Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-02-12
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The presidential election. the first Tues
day after the first Monday in November
falls on the 9Th, the latest possible date
upon which it can fall.
"Cleveland's luck" has not been refer
red to by our Democratic contemporaries
since the Presidential election of 1855
Isn't it about time to take it out. dust 1T
and get it ready for the nominating con-
vention
1t is estimated that there are 2o,OOC
women in the United States who possess
medical diplomas. and one of these is
colored woman, who has passed the State
Board of Examiners in Alabama and re-
ceived license to practice medicine.
Harry Shoots, who shot and killed
Miss Susie Terrell in ShepheTdstown, w
Va, and was taken to Charleston fol
safe-keeping, has been returned to the
Jail at Charlestown. No further trouble
is anticipated, and it is expected the
prisoner will be tried at the present
term Of court.
The great reform House Of Represents
tives, SD Congress, has been in session
since Dec. Z, 1891, consuming more than
40 working days, and are not yet ready
for business. The cost of running the
House per day for salaries alone is 81 ,6O3'
90 making for the forty days 1924, l2S.4O.
Add to this the expense of printing, light,
fuel. and ether incidental matter and
nearly half million of dollars have been
expended with no return but promises OF
economy.-State Republican.
Rams Horn often contains some chunks
of solid truth. 1t says the world is full
of people who would't sell whisky for a
hundred dollars a glass, who are glad to
take the saloon keepers money in a thou
sand different ways, and put it in their
pockets.
1t won't do any good to look as solemn
as an owl in church if you are in the
habit of SHINING people in business.
People with empty heads most genei-
ally have tongues that rattle.
Eight months OF reciprocity produces
an increase of our exports to Brazil of 81
900, 900. 1t is an excellent result of an
unquestionably sound American policy,
and it comes so soon that it is doubly
gratifying, as it shows not only' that the
United States already needed a market
abroad, bat that the Brazllians are anx-
ious to deal with us. There IS every rea-
son to believe that nearly all the South
and Central American nations Will, at an
early day, enter into close tire atty relations
with the United st ates, and that will
mark the beginning of stable government
and increased production among them.
To this country it means large and
profitable trade and the added security
that necessarily comes with friendly rela-
tions between neighbors.-IadeS-A appeal.
The Cbsrlottesvillec correspondent Of the
Stanton Nt,cs writes Since my report OF
the interneclne war among the colored
brethren of Mt. lions church at this place
few nights since. funny thing happen
ed, which learned of sfterward. Dur
ing the scrimmsge large stove, which was
red hot, was upset, and the destruction of
the church was only question of time if
something was not done at once. "Brud-
der Robinson" who was trying with
might and main to stem the rising cur
rent of discomfort and luminosity at his
InyidiOus remarks charging the colOred
elders with having Incorporated the
funds of the church, yelled at the top Of his
voice to "Brudder Jones" to "pick up dat
stove de Lord won't let it burn you, but
"Brudder JONES'" with an astonishing
want of faith. yelled back in reply, ode
hell He won'tw
Woman, as she steps into the various
fields Of industry heretofore exclusively
occupied by men, must expect that, while
she reaps the benefits men have hith-
erto reaped, she must bear the bur-
dens men have hitherto borne. A
singular proof of this has recently
been shown in London, where a
man made over bis business to bis wife
and then became so poor that he was COM
PEELED to seek an asy lum in the aims
house. She put the business on good
paying basis, and, though it was clearly
proven that be had beaten her and that
she had even gotten divorce from him,
vet the court ruled that, as she wac able,
she was obliged to support him. Many
women now support their husbands. and
do it very well, but few of them were
aware Of the fact that any court iE civ
ilized lanl might compel them to do it
whether they wanted to or not. In her
wide sphere of usefulness, it is evident
woman is assuming wider sphere OF re-
sponslbility.
A pctlblOu IL ociuS OilOuioeOu ~ D"O~
Vista asking Governor Mckinney to par
don DIR. w. Z. Richeson, who has been
sentenced to eighteen months confine-
ment in the penitentiary for puttiug
bull on the railroad track to be killed.
The petition twas largely signed, and is
accompanied by letter IN his behalf from
Judge billiard, of Amherst.
The whole country appears to be cursed
with an overflow of disgusting, sickly
sentiments lisn, that is always ready to
gosh out and prevent, If possible, the
punishment OF some scOundrel, and, like
powerful cathartic, the greater and more
diabolical the crime the stronger their
bowels OF compassion seem to work. Why
should this man Rlcheson not be pun
;sbed He was a merchant, man pre-
sumably with enough to live on, yet in
order to cheat the railroad company for
worthless animal be deliberately and
cruelty ties it on the track to be killed.
and By so doing endangered the lives OF
all on that train. To dishonesty secure
a, n ~uooav bo von1d euhia0t