Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-29
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NEWS AND COMMENT.

Hon. L. G. Lester, Congressman from
the 9Th district, has written letter say
ing he will not be a candidate again for
Congress.
The Washington Post says: II the
friends of Mr.. Cleveland will but seek
the advice of Mr.. Mills they will cease
billing him as the logical candidate.
1t is said that not later than October
Let, 1892. 1i0,0 miles of the railways Of
this country will issue new time tables in
which "a. M" and "p. m" will no longer
figure. The hours will be regularly num-
bered from one to twenty-four O'Clock.
Now that a trust has been formed
among the great rubber dealers, 1t will
be in order for some free trade editor.
who knows about as much of the tariff
as cat does OF Sunday, to suggest that
it was all on account of the Mckinley
bill. Crude rubber is on the free list
american Economist
In Rockingham County the Republican
County Convention on Monday instruct
ed its Delegates to vote and use all hon.
orable means to secure the election of a..
N. Roudabush as Delegate to Minneap-
oils (; and also passed resolution request
ing Delegates to the Luray and Roanoke
Conventions to vote for Delegates to the
National Convention favorable to the re-
nomination of President Harrison.
The next presidential election will lie
held on Tuesday, November s, and the
electors then chosen will meet at the cap
itals of their respective States on Tues
day, January 10, 1893, to vote for Presi-
dent and Vice-President. The electoral
votes will be counted by Congress on
Wednesday, February g, and the new
President will be inaugursted on Saiur-
day, March 4.
Says Congressman T. L. johnson of
Ohio in his free trade speech in the House
of Representatives III am glad to open
to the Ohio sheep the full competition of
the Australian, and the Argentine, and
ell other psuper sheep, and to see him
turned into mutton If he cannot survive.
And what am ready to do with regard
to wool am ready to do with other raw
material" Farmers, how do you like
the prospect
An effort is being made to have incOr-
porated into the Worlds fair at Chicago
a department teaching Complementary
the need of good roads and the construc-
ton and maintenance ofthem. This en-
deayor should meet with success. The
need of better roads is everywhere recog-
nized and at no time has it been more
widely discussed than the present. The
Chicago fair would add to the practical
benefits 1t can confer by teaching an OBJ
ject lesson in the matter of roads that
will be readily learned and readily APP
piled.
There has baen change made in the
matter of measuring whiskey in the
United States revenue service and the
guage stick which has so long been IN use
in determining the quantity Of liquor in a
cssk has been discarded and scales will
hereafter be used. The standard weight
for gallon of whiskey is eight pounds.
The rule will 90 into effect on May l, 81,
but all whlskey now in bond will be sold
by the measurement of guage rod. 1t
will be about three years before all liquor
now in bond can be removed.-Adrtins-
burg World.
The Tariff "reform" Boston Herald
printed letter from its Washington cor
respondent some time ago, IN which we
find the following interesting statement:
Free coal and free iron ore are not rel
ished in West Virginia and Maryland,
and there is probably scattering opposi-
tiOn to such legislation In northern Ala
bama and eastern Tennessee. Mr.. Will
son of West Virginia, who Is considered
one Of the most aggressive tariff reform
ers' on the Ways and Means Committee,
has suggested delay whenever the question
of reporting free iron ore has been raised
in the committee" Mr.. Wilson will be
remembered as one Of the enthusiastic ad-
yocates of free wool who was imported
into Massachusetts, to speak for the Gre
formers" in the last campaign. He is an
aggressive" free-trader except when it
comes to free coal or free iron ore. mo
reform that touches nv own district"
seems to be the cardinal doctrine of Mr..
Wilson's political creed.
We clip the following paragraphs from
the Washington correspondence of the
Alexandria Gazette Of the 22nd:
Senator Colquitt OF Georgia says that
of the delegates so far elected to the
democratic convention of his State,
large majority are for Hill. Senator Pugh |
says it would be the same way in his |
State, Alabama, If it we're not for the |
Alliance men, who, though as much op-
posed to Cleveland as men can be. have |
left the democratic party aud taken most |
of it with them.
Senator Daniel late last night received
the following dispatch from Mr.. Carter
Glass, editor Of the Lynohburg Ners
1--WE literally routed the Cleveland forces
to-day in every ward" In this connec-
tiou il may also be stated that Mr.. Moon,
chairman of the democratic committee OF
Albemarle county, who was at the Capt.
toll to-day. says that bis information is to
the effect that the ratio of anti-Cleveland
to Cleveland democrats 10 that county is
as two TO one.