Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-06-23
NEWS AND COMMENT.

The United States circuit court has
unanimously decided that the Worlds
Columbian exposition may be open On
Sundays. The local directory Is now
supreme.
Those Democratic editors who are
calling for the enforcement of tho Chi
cage platform are obviously blind 10 the
fact that it is last years birds nest
Broad,cay Enterprise.
The suit of Rev. R. L. Anderson against
the Fredericksburg Free Lance has been
compromised. The Free Lance paid all
costs in the suit and published retrac-
ton OF charges affecting Mr.. AndersOn's
ministerial standing.
Inasmuch as we have published in a
previous issue the letters that wore writ
ten respectively by Cel- c. T O'Ferral!
and Mr.. w. X. Alexander, we now give
the rest hoping that they may prove to
be the last parting shots between these
prOmlaeat gentlemen.
The coroner's jury investigating the
Ford's Theater disaster at Washington
brought in q verdict holding Col. S. c.
Aipswortb, Contractor Dant, Superinten-
dent Covert AMI Engineer Sasse response
be for the deaths of the victims By rea-
son of criminal negligence on their
part.
Charlottesville Progress: The Progress
is heartily in favor of putting a tax on
the 100000 dogs that menace sheep hus-
bandry ID Virginia. If the State does
not need the money for other purposes,
it could be used to a good ADVANTAGE on
the county roads in Virginia. A dogtax-
ing, road-lmproying Legislature could
lmmortalizs itsef next winter.
A novel sight was witnessed in Chi
cago the other day vi hen Judge Brad
well, presiding oyer the Superior Court
admitted to the practice of law his son
and daughter, who had stood most
creditable examinations. They were
admitted on motion of their mother, who
was in active practice with her husband
before his elevation TO the bench.
If your uncle has an aunt who has a
nepbew hose wife has cousin that is
married to an old friend of Your wife's
sister. whose grandfather used TO live in
the same town with an old school mate of
vours. whose son-in-law is now living ia
Chicago, you should at once renew the
acquaintance with a view Of saving hotel
bills while attending the great Worlds
fair. This scheme can be worked sue
cessfully.--Er.
Tie Virginia Bar association holds its
annual meeting at the White Sulpher
Springs on August 1. The program IN
cludes the address by the president,
r. T, Barton, Esq, of Winchester, the
reading of papers by Professor c. A.
Graves of Washington and Lee unlversl-
ty, J. Allen Watts, Esq, of Roanoke, and
A. P. Thorn. ESQ. of Norfolk, and the de-
livery of the annual addrs IS by Hon.
Frank A. Hurd, Of Ohio.
At Newburg, New York, Judge Blown
granted divorce to Mrs. Frank Leslie
from her husband Vim. c. X. Wilde,
brother Of Oscar Wilde. The judge de-
crees that Mrs. Leslie may marry again
during the life time of Wilde, but that
Wilde shall not marry until the death |
of Mrs. Leslie; but the re-marriage of
the parties is not prohibited. 1t is fur
Their decreed that Mr.. Wilde shall not
have any interest, absolute or contingent,
in any property of Mrs. Leslie before or
after her death.
United States Senator Leland Stanford,
of Catalonia, died at his home at Palo
Alto, in that state. on Wednesday mOrr-
ing. jane 21,t, about l o'clock. His death ,
was very sudden and unexpected. Dur
ny the day he dgeye around his splendid
farm apparently in The best of health.
lie retired az 10 O'Clock, and a few hours
ater was found dead 10 his bed by bis
,ervant. His term in the Senate would
! I'VE expired in 1897. The Governor Will
appoint his successor, and being a Re
will of course appoint one of
hat political faith The Legislature Is
Democratic.
Few people have any conception of the
IMMENSE amount of capital required
70 produce one of the great daily news
,apers of New York. The HOrld, for
Instance, is printed on paper made from
wood pulp and the statement is made
hat it takes the timber of five and half
cres of land to supply the wood pulp to
make the paper required for a single
ssue. That is to cay, more than two
honsand acres Of timber are annually
onsumed to supply the paper u-ed by
be World-Er.
Miss Lizzie Borden, whose trial at New |
bedford, Mass, for the murder Of her
lther and stel mother nearly year ago Q
Z their home in the city of Fall River, v
as deeply interested the whole country t
,r the past two weeks, was declared not
ui;ty on uesday, amid the cheers and il
oars of the hundreds who packed the o
ourt-room. The prosecution was an nn- @
sually able and bitter one, although the
violence against the young lady was III
trivial. Mr.. and Mrs. Borden ri
ere found in their home with their heads II
most hacked to pieces with Ratchet or O,
her cutting instrument, and as tie "
,tce conld not tbiuk of or find sny- %
her person who could have COMMITTEE 90
e murders they determined in their r.
plent wisdom that Lizzie Borden, the
.ughter and heretofore stail less chris
m young lady, must have been the IN