Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-06-17
NEWS ITEMS.
The Sioux are still on the murderpat

The Sioux are still on the murderpath.
Corn is in the tassel in Georgia.
Nothing has yet been heard from Min
lister Mcmahon.
The emancipation of slaves is strongly
advocated by prominent citizens of Brazil
The Alabama Radicals are working
themselves up into fine family quarrel
General Candy has appointed Judge
Advocate Il. B. Burnham to be Jud ge
of the Court Of Appeals.
A severe battle is reported to have oc :
Cured at Puerto Padre, Cuba. General
Marmol is said to have been killed.
The Dominion has an enrolled volunteer
force Of over rs. 900 men. The reserve
militia force number about $50, 600.
The Nova Seotians will not appeal to
the English Courts to test the legality OF
the confederation.
Garnet who was defeated in the late
French election, Is a son of the great Car
not, the "organlzer of victory
The Stewards and party have started
on their Pacific tour. They propose to Wis
1t India and China before their return
home
An exchange proposes to settle the
Indian difficulties by giving them the
right of suffrage
But that led to the riot in Washington
General Sheridan is equally great il
peace and in war. His last achievement
was rendering benefit, almost single
handed, to a second-rate actress in Chi
cago.
The parties recently arrested in War.
renton, Ga, by the Radical Sheriff. char,
ged with treason, have been released, anc
the Sheriff has been suspended from Of
fee.
The Spanish Republica MS are discon
tented. Revolutionary speeches were
made, Friday, in Cordova; the Govern
ment troops broke up the meeting, anc
killed several people in the melee tina
followed.
The war in Paraguay, between th1
Allies and Lopez, is not progressing rap
idly. Lopez is still in the mountains
said to be gaining strength; while the
Allies, being perfectly idle, are losing
The situation in Cuba may be judge
from the parting words Of General Dulcc
who was compelled to resign at the dic,a
ton of mob. He said: ''With me depart
the last remnant of Spain's dominion il
America
We do not know of any Conservative
voter in the counties Of Alexandria ant
Fairfax who viii fail to support the Wal
ker ticket, as choice, over all the Well
ticket -GuzeHe.
The Indians in Arizona lately captured
ca wagon train laden with $50, 600 wortl
of Government stores, and destroyed 1t
Another party carried off 200 head of cattl
belonging to settlers.
Professor Marsh, of Yale College has
discovered in the tertiary deposits Of Ne
bruska the minutest fossil horse yet Oh
:.ainol, It il only tive feet high, although
full grown. This makes tho seventeenth
species Of fossil horse discovered on thi
continent
The proposition for the admission o
Lay Delegates to the General Conference
of the NJ. f. Churh, now submitted to
vote of all the ministers Of the Church
will, from the returns already received, b
probably adopted.
It is said one of the first questions to b
brought to the attention of the new min
lister from Peru, who was presented t
President Grant yesterday, will be TIL
business of the monitors purchased frou
the U. S for the Peruvian government
in the Caribbean sea The Spanish min
lister is very uneasy about their movements
The Lynchburg Nens says: It is re
ported on good authority that proposition
is now before the directors of the Orange
Alexandria, and Manassas railroad to sci
that portion ofthe road from Strasburg t
Harrisonburg for the sum of two million
of dollars We are not advised who art
the proposed purchasers of the road nor a
to the prospect Of the success of the pen
ding negotiations.
We are charged with having been yer,
cruel to the Federal prisoners during tn
war. The answer is given in sentenc
by the National IateNigencer The nun
Der of Federals in Southern prisons dur
ing the war was 270 600, of whom %
900 died; the number of Canfederates il
Northern prisons during the war was 22O
600, of whom %, 900 died.
We trust We shall hear no more of this
and specially requested the New York Tri
bune to publish and comment on the facts
We regret to see a calculation going
the rounds of the Conservative papers
which gives the negroes majority Of
some IS or 40 on joint ballot in the gerry
wandered Legislature.
The true figures arc 81 majority
And the carrying of the Richmond and
Henrico district (and we hope to do it
at once -everses the state of parties. W
an carry the Legislature, if we work.