Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-07-07
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Wheat sold last week at sixtyeigh
cents, the lowest price en- the Baltimore
corn and -four exchange within the past
forty years.
w. T.. Straughan a we'll known Staun
ton newspaper man, has purchased the
interest of Hugh l. ShOtt in Yost'
Weekly. The new firm owning anC
Publishing the paper now is Fraser
Blackburn & Co.
Cataract, iOrillard's two-year-Old colt
was brought ont to be worked last weeF
at Sheepshead Bay, when he bolted,
threw his rider, ran into the fence, and
finally fell int ditch. His back was
broken and he was killed. Lorillard
valued him at $4,000.
J. F. East, police justice of Norfolk
has been appointed by Col. OFerrall as
state chairman of bis gubernatOrial cam
paign organic alton. In referring to the
outlook over the state, Col O'Ferrall, in
writing to Mr.. East, says the prospects
are for victory.
W. W. Moffett, a brother of Rev. j. R.
Moffstt, who was murdered in Danville,
has been appointed By Gov. Mckinney
to be county judge of Roanoke county, in
place of Judge Griffin, resigned. He is
a native of RappahannOck and formerly
represented that county in the legisla-
ture.
Bourbon has indeed received a black
eye at its own home. At Bowling Green,
Ky, Saturday last, after one of the most
exciting elections in the history of that
city, the "drys" won by a majority Of
twenty-eight votes, and for the next three
years local option will prevail. Through
out the day prayer-meetings were held,
women stood around the polls. and church
bells were rung.
The test of the smokeless powder
invented by Mason Leonard, Of Virginia,
proved so satisfactory that the ordnance
bureau of the War Department has
ordered large amount of the explosive
sont to the Sandy Hook proving ground
for a more thorough test. The first lot
OF the explosive furnished was small, and
only few rounds could be fired. The
powder is now being tested in the small
field guns and great interest iu the re-
suit is ielt at the War Department.
The alcoholic habit is finding its vic
Tins among the women of the better class
in New York. In the last four weeks
three cases have occurred. The case OF
Miss Minnie Porter was the first. She
was taken from the Everett House, where
she was suffsrln! from the effects of a
prolonged debauch. She died in Bellevue
Hospital without regaining sufficient
consciousness to make any statement.
The second was the case of Mrs. Bruce
Crane, tue wife of the artist. She was
brought into the Police Court in a state
Ofintox icatiOn. Her husband accompanied
her, and broke down completely, as he
told the story of his Intellectual Efforts to
reform her. She was sent to some in
stitutiou. The third woman was Mrs.
Frank w. Palmer, who was found dead
in her room at the United States Hotel.
Alcoholism was the caase. She had been
reared IN wealth aud luxury, had been
carefully educated. and had led the choir
and played the organ Ia an Episcopal
church.
ALEXANDRIA Sun The Sun referred, a
few day ago, to the proposition of Hon.
Marshall Mccormick, of Clarke county,
speaking on behalf of Colonel O'Ferrall
and his fIiends) that all the delegates
recently appointed from that county TO
the State convention, about the fairness
OF legality OF whose election there Is a
contest, should resign and new set of
delegates be elected. We expressed the
hope that the proposition would prove
acceptable to all interests, and that the
State convention would thus be saved
the annoyance Of contest for seats IN
that BODY. Mr.. Conrad KOwnslsr, of
the anti.O'Ferrsll delegates, has pub
lished a reply to Mr., McCOrmick's prop !
ositlon, declining to accede TO bis request !
and intimating that if the O'Ferral del |
eeates we're not aware of the weakness
of their pretentiOns they would be
unwilling to reliDquish what they already |
possessed. Being satisfied that the anti !
WFerrall delegates were fairly selected, |
Mr.. Kownslar and his associates prefer
to leave the matter to the State cenven- |
tion. He states in bis card that there |
were i47 votes cast for the anti-O'Ferrall
delegates and 1872 for the O'Ferrall dele
gates. He says further: eve have the |
names of every one who voted with us,
and We expect, be the nominee who he /
NAV. to give him those identical 1i7 votes. ,
Can the gentlemen on the other side
vote their 1872 in the same way We
venture 10 say they cannot and Will not, /
because minors cannot and Republicans
will not vote the Democratic ticket, and
40 we think they will fall short of the
full 1872"
Clarke was selected as the first county
10 send "solid O'Ferrall delegation"
The program didn't work satisfactorily.
The Mccormick machine" probably
waited until the grain was too rlf 9
before il commenced tie harvest; or,
perhaps il has been gscertalned that the
grain was too green. Be that rs 1t may,
the yield was unsatisfactory, and as ex-
Senator Lewis once remarked, things
are very much mixed"