Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-07-29
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Charlottesville has levied tax OF SlV
day on merry go-rounds.
Two-thirds of the male population OF
the world use tobacco, and one-halt OIL
them wish they didn't.
The Democratic national committee
met on Thursday. 21st, in New York and
elected William F. Harrity, OF Phlladel-
mia. chairman of the committee.
RM Wood and Miss Lizzie E. RUSSELL
Of Winchester, have Teen appointed oy
the Governor as additional members OF the
Auxiliary Board of Worlds Fair Com
missioners.
Ex-Congressman T. H. Blyly Brown
= n G moor state of health at bis home
in Accomac. Mr.. Brown hardly ever
leaves his room, in fact he Is confined 70
his bed most Of the time.
The Talley Tirginida plant, advertised
at trustees sale on the 10th at Ciilton
Force. was not sold. The publishing
company and Messrs. Yost K Son reached
an agreement by which a sale was avoided
RepresentatIve Baily, of Texas, mas
requested the Sergeant-at-Arms to deouc'
one days pay from his salary this month";
because he was absent from the House
for that time making aspeechin Caroline
county, Va:
Saws the Baltimore american: "Gen'
Weaver, the candidate Of the Peoples
marty. declares that he can see no reason
WHY he should not be elected President
Of the United States. Gen. Weaver
sbould at once consult an oculist."
Baltimore Sun: The county paper Of
today fills a field which no paper pup
l;sbed outslde the boundaries Of its own
county can enter. 1t is Its function 70
foster and improve its own county and
this il does. The importance OF the
county paper cannot be oyerestimated'
and 1t deserves the warmest and most
cordial support.
With the Democrats swearing that they
are going to carry all the Republican
States. and the Republicans declaring
that they are going to carry the Demo
cratic States, the result is hard to foresse
unless we accept as true the claims OF
the third party people that they are
going to sweep the cOuntry.-4ltrandr'o
Sun.
Louis E. McComas of Maryland viii
make an excellent secretary OF the Re
publican National Committee. He II
able. he is experienced, he is man o
energy and discretion and his Repub
licanism Is of the right sort. AS
Representative IN Congress during
four terms Mr.. McComas has won
deserved reputation as a statesman. NJ
better choice could have been made.
Colonel Cockerill, according to th'
democratic press, has "gone wrong
The Colonel is one of the most con
spicuous figures 10 American Journalism
and was up to a few months ago man
aging editor of the New York World
He is now publishing and editing the
New York Advertiser, and supporting
Harrison and Reid. His democratic
friends don't understand how it can b'
40. and the Norfolk Landmark is moved
to say: Another good man gone wrong.
In August last D. F. Council, o.
Portsmouth, o was shot in his berth II
a Pullman sleeper on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway and died sOoE afterwarC
from the effects of his wound. Th'
assassin escaped and has never beer
captured.
Thursday the executors OF Mr. Cornell
through their counsel Messrs. Cabell *
Caben. instituted a suit in the U. S
circuit court against the railway company
for $4,000 damages for the killing o
Connell. A similar suit has beef
brought against the Pullman Palace Ca
company in the circuit court of Augusta
county.
Campaign speeches change but few
votes. A man may make atruly able an'
convincing add ress, and may entertain
his audience for hours, but after all hi
labor, in nine cases out of hundred, b
has failed to make a single convert
Campaign speeches are useful, however
in whooping up the boys, getting then
enthused, and in bringing out full vote
Men change their convictions, as rule
after mature deliberatIon, and in this par
ticular are more impressed BY what the
see in the newspapers than by what the.
hear from the stump, for the reason.
lust stated. that they have more time 10
rejecting when the case is presented Il
them in cold print.
Gen. Jas. G.. Field, in an interview Ii
Richmond last week, said Gen. Weaver
would come to Richmond in September
and they would open their southerr
canvass in that city. After speaking q
few other points in Virginia they vii
stump North and South Carolina, Georges
and Texas, which States he expects thu
peoples party to carry. He predicted
that Harrison would get the electora
vote Of Virginia; that the third party
would defeat Congressman O'Ferrall and
Meredith in the Seventh and Eight
districts, and that Malone would BE-
elected in the Petersburg district. The
General said "the Force bill lie humbug