Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-09
NEWS AND COMMENT.


issue.
BIZ order of Postmaster General Wanna
maker, all mail matter from infected
points is being thoroughly fumigated.
Mrs. John A. Logan has pledged
herself to raise 81, 600, 900, for the Ameri-
can Methodist University, at Washington,
ID. G.
OF 37s persons who paid the direct tax
in Fredericksburg in 1866, either as own
e's or trustees, only So are known to he
living at this time.
A republican convention to nominate a
candidate for Congress in the fourth
district of Virginia has been called to
meet at Barkeylle September q.
Hon. George D. Wise was nominated
Tuesday as the democratic candidate for
Congress in the Richmond district without
opposition.
Free trade will make lower prices"
sAont the free trade organs. So it will;
and the cheapest commodity of all under
free trade will be labor.
The democratic convention for the
fourth district of Virginia, which met at
Farmville, unanimously renominated
James F. Epes for Congress.
The woikingman who takes off his coat
TO work for the election,Of Cleveland and
a democratic Congress will, if be should
succeed soon have 10 coat to put on.
Hon. W. Bourke Cochran, of New York,
and Hon. Adlai Stevenson, democratic
nominee for Vice President, will probably
speak in Richmond, Va, on the evening
of September %.
Nancy Hanks last week clipped two
seconds from the worlds trotting record,
m ade by berselfin Chicago three weeks
ago, aud made the circuit of the famous
kite-shaped track at Independence, Iowa,
in post.
The battle between JnO. L. Sullivan and
Jas. ]. Corbett came off at New Orleans,
on Wednesday evening, and contrary to
all expectations Corbett used NJ the great
champion badly, completely knocking
lin out in the 2lst round. Immense
sums changed hands on the result
The story is related by contemporary
that minister. dining with an editor
and observing the scautiness on the table
asked blessing as follows;
"LOrd make us thankful for what we
are to receive and strengthen us to
journey homewsrd after we have re-
ceived'
The sad news of the terrible ravages
of Cholera in Europe reaches us by
every mail. Already a number of vessels
with the dreadful disease raging among
their passengers have reached New York
but fortunately so far none have been
allowed to pass the rigid quarantine.
Nothing but the sternest measures can
save us from this horrible pest. Keep
ont the filthy, disease stricken pauper
emigrants.
All steamships or other vessels arriving
at Norfolk and at ports in the vicinity
direct from any European port will be
held for such time as may be necessary
for cleansing and distinction. No ship
having emigrants will be allowed
intercourse with the ports. No single
emigrsnt, with or without bill of health,
will be admitted from an infected district. |
The howl against the Force bill grows
fainter aud weaker day by day. The
farce is played out, the actors have lost
their voices and the stuffed ghost has
been thrown into the junk shop
Meanwhile the one real issue Of the
campaign-Protection versus Free Trade |
is very much alive aud ready for bust
ness at all hours.
Some qlestion3 connected with a.
protective tariff may appear hard to
understand, but this is as plain as nose
on q mans face, that foreign labor is
much cheaper Ethan labor in this
country, and if you break down our
protective tariff our laborers will have to
compete with the products of this cheap
foreign labor and the result will be the
cutting down of their wages-HGrrisOn-
burg Spirit # the Valley.
To an interview with reporter in
Roanoke a few days since, Gov. Mckinney
expressed the belief that there were at
present no public matters Of such pressing
need as would justify the expense Of an
extra sessions of the legislature. without
the Governor sconsent there can be no
extra session of the legislature till 1893,
except by the signature Of two-thirds Of
the present members of the General
Assembly.
1t seems that some merchants ara try
ing to mix business and Democratic POI
tics together. by stating to customers
that certain articles had advanced hesv-
lily In price lately on account of the INC
Kinley Tariff" As no such advance has
really taken place, the fact being that
nearly every article affected by the
tariff is cheaper instead of dearer, il
looks like a very unfair way OF dong
business. as the customer pays more than
he sAould, and Democratic politics
doomed at the expense Of the facts in the |
csse,- Winchester Leader.