Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-05-19
NEWS AND COMMENT.

There are nearly four hundred babies
on exbibiton at a show in Washington
President Cleveland has declined to
become a member OF the Virginia His
tOrical Society.
Senator John ". Daniel has been in
yited to be the orator on Virginia Day at
the Columbian Exposition.
About niuety-nine out of every hundred
persons in the state want better reads
Still we must travel in the same old ruts.
A libel suit in Stanton against J. Il.
Lindsay and Isaac c. Haas for $4,000 re-
suited in a verdict for the defendants
The suit grew out of a publication 10y
editor Lindsay in the Basic City Adcdnce.
John B. Roden, a storekeeper at BlTm-
ingham, Ala., after listening to sermon
on the evils of card-playinG, made bon
FIRE of all the cards in his store, valued at
fully $500.
The Lynchburg Nar8 publishes the
gubernatoIial preferences of large nun
Der OF the business men of that city, show
ing a decided preponderance in favor of
Lieut.. Gey. j. Hoge Tyler.
The distribution of the leaves and
fishes still goes on. Chicago man who
went to Washington to get a cOnsulship
has reached home with two gold fishes
given him by tie Fish Commissioner.
Capt. I. c. Morton, secretary of the
Virginia Worlds Far Association, say s
the best time for Virgnians to visit the
exposition will be in August He advises
all who can do so TO take the trip during
that month.
A white girl in Pittsburg applied for
warrant last week for the arrest of a |
negro man who, she said had deceived
her under promise of marriage. Tbs
magistrate refused her application and
told her she deserved all she got"
Mrs. Fannie Ragland has sued Wood
ward 4 Lothrop, of Washington, for
$4,000 for having her searched IN their
establishment, where she was arrested by
a private detective on the charge Of
stealing diamond ring. which was not
found on her.
There are twenty cases of small pox in
the vicinity of Lunenburg Court House
and there have been several DEATHS
Owing to the presence of the disease
there have been no sessions of the courts.
Lunenburg Court House is about 60 miles
from Petersburg
That splendid daily paper, Baltimore
san. was fifty-six years old on Wednesday.
1t is one of the best and most thoroughly
reliable papers in this big United States
and nowhere is its merits more highly
appreciated than in this section of Viz
GINA where it is read aud admired by
many hundreds.
The Religious Herald makes the state
ment that there are five counties in Viz
ginia which lave not Baptist church or
minister in them. These counties are
Wise, Buchanan, Dickinson, Richmond
and Shenandoah, with a populatiOn of 49,
900. The Herald thinks there is room In
those counties for missionary work
The South must manufacture at home
its limitless raw material, What profit
is it to us to continually boast OF our
great wealth of natural resources, tie
extont and variety of which are unsur-
passed anywhere on the habitable globe,
if we cannot or do not turn these oppor-
tunties into greater money producing
products '-Brmingham Erening Netcs.
Col. Charles G. Eddy, who resigned
his connection with tbs Norfolk & Wes-
tern Railroad few months ago to become
first president Of the Reading Rail
road. has rendered his resignation to the ;
receivers OF the latter road The resig-
nations of three other vice presidents we're
called for by the receivers at the same
time. Col. Eddy got sos, 900 year.
The following is list of applicants for
the position of Collector of Internal
Revenue for this, the Sixth District-W.
J. Allen, Joseph II. Shepherd, NJ. NJ. Nor {
RE, G. S. P. Triplett, Ham Shepperd,
John NJ. Kinney, NJ. NJ. Rogers, c. k.
Fontaine, George A. Mushback. Howard
J. Gibson, Jno. J. Jamispn, Peter J. Otey,
J. Frank Grant, James NJ. Scott, John b.
Evans, w. T, Ewing, John Steven 5
Mason, and J. W. Foster. (
The Democratic campaign cry started C
at the Chicago convention, and re-echoed
all over the land, was
"GfOver, Grover, four years more OF
Grover, {
They'll so ont !
Well go in, =
And then we'll be in clover" a
Bot Grover didn't put them out as fast t
as the greedy Office seekers (who insisted p
upon putting him in) desired, and they
have now modified their cry as follows:
"Grover, Grover, four years more OF
Grover, F
They've not gone cut,
We've not gone in,
Aud so we're not in clover"
The Virginia Governorship. d
The contest for the democratic nomina- b
ton for Governor of Virginia, which up y
IN FRIDAY seemed to be between Congress ii
man Charles T. O'Ferral and Lieuten- 81
ant Governor J. Hoge Tyler, is now COM ;
plicated by disappearance Of A. S. Buford e e
IF Richmond. 10 the race. He has yield n
ID to the pressure of friends in various b
'ections, and announces his candidacy !.
or the nomination. Colonel Buford ia II