Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-05
NEWS AND COMMENT.


this alone keeps Congress in session.
The city of Stanton has purchased
fair grounds for $4,000, and will issue
bonds to pay for same.
Frark Hurd doesn't agree with MI
Cleveland. He says the Chicago platform
means free trade and nothing else.
The Rappahannock county democrats
have elected delegates favorable to the
denomination of Congressman O'Ferral
Mr. Edgar Snowden, for many years
editor Of the Alexandria Gazette, died at
his sons residence in Washington last
Friday morning.
Colonel Robert H Crockett, Democratic
candidate for Congress in the sixth Arkan-
sas district, is a grandson Of the famous
Davy Crockett.
II said that some citizens of Harpers
Ferry are tearing up lot of old pave
ment brick and selling them to visitors
for relics OF the original John Browns
Fort.
By the general deficiency bill the
widow of the late Representative W. H.
F. Lee will receive $1,000, and the legal
heirs of the late Senator j. S. Barbour
an equal amount.
George Shlras, Jr.. the newly appointed
Justice of the United States Supreme
court is a cousin of James G. Blame.
Truxton Beale, appointed Minister to
Greece, is engaged to marry Mr.. Blaine'S
daughter, Harriet.
IfMr. Harrity desires some practical
information concerning the art of holding
two responsible positions at one and the
same time, he should hasten to make
application to DAVID B. Hill-BaltmOre
american.
Cleveland. Ohio, was struck by light
ming the other day, and Cleveland, the
candidate, will be struck by lightning |
next November, for the second time, not
withstandlng the adage about lightning
never striking twice in the same place
En-.
The widow of Senator Plumb seems
well supplied with the sort of common |
sense that made her husband famous, and |
she displayed big chunk of it when she
asked that an item in a Congressional
appropriation bill giving her $4,000 be
struck out.
A vigorous campaign will be made in
Virginia and West Virginia. The former
state cast It's electoral vote for Cleveland
by considerably less than 1000 votes, and
the republican managers claim that the
majority OF the voters in the state today
are republican.-BaltimOre american.
The Richmond correspondent Of the
Petersburg Inder-APpeal says; The
copying of the direct tax lists will not
be completed until the latter part of the
week, and Governor Mckinney will not
return to the city until the work is
finisked, when be will appoint the dis
trihutors of the funds.
The Page Cmier say The Peoples Party
of Page organized last Monday. Mr.. VIM.
II. Keyser, of Hope Mills, was elected
chairman, and, we have heard, made
very handsome speech on the occasion.
They propose tc organize thoroughly for
both the presidential and the congress
sional elections.
Judge George A. LybrOok, one Of the
"big four" of readjuster times, met with
a serious accident at Bedford a few
days ago AS be was abOnt to step from
a Norfolk and Western car it gave {
sudden lurch and he, being old and feeble,
lost his balance and fell. HIS hip was &
crushed and dislocatei aud there was an 6
intense rupture of the ligaments around I
the bone from the hiD to the knee. I
Travellers arriving at Harper's Ferry
will soon see great change. The Balti-
more and Ohio is to be Strengthened and !
run through a corner of Maryland
Heights by tunnel SIS feet long. The
present bridge will 60, and new bridge, ,
IF steel 200 feet long will be at the /,
month of the tunnel. The Valley road
will then connect by straight line near
The West Virginia end of the new bridge.
rbe work is TO be done in six months.
The democrats are already beginning to o
nv TO step over that rotten free trade S
flank in their National platform, and in Il
localities where there are protected in o.
ustries they do not hesitate to say that "
bev believe in the protection Of estab- "
Ished industries. The democratic party q
"a never fought national campaign in n
Which they did not try to stand on all 81
ides of every important question, and b;
he coming campaign is not to be an e1- n,
option. til
Noah Gibbs, a white man Of weak IN
.llect. was found drunk on the streets OF
Washington few days ago and put in Y,
he lookup. After spending night Sc
here he was found the next morning in By
n iuseusible condition. Medical aid re- W
Iored him to consciousness, but be died to
, a few hours afterward. An autopsy te
,ovsd that be had died from paralysis an an
the heart, superinduced by whiskey' y
i'd verdict returned by the coroner's co
,ry accordingly, The whiskey vas fa
ven the imbesiie "for fun" ~