Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-01-22
NEWS AND COMMENT.


Hon. Arthur P. German, OF Maryland
was reelected Tuesday United States
Senator. to succeed himself.
One may get notion Of the number OF
pennies lost from history Of the old hall
cents. OF these 100000 were issued q
few years ago. Where are they nowf A
few are IN the cabinets of coin collectors.
None have been returned to the mint for
re-coinage or are held by the Treasury
Nobody sees them in circulation.
At the next national election there
will be cast thirteen million votes. For
ty four States will participate in the
election of the next President, which ia
six more than took part in the three pre-
ceding elections, seven more than there
we're in 1876, eight more than there were
in 1868 and 1872 and thirty more than
participated in the election Of George
Washington. Then there were but sixty
five electoral votes now there are 444.
"The popular vote" says the New York
Sun, "was about ten million in 1884, about
eleven million four hundred thousand in
1888, and it will probably reach thirteen
million votes in 1892.
A monster locomotive went south over
the Norfolk e. Western Railroad one day
last week. 1t was built by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, and
is sent out by that company for the in
spection of railroad men of the South
The locomotive is a monster and . swift
flyer. Its capacity is said to be more
than that of the most powerful locolno-
tive now in use. 1t 10 . compound
engine with three six feet driving wheels
on each side and weighs s. tons, 80 more
than others now used. When it blows
off steam 1t does 50 at q pressure Of 1876
pounds, while other locomotives content
themselves with using only 100 pounds.
1t has four cylinders, and it Is claimed
that it will easily and continually run a
mile in Sc seconds. This big locomotive
was designed by a young man thirty
years Of age, who accompanied it.
A short time since bill authorizing the
employment OF female physician at each
of the Lunstic Asylums of the State pass
ed the lower house OF the Legislature al
most unanimously. To the surprise of
vast majority of the intelligent people Of
the state strong opposition to the bill
has developed in the Senate. In the opin-
ion of the above mentioned class no rea-
sonsble grounds can be gwen for such op-
position. and they can see nsthing behind
it but the selfshness of some male pbysi-
clans, or the unspeskably silly sentimen
talism that 1t unsexes a woman when she
becomes skillful and accomplished men,
Der Of learned profession. Such inane
stuff as this is disgusting'Tto the good,
hard sense of the people of Virginia. and
II it sufices to defe at the bill tho NOM
bers of the Senate will hear from the peo-
pie IN a way that they will remember to
the last days of their lives. II there is
any place in the world where the kindly
and skillful services of highly educated,
refined and intelligent female physician is
needed ii is smong the female insane, those
most pitiable of all Gods untortunates.-
Should the Senate defeat this bill they
will do wrong for which all the after
work of the session cannot atone.
The Alexandria Ga:ette's Washington
correspondent, under date of the 18th,
says: 1.-THE lswdness which pervades
some Of the departments Of the govern
ment wherein females are employed, and
which is. and has been for . long time,
the common talk in club rooms, hotels
and saloons, has now become 30 notorious
that summary action has been forced
upon the secretaries with q view to saw
ing the administration from q suspicion
of winking at the existing evil. Score
tary Noble of the Interior Department
has taken the initiatory steps for the par
tial publication of his department, and
since January LIST be has requested,
through Commissioner Rsum, the resig-
nation of five of the female employees of
the Pension Bureau on account Of their
immoral conduct, asd it Is generally un-
derstood at the Pension Office that some
twelve or fifteen others will be requested
to resign daring the current month. This
action on the part of the Secretary meets
with the warmest Communications Of the
ladiss employed 10 the Pension Ufiics, and
should his example DO followed BY the
heads Of departments, . more healthy |
and virtuous atmosphere will pervsde
some Of the public buildings In this city