Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-02-26
VALLEY News.

$a-4 Valley News.
FArAL SHOOTING AFrRAY.-The good peo-
pie OF Clarke county we're thrown into state
Of great excitement on last Monday by re-
port, which proved too true, that William
Taylor Burwell had been shot and killed in
stantiy, by man named Wood. Although
we nave not heard the full particulars Of this
dreadful tragedy, we can give the leading
facts in the ease.
~ appears that-there had been grudge
existing between Wood and Burwell for
some SIX months. and that at that time each
had vowed~to kill the other on sight. On
last Monday the parties happened to meet on
the road below Millwood in Clarke county,
and an alteration took place. resulting in d
flst1cuff, in which. it is reported that Wood
got the better of Burwcll The latter then
drew pistol and fired at Wood the ball
penetrating his bowels, and making a dan
gerous If nota mortal wound At this june
ture, Wood also drew his revolver and fred
at Burwell shooting him through tie heart,
and killing him instantly Wood has been
arrested and lodged in the county Jail at
Berryville 'i't - 80 .4..@ a'-a -
Burwell was the eldest son of Mr.. George
Burwell, of. Clarke,sai wealthy and highly
respected citizen of that county. Wood is
now, we have heard, a citizen of Berkeley
county although formerly a resident of
Clarke. It's said that Wood cannot survive
his wounds 7s a<.l... SIS ~: a7.1F
The affair has spread a deep gloom over
10 yuho IL
The BIG Hoa---The big hog, "Tom,"
raised and fattened by Mr.. Chas. Welsh, of
this place, was killed on the 10th inst A
great deal Of feeling was manifested on the
occasion, growing out of the fact, perhaps,
that box" containing the ..'antes,'' was
to be delivered to the party who guessed
nearest the weight ofhis hogship. The hog
weighed 754 pounds. Mr.. George Thomp-
son was the lucky guesser-,his guess being
ISL. The box contained $15,75 in fraction
al currency. This is the largest hog killed
in the Shenandoah Valley, this season -
Woodstock Herald -sAi 5}]=-4 tiat-'at
At a meeting of the citizens of Frederick
county, heldat Winchester on the 18th inst ,
Jos. H. Sherrard in the chair, and R. W.
Hunter Secretary, number Of gentlemen
We're appointed delegates to the Convention
to be held sat Moorekeld on tlic@22nd inst.
in relation to the proposed South Branch
Railroad. ''~ = i' 81 - "a So
Saturday before last Sam Henry Of Washing
ton county, Md, and Tom Noaks, of Berke-
ley county, West Virginia, were mobbed by
the people Of Shepherdstown and driven away
from that section. They were well known
desperadoes. and their immediate offence was
trying to. take a horse belonging to Captain
l.. H. Moler, near Shepherdstown.
TRIAL FOR MURDER trial of John
Murphy, charged with the murder Of John
Conner, near. Mount jackson, on the 21st of
last October, was concluded before the county
court Of Shenandoah. on Saturday afternoon
last, by verdict Of murder in the second
degree" and the fixing of the term of the pri-
soner's confinement in the Penitentiary at
ten years. ~ 5l.5 a.: 49,.
WINCHESTER & SrRAsBURa Il. R.-Work
has at length commenced on the Winchester
Il Strasburg Railroad. The first spadefull
of dirt was thrown up on the farm Of Mr.
Welsh, near Kernstown, last Wednesday.
We suppose the work will be pushed forward
| rapidly Wnchester Neaos. -lsl 'Y''l
CoNsoLIDATIoN.--The two bodies of the
Methodist Church---The Episcopal Metho-
dists and the South Methodists- effected a
consolidation Of members last Sunday, and
in future will have but one official body
The style Of the organization hereafter will
be Winchester Station, NJ. 4. Church
South. - Winchester -Neees.. ~.
The Sheriff of Rockingham returned to
Harrisonburg on Friday evening. last, on the
Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad,
with Charles Jones and j. M. Raines,
charged with horse stealing in East Rock
ingham short time ago, and arrested in
Baltimore. taa t4.i3.9 sia r.i'sss
Mr.. Chrisman delivered an address at the
last Rockingham Court, favoring the s'new
movement" He was replied to by Colonel
Armstrong and Mr.. Liggett, and a resolu-
ton was offered opposing colored suffrage.
which was adopted by large majority.
On Saturday night last a fire broke out
in the store Of Myers & Son, at Lexington,
which quickly consumed that and the. adjoin-
ing building, occupied by Waltz e. Finster
as a confectionery store. The. fire was
caused by the explosion ola kerosene lamp.
= The postal route from Cady's Tunnel to
Rockbridge Alum Springs has been extend
ed, to include that between Rockbridge
Alum Springs and Lexington, on which the
mails are again to be carried after the first of
March next. *I a.'sf' go ao,l hsegEfii
The statement is made in papers published
in Kentucky that the "Blue Grass section
Of that Stata alona has cold To tho Sa.tL 4l;s