Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-09-30
News Items.

immediate suburbs is said to be ever 400,-
900.
The statement of the banks show that
the Virginia banks have over $94 900
specie in their vaults. |
Mr.. George Peabody has just made
another donation of 100000 to the
Peabody Institute Of the city of Balti-
more.
INTERESTING TO THE LADIES. sew
enty women who went to Oregon from Mas
sachusetts, two years ago. sixty nine are
married.
The export of wheat from the United
States during the coming year is estima-
ted at fully forty million bushels, valued
at SIS ,0oo, 600 in gold.
| In CuBA.-It is stated that Major D.
B. Bridgford, who, during the war, was
stationed for some time in this city, is now
in Cuba.-Petersbury Ecpress.
1 An cid farmer residing near Madison,
Indiana, murdered his wife Tuesday after
noon, dragged her body into the yard,
set fire to the buildings, and after they
| were consumed, shot himself
A woman, in new New York, on ed
nesday, in temporary fit of insanity,
seized an axe, and murdered her own
child, little boz about eight years of
age.
A Wall street broker named Gould has
been arrested in New York and held to
bail in the sum of $50, 600, on the charge
of criminal assault upon a lady while
she was under the influence of some drug
The re-establishcnt of the freedmen's
bureau in Virginia, during the coming
winter will, cit is said," BE- recommended
by Gen. Candy. The excessive drought
has already been severity felt by the color
ed people.
The warlike Sioux are shooting the
pacific Pawnees on their reservation in
the Northwest The latter and the Gov
eminent troops whereabouts are going to
avenge the wrong
Earthquakes are becoming frightfully
frequent in Chilli There were forty
shocks, more or less strong, in one day at
africa, last Sunday. The people are TAX
ing refuge inland, dreading another tidal
| wave.
The New York Coaamercial Adcertiser
mentions "a rumor, proceeding from the
highest authority, that the United States
had been offered four hundred millions Ct
gold by capitalists abroad at reduced
rate of interest,""
The Chairman of the Conservative
State Central Committee of Virginia con-
tradicts the statement made in the news
papers that General Candy intimated that
the test oath would not be required if he
! (Canby) could be made Senator.
The Red Land Oa.) Beacon says
meteror exploded near that place few
days ago. As it flew along, it produced
a noise like cold water pouring into hot
grease, and then bursted with lond re-
port, like heavy artillery, followed by sew
eral smaller reports. a huge stone struck
the earth fifty yards from man.
A Yankee named Smith, who lives
near Chapel Hill, n. c., and married
lady in that section, whipped his wife
with bunch of willows SO frequently
that the neighbors called at his house one
night, carried him to lionel y glen, and
logged him with many stripes. He is
now "a kind and affectionate husband"
A SKELETON FoUND-Last week, a
party of gentlemen from this place, while
deer hunting in the mountains, some FIVE
miles north Of town, found the skeleton of
a man lying in the woods. 1t was proba
| bly, the skeleton of one of party of Yam
KEGS, some of whom were captured and
the rest dispersed near the spot where it
was found, in 1861 -Mrion (.Sn,ytte
county, Herald. 'is+
The London Times compliments the
Spanish for making bold display of their
pluck and patriotism. aud says that Mr.
Sickles is alarmed at their resentment
On the other hand, it is stated in Wash
ington despatch that the American Min
lister, in accordance with instructions, has
merely offered the United States Gov
eminent as mediator between Spain and
Cuba, and that the Spanish Government
has declined the proffcr without taking any
| offence at all.
A WH1sKEY DECISION -The Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue has made a
decision which is of considerable interest
to whiskey manufacturers. The facts are
as follows; Some time ago a large whiskey
firm was assessed about 81 800 as de6ci-
ency tax for having failed to manufacture
the full of eighty per cent On the sur geyed
capacity of their works. They appeared
here by attorney and proved to the satisfac
ton of the department that they had acted
in good faith, and had run their distillery
as near its capacity as circumstances
would allow, and they also proved to the
department that while it was not case for
an abatement under the law. that it was
one in which compromise could properly
be made. The Commissioner took this
view of the case, and the suit was order
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