Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-03-10
NEWSY GLEANINGS;

THE peach crop is all right
BoHEMIAxs want home rule.
The sentiment for home rule is growing
In England.
CUBAN sugar planters are protesting
against export taxes.
OUR imrorts Of bananas reached 1900.
COO punches last year
The American contingent in Bermuda is
large and representative.
IT has been colder in Virginia this year
than any year since ISL
MORE than III .OOO,OlO bushels OF wheat
are in store East and West Of the Rockies.
VERMONT maple sugar makers say they
will supply 100000 pounds Of sugar this
spring.
UNTIL this winter it is said that no wolves
have been seen in Massachusetts for hail
century.
ly the Western Penitentiary OF Pennsyl-
vania thirty convicts are in regular receipt
of pensions.
THE bill disestablishing the churcl in
Wales has been introduced into the British
Parliament.
TRADE in the great English iron manu-
featuring center Of Birmingham Is very
much depressed.
The steam pleasure yachts Of Northern
men Of wealth and leisure arc many In
Southern waters
The epidemic OF cere5ro. spinal meningitis
is spreading in Kentucky aud the people are
becoming panic stricken.
SrocKMEY Of Southwest Texas have
formed an organization for mutual protec-
ton from cattle thieves.
The Alabama Legislature has passed an
act debarrins Pinkerton men from the state
under penalty Of fine OF 5000.
The German Ministry of War has issued
special and stringent instructions TO all the
garrisons to guard against revival OF the
cholera.
THE Southern Cotton Bureau claims 10
have made arrangements with English cap
talists for Sc 00l, coo 70 advance to cotton
growers.
As unofficial referendum taken in Bel
GUM on the suffrage question resulted IN
large ajority for NJ. Jansen's proposal for
universal manhood suffrage
INCREASED membership Of the next House
viii render necessary soma changes In the
arrangement OF Representative Hall to make
room for the additional member.
1T is now said that the fifty cents admis'
sion fee 10 the Worlds Fair will enable
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it will cost him SIS to see everything on the
grounds.
The Financial Committee OF the Folks
thing has decided adversely 70 n proposition
TO send a Danish corvette , attend the naval
display at New York in honor Of the Column
bus anniversary
If is estimated that more boomers are
souatting along the borders Of the Cherokee
SirjD than can be accommo1atet with quar-
ter sections when the lan1 shall nave Osen
opened for settlement.
ArsRRIBLE lighthouse tragedy occlrrel
on the north coast OF France lately. One OIL
the keepers died from fall on tue STAIRS
and the other had to live with his decom-
posing body for two weeks before relleL ar
rived BE was afraid TO throw the BODY
into the soa for fear Of being accused OF muir
der.
ALUMP Of pure coal wei ga ing seven tons
has been mined at mine No. 3, OF the Ger
ges Creek Coal and Iron Company, Park ers-
6ure. W. Va, and is boxed ready for ship
ment to the Worlds Fair as an exhibit. ms
rs sail by mining experts 10 be the largest
Iump of coal ever taken out intact from any
mine in the world.
Town TREASURER RoBgRr SwARTwoUr,
of Stamford Conn, has received an anony-
nous letter. postmarked New York, enclos-
inc n $1,000 Treasury nota. Inc letter reads:
"Piease put this 5000 to the credit OF Stam'
ford taxes OF 1870" The letter was not
registered. and no one has any idea OF tue
identity OF the sender. It IS supposed TO be
conscience money.