Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-11-25
News items.

Alabama has ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment
Put no dependence upon the label of
bag.
The London Shipping Gazette declares
the Suez Canal a magnificent success.
A prominent Government official in
New York thinks that specie payments
may be resumed without difficulty next
July.
The Mavor Of St. Louis claims that the
amount of produce sent from that city to
points south of Cairo is twice as large as
before the war.
The Fincastlc Herald conradicts the
statement that large number of citizens
of Botetourt had removed to the West.
Vincent Colyer has arri we'd at San Fran
cisco with petition to President Grant,
signed by forty prominent citizens of
Victoria, asking that British Columbia be
annexed to the United States.
Alaska, among its other advantages,
is now to be the best country in the world
for shooting. Game of all kinds is album
dant from squirrel to an Indian.
The Enquirer favors the proposal to
sell tie States interest in all railroads.
taking in payment bonds of the State,
the proceeds to be applied to reduction of
debt.
They haven't storage room for the baby
crop in London. On an average forty
three surplus cherubs are advertised there
for adoption.
A HAPPY EDITOR james c. Southall
ESQ.,, the acco nplishcd editor of the
Richmond Enquirer. was yesterday united
in the holy bonds of matrimony to one of
the most charming of the Indies of our
city, Miss Eliza Sharp, daughter of
William W. Sharp, Esd and sister of
Charles Sharp, Esq.-No,Jolh Journal,
NorensJer. 18th.
1000. 600 bushels of peanuts, worth
So 900 900. or half as much as the wheat
crop of the Valley, are grown yearly on
the South side Of James River, east OF
Petersburg.
MEASLES. Measles have made their
appearance in this place, and have been
spreading very rapidly. Qnite num-
Der of children and grown persons have
been attacked. -Natige Vfyiaiun.
A train was blown from the track on
the Harlem Railroad, near Boston Cor
ners, New York. Wednesday, and several
passengers were seriously injured and one
by was killed
The Cuban insurgents continue to burn
plantations without mercy In the Ugh
borhood of Santiago two hundred and
eighty insurgents have recently been
killed De Rodas has pardoued over two
hundred prisoners, many of whom were
political.
Henry D. Cooke expressed the opin-
ion in the Georgetown councils on We'd
nesday night. that Washington ana
Georgetown should be amalgamated, and
have = governor, to be appointed by the
President.
Lopez, the Parasuayan President in
the field has changed his headquarters to
San Joaquin. and, it Is stated has killed
his mother, his brothers and othe- persons
whom lie suspected of plotting againsf
him.
The appointment of the batch OF circui
jua ges created by Congress at its last
session continues to excite interest. 1t
is said that Ex-senator Foster, of Con
necticut. will he one of them Ga tolerab lie
appointmenD. aud Alexander Rives, of
Virginia. another Ga very bad one) -
lTushing on letter Baltimore Ga.eHe
Prominent men are dying rapidly
Within the week Just closing George Pea >
body, Admiral Stewart, John E. Wool,
Robert j. Walker, and Amos Kendall
have gone. The mortality is notable only
by the coincident occurrence of it. All
of the gentlemen named were very old ,
and all of them realized the statemen;
length of days in their ri ght hand, ami
in their left hand riches aud honor. ~
Y. Rep.
At the Medical Congress, held recently
at Florence, Professor Schiif maintained
that the application of the pancreatic juice
cured cancers. The paper to which we
owe this information declares that ''ot the
perfect efficacy Of this mode Of treating
the terrible disease there seems to be 10
doubt" This fact should be widely
known - lForld.