Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-03-24
FRIDAY. MARCH "a. 1898.
NEWS AND COMMENT.

ingtOn."
at is just as honorable for enc man to
yearn for the postofice as it is for anoth- |
or to aspire to Congress"
The Governor Of California has signed
the bill recently passed by the Legisla-
ture prohibiting prize-fghts in that State.
The Office hunter does not find his ex-
perience at Washington confrmatory of
the Scriptural Injunction Seek and ye
shall find"
When Bob Iugersoll delivered his
lecture on Robert Burns in Chicago an old
Scotchman suggested to him that the
subject of his lecture would make an ap-
propriats epitaph for his tombstone.
Some of the disappointed ofice-seskers
at Washington will be glad for the advent
of spring. 1t will make walking home
pleasanter and give a chance to leave an
overcoat with 'your uncle"
Secretary Gresham is said to belleye
the Democratic party can, by liberal
policy in the distribution of political
patronage, WIN over many conservative
Republicans.
President Cleveland settled the ques-
ton whether or not there is to be an
extra session OF Congress by announcing
Tuesday to Representative Springer that
lie will call Congress together not later
than the 1st of September
At meeting of the directors of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company,
VIM. C. Bullitt, assistant to the President
was unanimously elected Vice President,
and will have charge of the traffic to
succeed Charles G. Eddy, resigned to
become second Yics-President of the
Reading.
Mrs. Ellsworth Miller of Cold Spring,
n. Y, has just presented her husband
with triplets, two boys and girl. These
are the third triplets, and she is the
mother of seventeen children and is only
81 years old. She cana Of remarkable
family, her grandmother's sister gave
birth to two sets of quintets.
A physician in Washington estimates
that over 10000 persons in that city are
suffering with colds and other msladies
product by exposure on Inauguration day.
Taking the country ever, the list of
victims would be sw ollsn to tenfold that
number. If there should be recurrence
of the grip epidemic it is feared that it
would find plenty of congenial soil pre-
pared for it by the experience Of March 4.
An cid politician who has looked into
the question says that there are more
Presbyterians in both Houses than repre-
sentatives of any two other churches, and
that be could name mere than a dozen
States whose Governors were PresbYteri-
ans. When asked how he accounted for
the Presby terisn prsponderance in the
conduct of public Offices, he playfully re-
marked They believe in election"
The big crowd of office seekers who
did not hold an appointment under
Cleveland's first term are very sure that
the president is right in announcing that
he will not select for Offices those who be-
fore held them, save in exceptional
instances. The men who were faithful
servants during his first naturalization
are not quite so certain of the beauty OF
the proposed policy, but they happen to
be IN the great minority.
Master Edward Frank, son of Mr.. L.
N. Frank, who lives just above town,
brought to the Courier office yesterday a
rare product black egg-laid by one Of
his ducks. Up to last Sunday the Democ-
racy of this duck had meyer been suspect
ed, as all her eggs before had been white,
aud since that date all have been black.
The sudden change in this ducks poll
tics may be accounted for from the fact
that ID her opinion a good Republican
has about as good a show under this
administration as a good Democrat
Page Courier.
There has been introduced In tie
Pennsylyanis Legislature bill relating
to drunkards, providing that a person
found by due course of law to To an ha-
bitual drunkard shall by the court of
common pleas, be sent to the work house,
to be kept in 3 separate apartment,
called the inebriats apartment, for not
less than six months or more than two
years but the court shall have power to
discharge such person IT. before the
expiration of his sentence, he is pronoun-
ced cured and If after the discharge OF
such person be should relapse into his
former habits, the court may pronounce
a sentence similar TO the first and SO Oh
after the first discharge as often as said
party shall relapse.
The Richmond post-ofice is the best
paying one in the State, the salary being
$500. Next come Norfolk, $4,000
Roanoke aud Lynehburg, 5000 each
Petersburg and Stauntou, $500 each
Danville, s., 800; Alexandria and Char
lottesville. $2,400 each Portsmouth,
$500 Bristol, $1,000; Newport News,
Salem and Winchester, $500 each
Bedford City, $1,000; Suffolk, Hampton,
Fredericksburg and Lexington. 81 1900
each; Harrisonburg and Wytheville,
$1,7o0 each; Abingdon, Bueua Vista,
East Radford, Fortress Monroe, Manches-
ter, Pulaski City and Warrenton. $1,000
each; Ashland, Clifton Forge, Culpeper,
Fsrmville and Lessburg, $500 each
Front Royal, Luray. s. Boston and Way
nesberough, 81 400 each Outstanding,
Covington. GordossvIlio aud Martinsvllle,
1890 each; Basic City, Berryyille, Big
Stone Gap. Marion and POcshontas, 81 200
zach; Berkeley, Buchanan, National
Soldiers Home, Shenandoah, West Point
and Woodstock, 81, 100 each; and Chat