Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-11-18
News Items.

vigor.
Tight pants have had their day. They
are going cut of fashion.
The New York detectives have captur-
ed $4,000 worth Of counterfeit and
match stamps within the past month.
Albert S. Jocelyn, of Lexington, Mass,
has been convicted of rape, and sentenced
to the State prison.
The Memphis Arolanche publishes a
list Of persons who have been imported
into Mississippi by General Ames from
that city to manage the coming election.
Robt. W. Devine hung himself Satur-
day night. in Reading, Pa, Jail, where
he was confined for deserving his wife. He
left letter reproducing her for her evil
ways.
tits estimated that 100000 persons
visited the Fair grounds at Richmond
The gross receipts were $4,000, $4,000
have been distributed in premiums
A little son of Mr.. VIM. johnson,
near Greenwood. Albemarle county was
burned, last week, SO badly that death
soon followed. L. Iauey Tirginian.
Ten men were arraigned in Phila-
delphia in one day, all charged with
murder We don't wonder the city gave
Radical majority.
The examination into the case of John
e Salmon, for the murder of his mother
and brother, commenced in Charlottes-
vile Friday, before Justice Th ornley.
The Presbyterians in Phil adelphia are
jubilant over the reunion, and have dis
played blue hag-the old Covenanters
color-over the Office Of the Presbyterian
newspaper, on Chestnut street.
Holden's order calling out the negro
militia, negro officers and all, has created
an intense excitement in North Carolina
The people are worried beyond endurance,
and collision is apprehended.
Edwin Forest began an engagement at
the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia,
last evening. He is admitted yet to be the
U6SL hlCuellSu duU lCIF gu tLlG
A petition is being circulated in Rich
mond, and has been nunlerously signed
praying Gov Walker to commute the sem
tcnce of Jeter Phillips to Imprisonment
for life
The Grand Consistory of Louisiana,
composed of Masons Of the thirty second
degree, Scottish rite. is holding lodge
of sorrow at the Church of the Messiah,
New Orleans, in honor of deceased illus
trious members,
There were three tickets voted for in
Minnesota last month, and the vote for
Governor is so close that nothing but the
official canvass will determine who iselect-
ed Chief Magistrate of that thriving
Commonwealth.
Thirty three thousand acres of land in
Kansas, on the line of the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, have been purchased by colo
ny of l 200 English families who have
founded village and called it Wake
field.
The funeral of the late General John
E. Wool took place at Troy, N Y, Sat-
urdsy, with military honors. Generals
Meade, Mcdowell, Hunt, Arnold, Hag,
ner, and Governor Hoffman and staff were
present. Business in the city was gener-
ally suspended.
A letter from Cheyenne, Oct. 80, to
the Chicago Tribune, says the primary
organization of Wyoming Territory is
now complete. Both houses of the Leg
islature have been organized, the terrific
rial offices are filed, the Judiciary appoint
ed, and the courts hard at WORK.
The best returns we can get from Min
nesota indicate the election of George H .
Otis, Democratic candidate for Governor !,
by a thousand or two majority He has
run far ahead of the balance of the State
| ticket in every county heard from, and
leads his opponent considerable on the
aggregate returns now in, Last fall
Grant had 15,470 majority in the State.
A NIGHT TRAIN BETWEEN WASHINGTON
AND RIcHMoND. -Arrangements have been
completed on the Orange, Alexandria and
Manassas and the Chesapeake aud Ohio
railroads for running a night train from
| Washington to Richmond 1t is expected
that this arrangement will go into effect
on or about the 10th inst. Sleeping cars
will be attached to each train, and there
will be no change of cars betteen the two
cities. So says the Alexandra Gazette.
Some forty persons were poisoned at a
wedding in Spencer county. KY. on
Friday last, arsenic having been mixed
| with some beverage used on the occasion
1t is thought that some malicious person
committed the act. No deaths as vet,
though many are seriously ill.
On Monday evening the Catholic priest
at Bellefontaine, Ohio, was shot in his
own house by man named John Powers
and killed. The shot went into the
priests head and killed him instantly.
No cause ia assigned for the outrage.
Powers gave himself into the hands of the
police.
4 passenger train on the Western Pa
| ciic Railroad collided yesterday morning
pear San Leandro, California, with the
Alemada Ferry train, and forty or fifty
persons we're killed and wounded Among
the killed was Hon. Alex. W. Baldwin,
United States District Judge of Nevada.
| The trains and locomotives were COM
| pletely wrecked.
Quantrel, the leader of the Lawrence
massacre, of whom detective officers have