Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-09-09

ces the completion Of the Suez Canal
The opening. with eight metres of water
is expected to occur on the It'll of Deem
Der.
On Sunday night last eight negro pris
oners. who were confined in one room o
the Mecklenburg jail, broke it open anc
made good their escape.t
The University of Vermont has jus'
made fool of itself by comforting the de
gree of "Dr. of Laws" on Gen PHILIP
Sheridan. -
A correspondent oftbe Cincinnati Com
naercial says Andy Johnson is bound to
be elected United States Senator from
Tennessee.
The editor ofthe Fredericksburg Herald
says tits estimated that each of the proprie-
tors of the White Sulphur Springs will
realize $4,000 as his share of the profits
this season.
A great fire is raging in the Dismal
Swamp in Virginia. Many miles of fen
ces and cord-wood have. been destroyed,
and numerous wild animals have been
driven out into the open country.
The thermometer fell to % at Mount
Washington, n. H., Ice formed on the
telegraph wires two inches thick, and
broke them down in some places. On
last Thursday.
A Northern company has purchased an
estate of 7 500 acres in Fairfax, at $3.50,
900. This estate is to be cut up into
small tracts, after the plan of Vineland
in New Jersey. =
Another attempt by negro to commit
an outrage upon young lady in Louloun
county few days ago-fortunately gen.
tleman came to her relief. The papers
are full of these horrors.
The statement going the rounds of the
press that 'the collection of human bones
on the battle fields in Virginia, Ito be used
as fertilizers, } is prosecuted as regular
business" is an unqualified lie Wing
NICE Set OF OFFIcrsLs-Thc grand
jury of Charles City (Va.) county cour.
have found an Indictment against John
Amber Smith, the Conmonwealth's at
torney for that court, and the Radical
Senator elect for the district, for exhibit
ing obscene pictures.
A fire occurred yesterday in the Steu-
ben chaft. at Plymouth, about twenty
miles south Of Scranton. and there being
two hundred men and~oys in the mine,
with no means Of escape, great fears were
expressed. at last accounts, that they
would be suffocatcd.
The Erenting Express says: cit is said
that General Candy is preparing a report
to the President pitching into the political
moral and social status of Virginia gene
rally; charging the people with hipderne
reconstruction, and being secretly hostile
to the congr essional policy"
The cotton crop of 1869 is 50 we'll ad-
vanced that we may safely estimate it at
three million bales, half million more
than last year. Surprising that it nets the
planters % cents per pound (greenbacksl
it will bring them $500. 600, coo which is
more than they received for the largest
crop ever grown.
DEATH OF MEMBER ELECT OF TIE
LEGISLATURE james 7. Close, a mem
Der elect of the House of Delegates OF
Virginia, Republican. died of cancer Of
ho etD oh Il J A
ton, on Tuesday morning The deceased
was of Northern birth, but had resided in
this country for the last twelve or fifteen
yaers. Alec. Gazette.
Daring the absence of the family, the
house of Colonel ". Winston Fontaine
in fredericksburg, was entered two or
three nights ago by thieves, who succeed
ed in carrying off all the meat that gentle
men had, together with two barrels of
-four, lot Of sugar, and several other
articles, generally used in the house keep
ing line.-Enqmirer.
A large party of young men, enlisted
for the Cuban patriot army. under COM
mand, it is said of Major Brigeford, for
merly of the Confederate army, have rem
dezvoused at Fort Gaines. Georgia, and
General Terry has been invoked to send
troops to capture them. A revenue cut
ter has been ordered to cruise off the coast
to keep them from escaping, and mean
while military movements will be made
on land to render the enterprise harmless,
if possible. Enquirer.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT Intelligcnce was
received here yesterday of serious ac-
cident that had occurred in Giles county,
Va, by which Miss Katie French, daugh-
ter of DR.. French, of this city, had her
arm broken just below the shoulder joint
The injury was occasioned by the over
turning of a stage coach, one passenger
in which, gentleman, was killed. and
another lady friend of Miss French, had
her leg en.-Aler. Gazette.
Mr.. Kanegy's barn, near Kernstown,
Frederick county, was set on fro last week
by accident, in the use of wheat thresb
ing machine. A few bushels only had
been threshed. when a sudden jar occur
red, and flames burst out at the point
where the horse power is connected with
the thresher, caused by undue friction
on bevel piece of the machinery -
The machine was set near the barn door
for convenience, but the result was, the
building was at once enveloped in flames,
and it, with its contents, soon destroyed.
The barn was valued at $4,000, whilst its
contents, soon destroyed, amounted to
some l, 250 bushels of wheat, 40 tons Of
hay, lot of barley, two wheat reapers,
two wheat drills and n number of other