Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1869-10-07

george cotton, OF the American
Republican. of Annapolis. has been
renominated for the Legislature from the
18th ward, Baltimore.
The Peoria (Ill.) Transcript says that
within the past six months more than a
score of horse-t thieves have been caught
in that vicinity.
1t is said that DIR. Bagby is to succeed
Capt Cameron in the editorial department
of the Petersburg Index, the latter hav-
ing been appointed on the staff of Gov.
Walker.
SHIPMENT OF FLouR.-From the office
of the collector of customs We learn that
during the last quarter there were "a. $50
barrels of -four shipped from Richmond
direct to foreign ports.
Part of Golfer dam on the Upper
Mississippi, at Maliue, broke away Thurs
day. entailing loss of $4,000 and
throwing out Of employment about eight
hundred men.
Mr.. Jno. Wall was severely, if not fatally
injured at Lynchburg, Va, Wednesday,
by the explosion of a barrel of lime, into
which he threw bucket of water to test
its strength.
John W. Moore. who killed Mrs Me,
Adams at Greenyile. I'll last July, af-
ter attempting to outrage her, has been
tried and sentenced to be hanged on the
23d of October.
The radicals threaten that If Ex-Presi-
dent Andrew johnson is elected United
States Senator by the Legislature of
Tennessee, the Senate will refuse to ad nit
him on the grounds Of 'disloyalty."
The Empress of France, it seems, not
withstanding the recent doubts thrown on
the matter, will proceed to the East She
will be met at Venice by the King of Italy
and his Court.
About thirty young women and girls
at Nashville, Tenn, have been induced
to abandon a life Of vice and enter a
home which the good people of that city
have provided.
Helen Morton, Of Columbia, Me. COM
mitted suicide on Tuesday last by drown
ing herself in small stream near the
house. She was threatened with fever,
and her mind being deranged she dwels
upon the idea of causing trouble to her
family.
The people of Falls Church. Fairfax
county, and vicinity concluded to be the
victims of horse thieves no longer, and have
organized an association for mutual pro-
lection against horse and other thieves.
They are safe.
A difficulty occurred at Covington. on
Tuesday night, between man named
Broughham, agent for Trotter's line
of stages, and driver on the line
named Montague. in which the latter was
shot and supposed to be mortally sounded.
We learn by the cable that at council
of the Ministers Of the Spanish govern
ment, held in Madrid on the 20 tn ultiro,
Marshal Serrano presiding, it was agreed
to propose to the Cortes the election of the
Duke of Genoa as King of Spain
1t is said that the young Duke is to
form matrimonial alliance with daugh-
ter of the Duke of Montpensier.
The works of Asa Hartz major Me-
knight are to be collected and published
by bis widow at an early day. We are in
receipt of subscription list to which we
shall ask the attention of the public in
day or two. The deceaeed humorist was
one of the most genial and witty of his
kind, and his writings are worthy of pre-
servation in Southern literature. Peters
burg index.
Intelligence from Paraguay to the 22d
of August contains details of the complete
rout of Lopez by the Allies. first at
Curuguaty, were he lost 1, 900 killed,
800 prisoners and II cannon, and then
at Ignacion, where he lost % cannon and
abandoned his steamers, which subse-
quently fell into the hands of the Allies.
The Provisional Government has declared
Lopez an outlaw.
The West Va Central r. R. Co.
company of straw, directed by Ayres &
Co. who claimed prior right to bed of
the Ches. & o. r. r. from Charleston to
Guyandotte, have recently surrendered
their claim for consideration of 1875 900
and dissolved The Office of this bogus
company in New York was last week shut
up. and the black mail levied on the
Ches y o. r. r. joyfully pocketed and
taken home. = Union Register.
A MAN KILLED ON THE RAILROAD.
On Wednesday morning, as the Baltimore
accommodation train had proceeded as far
south of York as Gladfelter's station,
about six miles from this place, Mr. John
Gladfelter, who resides there, and who
had been standing on the opposite track,
stepped from one track to the other, to
get out of the way Of a freight train COM
lug north. but unfortunately there we're
cars running ON each track, and the
accommodation train killed him instantly
The cow catcher struck him and pushed
him off the track The face and head
we're fractured badly lie was only 81
years old. but leaves family of eleven
children, the eldest only thirteen years DID,
Of these eleven children there were two
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