Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-12-22
Nav igation on the CONNECTICUT river i,
closed up for this season.


closed up for this season.
A Persian" priest has been swindling
tie people Of San Francisco.
Spurgeen thinks some ministers would
make good martyrs-they are SO dry they
would burn we'll.
The Duchess Of AoSta, the new Queen
of S2ain, is said TO be very iutelllscnt
sad attractive.
General Ealmasada has assumed con.-
mand of the Island Of Cuba IS Captain
General DE Bodas was 70 lsave on the
18th.
In the House Of Representatives an APP
preparation OF taree hundred thousand
dollars tor The construction Of steam reye-
nue cutters wss passed yesterday
General Asa Rogers has hsen unanin-
ously recmmenced as the choice Of the
Conservative caucus Of tho Virginia Leg
stature for. the Office Of second auditor, in
place or Ar. Shackelford vino has re-
signed.
On Monday General Malone contracted
for sixteen new engines ia addition TO the
large number he already has on his line
| By the way, he has 600 freight cara, bat
they are not sufficient for the demand
and more viii have 10 DO made.
On Monday last a Mad Dog passed
through Culpeper Court House, biting
some four or five other dogs. Mayor Stanard
at once issued a proclamation reqairins
al, dogs going at large to be chained f,r
twenty days. Several bitten have since
been killed.
The grand jury # the District Of Co
lumbia yesterday returned two lndict-
nents, Of six counts each, against Eoder-
lex r. Butler. Radical Representative
lro,a the First tennessee. Di.trict, for
forgery. lie is chafged with foleing
papers to defrau4 two totlics OF pension
claims.
The Senate Of Virginia. yests r,lay,
passed joint resolution instrucing Sen
ators, and requesting Representatives,. of
Virginia, in Congress, to vote for gen
eral amnesty rcmC' ing all political dis
si5ilities. 1t was adopted with but one
dissenting voice.
Every officer AID soldier in the German
army has a whistle, which enables the
chiefs to perform the different calls and
the men to give warning Of the approach
Of the enemy, to cali each other, and to
seek their company when they have stray
ed. The Prussians never use the drum
and clarion except in conquered COIN
try, as, for an example, the .Meuse.
The Executive Committee Of the r ID
zeal State Committee CT Virginia. consists
of the felloaing persons I'll. Il. Well
| chairman. Sand f. Maddox, secretary
and Robert Nor o'l, +, G. Greene, Ian
don Boyd, John L. HAMLET. Alexander
Rves, j. B. Sener aud j ". Woltz.
4 General council Of tie Indians il
the Iadian Territory, has been organized
There are 81 delegates present, including
all the civilized tribes. The most iup1rtnat
subject up FIR consideration is plan foI
organizing a Territorial Government cm-
bracing all tribes.
The failure Of Governor Walker to is
sue Misunderstanding Proclamation is al
legged, in the Washington Chronicle, as ;
~eason why General Grant is not, Oh
should not Jc. in favor Of general
amnesty" Was the ike ever seen or
heard of in a civilized country"
Alexander Dumas,t the noted French wri
ter whore death mas been. announced by
the 4 tlantic cable, was born il France
on July 9th, 1903. He was he son o
the republican General Alexander Davy
Dumas, who was the son Of the Marqul,
Davy. d. la Pailetcrie and a co!ored mo-
tn T. His romdrces are familiar To The
reuding public.
a dispatch from iiilnelmshohe. where
the ex-Fi"TT,,or Napoleon is held as {
prisoner Of wer, saws, The Emperor
declares that he Will never return to Par S
by II power ;that the people four
t.ae, ,tg.i bis election, and that they
alone lave Il sht to restore him. He
further q ciares that, with his ewn know.
le Ice, Due d Auma e had for years per-
studded Orleanists 10 enter tie army
hence the Opposition. of the officers to the
! rcstui atnn OF the Empire"