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


membership.
Gen. Fitz Lee has been appointed one
of the governments directors OF the
Union Pacific Railroad. The pay is $40
day and ten cents a mile, the meetings
being quarterly.
The new schedule of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, which goeo into effect on
May 14th, provides for forty-four mir
ute train between Baltimore and Wash
ington. This will be the latest train in
the world for the same distance.
1t is said since the death of Gen. R. l..
T. Beale, of Westmoreland, there are only
two men living who served in the Con-
gress of the United States from Virginia
before the war, viz: Judge Roger A.
Pryor. of New York. and Judge John T.
Harris, of Harrisonburg.
1t is said that a man in Colquitt county,
Georgia, has been married eleven years
and has thirty children. His wife bore
trplets each time. They will be on ex-
hibition at the Worlds Fair. The ex-
hiblt ought to be next to "tbe old woman
who lived IN a shoe"
The second woman to secure a license
to practice medicine in this State IS
Sarah G.. Jones, of Richmond city, a
mulatto, and a graduate of the medical
school of Howard University, Washington.
The frst woman was the assistant in the
lunatic asylum at StauntoD, and was
licensed about three years ago.
Cyclone JIM" Of the Ninth (Vs.) dis
trict, says the President promised him
that Virginia would get her share Of
federal patronage in time. He also says
that at all the government departments
his right to present the applications Of
bis constituents for office lis recognized,
but it is no less apparent that at all of
them the right to reject is reserved.
J.E.A. Gibbs, of Rsphne. and Mis-
Maggie Craig, of Craigsville, Augusta
county, took the train at Staunton Thurs
day morning, of last week, for Washing
ton, where, upon arrival, they were mar
RED. The groom, who is Ga years old, is
a widower worth half a million dollars.
and is the inventor of the Wilcox X
Gibbs sewing machine. The bride is
charming young woman Of % summers.
A we'll known New York physician
says that he gives bread pills and sugar
pills ID his practice to compose the nerves
and stimulate the belief that they are
getting better in people who have moth
log the matter with them. Chronic |
invalids, be says. are to be iound chiefly
among people who have nothing to think |
about but their livers, and they devote
their minds to their aches and pains
with great assiduity.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Warren Sentinel writes: "Hoge Tyler |
clubs are being formed in this city several
having 500 and more members, have been
organized. That he has grown in the |
past ten days does not admit OF doubt. |
Tyler, Berry and Scott seems to be the |
ticket much spoken of, and it comes from
the Ninth, Tenth and Eighth Districts,
with large and influential following in
the Second, Third and Fourth, where all
of the candidates are bound by ties of
blood, marriage and association"
A prominent Democrat of the Valley |
was in Washington last week and in con
versation with the correspondent of the
Alexandria Gazette. said The people in
his country are by no means satisfied
with the assumption by the Virginia
congressional delegation Of the power Of
selecting from the Democrats of their
State certain men for federal Office in that
State. he says that according to old
democratic usage every man who might
want an Office could apply for it, but
that according to the new rule, if it shall
hold, none need apply except as have
received the approval of q congressional
delegation elected for no such purpose.
He also says that none of the Virginia
CoDgr essmen who attempted to assume
such authority has benefited himself by
80 dong.
Postmaster General Bissell has issued a
circular announcing that for the con-
venieace of visitors to the Columbian Elk.
position a branch Of the Chicago Post
Office has been established in the Govern
ment building on the Fair groundP. The
branch will be known as the Worlds Fair
station. From it regular collections and
deliveries will be made by its own force
of letter carriers from and to all parts of
the Exposition grounds, and all ether bust
ness of first-class Post Office will be
transacted there. In bis official announce
ment Of the establishment of the Worlds
Fair station Postmaster Van Colt says
"Vistors to the Exposition who may ,
be uncertain as to their precise location
sitter arrival at Chicago may find 1t con- ,
yenient TO have their mail matter ad-
dressed to the Worlds Fair Station,
Chicago"
Ex-Presdent jefferson Dayls's remains
will be re-interred in Hollywood Gene. |
terry, at Richmond, on the 3lst of May, O
and an immense crowd will be present t
from all parts of the South. Hollywood q
will then contain the remains Of three r
persons who have filed the office of o
President, viz: Jefferson Davis, ex-Presi- 1
dent OF the Southern Confederacy, and a
James Monroe and John Tyler, former d
Presidents OF the United States. 1t also o
holds the dust of many other men who d
have been distinguished In their country's
history. Notable among them are Gen J.
E. B. Stuart, the famous cavalry CON-. 0
nander; Gen. George E. Pickett; ex-Gov. D
Henry A. Wise; John Randolph, of y
James A. Seldom the Score. 10
ary of the Confederate Navy and many u
,thers whose names are familiar through az