Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-05-02
NEWS ITEMS.
NEWS ITEMS.
The late DISASTROUS foods in Louisiana

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that State. In theNorthwest the. fresbets
are reported as bad as ever. st. Paul,
Minnesota, is partially oserAowed, and
the Minnesota Valley Railroad is badly
damaged by the food in the Upper Missis-
sippi The waters in the Missouri and
Platte Rivers are also out Of their banks,
although slowly subsidized in the latter.
Great floods are reported from various
parts of Canada.
It certainly is a remarkable coincidence
that we are bestowing suffrage upon the
negro race in this country just as Great
Britain is Withdrawing it, after years Of
experience, from the same race in Jamaica.
Britain is satisfied, after long and patient
trial, that the negro is untitled for self-gov-
eminent, and abolishes the Legislature of
Jamaica.
At Omra, Winnebago county, Wis, on
the 9th inst, Mrs. Ferman fatally pois-
oned first her babe and then herself with
strychnine. She was melted to the act by
learning Of the marriage of man whose
wife she had expected to become as soon
as she could get divorced from her own
husband.
Sir Frederick w. A. Bruce, the British
minister, recently called upon the Presi-
dent and read him an official commu-
nication from the English government, an
nouncing the birth Of a royal baby, the child
of the Prince and Princess Of Wales.
The Virginia House of Delegates has
passed a bill directing the Board of Public
Works to sell the remaining interest of the
State in railroads, amounting to about six
millions of dollars, and the purchase mon
ey to be paid in State bonds at par.
A blacksmith shop, at Sandy Hook,
near Lynchburg. was blown to pieces and
two men, working in it, badly injured by
the explosion of key Of powder which had
been carelessly left there. a.t s5t
A woman in Ohio became excited with
reference to a poor horse trade her hus-
band had made, and in a passionate alter
cation struck him a severe blow on the side
Of his neck with an axe. .a o..s
Among the items in the general appr5-
priation bill passed by the PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature were $500 "for prayers for
the Senate and $500 ''for prayers for
the House"
The Richmond Uhig learns thatit is
now established beyond possibility of
doubt that the late catastrophe at the Clio
yer Hill coal pits was the result Of care
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During his speech in Petersburg. Mr..
Wilson said to the negro meeting, "a am.
one Of you," but whether he meant that he
was. a negro or white man, or both, is
left to conjecture.
Three hundred and ffty-eight applica-
tons have been made by Virginia soldiers
for artificial limbs, and upwards of three
hundred granted.
The thieves about Norfolk are growing
very desperate. They have taken to rob-
bing the Poor-House and prowling about
the grave-yards. " ,.-..
Letters to citizens of Washington from
responsible and reliable parties in Culpep-
er county, Va, represent the general des-
titution there as dreadful in the extreme.
A highly respectable married lady in
Indianapolis, and mother of two beautiful
children. clipped with man who talked
through his nose and vended corn plasters
and brass jewelry.
The row between England and Spain
wears a still more threatening look. Eng
land has sent feet to Cadiz, with what
is reported to be peremtory dispatches on
board.
An excursion, on Government vessels, to
our new Russian possessions, is talked Of
in Washington. Applicants for tickets
must, we suppose, have good health and
year to spare.
A general convention Of the Methodist
Protestant Church will be held in Mont
gomery, Ala, on the first Tuesday of
May.
A dispatch from Nashville says: many
citizens ofNewton County, Georgia, forty
miles from Atlanta, are almost on the point
Of starvation.
Ninety-two petitions for devorce are
now pending before the Supreme Court at
Providence, r. l., Of which all but
twenty came from wives.
A barber in Bangor adyertises that his
shop is conducted on temperance princl-
pies He says there is no alcohol in his
soap or hair brushes.
A gentleman in Pennsylvania got up at
midnight, took an axe and beat out his
wife's brains, and then neatly hung him
self with his suspenders. m sf
The Independent has discovered that
''the States that now need reconstruction
are the Northern" That's what's COM
ing. i' 1''
A Southern editor drew lottery prize
consisting of no less than thirty ight artl-
cles-a pint of bitters containing that
number Of ingredients. M
A man near Chambcrsburg, Pa, sold
his wife the other day to peddler for SIT,
and executed a regular bill of sale for the
goods. a,f 4aA .'s1a aaa ao a
The German citizens of Washington
have contributed $475 for the relief Of the
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