Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-05-12
NEWS AND COMMENT.

with those seeking appointments 10 "noo
except as he may especially invite them
For several years past nearly all the
slate pencils used throughout the United
States have been made at one factory in
Charlottesville, Va.
P. W. FauntlerOy, son of Judge Faun-
tleroy, who had been practicing law IN
St. LOUIS, has entered the Episcopal min
istry.
The President Friday appointed Mrs.
Annie B. Kenna, widow of the late Sena
tor Kenna, of West Virginia, pOstmlstress
at Charleston, w. Va, vice H. c. Nj
Whorter, removed.
The President has appointed John
Goode, of Virginia, to be commissioner on
the part of the United States under the
treaty for a claims commission concluded
between the United States and Chill
August :, 1892.
Hen. c. T. O'FCrrsll is quoted as say
lug the Democrats will carry Virginia by
$1,000 majority next fall. We advise the
Colonel not 10 delude himself with this
rainbow view of the situation. We think
il quite likely if he is nominated he will
be defeated TOsfs Weekly.
The will of Philadelphia lawyer who
has just died, reads as follows This is
my last will. leave all my property to
my wife, and make her my executrix.' 10
spite of the fact that this will does not
cover several pages of legal verbiage, it
has been pronounced perfectly valid.
Virginia got one of the plums that fell
from the White House tree Saturday.
Mr.. Alexander Mcdonald, of Lynchburg,
was appointed to the Persian mission.
Mr.. Mcdonald was editor IF the Lynch
burg VirgipiGa during the latter years of
that papers existence, and is a brother Of
Col. Mcdonald, the Fish Commissioner.
Richmond has appropriated $4,000
towards defraying expenses attending
he Refinement Of the remains of Hon.
JEFF. Davis in Hollywood Cemetery on the
3lst inst. The Governor of Louisiana
and of intervening States will escort the
remains in their passage through their
respective territories.
The Winchester Ndrs makes an emf
ntntly happy suggestion. 1t proposes to
put up all the Offices at public auction,
at county convention, and knock them
dswn to the highest bidder. This course
would save lots of hard feeling and would
60 long way toward paying the public
debt.
A Washington correspondent mentions
among the wealthlest cOlored men of the
Capital John F. Cook, estimated to be
worth from $4,000 to $500 OOO; Fred
Douglass $4,000; tue two sons of the
late James Wormely, 100000; john R.
Lynch, SIS, 600; P. B. S. Pinchback, $780,
900; Drs. c. B. PurYis and John A.
Francis, $50 900 each, and the children of
the feed store man Lee, 100000.
The physicians who testified as experts
in a recent murder case in Washington
city have been allowed $40 day for wit
ness fees, amounting to SllO0 each; and
the murderer was hanged, too. Whether
justice was rendered or not, the fact is
plain that trials come high in Washington.
Nc wonder Congressman object to taxing
the people of all other parts of the country
to pay half the expenses OF the courts of
that city.-Alerandria Gazette.
The Richmond papers Saturday pub
lished an address prepared and issued by
the O'Ferrall organization at the recent
conference there. This paper is nothing
more than review of the Colonies mill
tary, legislative and personal record since
his birth in 1910. No reference is made
10 the paper to O'Ferralps attitude on the
financial or other national issues. The
address closes with the declaration that
the Congressman has made more political
speeches than any other man in Virginia.
The largest crowd of moonshiners ever
captured in West Virginia we're taken to
Charleston the first of last week, There |
were abOut forty of them and they all J
came from Mcdowell and Wyoming |
county, and are rough.looking lot. |
Among them are two women, Clara |
Smith and May Batchal, who are alleged |
to have run mountain stills for years past.
These arrests pretty effectually break up |
the making OF Illicit whiskey in the two
counties named
A monument is soon t. be erected at |
Charlottesville, Co., to the memory of
that great and good man, Hon. Alexander
II. Stephens, who was Yice-President of
the Confederate States and who long re-
sided in that town. 1t is a beautiful |
shaft and was made in Italy. The funds
to pay for it were raised chiefly by the
efforts of Miss Mary A. Gray, whose lover
was killed 10 the war and who has ever
since devoted her life to the preservation
of Confederate records aud to honering
the memory of our herOes.-RichmOnd
Dispatch.
Ex-Gov Francis, Of Missouri, who APP
preciates the value of the LEGAL papers,
gives the following reason why they
should be patronized; Every year the
local paper gives from 500 to $1,000 in
free lines to the community in which it is
published. No other agency can or will
do this The editor, in proportion to his
means, does moro for his county than any
other ten men; he ought to be supported,
not because you like him or his writing,
but all should support local paper 1t
is the best investment a community can
make. 1t may not be brilliantly edited
or crowded with thought, bat financially ,
il is mors benefit to the people than the
teacher OF the preacher. Understand me,
[ do not say morally or intellectually, but
financially; and yet Oh the moral question
YOU will find that most of the local papers