Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-03-25
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The chairman of the Ohio Republican
committee has declared in favor of Cleve
land-as the place for holding the State
convention.
1t is stated that Belva Lockwood has
abandoned the Presidential canvass and
Is out for David B. Hill. Go it Belva,
this is leap year.
We have received the first number Of
The Sun, Alexandra's new daily paper. 1t
starts out with the vim and enterprise
that should commend it to the support of
the people of that city.
Gen. Malone and internal revenue col
lector McCaull have promised republi-
can delegation from Page county, Va,
that Broyles the deputy collector in their
county, shall lie removed.
By virtue of an act passed by the last
sessi IN of the Legislature persons ap-
pointed to office by the county court Will
hold office for the full unexpired term of
their predecessors instead of until the
next general election, as heretofore.
The women members of the North
Carolina Worlds Fair Board have under
taken to raise $4,000 to be devoted to
the erection of State building at the
Exposition. They will hold meetings at
numerous points throughout the State and
receive subscriptions.
Captain Page Mccarthy, the well known
journalist Of Virginia, has accepted the
editorship of the Washington,D. c., Demo
crat. The Democrat Is to be run as
campaign paper, but will not advocate
any particular candidate until he Is named
By the Chicago convention.
Among the witty definitions that have
been credited to eminent men the follow
ing by lngersOll is particularly neat: ga
politician is a man who wants the people
to do something for him; statesman is
a man who wants to do something for the
people,
Eliza Ellswick, the divorced wife of
Louis A. Ellswick, IN Kanawha county, W.
Va, is charged with killing Bette Moore,
a young woman who was receiving the
attentions of the divorced husband. The
girls throat was cut from ear to ear. The
accused protests her innocence.
The Roanoke Herald intimates that the
enterpIising business men and manu-
facturers of that city will raise fund to
provide an adequate exhibit of the re-
sources of Southwest Virginia at the
Worlds Fair. Roanoke knows the virtue
Of advertising.
Cohgres sman Roger Q. Mills was mani
mously elected United States Senator from
Texas Tuesday to succeed Hon. Horace
Chiffon, who was appointed by Gov. John
s. Hogg as the successor of Hon. John H.
Reagan, who resigned to become chairman
of the Texas railroad commission. Mr..
Chiffon withdrew from the contest before
vote wa, taken
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, the widow OF
the General is soon to issue her much
talked of volume Of memoirs, for which
her publishers pay her $4,000 cash and
promise as much more IN future royalties.
Mrs. Grant says in the preface to the
profitable work that she wrote herself
every line of 1t, not even debating any
part of it to an amanuensis.
It said that il D. B. Hill should accl.
IDENTIFY drop into the Senate when the sill
yer bill comes up-supposing that it pass
es the House-he will vote for it. Not
because he favors free coinage particular
", but with the hope Of gathering IN
some Southern and Western support in
the convention. But what good Will II
do him to get Southern and Western votes
in June if he loses New York in Novem'
ber.-Ckarles TOcn Free Press, Dem.
The effect of the decision of the Su'
preme Court of Appeals last week in The
case of the town of West Point against
the West Point Terminal Company Is i'm
portant to every city and town in The
Commonwealth. 1t establishes the fact
that the councils of these have no lega
power to exempt any property subject tC
taxation. The Terminals property a.
West Point, now believed to be wortl
about 81, 900 COO, was so exempted. Tit
tax has not been collected on it for th'
past two years and amounts to something
like $50, 900.
Senator Hill boosted in one of hi
speeches in Virginia On Monday tina
I'VE (the New York Democrats) have
Democratic Legislature in both branches
the first time for many years" He die
not follow up this declaration by the ex
PLANTATION that it was a stolen Democratic
Legislature, that the decision of the Co1r
cfAppeals so pronounced it and that il
court IN Brooklyn Judge Cullen, Demo
crab, lau Ddncu Ilnii Vuo 4ueJ heAu ""N
Secretary of State Rice as the men wh'
had stolen it. That might have spoiled
the picture.-N. Y. Press.
Ask lawyer il he would like all thos'
engaged in other occupations or profes
sions to become lawye and compet'
with him, and be will quickly answ'i
No. Ask merchant whether he woui'
not be glad to see all those who are nov
manufacturers or importers change thei
business aud become merchants too, anC
he will speedily express his disspproba
ton of any such scheme. Yet the free
traders want to make us a nation Of agri
culturists aud they ask the farmer to bal
with Joy a system that transform all thos'
who are now his customers into bis com
petitors.
The railroad law passed at the last ses
sion of the Legislature will 60 into effec
tLok aoio ON