Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-04-08
News Items.

Judge Pendleton has quail fed as Judge.
The Staunton papers of Wednesday an
nounce the recent deaths ofeight of the
best and most venerable citizens of Augusta
county.
A great fire has occurred in Southern
Africa, causing great destruction of prop
erty. Several natives persisted in the
flames.
The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Plant says that
the purchases of real estate in that vicinity
by Northern settlers. within few days
past, will reach the sum Of 5000, 900.
Judge Carter has left Cincinnati for
Washington with petition for the release
of the Fenian General Halpin, now con-
fined in British prison.
Rev. R. j. Breckenridge is quite i'll at
his residence, in Danville, KY, and his
friends have some apprehensions concern
ing his recovery.
The Providence Methodist Conference
on Wednesday resolved to admit no man
to membership who uses tobacco, except
for medicinal purposes. Providence
Journal.
Merico.- I'VE learn that Secretary Fish
has rendered the Mission to, Mexico to
General Daniel E. Sickles, and that he
has declined the position.-N. Y. COM
naerciat.
The Independent (RaaicaD learns that
Mr.. L E. Duley, one of Wells staff, was
defaultcr, as clerk of the county of Shen-
andoah, at the time he received his pres
ent position
The Lynchburg Neus pronounces the
statement from Washington that Col. R.
E. Withers has been for some time nego-
tiating for the purchase of the National
IntelIigencer entirely unfounded.
The President signs the cici1-tenur
Blu. The President to-day signed the
modified civil-tenure bill, and notified the
House of Representatives of the same
The bill now goes to the State Department
for record, having become law.
Railroad Lease.-The Ohio papers re-
port that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company had leased. for term of years,
the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark rail-
road. This gives an important lake con-
nection.
Election of O. Democratic Mayor-
Destructive Fire .-Louisuille April g.
James Fl. Bunce, an Independent Demo
crat, was elected Mayor to-day over John
G. Baxter, the regular Democratic nom
inee.
Last night Gamsberry & Co.'S four
story brick bonded warehouse, at Frank
fort, Ky. was destroyed by FIRE, with
thirty five hundred barrels of whiskey
stored therein Loss $35, geo:
The colored Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, which has been in
session for several days, adjourned yester-
day The next session Of the Conference
will be held in Lynchburg - Winchester
Times.
Veteran Gone.--Don Jose Maria Her.
rera, who was the last survivor of the
patriots who signed the Declaration of In
dependence which cut the Isthmus of
Panama from Spanish rule, died on the
18th instant, at Panama, at the advanced
age Of rs years.
It is said that since Grant has shown
his preference for Quakers to manage In
dian affairs all the Indian ring politicians
have suddenly become possessed of broad :
brim hats and drab coats. But the tricks
won't 90 down. Grant will lift their hats
and display the cheat.
Military Posts Discontinued.-T h e
military posts of Winchester and Freder-
icksburg, Va, have been discontinued.
The troops now serving there are ordered
to report to Richmond. The military
post at Memphis, Tenn, has also been
discontinued, and the troops there ordered
to Atlanta, Ga.
The Royal Commission appointed in
England to examine the laws on the sub
ject, recommend the enactment of the
law recognizing naturalization abroad as
alternating British subjects from their ale
glance to England. They also propose
the entire abolition of the disabilities of
an alien to hold landed property.
Erpediitan to Cuba. Information has
been received by the Government that an
expedition is being organized at New Or
leans, under General Steedman, to rein
force the insurgents in Cuba. Special in
structions have been sent to Admiral Hoff,
by the Navy Department, to intercept
them.
LanaentaJle Suicide. Fortress Monroe,
April 4-The wife of William P Phil
lips, who resides about four miles from
the Back River road, shot herself through