Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-20
NEWS AND COMMENT

NEWS AMI OOon|~'
Wytheyille has a new Republican pa
per. the Patriot Herald, issued week.!
bv the Patriot Herald Publishing Com
pany.
Ex-Copgressman w. E. Gaines, OF
Burkeville, has announced himself as a
candidate for Congress for the Fourth diS'
trict.
1t is reported that Senator Hill Will op
nose the River and Harbor bill. de ma!
be mad because it fails to provide
for the removal of the snass from oaI'
River-Alerandria Sun.
The Baltimore Sun entered upon It's
fifty-sixth year on Tuesday. Like gooo
wine it improves with age, and few papers
have more or warmer friends than this
clean sheet which is truly an honor to the
American press.
A bad wreck occurred on the Norfolk q
Western Railroad, ten miles south OF
Hagerstown, about l o'clock Sunday
morning. William Hays, the conductor
was killed. John R. Hawke and j. H.
Hawke. of Lewiston, Pa; B. V. l.. Chan
az. of Breathedsyille, Washington county :;
Charles w. Wenner, freight agent n. q
W.R.R., and an unknown man supposed
TO be B. A. Rodgers, of Buchanan, va,
were more or less seriously injured.
Says that stalwart Democratic news
paper, the Philadelphia Record; in the
Senate the River and harbor bill will be
swollen by several millions more, and the
President will most probably share in the
responsibility for the measure by giving
it his approval. But, we repeat, the CHIEF
responsibility for this and for other acts
of extravaganza will remain with a House
that began It's career with such pleasing
promises of economy"
We learn that Maj, Sam. NJ. Yost, the
veteran and able newspaper writer OF Viz
ginia, has resigned the position of editor
of the Clifton Forge Talley VirginIan. we
would feel very sorry over this piece OF
news did we not ieel assured that such a
writer as Major Yost could no more live
ont of newspaper Office than tsh couln
kesp IN good health AMI spirits mile
from water, and for this reason, if no other
we feel certain that Virginia journalism
ism OF to lose one of its bright ornaments
Now that the House of Representatives
has passed the free binding Irvine bill, II
NAV not he amiss TO direct attention
anew to the vigorous language of the
New York Times. of some few months
ago: Those who think they can fool
the farmers by cutting off the merely
nominal duty of seyen-tenths OF cent per
pound on binding Irvine, are building up
on the assumption that the farmers can
not understand some Of the simplest pro-
visions of the present tariff law" Will
the farmers be fooled
Rest assured the American tree trader
will pass over this item from the Iron
Trade Circular of Birmingham, England.
in eloquent silence: "In the iron trade
there has been scarcely anything doing
all the week. In tie North of England,
Cumberland and North Lancashire all
the works are still closed on account OF
the Durham strike, and IN South Stafford
shire a general closing has taken place on
account of the holidays. In
the Scotch steel trade great quietness
prevails and several works are closed ow-
ing to the wages question, which IS IN
the form of a reduction Of 10 per cert. IN
steel workers wages"
Among Senator Barbour's last state
ments as to politics, was the following
which he made to the Alexandra Gazette.
Being asked on last Friday what be knew
about Mr.. Cleyeland's refusal to order
his secretary of the interior, Mr. Villas,
TO resume the issue of Mexican pensions
10 ex-Confederates suspended by bis,
Villas. direction, be said he knew all about
II. as he had vainly begged Mr.. Cleve-
land to issue such an order. He said that
his thought the pensions were provided
for by law, and though that law was sus-
tained by Mr.. Garland, the attorney gen.
eral, and by the law officer Of the interior
department, snd though some ex Con-
federates who had been in the Mexican
war were in receipt of them, Mr.. Villas
when he was transferred from the post
Office, to the interior department, sus-
pended them and demanded further con-
gressionsl legislation. He, Barbour,
went to the president several times and
explained the case to him, and asked him
to issue the requisite order, but promise
that his request would DO granted was
all that could be obtained. The very last
day of Mr.. Cleveland's term. Mr.. Barbour
SAYS be went to the white house on the
same subject and made final appeal,
closing 1t with the remark that If he re-
fused to issue the requisite order, Mr..
Harrison, the incoming Republican psesi-
dent, would Issue 1t within sixty dsys
after his Inauguration. MIR. Cleveland
did not issue 1t, but Mr.. Harrison did,
s~tkL;r H. Than e;xfv dava