Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-11-04
News Items.

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A genuine Chinese presides over the tea
department of a firm in Norfolk, Va.
General Braxton Bragg has returned
to New Orleans from Canada, with his
family.
A piano played by the feet has been
invented in Cincinnati
Carpenters and masons are in demand
at Columbia, s. G.
The louisville Convention voted down
the Chinese immigration question, and
slightod the postal telegraph.
The handsome residence of Silvanus
johnson, Esq, was destroyed By fire last
Thursday. Insured for S., 600.
All parties having agreed to postps ne
their differences. until the ministerial crisis
in Spain is over.
Recruiting for Cuba continues actively
in Spain. Seven battallions of volunteers
will soon sail for Havana.
A prairie FIRE, near Fort Ri,e, is re-
ported to have surprised and burned up
. hundred Indians recently.
The weather in Great Britain is unusu-
ally cold. Frost, ice and snow are re-
ported from all parts of the Kingdom.
a telegram from London announces
that Geo. Peabody is seriously i'll, and
that his recovery is considered doubtful.
Frank P Blair, ST., was lately ares
ted for violation ofinternal revenue laws
in which he was ehsrged with buckstering
potatoes without license.
The cold has been very severe in Cen
trail Iowa for nearly week past. Ice
has formed thick enough for skating, but
no snow has fallen.
The Commercial Convention at Louis
vile urges the necessity Of direct trade be-
tween Southern ports aud Europe. 1t is
the only hope of Southern emancipation
The military operations against the re-
bells in Dalmatla, in Southern Austria
have been suspended 10 consequence of a
heavy fall of snow.
Ford's tobacco factory. in Lyncbburg.
Va, has been seized by direct order from
Washington for alleged revenue fraud by
means Of couaterfsit stamps
The Memphis Sun says that by electing
Cooper to the Senate the Tennessee Legis-
lature has guaranteed the Governorship
and following Senatorship to johnson.
The Cabinet Of tbs Dominion of Canada
has been reconstructed. It is proposed
to unite New Rupert's Land and the
North West territory to Canada
Gen. Butler is reported to have re-
Gently declared himsey in favor of putt
ing the State of Louisiana under military
control again.
The first of the new one-dollar legal
tender notes were issued yesterday
They are decided Improvement over tue
old notes.
The first rail of Ben. Halladay's Will
annette Valley Railroad in Oregon, was
laid Friday. United States Senator VIII
liams and other prominent Oregonians
we're present.
A Swedish cotton factor has purchased
$500 acres Of land in Missouri. where
he will plant colony which will plant
cotton and manufacture it.
The Louisiana State Seminary, near
Alexandria, was destroyed by fire Thurs-
day night. The loss is estimated at
$3.50, 900.
The President positively opposes the
election of Judge )ent, in Mississippi,
according to Senator Thayer. the reported
statement of Judge Dent, to the contrary
notwithstanding.
In 1915 single workman did all the
marble work required in Cincinnati, while
at present the business requires over FIVE
hundred workmea an increase of over
200 per cent in "a years.
A fire, involving a loss of $500 600,
occurred last Tuesday morning in Fulton
street, New York, at Nos. ia and l16.
Another fire destroyed the old Dutch
church, corner of Fulton and William
streets.
John W. Jenkins Colonel SO called)
has been appointed by the President, Uni
ted States Attorney for the State of Vlrg-
mia, uice S. Ferguson Beach, removed.
The Administration has keen scent for
dirty "purps. -Courier.
". 0. McCorkle, Esq, of Lynchburg,
Va, was seriously, if not MORALLY,
wounded at the fair grounds, near that
city, last Friday. by Mr.. MacSumter,
policeman of Lynchburg.
Ten lunatics, confined in the Licking
county, Ohio. Infrmsry. were burned to
death. The building had taken fire, and
before they could be rescued, being locked
in their rooms, they persisted in the
flames.
The argument for new trial in the
case of Maria and DougLerty, the Brooks
assassins, Philadelphia, has been post.
poned until Friday next. Neal McLaugh-
lin, the carriage driver, has been refused
a reduction of bail and remanded.
The London Times regards Secretary
Boutwelfs advocacy of the plan to pay
the national debtin gold as evidence of
the strength of the regulators, and says
that his appeal for the payments of the
debt will earn him glory and patriotism.
The Chicago Tribune says the financial
prospect is not satisfactory ONE
Throughout the northwest the general
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