Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-02-03
NEWS AND COMMENT.

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NEWS AND COMMENT.
All the Governors OF all the States are
recommending good roads in their mes
sages. For the first time in its history the
country is absolutely unanimous.
Henry Smith, colored, who confessed
assaultipg and numbering Myrtle Vance,
four years old, at Paris, Texas, was burned
to death at the stake ny a mob in that
place Wednesday.
Senator Kenna's death left bis widow a
poor woman, and the West Virginia con-
grsssional delegation joined in a petition
asking President-elect Cleveland to ap-
point her postmistress of Charleston, W.
Va.
D. NJ. Morris, publisher of the defunct
jackson wv. Va Democrat has bought
a saloon in Parkersburg, and is going into
that business. He says there is not as
much fun or glory in 1t as in running
q country newspaper, but lots more
money.
Hon. Basil B. Gordon, the chairman of
the democratic State committee, has
recently recovered from an illness caused
by the sudden stOppags of the use of
tobacco. Mr. Gordon has been an invet-
crate user of the weed, and not long ago
determined to abandon the habit. His
attempt to do so caused an attack Of
sickness.
Richmond Dispatch: Several days ago
Or. W. ". Parker inquired of Postmas-
ter Russel whether rubber bands could be
used around the new double postal cards.
The official could not answer the question
and the physician wrotste the Postmaster
General in reference to the matter. DR..
Parker has received a reply stating that
the bands could be used.
1t is stated with great pOsitivensss in
Washington that Mr. Holman will not
be raappointed chairman of the appro-
priations committee of the house in the
fifty.third congress. 1t is to be hoped
that this prediction will prove true.
Holman is back number. He has
backwoedsman's idea of the needs, duties
and responsibilities of great nation
Petersburg Indcr appeal, Dem.
The heirs of D. f. Connell, Of Ports
mounth, Ohio, who was about eighteen
months ago fatally assaulted in Pullman
sleeping car at Basic City, are pressing
their suits for damages against the Pull
man and the Chesapeake and Ohio oompa-
MES. There are three of these suits for
$4,000 EACH One of them was instituted
in the Federal and the others in the State
courts. Connell's murderer has never
been caught to this day.
The chief OF the Kansas City fire depart
ment has invented new bride for horses,
the use Of which makes 1t impossible
for the horss to take the bit between his
teeth. 1t has no bit to take. 1t is
arranged with strap over the horses
nose, and a steel curb under his jaw in
such way that hard pull on tho reins
makes the animal very uncomfortable
indeed. The new bride works to perfec-
ton. it is said on practical test, kespin
the horse perfectly under control, while
giving him the minimum of discomfort.
One great advantage of the continuance
is that 1t enables the animal to eat and |
rink in comfort without displacing the
,ridls.
Capt. James II. Pine, a school teacher
foliver in this county, says the Charles
n, W. Va. Free Press, was arrested
thy by u S. deputy marshals upon
the charge of sending improper matter
through the mails. When they called
and mentioned the object of their visit,
be in yited them INTO the school room and |
asked them to tske seats whilst he could |
hear a class then rsciting lesson. They |
assentsd and at the conclusion lie went
with them. He was tried 10 the U. S.
Court at ParkeIsburg and sentenced to
fourteen months in the penitsntlary and
foe of $780, The letters in evidence are
said TO have been full of tllthy things |
intended to smirch the character Of a
young lady. Until his arrest his general
reputation was good. The sentence il re-
garded as light one.
Rev. Ira d. Hicks, the st. Louis
W eathe prophet whose forecast for Jan
nary was so accurately verified, has re-
corded his prediction for this month 1t
ia not reassuring by any means. For
February, bis predictions are as follows;
Secondary isturbaDces. existing q
the opening of the month, will end IN
cold on the LIST aud 81 f; warmer about
tbs 5th. with rain and snow on the 7th.
4 eols wage will follow, ending south
ward. and lasting to about t he 10th and
i2th. After storms about these dates,
,ldsr upt 70 the 18th. Storms OF rain,
IA "dsr, sleet add snow from the 10th to
'sepf, " A severe co Id wave will come
xNslteess storms. Reactionary tenn
VOs'eS storms win touch the 23d
4pOisogn'sy ~ be owed by returning cold
2 y d Tor ealFenlsr ty Of the month. at which
Ssv (vSReraturs and coming .
~ Stder. Don't forget or
lpb creatures that
Weed aud shelter.
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