF eighteen
hours out of the twcnty-four in every day
Of the voyage.
SECRETARY J. W. Foster is the only
diplomat who has held three first-class mis-
sions. Grant sent him 10 Mexico, Hayes to
Russia and Arthur 10 Spain.
PRINCESS MARY OF EDINBURGH, who by
her marriage TO Prince Ferdinand will be-
come a future Queen Of Rounania, is not
quite seventeen years OF age.
GOVERNOR PECK, of Wise c)nsn was once
a printer living on back street. hc now
lives handsomely in the house in which Ole
Bull the famous yiolinst, once lived
CAPTAIN FRED |. DEAN. of Washington,
d. c.. though not an old man in years, IL
said TO be the Oldest G. A. R. veteran liv-
ing He is one Of its original four organ
izars.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has become 50
angered by the illusions in tho American
newspapers 10 his late canvass for Paria-
ment that he declares he will never set foot
in the United States again.
ROBERT H. FoLGER, of Massillio1, Ohio,
is claimed to be the oldest practicing attor.
ney in the United States He was horn ia
Chester County, Penn, 1912, and began the
practice OF law thirty years thereafter.
EDWARD OLIVER WoLcorT, OF Massa.
chusetts, who served as private in an Ohio
regiment in 1854 and now represents Colo
RADIO in the United States Senate. has taken
Oakview, ex.President Cleveland's old home.
RICHARD CROKER, who rose from a ma
chiuist's bench TO be the head of Tammany
Hall, was engineer Of the first steam fire en-.
gine used in New York City. He afterward
6ecame foreman OF Engine Company %.
position of influence aad importancs in po.-
tics, and his election as Alderman a few
years later, in 1861 gave hun start on tue
career he has since followed.
JOSEPH SENIOR, whose death occurred
recently. was famous in England tor the
verses he wrote while toiing at his forge as
8 cutler in Sheffield He published his
poetry under the title OF "Smithy Rhymes
and Stithy Chimes" and the book mad
arge scle At the age OF sixty-five MIR.
Senior was stricken with blindness and he
thenceforth devoted himself entirely to
verse-makinZ.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
which An American comedy could be
written. Nobody supplied the demand.
New York Sun.
rrotf clIon Aaainsf Hurricanes.

After the second demolition Of Eddy
stone lighthouse, on the south coast of
England, an ingenious architect be-
thought himself of the plan Of recon-
structing the main tower OF granite
blocks, joined by iron clamps to all the
blocks around them, thus making il i'm
possible for storm wave to detach any
portion Of the masonry without overcon-
ing the resistance of the entire structure.
On a similar plan, says DR.. Oswald, in thE
San Francisco Chronicle, nature has pro-
tected the trees of the tropical forests
against the destructive force of hurri-
canes. Bush ropes hundreds Of feet in
length and more elastic than the toughest
hemp 70 PES join tree to tree and branch
to branch, thus forming network of
vegetable walls, which, together with
their outwurks and deep roote1 main
stays, are able to oppose an enormous re-
sistance TO the lateral pressure, as we'll as
to the twisting efforts of tornado; and
the tangled underbrush, which for pur.
poses of landscape gardening makes the
southern virgin woods so inferior to the
park-like forests of the north, is thus an
absolute condition OF existence, developed
through ages by process of natural
selection. Parasitical vines with their
strangling grip and deep biting roots are
rare tax on the vitality OF tree, but
only such trees as could contrve to afford
that assessment had a chance to survive
the atmospheric vicissitudes of the
tropics. The roots OF a Brazilian cancho
tree, for instance, have to pump double
supply of nourishment out of the ground
fifty per cent. for the internal economy
of the cancho itself aud at lccst forty for
the esurient but indispensable taugle
vines.
The gale resisting vines in their turn
were modified by that process of selec-
ton. The weaker ones perishcd by
being snapped asunder IN successive
storms; the survivors hourishel on con-
dition of growing tougher and tougher,
and at last absolutely tornado proof.
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SOuth and West.

AT LAKE Provi lenca. La. thrso ciil Iron
OF Robert Dorse :, c)Orei, tho eldest ssven
years, being loclei up in their cabin while
ths parents went to church. set the place
afre anl were bIrne1 t. dslth.
GENERAL SPEED S. FREY, Superintendent
o. the Kentucky Soldiers Hone. diel a
few night ago at Louisville. in his seventy
fifth year. He served in the Mexican War
and in ths late Wa on the Union side. He
became famous as the man who kilel thu
Southern Brgadier-G eneral, Zolliecofer,
at the battle OF Mil Springs, January,
1852.
THE first State Convention of the Peoples
Party OF Michigan was held at Jackson.
}. W. Ewing, a farmer, residing in Grand
Ledge Elton County, WIS no ninatei TO:
Governor.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND people at the Chau-
tauq IA Grounds, Beatrice, Ne5., listene to
an address by Governor William Mckinley,
of Ohio
TIE Democrats OF Minnesota met at Min
neapolis and nominated a State ticket hea led
by Daniel Y L1wler for Governor.
THoMAsE. DAVIS, Of Taylor County, was
nominated for Governor by the West Hir'
ginia Republican State Convention at Hunt
ingtou by accama.ion after ths first ballot.
THE North Dakota RepIblicln State Con
vention at Fargo renominated Congress
man Johnson for Congress by acclamation.
Governor Burke was pl1cel in nomination
for Governor.
AT Goodlanj. Inlia1 Territory. Martin
Holmes was shot and killed by John Bohanan
in the courtroom. Holmes married Bo-
hanan's dau ghter and killed her about one
month ago in a fit of Jealousy. Bohanap
was not arrested.
The Watterson Club House at Louisville
KY, was dedicatel: Ailai r. Stevenson,
Democratic candidate for ce.Presdent,
made the de lcltion speech.
THE Nebraska Independent state Conven'
tion at Kearney nominated eX-Unlted States
Senator Charles A. Van WycS for Gov.
ernor
FRANK MAcKIN, Superintendent OF the
large tanning establishment in ths psnltsn-
tary at Jefferson City. Mo. WIS murdered
by colored convict namet JACK Brown.
The convict was armed with heavy shoe
knife
LORENZO CRoUNsE, Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury, was nominated for Governor
by the Republicans Of Nebraska at Lincoln.
ALLAN CARTER, colored, who had been
arrested at Wynne, Ark, on a charge OF as
saulting his fourteen-y year-old daughter, was
taken from jail by a mob Of colorei men aud
lynchei.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle states.

FREDERICK MoLLEcK. who was arrests |
as an ace ssory OF Berklnanu, tho wvuld-b,
assassin OF II. c. Frok. has been discharged
from custody at Fittsburg. W. j. Brennan,
representing the Amalgamatel Association,
apple in court for the appointment Of a
voluntary trade tribunal TO settle the
Homestead trouble.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL STREAToR was ar
rested at his home in Washington, Penn, on
the charges Of aggravated assault and bat.
terry and assault and battery preferred by
Private Iams. He gave bail in the sum Of
$500 on each charge and was released.
THE threatened procee liugs by the strik-
ers at Homestead, Penn, against the officers
of the Carnegie Company were taken. War
rants were issue1 for II. c. Frick, Chair.
man; T. F. Loveioy, Secretary; H. NJ. Curry,
Treasurer; J. G. II. Leishman, Vice-C Chair
man, and others, their subordinates. Each
Of these appeared by counsel pleaded not
guilty to the charge OF murder brought
against them and we're liberated in $1,000
hail.
TaE statue of John P. Hale, presented to
the State Of New Hampshire by Senator
William f. Chandler, was unveiled in the
State House yard at Concord. There was a
large concourse OF people present.
Dos N. DICKINSON was chosen Chairman
of the Democratic National Campaign Com
mittee i'll New YORK City.
The dead bodies of Andrew J. Borden
and his wife were discovered by their
daughter in their home at Fall River. Mass.
The couple. who were wealthy, hal been
murdered aud their bodies had been horribly
mutiiated, as il with an axe or cleayer.
There was no clue t) the assassin.
CHARLES STOCXTY and his son, Charles
Jr., were drowned in the Niagara River at
Buffalo, n. Y. They wers fishing, when
the boy slipped an fell into the water. The
father, VINO held the local championship
swimming ma la. plunged 10 after his son,
but being Handicapped with his clothing and
a swift current was unable to reach the boy,
or return u the shore.
JUDGE RUMsEY, of the New York State
Supreme Court, handed down decision de-
claring the recent Legislative Ap )ortion-
ment act unconstitutional.
H c. FRIcE, manager Of the Carnegie
Steel Company, who was shot by the An
archist Berkmanl, has returned to his oHic,
in Pittsburg.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
SINGING BY THE WAY,
He sang as the blithe hearted robin

He sang as the blithe hearted robin
Sings in a summer day.
Unmindful that any listened
To the music of his lay.
The 'oy Of life and of living
Seeme1 voiced in the simple strain
That filled the air with such sweetness
A. the fields have, after rain.
His weary and toll worn neighbor
Heard, and was glad to hear,
For into bis life Of labor
1t threw thrill of cheer.
1t lifted his thoughts frcn sadness,
Itcharmed away his care.
And the music and its glainess
Brought blessing, unaware. .
We may all be singers, my brothers,
Of songs TO help AMI cheer.
The strain may not be lofty;
There may be few to hear.
But into some life the music
OF the song we sing may fall,
Brave with its faith in the goo !ness
OF the God who is over all.
Let the joy of our lives run over
Our lips in a cheerful song, -.
And the world may have more of sunshn
And the faint of heart grow strong.
Ting, for the JOY of singing,
And sing your carcs away,
And share with Others the gladness
That comes 70 you, day by day.
.-Eben Z. Rexforj, in Detroit Free Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
Cows That Eat Fish.

Cows in Norway have been credited
with the power of exacting sustenance
from stones which travellers in that
country may have seen them licking. A
more substantial diet is found for them
in the winter in some parts of the coun-
try, where provender OF all kinds is
scarce, in the shape of heads of the cod
fish, which are pounded into a mash.-
New York Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
An Inhuman Practice.

A correspondent writes from Calcutta,
India, Of most inhuman practice carried
on there by the native infantry. He
says that a regiment is summoned to the
Jail at Alipore every six months to fire
ten rounds of blank ammunition in the
direction Of the sixteen hundred convicts
imprisoned there. These unfortunate'
crouch down in their cells and tremble
with fear, expecting every moment to be
put 10 death. 1t is supposed that the
authorities do this to intimidate and
prevent the prisoners from attempting to
escape. To add to this inhumau practice
the Lieutenant Governor aud other high
officials witness the parade from the roof
OF the iail.--New York Dispatvh.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
Catalina Iimher.

OF late years the catalpa has been
made to serve au excellent purpose in the
furniture trade. 1t was used especially
and with good effect by railroad car
builders. It is, however, losing iti
name as catalpa, and is known by the
furniture dealers as white mahogany. 1t
has also occurred in the trade uuder the
name of Pavara, but what is the deriva-
ton of this name is not known. In
Philadelphia it is coming into e1tenfive
use, -Meehan's Monthly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12
CURIOUS FACTS,


Francisco.
London is larger in iarea AMI in pop
llation than Pekin.
The Car of RussidisIthe largest indi-
vidual landholder in the world.
At the 1876 centennial at Philadel-
phia an electricilight was exhibited as a
curiosity.
Tiles are said toIhavc been first made
in England about 1926. They were taxed
in 1874, but the tax was repealed in
1888.
India rubber trees grow wild all over
Leo County, Florida. At Fort Myers
they are the chief shade and ornamental
trees.
Horticuturists tell us that the orange
was originally pear-shaped fruit about
the size of the common wild cherry. Its
evolution is due to 1890 years of culti-
vation.
1t has only been eighty.on years
since the first tomatoes were introduced
into America. The original plant was
cultivated as a vegetable curiosity at
Salem, Mass.
The average length of life is greater
in Norway than in any other country on
the globe. This is attributed to the fact
that the temperature is cool aud uniform
throughout the year.
The greatest days run of an ocean
steamship was about SIS miles. The
steamer in question was 50? feet long
and had previously bael known to
make 500 miles per day for three days in
succession.
The Government telegraph service OF
Great Britain operates about 3),O)0
miles of line, aud handles nearly 33,
900, 900 tclegrlms a year. Last year g.,
900, 900 telegrams were handled in Lon.
don alone.
Mummies taken from the Egyptian
tcmbs, beaten into a dOe powder AMI
mixed with oil for paint is one of the
latest industries at Cairo. The color OF
this human dust paint is rich brown Of
lively tone.
A wire netting fence 500 miles long il
one of the late Australian wonders. The
fence separate, the colonies Of New
South Wales and Queensland, and its oh.
ject is to keep the rabbits out of the
latter country.
AT the castle of Simonatta, Italy, there
is an angle in the building which re.
cchoe, a pistol shot sIxty-oae times.
The echoed reports from twenty zone tc
thirty-three are always louder than the
report of the shot itself.
Remains of prehistoric man of tn,
oldest stone age, consisting of rudcly
Clipped flint implement among bones OF
reindeer and other Arctic animals no
longer found in that part Of Europe, have
lust been discovered in Hermann's cave,
in the Harz.
Four different peaks in the mountains
of Idaho are from thirteen to twenty
three feet lower by actual measure neat
than they were fifteen years ago. &c
ologists DO not attempt to explain the
"why" of their settling.
CaterpilIars from six inches to foot
long are common in the vicinity Of the
Darling River, Australia. Tho nativeI
twist them together and boil them il
kangaroo grease. Travellers who have
tasted this delicacy say that it is not al
together unpalatable.
The Eiffel Tower, at Paris, is now the
highest clock tower in the world.
gigantic clock has been placed on iti
second platform, and scientists daily AMI
hourly take observations on the motion
: of the pendulum, it being their idea that
the revolution Of the earth on its axi
may be visibly demonstrated By tue ex.
pertinent.
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night AMI completely destroyed. foursesn
persons being killed, sixteen seriously in.
jured and two THOUSAND rem iered homeless.
KING MALIEToA, of the Samoan Islands.
has been presented with $500 by Mr. Black
lock- agent for a wrscking company being
the proceeds from the sale of the wrec%age
OF the naval vessels lost in the great storm,
presented to the Samoaus oy the American
Government. Part has been distributed
among the chiefs
SIX miners were drowned in coal pit
near Dewsbury, County Of York, England,
by food from an adjoining abandoned
nit
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GEORGE II. MAYNARD, a saloonkesper at
San Francisco. Cal. was killed in drunken
brawl by two hoodlums What makes his
death noteworthy is that while ago his
brother was killed by blow on the head.
An examination showed that his skull was
the thinnest that ever clme into the hos.
pital. Tire police then warnsi the victim OF
this fight TO keep out o. ,arrels. as ne
came OF a paper sku'lei family.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-12

THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
HAzEx is preparing the designs tor set OF
stamps 70 be issued by thu Postofiios Do
partrnent in honor Of the four hun tredth
anniversary OF the discovery OK America by
Columbus. He is getting together material
that will suygess 10 him the most appro-
rriats subjects to be illustrated on tha
stamps,
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A GHOSTS MARRIAGE.

H E stage
coach which
ran between
Paris an d
BIarseilles had
just reached
GrenO Bile, ,
w h e n til c
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08
FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate

59TH DAY-The correspondence with
Great Britain on the Boring Sea matter was
Transmitted TO the Senate by President
Harrison under secrecy-The provision in
the Indian Appropriation bill transferring
the care of the Indians to the army was dis
cussed--The Army Appropriation bill was
presented and referred.
GOTH DAY.-Discussion on the Boring
Sea treaty was continued. All the CORE
spondence was made public-Bills to es-
tablish fish hatcheries in Montana and Texas
and for fish and oyster culture station on
the Gulf coast were reported favorably-
Mr.. Sherman offered resolution calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for a detailed
statement of the saving or the increase In
the annual expenditure which would result
from transfer of the revenue marlne to the
Navy Department.
61sT DAY.-The consideration of the ar
bitration treaty was finished in executive
session, but the vote deferred-Mr. Proctor
submitted the adverse report of the Com
mittee on Military Affairs upon the bill to
York City, on the retired list of
the army-Mr SAWYER introduced
bill to encourage postal savings,
to invest the same and to divide
earnings among the depositors. Referred
Senate bill approprlating 800, COO for a
public building of Helena, Montana was
passed-Mr. Stanford gave notice that he
would address the Senate on the bill to de-
termine the value of the legal-tender silver
dollar Business was suspended to pay
proper tribute to the late Senator Hearst.
Mr.. Stanford delivered eulogy on the
dead Senator, and others were made by
Messrs. Vest Stewart, VOORHEES,, Bate.
Dolph, Morgan and Felton, (Mr. Hearst's
SUCCESSOR.
GID DAY. The usual mass of petitions and
memorials from State oranges for and
against various measures of legislation were
presented and referred-Mr. Morgan
offered a resolution, which was agreed to,
calling on the President tor correspondence
with the Argentine Republic on the subject
of reciprocity--The Senate bill to allow
thirty days leave of absence to employees in
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was
discussed and then recommitted-Mr.H oar
introduced bill to amend the act facilitating
the disposition Of cases in the United States
Supreme Court-The Senate at 205, on
motion of Mr. Sherman, proceeded to execu-
tive business, and at sos adjourned.
esd DAY.-The Boring Sea arbitration
treaty was confirmed by unanimous vote
Mr.. Stewart announced that he would
move to take up his Free Coinage bill
Mr.. Quay reported favorably a bill appro-
priating $50, 600 for the erection in Washing
ton of statue to Ericsson, and another ap-
propriating $4,000 for statue of Robert
Dale Owen to be placed in the Smithsonian
Institution grounds. He also reported bill
approprating SIS, 600 for the purchase of an
oil painting of Lincoln to be hung in the
Capitol.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-08
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

A BIG mass meeting of all classes Of
citizens at Cooper Union, New York City,
denounced the Central Park Speedway Act,
and demanded its repeal.
Bend, n. Y, near the outskirts of the town
struck two women, Mrs. Decker and Mrs.
Quick. Both were instantly killed
THE joint debate between the representa-
tives of the Yale and Harvard College took
place at the Hyperion Theater, New Haven,
question debated was: Resolved, That i'm
migration to the United States should
be unrestricted" The speakers in
the order of their appearance were
as follows: E. H. Haven, of Harvard,
affirmative; j. l. Chamberlain, of Yale, neg
alive; F. W. Dillinger, of Harvard. afirma-
tive; Thornwell Mullaly. of Yale. negative;
j. Stacy Brown, of Harvard, affirmative,
and William A. McQuade, of Yale, negative.
Each spoke fifteen minutes.
Mrs. MARY LARSEN, aged eighty years.
who lives in Brooklyn, n. Y, in an old
frame house, was bound, gagged and robbed
OF 5000 by two young men.
FIRE in Philadelphia, Penn, destroyed
Bromley's Mills, causing loss of fully
100000. The cocoa and chocolate manu-
featuring establishment of II. o. Wilbur &
Sons was also destroyed; loss. 1920, 900.
ARIo PARDEE, of Hazleton, Penn, banker.
coal operator and manufacturer was found
OSdO LII AlS btu III Ills ISOch LcOSo Cottage Oh
Indian River, Florida. Mr.. Pardee, who
spent his eighty years of life in the coal re-
gions of Pennsylvania, was said te be the
wealthiesC man in the State his riches being
estimated at about $50, 600, 900.
CLAUS SPREcKELs's sugar refinery at
Philadelphia, Penn, has been formally
turned over to the Sugar Trust, in consid-
GRAFTON of 1000, 600 in trust certificates,
thus ending his war against that corpora
ton.
The wreckers have taken the British ship
Windemere off the beach at Asbury Park,
n. J.
WHILE James Calvin and Edward Welsh
loitered on the tracks at Poughkeepsie N.
Y, they were struck by freight train and
killed.
The New York State Legislature held
services at Albany in memory of General
Sherman; General Slocum presided, and
Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered the grafton.
BOTH branches of the Rhode Island Leg
islature have passed the bill providing for
biennial elections of State officers.