Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-05

W W lVut OAu iuctS muchO9' 40 ea"~n
won't be heard in Chill.
The Democratic convention will be
held on the longest day in the year. Some
of the candidates will possibly discover
that it is also the coolest day IN the year.
Washington Post.
The directors of the Sayernake Steel
and Tin Plate company made sn invssti'
CATION of the Cash thu mines, near Buena
Vista last week They expressed them
selves as higkly pleased with all they
saw.
President Harrison sent q message 10
Congress on the 2sth. ult., accompanied
by Chili's anwser to the demand OF the
United States and other communications
between the two governments. The
President says the affair IS now In 80
satisfactory a shape that no further &C.
tion by Congress is necessary to its salts
factory adjustment.
The Baltimore EreRing Ners: DR.. W..
S. Horsey. a well-known resident OF Oak
Hall, Accomac county, Va, is at the
point of death from pneumonia. He had
$4,000 deposited with j. J. Nicholson &
Sons, and was i'll when the news of their
failure reached him. 1t Is feared that be
cannot survive the shock.
A man in Texas, who believes that the
whole face of the earth will be covered
by flood next November, is building an
ark, which will hold fifty persons, and
food enough to last forty days and forty
nights. Tickets for the round trip, $500
each. This Is very reasonable, consider
ing the risk a man runs by not taking
passage. And yet the builder has not
sold a single ticket. People are evident
ly afraid of seasickness.
A very extraordinary offer has been
made by a syndicate to bob" Taylor,
the ex Governor of Tennessee. He has
been offered the magnificent sum Of $780,
900 for five hundred lectures to be de-
livered in FIVE years, or one hundred lee
lures each year. "Bob" is and has been
for long time an aspirsnt to the high
position of United States Senator, but
this will lay anything like that in the
shade, as the difference IN money will be
about $4,000 per year.
During these days of so many deaths
from the grippe it will be interesting to
know that the annual mortality of the
entire human race amounts, roughly
speaking, according to French medical
journal, to 100000 of persons. This
makes the average deaths per day over
$1,000, being at the rate of $3.50 an hour
or 90 people every minute of the day and
night the year round. A fourth OF the
race die before completing their eighth
year and one-half before the end of the
seventeenth year, but the average durs'
ton of life is about 80 years. Not more
than one person in a hundred thousand
lives TO be hundred.
The roasting which Speaker Cardwell
gave Second Auditor Col. Frank q.
Rufan, in connection with the discussion,
in the House, last Saturday, of the reso-
luton to approve the proposed debt set
Element, is very enjoyable and enoourag-
ing. 1t was in reply to lengthy article
which Mr.. Rnffin had prepared for publ
cation in the Richmond Times, in which
he opposed the proposed settlement. The
speaker said: "Atter this man has prom
ised not to interfere with the debt question.
and after he said to me within a few
weeks past that this bill involved a bet
t0r settlement for the State than the
Riddleberger bill, such a man can't make
much OF an impression upon the members of
the General Assembly. A man who asks
men to organize with him to prevent
settlement, such an opinion as his should
be of very little weight.
Sir, when a man declares his designs and
tres to defeat the settlement after having
made the statement that it was infinite
" better than the Riddleberger bill, l
say, he needs no more mention at my
hands,"
This is pretty plain talk for the Demo
cratic Speaker of the House against the
Democratic Second Auditor; and he is to
be commended by all true friends of the
State for his candor IN giving expression
to his just Indignation.
Rufin is a blatant Bourbon, of the
most oficious and offensive kind, who
seems to lose no opportunity to throw his
rubbish In the way of Progress; aud it is
quite delightful to see him thus rebuked
by prominent man of lis own party
LOadOun Telephone.