Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-06-21
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

noun Is was caught Friday in the
reservoir at Charlottesville.
Representative ELECT Crowley,
of Texas SAYS his State favOrs
sound money policy.
Representative elect AcheSOn, Of
Western p nnSNlvanla, says his
section of the State bell, YES IN the
gold standard.
The recently competed real es.
tate assessment in F,edeii' ksburg
shows an increase ol I3 per cent
IN value.
Two persons were killed and a
a score ofdwelling> were demoliSl-
ed by a tornado at II lrtfOId, KIN
Monday.
The Irish. American Club VI
indianapolis has declared in favor
of ,ha movement to free Ireland hy
tore
motracled drought is reported
10 Preston and adjacent counties
in West Virginia, aud the crop
outlook is gloomy.
Clarks>iile, Mo-, has a very old
negro who doesn't know his age,
bat says be can remember when
the natural bridge III Virginia
was built.
1t is stated that Admiral Ram.
say will not be assigned 10 the
command of the North Atlantic
station. but will CONTINUE as chief
of the navigation bureau.
Mr.. Burr Hamilton, of Lincoln,
Loudoun county, was killed last
week by being struck by an old
pump which was being drawn out
Of a we'll on Isaac NchOls's pro-
perty.
The hy in the wheat his done
damage in some loo 'lities in Lou.
DOM county. IL is learned that
some wheat fields were plOughed
up in the northwest part Of the
csunty, 10 consequence OF the
damage from fy, but as general
thing the wheat crop is coming ont
IN good condition, and farmers
may look for an average crop.
Governor O'Fer rail- has receil ed
from Major Slmons an estimate Of
the expense of the military at
PocahOntas. 1t Is understood that
The total amount is about $50 600,
Just what the governor a few weeks
ago predicted 1t would be. There
are still some troops at FOcabOn
tas, but the expense low is quite
light compared with what 1t has
been.
The books Of the Te.assesSOIS OF
real estate in L)udOun show that
If the same ratio Is to be maintain
Ell in the districts yet to hear from
there will be a falling of 10 the
as essed value OF real estate 10
that county alone Of more than
half million dollars, which, AT
40 cents on tie 500, will reduce
the county revenues between
$4,000 and $4,000 as compared
with 1894.
Josl Ii Morris & Co., Montgom-
cry, Ala, bankers, mailed on
Saturday a package containing |
$40. 900 to a New York bank, ill.,
curing it as usual. Shortly after
wark the mail pouch was found
cut open and the package missing
Charles Armstrong, a post office
mIlIye, returned the package
Sunday. claiming he had found i:
in the street. Armstrong was
arrested.
The Tennessee Press ASs6cls
ton, which has been spending a
week &C Cumberland Island, of
the Georgia coast, passt d through
Atlanta on it's homewaid trip TN
lat Wednesday. QHte q number
of the editors stopped over IN
Atlanta at the invitation OF the
Cotton State and Liter ,tiOn /
Exposition Company. and were
at d bdrbt cue at the
b me Of Mr.. ". A. Hemp.
bill, vice.presideut OF the ExpOsi-
ton Company. They were given
an electric car tide over the city,
and escorted over the Exposition
grounds by committee from the
Directory. The p'rty
went on to their Tennessee homes
Wednesday night, much pleased
with the sights of the building Of
the great Fair.
Burned And Robbed.
Greenville, OHIO, 17.-This town