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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle stntes.

THERE IS great excitement around New
oanaan, Conn. over the discovery OF gold in
paying quantities on the farm Of Seth c.
Weed
NUMBER Of prominent citizens of New
York City met Mayor Cilroy in his Office by
request. and after iull discussion Of the
matter. il was decided 10 have a Manhattan
day at the Chicago Fair. October q was
the day agreed on.
J. W. WAsHBURN. oi Boston. Mass. Treas
urer Of the OH Colony Railroad. has de-
faulted in the sum Of $4,000
JONI D. ROCKEFELLER. the Standard Oil
magnate. has bought land on the Hudson
near Tarrytown. My. ascrecating about
seven hundred acres. Mr. Rockefeller
will lay out the grounds in public park
and will erect there mansion costing o
million dollars.
The Massachusetts Democratic Convention
at Boston nominated John T.. Russell for
Governor and James b. Carroll for Iieuten.
ant Governor.
GEoRGE wALEER. aged fory-;wo. died at
Rockland, r. J.. Of typhoid fever. H.
weighed 500 pounds. was five feet eleven
inches tall. and his wais, measurement was
seventy-two inches.
II was politicians Day at the Trenton
N. j. Fair: $1,000 persons were present.
Claverly. q tight-r rope performer. fell ninety
feet to the ground. aud vs. mortally hurt.
Joax JACOB AsToR's yacht Nourmahal
struck a reef in the Hudson River. New York.
and was beachel TO prevent her sinking.
SAMUEL VI. JARVIS and ROLAND r. Conklin
were appointed receivers Of the Jaryis-Conk-
lin Mortgage Trust Company by Judge Ia
combe. in the United States Circuit Cour,
New York City Its liabilities are sS00).0)).
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WASHINGTON.

STATISTICS compiled from Official data show
that from January 10 September. this year,
$50 State and private banks in the United
States failed and that seyenty-.wo have re-
sumed business. In the same timo i5j
National banks failed, seventy Of which have
resumed.
The President has nominated Charles n.
Caughey, Of Maryland, TO be United States
Consul at Nessinl. Italy.
yIcE-PREsIDENr STEVENSON left Washing
ton for Allentown. Penn, to spend the week.
along with other persons, as the guest Of ex-
Governor Black.
COYsUL-GESERAL EDWARDS, OF Berlin. re-
ports to the State Department that the Ger
man Minister OF War has ordered the nill-
tary authorities 10 use Indian corn mixed
with oats in making up the rations OF the
Amy horses This will lead to heavy impor-
tations OF American com
THE President has determined to discon-
tinue his public receptions.
WILLIAM DoNoHUE. a laborer in the Unitei
States Treasury, succeeded few days ago
In abstracting a roll OF bills amounting 10
$50 They were cancelled notes and he is
thought TO be insane.
TIE President has nominated Robert L.
Preston Of the District OF Columbia to bo
Director Of the Mint.
The Kearsarge has been despatched by tho
government to destroy dereiict vessels which
now render navigation dangerous.
President CLEVELAND wrote 10 the Gov
ernor OF Georgia expressin; his surprise at
the delay OF the Senate in repeating the
Sherman law. He says he wants safe and
staple currency. and does not want 10 be re-
sponsibe to any laborer or farmer for
shrinkage in purchasing power. Within the
limits OF sound currency he Is a friend OF
silver.
The Treasury Department Il reieeniny
United States paper money and National
bank notes at the rate Of about Sl.2JO,OOO
day
TIE Senate coairre the following nomi-
nations COnsul-General. j. J Barclay, at
Tangier: Consuls Thomas b. ONelll, OF
New York. at Stockholm r. 2. Mcdaniel, at
Bahia Frank A. Johnston. al Chihuahua
Charles y. DAILY OF Bayoane City. y. j.. al
Guelph. Canada George Tate. al Barbldoes
John Mcguire. at Tampico Thomas kesie,
at St. Johns, Quebec; J. Courtney Hixson,
at Fuchau
A DANGEROUS crank, white man ABOUT
twenty-eight years o. age found his way INTO
the lower regions ofths White Rouse H.
was in search OF President Cleveland. he
threatened 10 seizs up0a the Presidential
chair by fair means or foul, AMI tried 10
secure pistol.
SECRETARY HERBERT has issued a general
order complimenting those in the naval ser
vice and civilians stationed at the Port Royal
Naval Station. South Carolina, for their de-
yotion to duty during the late hurricane.
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did immense damage to Long Island
Sound oyster beds.
The greatest pest-the potato f1g
of oyster farming-is the star fish, or
sea star, as the oystermen call them.
The sea star clasps its five arms about
the oyster, forces the shell open and
drinks the liquor, which is the oysters
sustcnance. then lets it fall back to
die. The war against the sea star IS
constantly woged and is costly. Hun
dreds of bushels of sea star are cap
tured by dredges, and they arc used
as fertilizers.
The "drill" is another great pest.
It is no larger than ones little finger,
but it bores straight through the shell
and kills the oyster. And then there
is the biped pest, the "oyster pirate.
There are a great many thousand
dollars now invested in new oyster
farms in Long Island Sound. A great
deal OF this capital comes from New
York City, and several prominent
State officials have more than passing
interest in the crops of 1895 and there
after. New York Advertiser.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
Little Ivy in America.

The English ivy cannot he success
fully grown in this country except un-
der shelter or in hot houses. The
summers are too hot and the winters
TOO cold. 1t takes wet country,
where the thermometer seldom rises
above eighty degrees in the summer
or sinks below twenty degrees in the
winter. The English climate exactly
suits it, and in no quarter of the world
does the plant atsrin such luxuriance.
Many attempts have been made to
raise il in America, but outside few
limited spots in Virginia and the Car
olinas, where exceptional climatic con-
ditions prevail, all have failed'-Aew
York Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
FUN

1t is the comic opera singer WHO Is
most apt to "steal march on u.s.
There are more ways than one to
kill a cat; but most Of them are
fixtures. Puck.
In the game Of life it's the non-pay'
ing tenant who gets the most moves
Buffalo Courier.
The man who looks out for n rainy
day generally makes many sunny one
for his heirs. Puck.
my hair" murmured Van Arndt'
sadly, as he strove carefully to conceal
the bald spot on his head, reminds
Inc of fool and his money. PUCK.
Among the new members OF the
German Reichstag is a master chin
ney sweep. In some respect 1t Is
sootable occupation. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Has my boy been a little defender
and kind to dumb animals to-day:
Eyes, grandma, let your canary ont
of the cage, and when my cat caught
it set Towser on her Life.
A Brazilian recently saved his life
by carrying roll of elOO notes inside
his vest when n bullet came that way.
Yet there are people who neglect 50
simple precaution. .-Tit-Bits.
Tommy-"My fathers in the
butcher business. What business is
your'n in?" Sammy-"My father
don't have to foller any business. He's
q Alderman. Chicago Tribune.
Fiddleback-"Do you suppose Miss
Pinkerly noticed that ~ cuffs were
soiled?" Tutter-'I don't believe 50,
old man. She never notices anything
unless it is out Of the ordinary. -
Truth.
Yabsley-"Did Bings apologize for
kicking you yet?" Mudge-"No. He
said he knew he owed me an apology
but times were so hard that he could
not think of paying it.'-Indian-
apolis Journal.
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"And l say he shall"

sand L say ne Shall.
And she folded her SCARED hands
across her bosom so that all present
could see them. That one motion had
a strange effect upon those human
coyotes, who would have knitted a
man in the back and made no account
of it. 1t is true that even desperadoes
have their soft moments. This woman
standing before them had one claim
on their respect, and as their eyes fol-
lowed that movement and fell on the
SCARED and cicatrized hands, the
dumb appeal moved them as nothing
else would have done. Of went every
hat, bearded lips trembled, then, as
there was danger of too much sentl-
ment, there went up a cheer from
twenty hoarse throats, and as Emma
turned to set it up again for them, she
dashed something from her eyes that
might have been tear.
So it happened that when the Rev.
James Forsyth reached Dead Man
Gulch, he learned that the principal
saloon was prepared to receive him,
being turned for the time into meet
ing-house. All through the little town
and far into the surrounding country
these placards were affixed to walls
and trees:
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
South and West.

4 PrRE in the business part of Sc. Joseph,
No. did damage estimated at $1,000 900.
THIRTY thousand Odd Fellows celebrated
their orders day at the Worlds Fair.
THERE we're two new cases Of yellow fever
and one death from the disease at Brunswick.
Ga.
TIE twelve-year-old son OF Farmer Phillip
Bolts. os Oakland. H.. after being chas,iset
by his father hanged himself.
Two persons were killed and i've injured
in a collision on the Chicago and Grant
Trunk Railroad in Bellevue, Mich.
WHITE CAPS are forcing up theprice Of cot
ton in Tennessee by burning gins.
TWELVE persons convicted OF arranging
prize fights in Portland, Oregon, have been
fined $1,000 each.
SANDY DoSAHUE. the famous fighting
Sheriff of Coconino County, Arizona, shot r.
G. Harris and Bob Dunisp, otherwise known
as jim Baker and Andy Dlnond, noted horse
thieves, after a hard battle. The latter had
killed seven men.
THREE persons were killed AMI seven
wounded in railway wreck at Cllfport,
Miss.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
Degrees Of Arctic Cold.

Travellers in arctic regions say the
physical effects of cold there are about
as follows: Fifteen degrees above, un-
pleasantly warm; ten degrees below
bracing; twenty degrees below, sharp,
but not severely cold; thirty degrees
below, very cold; forty degrees below,
intensely cold; fifty degrees below, a
struggle for life. Detroit Free Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
Attraction OF the Abyss.

Chevreuls well-known experiments
with the exploratory pendulum and
the diyining-rod show that if we repre-
sent to ourselves a motion in any di-
rection the hand will unconsciously
realize it and communicate it to tho
pendulum.
When a child was navigating n
plank on the river without thought
that I might fall. All at once the idea
came like a diyerging force, projecting
itself across the rectilinear thought,
which had alone previously directed
nv action. 1t was as if an invisible
arm seized me and drew me down. /
cried out and continued staggering
over the whirling waters till help came
T. me. The mere thought Of vertigo
provoked it.
The board lying on the ground sug-
gests no thought of fall when you
walk over it, but when it is over a pre-
cipice and the eyes takes the measure
fthe distance to the bottom the repre-
sentation of n falling motion becomes
intense and the impulse to fall cOrre-
spondingly so. Even if you are safe
there may still be what is called the al
traction Of the abyss. The vision OF
the gulf as a fixed idea having pro-
duced an "inhibition" on all your
ideas or forces nothing is left but the
figure of the great hole, with the in
toxication of the rapid movement that
begins in your brain and tends to turn
the scales of the mental balance.
Temptation, which is continual in chill
dren because everything is new to
them, is nothing less than the force OF
an idea and the motive impulse that
accompanies it.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
Cure for lightning Strokes.

Two doctors have independently ar
rived at the conclusion that most per-
sons struck by lightning, and to all
appearance dead, could be recalled TO
life by applying the method Of artifi'
cial respiration in use for resuscitatlng
the drowned The method proved
successful in the case of trumpeter
who was apparently killed at Berliu IN
1891
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
DANGERS Of Cat.KissinQ.

The ladies who with perverted affec-
ton kiss their cats and lap-dogs may
be interested in learning the results of
Signor Fiocca's examination of the
saliva OF these animals. That of the
cat is especially rich in all sorts Of
minute bacilli, and contains new form
seldom absent, and 50 fatal that rab-
bits and guinea-pigs inoculated with it
died in twenty-four hours. The dogs
saliva contains an even greater number
of bacteria, some of them of a particu-
larly disagreesble character, plus oc-
casional fukes and the eggs Of intesti-
nal worms Nor is the horse free from
these death-dealing organisms For
among the diverse "bacilli, strep-
tococci, and spirillia," in its saliva
we're three forms of noxious descrip-
ton. London Chronicle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
How a Trade Name Originated.

The origin Of the terms "six-penny,
"ten-penny, etc, rs applied to nails
though not commonly known Is m
yolycd in no mystery whatever. Nails
have been made certain number OF
nonnds TO the thousand for many years,
and are still reckoned in that way IN
England, ten-penny being 1000 nails
to ten pounds a six-penny 1000 to SIX
pounds, twenty-penny weighing
twenty pounds to the thousand; and
in ordering, buyers call for the three
pound, six pound or ten pound variety
etc. until, by the Englishmen 5 obbre'
Walton of pun for pound the
abbreviation has been made to stand
for penny, instead OF pound, as orig
inally intended. ed.-Hardware.
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you're killing yourself, and it's for me,
and I'm not worth tim not worth
ltl"
She was making her way to him now,
and as his eyes lit up his death-pale
features he prayed
"At last, he murmured, cat last,
and now I'm willing to die ! Lord, !
thank Thee"
His head fell forward. A dozen stall
wart men jumped to his side, but when
he was laid on the nearest bench it wa>
Scared Emma" who held his dying
head on her arm, and it was into her
face he looked when he opened his
eyes for a brief coming back to life.
Don't cry" he said tenderly, "don't
cry. Molly-at least not for me-but
promise mo-quick, I'm going soon
promise me to quit this place-now-
forever"
s'Oh, jimmy, can't. You've seen
them all-tell me, Jimmy, are they
well-do they ever speak of me?"
"They ale well, dear and safe over
there! The dear old mother and the
little sister And promised them I'd
bring you and now I'm going without
you
Don't go, Jimmy. I'll do anything
if you'll only live. I'll change my
ways, and do just as you bid me, even
to turning my back on friends that
have been good to me. But oh, Jimmy,
I'm not worth dying for-it's too late
for that"
"Not to meet the dear mother and
little sister, I tell you it is not too
late. Oh, I cannot die in peace if You
do not promise. You have no right
to lose your soul, child-it is notyours
to do with as you please, but is bought
with a price. Take those off look
ing with wide strange eyes at the gems
on her hands.
She obeyed him. In a moment she
had stripped every ring from her fin
gers and then he gathered the two poor
SCARED hands in his cold ones, and
held them to his pale ones.
"Saved," he murmured, then he
smiled as if in answer to something he
saw, and moment later he fell asleep,
and the woman kneeling by his side
reverently closed his eyes, sobbing, but
not as one without hope.
Less than a year ago, and to-day the
quiet, respectable woman who IS post
mistress in one of our small western
towns has the goodwill Of every citl-
zen. They can see nothing in common
with her and the terrible woman of
Dead Mans Gulch, except the SCARED
hands from which they receive their
daily mail, and they know the honor
able history of these scars. Detroit
Free Press.
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DeadIiesi Of Snakes.

Throughout Cochin China, in Ton
auin and the extreme east there Is a
very venomous snake called the ma
las" whose venom causes death in two
or three hours. Every year this snake
has been the cause of death to $4,000
persons. 1t was evidently matter OF
vast Importance to discover an anti
dote. and this has at last been done by
Doctor Calmette, Paris physician and
a pupil of Pasteur. The substance is
a sort Of salt Of gold, which not only
acts incidentally after the bite, but as
n sort of vaccine taken internally it
renders the person proof against the
consequences of the naias bite. Chi
cago Herald.
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there was onlyone, and she rejoiced IN
the soubriquet of Scared Emma, and
YOU only had to look at her hands to
know why. They had been burned to
the bone, and although she wore dia-
mond rings to the first Joint Of every
finger, they didn't disguise the hOrrid
scars, scanned and livid, and of these
Emma was prouder than of the rings
Well she might be. Had she not
saved the lives OF men and women
bearing them in her arms from burn
ing building? And these scars were
her medals Of honor for her bravery.
Some of the gang were playing draw
poker. others engaged in a game OF
seven-up. Some drank and loafed,
loafed and drank again, and chaffed
with the landlady, who was about as
amiable as a tiger.
On the night here alluded TO-,
Scared Emma" was busy handing
out the miners poison in copiOus
doses, and listening to such cheap
compliments as were not too sugges-
tive of revolvers and free fights, when
the door opened, and the deputy
sheriff entered the place
Everybody rose up, and a shout Of
welcome greeted the new conner.
"Hallo, Bill, glad to see yer Brung
in any new uns:'
"Nawl Evenin', En-. About two
fingers straight, seein [ jest got in.
Been to Omaha for a pesky hoss thief.
Tried to get away. out here, and we
was agoin' to let him have it, but there
WIZ leetle weazened parson on the
stage an he interfered and prayed off
so fluid like, we weakened, an let the
Teller go with nary bullet in his car
cass. Here's to ye, En-, for the fair
est of yer sex. Come on, boys, an
ill up at my expense.
He tossed off the dram and set the
tumbler down to be rehlled.
"Where's the parson?" asked the
Iandlady, smiling on the deputy as she
measured the fiery fluid with a liberal
hand.
"He's stopped over to preach at
Hell's Delight, but he'll be at the
Gulch to-morroy, an doan yer forget
it, less he dies afore mornin' kind O.
sudden from a dose of cold lead. An
I'd advise the boys to grease their
boots, and be ready, for he's buster,
the parsOn is.
"Say, Bill" remarked Emma, stir
ring bis whisky by shaking it in the
glass, sis he young feller?'
"Aw, an sickly. Yer can see day
light through him.
"An' takes sugar in his?"
'You bet 70
The crowd roared pit Emma's wit,
and this time she set it up for them
herself.
'5ay, Bill, is he really comm here
to preach?"
'Look here, En-. Yoa're talkin
through your bonnit. Come here he
may, but preach--hol hol guess
not
"Who says 'no?' asked the woman,
and this time the tiger showed itself
in her eyes.
81 dove all do" roared the
crowd in a rude chorus
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YES.
seem
To dream
OF a golden CLEAN
That with my life is blended,
My past
At last
Is overcast
And fears for the future ended.
Yes is a little word.
When whispered smaller still,
Yet that was all that heard,
And my foolish heart stood still,
Ceased its beating until
The word was fully spoken.
Then fiuttered away with a will.
And q faith that shall not be broken.
My mind
Inclined
To hide behinl
The shadow OF "No" AMI never
But now,
Somehow.
only know
The sunshine OF forever
''No" were as easily said,
But mo- is a word OF i'll.
What il 'twere mo" instead?
And in the shadow still
But mine is the smile OF hers.
And though the sun fade from Us,
Still would my universe
Be bright with the bow Of promise
For me
Shall be
The ecstasy
or life that love enhances.
Her eyes
Comprise
4 paradise.
And only mine their glances;
And yet il had my will,
would that had not heard
would be in the shadow still,
If she could recall the word,
For 1 would have over again
The exquisite happiness
That filled me IA thrilled me when
1 heard her whispered ''yes.'
Alfred Ellison, in Chicago Record.
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THE PARSONS QUEST.
BY MRS. NJ. L. RAYNE.

H L X L was a
breezy crow d
over in the En-
ma saloon one
night less than a
year ago, and
every man was
well heeled, car
ried his revolver
handy, and wore
his shirt open at
the neck. As for
the W ON c Il
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SINGULAR Cause OF a Fire.

A correspondent writes of an exam
pie of setting fire to house that is
rare enough to deserve notice. ltwss
a thatched cottage, and the flame seems
to have arisen from the glass Of pair
of spectacles which had been accident
allv thrown on the thatch The lens
seems to have acted as burning glass
aud set the straw in q blaze.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-10-06
Foreign.

SIXTY lives were lost BY the burning Of the
Russian steamer. Alphonse Zeeyecke.
A FORMIDABLE Anarchist plot was dis
covered by the Austrian police, and many
arrests were made.
The insurgents in the Argentine Republic
captured the city OF Rosario and forced the
National troops TO retreat.
ADMIRAL MELLo's fleet renewed the bonl-
bardment of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, doing ser-
Gus damage
The people OF st. PAUL. suburb OF Ham
burg. Germany. attacked sanitary corps
and killed policeman there were five new
cases of cholera, with one death, at Ham,
burg: a death was reported In England
cholera is rayaging the Eastern shore OF the
Persian Gull.
REPoRrs OF damage done by the floods at
Glfu, Japan, state that 6S2 houses were
swept away. l4,025 houses were Hooded, ISo
people were killed and 30, 0,203rendered nome
less.
ANOTHER advance in the price OF coal was
made In London /; 20, 900 women and children
are on the verge OF starvation As result ON
the miners strike.
Me-. GLADSTONE made a speech at Elm
I barSb. attacking the British House oil Lords
for rejecting the Home Rule bili.
THE officers AMI crews OF two TORPEDO
boats which attacked the Argentine Govern
ment naval squadron of the coest and which
were captured were In sited to revolt by Col
onel Esplna Colonel Espina was taken into
custody. AMI the probabilities are that he
! will be shot as traitor
THE mail steamship Carlo r.. from Genoa.
italy. for Santos. Brazil, returned 10 the for
mer port with cholera on board ia persons
diel OF the disease on the voyase3
THE Governnent = gaining the masferv
over the revc
still alive and can make
JosEPH MID new farms old. This
III dfe2, nl' king out al stumps on
z farms. Will also dig and clean your
ls and clsterns. Call on or address
A. NJ. EVANS.
II Isl Edinburg, Va.
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Hen and Kittens.

1t may interest your readers who
care about this sort of subject to hear
of the singular incident at our farm
two years ago of a hen taking charge
of three kittens. The mother cat
must have taken them herself an hour
or two after their birth and placed
them under the hen, which had made
a nest for herself two or three yards
off under the manger in a cowshed. !
saw the cat and her progeny lying on
the straw directly after their birth,
and noticed the hen on hdr nest. Re
turning Al hour or two later the cow
man showed me the kittens under the
hen, wondering how they had got
there, as nobody else had been in the
shed and he had not touched them.
Till the kittens grew too big the hen
never left them; the cat used to go
away foraging and come down every
now and then, throw herself down
alongside the hen and nurse her young
ones, sometimes lying with her head
under and her paws almost round the
hens neck. As the kittens got older
il was droll to see their foster mother
following them about and tryirI Iw
cover them with her wings We
six weeks it was quite
neighborhood. AZ AND SURGEON, aug
TOMS BR00K, "a. F.
II answer all calls, day or night. m
II also practice 10 Powell's Fort and j
Greek valleys.
'cisl attention to diseases Of wsnes
hildren, Jul