Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-01
NEWS AND COMMENT.

noteu ueClne IN the strength OF the otner |
asprants.
Gen. Wade Hampton, OF South Car
DINA, upon whom fortune has smiled but
charity since the war, has recently &C.
CURED an interest in a Mexican silver
mine that promises rich developments.
1.-THE salt market has gone to pieces, as
the result of the collapse Of the Western
New York combine" says The Ne,o York
Times. 1t is the common fate of combines
IN this country. Meanwhile the English
trust flOurishes under free-trade.
A prophet in Athens, Ga predicts that
the crop yield this year throughout this
country will be the largest ever known;
but that beginning with 1893, for two
years thereafter, there will be the great.
est famine the world has ever known.
Two years ago the man who would
have talked of shipping pig iron to Penn
sylyania at profit would have been in
danger Of getting into an insane asylum.
Now the Southern furnaces are daily ship
ping iron 10 Pennsylvania. and making it
pay, too.
That was significant utterance Of
Senator Hill at Roanoke, Va, when he as
sured his hearers that "the Democratic
party is in favor of the reasonable en-
cou7agement of all tho industrial interests
Of this country" 1t was an acknowledge
ment of the growth of Protectlonist SEN
timents in the South.
DR.. Felix, at his church, the First
Baptist, in Lynchburg, recently said he
had changed his opinion in one respect
about newspapers. Newspapers are the
best police force in the land, and many and
many man has been prevented from
doing some act of villainy by the fear
that it would be published IN the papers,
and the newspapers do exactly right
when they show up all kinds of rascality
Governor Mckinney has appointed the
following gentlemen to compose the board
VI w OilQ al OOLuullcolOuClo Va
First district, DR.. J. W. Peterborough;
second, n Glennau; third, Col. A. S. Bu
FORD; fourth, Col. Edward S. DEAN; fifth,
Hon. John L. Hurt; sixth, W. ]. Jordan;
seventh, J. n. Brenaman; eighth, Gran
vile Green; ninth, Martin Williams; tenth
J. H. II. Figgatt.
The Virginia State Democratic Conven-
tion for the election OF the delegates to
the National Democratic Convention and
the electors at large will meet in Rich
mOrd, Thursday, May 10. The basis of
representation Of the convention is to be
one delegate to every one hundred votes
cast for Governor Mckinney in 1889. This
will give a membership of about LOO,
which will be one of the largest conven-
tions held IN Virginia since the var
The free-trader is very careful not to see
the fall in wages in the English iron in
dustry. According to the Iron Trade Cir
culGrs supplement of January 10th, pud-
dlers' wages were reduced in the North OF
England Iron trade as follows: In July,
1890, from So. Is to S2O7 a ton; in Sep
TENDER, to 81 95; in May. 1891, to s1.e9,
and in September last to 81 50. The low
est price for pudding in this country is
two and half times this rate.-Americdn
Economist.
Two cases of sudden blindness resulting
from the grippe" have occurred in Vlcks-
burg, Miss, recently, the sufferers being
well known persons. One, a lady, has
consulted the most eminent oculists in
New Orleans, who unite IN declaring her
case hopeless, and admitted that they
were ignorant of the causes that occasion
ed the loss of sight. The other is that of
a boy, the son of we'll known merchant,
who was attacked by the disease and lost
his sight in few hoars. An operation
promptly performed has partially relieved
him, though as set he can only distinguish
light from darkness. His physicians have
hopes of his recovery. His case began
VIII "a btNCIc CullA III
ar rheumatism. The lsdy's symptoms
were similar except that her limbs be-
came gradually swollen and there was no
rheumatism. In neither case are the eyes
outwardly affected. Several similar cases
are reported among the negroes, bat not
well authenticated.
Hill has been telling the Southern peo-
pie that the protection policy is unconsti-
tutlonal. The founders of the republic
and the trainers of the constitution must
have known whether OF not the protec-
ton policy was lawful under that instru-
mcnt. The first act of the first United !
States Congress, which affected the con-
duct of the government of this country, |
was an act establishing protective tariff. |
1t was on July 4, 1889, and signed by |
President George Washington. In ITS
preamble were these words: Whereas,
it is necessary for the support of the
government, for the discharge of the debt
of the United States, and for the encOur'
agement and protection OF manufacturers
that duties be laid on important goods"
etc., therefore be iG enacted" etc. 1t
was in the very beginning of the Republic
that the policy Of protection was thus
instituted by Statesmen who had freed the
American colonies and knew definitely |
the intent of the constitution, 1t has re-
Gently been decided by the United States
Sapreme Court that the Mckinley pro-
tectiye tariff law is constitutional. New
York's Democratic Senator seldom speaks
on constitutional questions without OK
posing his ignorance or dishonesty
Y. Press.
Won't Support Hill.
The Page Courier says: "Our esteemed
Shenandoah City contemporary, the Herald