Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-05-26
FRIDAY. MAY 90. 1898.
NEWS AND COMMENT.

IOot 8 Utthty'
A Kentucky paper warns the members
of the State legislature against allowing
the Chaplain to pray for them. 1t says it
would be better for them not to hayo the !
LORDS attention directed to them.
The mother, grandfather, greatgrand
father ana great-great- grandfather of a
six months old baby all live under the
same roof near Rural Retreat in this
State.
Mr.. William L. Craig, United States
attorney for the western district of Vir-
ginia, on Thursday of last week, forward
ed to Attorney General Olney his res
ignation, to take effect June 80,
Danvlle Eccaing Star: Among the OBJ
jectionable characters now filling official
pos ition under Mr. Cleveland, there are
none proving themselves more obaoxious
to the Democratic party than is Mr..
BiSsell
Attorney General Olney las received
from a man living in Junction City, Ia,
letter asking whether or not the Gov
ernment rays a bounty on twins, and
saying that if it does, he has three pairs
of which he is wiling to be rewarded.
Rev. James R. Campbell, of Snow Hill,
Md. Presbyterian minister, has been
deposcd from the ministry. He was
charged with obtaining a divorce from
his wife, Mary A. Campbell, contrary to
the laws Of the Presbyterian Church, and
marrying again.
While 1t is not positively known that
Major Mann Page, the president of the
Virginia State Alliance, will allow his
name to be used in the convention of
the peoples party for the nomination for
Governor, il is yet believed that be viii
be the nominee Of that party.
Since the refusal of Greenbiier county
court to grant barroOm license at Romeo
verte FIVE applications for drug store
license have been presented TO the munic
ipal cosncil of that town. The council
has raised the license fee for drug stores
from $40 TO 500.
Governor Mckinney has requested the
Secretary Of the Commonwealth, Judge
". II. Flonrney, to offer a reward of 500
for the arrest, delivery and conviction Of
Calvin Fleming and Kenon Fleming, |
charged with murder IN Wise county. |
This offer is to 0e valid for one year,
A jury in Washington gave Mrs Fannie
Ragland a verdict of $500 against
Woodward & Lothrop, proprietors of the
Boston Dry Goods Store in that city, in
her suit for damages for being searched
by private detective IN the store on
charge Of stealing a napkin ring.
Mrs. Marie Neyins Blaine, the former
wife OF James G. Blaine, Jr., is to marry
DR.. William T. Bull, the physician who
attended Der IN her long illness and saved
her from being cripple from rheuma
tism. She vas married to James G.
Blaine, Jr. IN September, 1856, by the
famous Father Ducey, of New York, aud
has one son, now FIVE years old.
The Charlottesville Progress states that
an expert examination of the accounts Of
the late Capt. A. J. Parish, for many
years treasurer of Albemlrle county, re-
veals a shortage due the county school
fund of So, SO The Progress says the
expert, Mr.. Isaac R. Barksdale, is of the
opinion that the unfortunate affair has
arisen out of a careless method of keeping
books.
The Southern VOLTS Fair edition of
the Baltimore Nucs comprised sixty-four
pages, and is wonder even in this age of
journalistic push and enterprise. 1t is
devoted to the remarkable progress made ii
by the South since the war and especially Il
during the past ten or twelve years, and
while every line is simply carefully YER
fled facts, with not a word Overdrawn,
its pages read more ike the golden re- q
mances of the Arabian Nights, so wonder {
ful has been the development of this {
Southland, Natures best loved child. See
a synopsis of its contents in another col
umn :
The hand book which the State COM :
missioner Of agriculture will issue shortly a
will contain valuable information for .
those desiring to settle permanently in a
Virginia. This work Will have a succinct 0
statement Of the claims of each county. i
Not only will it show the number of [
churches, schools, mills and other manu- :
factories, but the kind of wild game in Ii
each locality. The work also gives the
claims, climatic aud otherwise, of each Il
geographical section of the Common
wealth. 1t is said that this handbook a
will be the most complete of its kind ever
issued BIZ the agricultural department of u
this State.
A correspondent Of the Winchester
Times wants to know why 50 many fell
lows are ont electioneeriDg for Congress
in the Seventh district, and also asks what Il
Colonel O'Ferrall, who was elected last o.
fall, is going to do. The Colonel does not Il
want to have any mistake about "where {,
he is at" and does not altogether ap- q
prove of the old adage about being off n
with the old love before being on with n
the new. He means to kiss Polly before e
be let's 90 of Jane Virginia Sun. p.
If Col. O'Ferrall is really in the fight oil
for governor, and we don t think there is ii
any doubt of it, would it be anything I'll
more tn an fair for him to resign his posi- ru
ten as Congressman from this District ? pr
Way should be force those who aspire to "
bis place in that body to spend tbeir hs
time and money canvassing for an I'M th
Does the Colonel intend to Pa
hold on to his present position until he en-
receives the nomination and is elected to bu
.he gsvernorship of Virginia This might
cost the State the heavy expense of
,pecial election. and as En1ch as the Dem ia