Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-10-14
News Items.

Admiral Farragut. who was reported
dangerously i'll at Chicago, BY Saturdays
dispatches. is getting better.
Nearly half block of small buildings
were burned in Chicago Gu Thursday last.
Loss, $40. 600.
Gen. Candy has issued an order appro-
priating SIS, 900 to pay the expenses of
the present session of the Legislature.
The Conservatives of Mississippi have
pushed matters considerably They are
running negro for Secretary Of State.
The Enquirer suggerts that old Ben.
Wade and Miss Susan b. Anthony might
do Ga great deal of good as United States
Senators from Virginia.
Mr.. George Peabody will spend the
coming winter in the south of France, at
the villa of Mr.. W w. Corcoran, who
sails for Europe in November.
William Cullen Bryant, of the New
York p st, has turned translator of Ho-
mer. His first volame of the Had is al
readyin press.
The Emperor Of Austria, the Empress
of the French and the Sultan of Turkey
are all going to Suez together, by way of
Joppa and Jerusalem.
During a circus performance at Phila-
del phia yesterday afternoon, Madame De
Berg, well known equestrienne, was
thrown from her horse and had an arm
broken.
George Morrison, of Cincinnati, ticket
agent of Robison's circus, was fatally
stabbed in Richmond yesterday by Chas
Spain, who it is alleged, mistook him for
another man.
Fenianism continues lively in England
and ireland. Meetings are numerous
Six thousand persons attended the funeral
of Martin, the Feniap, who died at King S
College Hospital.
1t is said that an agent of the Roths-
childs has arrived in this country prepar
cd to make proposition TO our Govern
meut to take any amount Of the national
debt at four per cent He is expected in
Washington in a few days.
A letter from gentlemen in Spain,
just received in Washington, says the re-
ports Of reinforcements raised in Spain to
90 to Cuba are much exaggerated. Sc
far, all be can bear of as positively raised
is about one thousand conyicts, mostly un-
der sentence of death.
A riot among the miners in the De-
partment of Aveyron, France, occurred
on Thursday last. After they had &C
complished considerable damage. and
| caused considerable alarm, troops arrived
charged the rioters, killed ten of them,
and they then dispersed.
A great freshet occurred Friday in
Swift river, Oxford county. Maine, occa.
sioning rise Of thirty six feet, causing
general CONSERVATION and great damage
Numerous houses and barns were demoI-
ished, and many people in the fright
| fed with their families to the noun tains
A fearful hurricane swept along the
Maine coast Friday night, driving twenty
seven vessels ashore, causing loss Of
seventeen lives and very considerable
amount of property. The steamer New
York was among the number driven
ashore, but the passengers ana crew were
| saved.
The Pittsburgh Post is responsible for
| the last bulletin Of Hon. John Coyode
which runs as follows:
'Tel graynt FIR god saik ter Kepou,
Of Pansi!vanny, es wee Got enuf ''tru-
biles on Hand ter beet u.s."
This is out Nasbys Nasty.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South
is extending its efforts northward, as a
counterpoise to the extension of the
Northern church 10 the South. A pub
fishing house has been established at St.
Louis in the form of a stock company,
with capital of $50, 900. They have a
a conference organized ia Illinois.