Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-09-23
General News

They are having earthquakes again on
the Pacific coast
Brigham Young weighs two hundred
and forty pounds avoirdupois.
Gen. Sherman is acting Secretary of
War since the death of General Rawlins.
The King of Italy has consented to al
low the Duke of Genoa his permission to
accept the Spanish crown.
Princeton begins its college year with
304 students, the largest number at the
beginning of any scholastic year.
A telegram from Farmville announces
the burning of the Presbyterian Female
Academy, with furniture, library, &c.
Three white persons and twenty In
,lians were killed in the last Arizona
fight
The season at the Virginia Springs has
closed. There are not now moro than
FIVE hundred visitors in the mountains.
Mr.. Sc ward has returned to San Fran
cisco, from Alaska, to high gles over the
magni6cence of his investment.
A cable despatch says that the difficult
ties between Spain and the United States,
on account of Cuba, are in fair way for
settlement.
The Democratic Convention at Cincin-
natl yesterday nominated ticket COM
posed equally Of Democrats and Republi-
cans.
General Beauregard is about to trans
plant to a more southern latitude fair
daughter of the Old Diminion albania
(Ga.,) Constitution.
1t is said the Washington Eapress and
the National IntelIigencer are to be merg-
ed and issued as Democratic morning
paper.
We thank neither Grant, nor Greedy,
nor Hoar but we do thank the democrats
of California for the blessed relief from
the Test Oath.-Natioe Viryinian.
Gen. Sherman, acting Secretary of
War, has extended the time for holding
the election in Texas from one to four
days.
The boiler of freight engine on the
Delaware Division of the Erie Railroad
exploded Friday killing the engineer,
fireman, fagman and brakeman.
The National Capital Executive
Committee have determined to call Ma
tional Convention to be held at St. Louis
on the Goth of October.
The latest London rnmor is to the eff.
feet that Napoleon will soon abdicate in
favor of his son. but will retain the posi-
ton of President of the Council.
LARGE REcE1prs.-We understand that
the receipts of the Virginia and Tonnes
see railroad the present month will reach
one thousand dollars. -Lynchb,uy Tir-
gilman.
The circus steamer Of John Robinson,
whose circus is now on exhibition in
Washington, was burned at the wharf in
Cincinnati few days ago. 1t was the
work of an incendiary.
SMOKING TOBACCO. The Commissioner
has decided that packages of smoking
tobacco cannot, under any circumstances
contain more than one pound. This de-
cision was in answer to firm that wanted
to put up five-pound packages.
The Indians continue to furnish &C.
counts of murderous and plundering
achievements in Arizona. Women and
children have been massacred and large
amount of stock has been driven away.
The sending of troops over from Spain
to help crush out the Cuban rebellion, is
thought. in Madrid, to be a manouvre
which will render Americans little more
conciliatory than usual.
Mr.. Kreutz, respectable butcher in
Cincinnati, when going out of his house
to his stable earl y yesterday morning, was
murdered and the body robbed of all the
money that was in his pocket book.
General Candy. it was stated few
days ago, appointed colored man to be
sheriff of Essex county! The Fredericks-
burg Herald says that General G. has
since commissioned colored man, in the
same comfy. as magistrate.
SHIPMENT OF WHRAr.-During the
months of July and August 80, 900 bush
els Of wheat, addressed to the merchants
and manufacturers of Richmond, was
shipped in Lynchburg over the line of the
Southside railroads. -Lymchbury Repub-
licam.
The mortuary list of radical papers in
Virginia runs: Hunnycutt's Neao Ma
ton; Richmond Register; Lynchburg
Record; Marion Record Richmond Re-
public; Petersburg Times; Winchester
journal, One still lives, or did few
days ago.
The ONO ELECTION -Prominen and
well-informed Ohio politicians who have
arrived in Washinton says the Republi-
cans are sure to carry Ohio by larger
majority than was given General Grant
last year.
On the contrary, the Democrats claim
that Ohio and Pennsylvania will 60 for
the Democrats
IRON WoRKs.-The Commissioner of
Internal Revenue has decided that man
who contracts to put up a building and
manufactures the iron-work, or the sash,
doors, blinds. etc., and uses them in the
construction of the building, will not be
required to return and pay a tax on the
value of such articles; but if he manufac-
lures and sells them to other persons to
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