Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-09-16
General News.

Ihere IS great excitement IN brussels
over the kidnapping of children.
Senator Fessenden, of Maine, died on
the 9Th instant, at Portland, Me.
A Cuban flibuster expedition, itis said,
is being fitted out at Halifax.
Rev. DR.. Bond has Withdrawn as editor
of the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist.
Tue Farmers and Merchants Insur-
ance Company, Of Quincy, Illinois, has
failed
The Farmers in Kansas are Boosting of
their enormous potato crop of the present
year.
Another little diamond said to be worth
$400. 900 has been found at the Cape of
Good Hope.
Thirteen Cuban prisoners, who escaped
from Fernando Po, have reached Queens
town safely.
The Virginia Republican State Central
Committee has called State Convention
to meetip Richmond November Oath.
The philadelphia Ledger reports that
the !ate rain has produced no perceptible
increase of the water.
Mr.. Justice Gtier does not intend to
resign his seat CD the bench of the u s.
Supreme Court. His health is good.
The New York Herald saws that "the
Radicals are going to hell" Perhaps
Satan will lock the gate to keep them out.
Prentice.
Ex-Governor Smith is said to be caa-
didate for the Presidency of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. -M0tire Virgin
ian.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany have at length. it seems. taken steps
towards the erection at Cumberland, Nd.
of a rolling mill.
The "road agents.. in Montana have
robbed two Helena mail coaches within
the past week of $50, 1000 each, in treas
ure.
The Byron scandal is still a leading
topic in England. The papers TEEN with
correspondence about it. The London
News is an enthusiastic believer in Stowe
The Richmond Wing SAYS: IAN ad-
vance in the prices of Virginia State
bonds may now be confidently anticipated .
Speculation has already commenced.
In Southern Russia the harvest, just
completed, makes abundant returns, but
in some Of the Northern provinces not
more than half the average crop has been
made.
The Richmond and York River Rail-
road is to be extended to the Chesapeake
which will shorten the time of travel to
Baltimore from Richmond, over that route,
seven hours.
1t is stated that, in the ten years prior
to $50, no less than eight thousand four
hundred and sixty-six lives were lost by
the various acct dents in the coal mines of
Engl and.
SAVING FoDDER.--OIr farmer friends,
we learn, are now bein, at work pulling
fodder. We are gratiied to hear from
many of them that the corn will yield
much better than was anticipated.
The Confederate Memorial Monument
at Hollywood is already sixty five feet
high and will be entirely completed by
Christmas. The dedication will take
place in the spring with imposing cere-
monies.
The Southern Commercial Convention
at Keokuk, Iowa, on Wednesday laid
upon the table resolutions favoring the re-
moval of the national capital to the West
Our telegram says they were afterwards
passed.
A ruAian drove up to house in
Philadelphia yesterday afternoon. went
in and attempted to murder Mrs. Marshall
who lived there, by beating her with
whip. Her husband coming to her rescue
the assailaut ran out and drove away.
The losses by Ere throughout the Uni
ted States during the month of August,
just passed, amounted to $6,4sS OO9, This
is startling statement. The loss is near
ly double that of August 1868, and much
exceeds the total of any month during the
past or present year.
We learn that the agent of the Orange,
Alexandria and Manassas road at this place
has made the most liberal offers to load
cars of the Chesapeake and Ohio road
with wheat for Richmond if the latter
would only lend them, and the offer has
been refused. Let US get at the bottom
Of this matter, and agitate it until the
faults of both sides are amended. -Natice
Nrginian.
The hog crop of lower East Tennessee
this season, says the Cleveland Banner,
is greater than it has been in any one
year since the war, but owing to the fall
off in the corn crop there is but little
doing in that line. We have heard of
hogs being offered at FIVE cent gross but
buyers do not appear to take hold at
these ures--Lynchbnrg News.