Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1868-12-10
G1ippiM4S.
Massachusetts, has already had nine
snow storms.

Odfolihe county, the people nave raised
$500 to tender E. A. Pollard to aid in
prosecuting Grant.
The Chicago Tribune opposes the ex-
tension of the Freedmen's Bureau after
the LIST Of January.
A Tennessee official recently offered IF
ty dollars for the scalp of "Kuklux."
A Kentucky town is preparing to celc :
brate Christmas by bear fight.
Corn sells in Denton, Texas, for ten
cents bushel.
Chilicothe, Ohio, a gardener is success
fully growing figs,
Mexican bandits now not only rob stage
passengers Of valuables, but strip all the
clo' hes off of them.
In all the pork packing States there is
large decrease in the number of hogs
Kentucky reports 1913 900 fewer porkers
than year ago.
GENERous-Mr, A. A. Low Of New
York, has given five hundred dollars for
the purchase of books for the library of the
University Of Virginia. a generous and
useful donation.
The United States furnished fifty five
per cent, of the whole amount of cotton
imported into Great Britain during the
first nine months of 1868.
The Roanoke Times earnestly oppo Sc
the extension of the stay law. The
Lynchburg Tirginian seems to take the
same side.
On November 18th. at the house of the
late Baron Rothscbiij, in Paris. 49, 600
poor persons were each presented with a
twenty franc piece, about four dollars
gold, making the muni6cent sum Of $50, :
600 in gold.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.-Senator Pome-
roy has prepared bill proposing an
amendment to the constitution, enfran.
chising all citizens of both sexes, leaving
the States to fix the age at which any ciz-
zen may become eligible.
The Mayor of New Orleans has appoint
ed a board of Engineers, at the head of
which is General Beaureguard, to devise a
plan for the thorough draining of that city
and its protection from over flow.
A letter from Cuba :"On the 18th of
October General Lersundi received the
following telegram, sent from Pau by the
ex Queen. Isabel f. count on your
tried valor and loyalty to preserve the in
tegrity of those Antilles without any
change in their political government
Within few days I shall return to Mad
rid"
"Important Intelligence. Under the
above caption. the State Journal of Satur
day publishes the following-
We have reliable authority for saying
that it is the intention of the Military
Commander of this District to proceed at
once to apply the 18th Amendment, Sec
ton Sd. in filing the Offices of clerks and
courts and Commonwealth Attornies.
Yellow Smoke, noted Indian chief, has
been killed by party ofroughs at Dunlop,
Iowa. His band comprises some fifteen
warriors, who are reported to be gathering
in fast, AMI are greatly excited.
1t is reported that Spain has selected the
United States as mediator between her
self and the republics of the Pacific coast,
and that she has asked for peace confer
ence. to be held in Washington. the Sec
rotary Of State to preside. Ecuador, Boil
ivia. and Peru, have assented. but Chill
holds back.
Fort Lafayette is in ruins. Last week
some workmen attempted to warm their
dinner in the fre-pace-the chimney be-
ing foul took fire, the sparks from which
communicated to lot of loose shingles on
the Oh. side, and very soon the whole
building was 10 flames. The fort was
built of brown stone and heavy timhers:
1t contained eighty guns, in two tiers and
barbette. The part it played in the late
war will lnog live in the memory or many
who were incarcerated in its loathsome
cells.
THE NATIONAL BANK AcT.-It is un-
derstood that the Comptroller Of the Cur
rency vii! urge upon Congress. at its ap-
preaching session. the necessity of amend
ing the national bank act to check the abuse
of certifying checks upon mythical bal
ances. which has grown to he such an
abuse in New York and elsewhere during
tie past few years The recent decision
of Judge Clifford, in Boston, that cash
Ter has no right to certify check even
against balance, and that the right cannot
be given to him or his tellers even by the
directors themselves, will do much toward
securing remedy for this evil Wash
tom Chronicle
Mr.. CHASE SPEAKS OF Us-Chief Jus-
tice Chase, who has just returned from
Richmond, speaks in fattering terms of the
southern people, so far as he was able to
Judge of feelings. He thinks there are no
people more loyal or more anxious for
peace and harmony between the two Sec
tons, and that if permitted to do SO they
would very soon recover from the disas-
trious results of the rebellion The action
Of the Chief Justice in sustaining the mo-
ton to quash the Davis indictment was an
ticipated in this correspondence. but it was
not expected that the vindictive nature OF
Judge Underwood would prompt him to
dissent. and necessitate the question being
certified to the Supreme Court. The
Chief Justice thinks there is no doubt
about his opinion being sustained by the
other members of the court -Washingto,
| Letter-Baltimore Gazette.