Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-01-27
News Items.


The Roanoke Valley railroad has no.
been sold.
The London Directory for 1870 makes
volume Of 2, 300 pages
Brick Pomeroy is the third wealthiest
man, and the largest tax payer. in Lacrosse.
The English papers have accounts of
recent wedding with seventeen bridesmaids
four clergymen, and three bands of music.
Colonel r. e. Withers had nor Sc kill
ed during the storm Of Monday last by a
falling tree.
Hutler has lost brother-in --law by
death. Wonder if the Beast will admins
ter the estate, as he did his dead brothers
1t is again asserted that the Central Pa
clfic railroad company has purchased the
! California Pacific road for $4,000, 600.
The-Chinese quarter-in the town Of San
Jose. Cal, was burned Wednesday, and
about l 900 Chinese were rendered home-
less.
A negro meeting held in Clarksville the
other day to nominate candidate for the
Legislature from Mecklenburg county
broke up in row.
The FIRST shad ofthe season and few
herring were in the Fredericksburg mar
kst Thursday morning, caught at the
mouth Of Potomac creek, on the Potomac
river.
Too. Coon TO BE TRUE.-The Natirs
Nrginiaas says; .'We have positive as
surance that the lnaiority of western mem
bers Of Congress are decidedly in favor of
the complexion by the General Government
of the James River and Kanawha canal"
| Negotiations between the half-breeds
and Canadians are expected to be effected
at Ottawa. All3the differences before tn 9
meeting of Parliament are expected to be
adjusted
| Lopez is supposed to be keeping up a
/ guerilla warfare, by latest accounts from
Paraguay The statements given, howev-
er, are very contradictory The Argen-
tine Republic has reduced it's army to a
peace footing.
| A large meeting Of Frenchmen, held in
st. Louis Tuesday, passed resolutionde-
nouncing Prince Bonaparte for killing Vic
tor Noir, and expire ssing the hope that the
whole Bonaparte family will soon disap-
pear from public notice. n
Nathaniel Wheeler, of sewing machine
fame, will probably bethe next Democrat
ic candidate for Governor of Connecticut
I Six Cinnamon were tried and convicted
at Matanzas, on the It'll, of numbering
their overseer, and sentenced to death
A CUBAN V,oroRY "A few days ago
the Spanish General Carlo attacked the
rebels near. Cienfuegos, under Cayada
| and was defeated. Both sides lost teav-
lily The victory has greatly encouraged
the Cubans, and the Spaniards are proper
tionately disScartened.
On Wednesday the Kansas Legislature
adopted resolutions .nemorializing Congress
to provide for an early superintendent of
representation under the new census, and
recommending the removal of the nation
al capitol to the Fort Leavenworth Mill
tary Reservation.
A CLERGYMAN lectured in a Canadian
town on Tuesday night Oh the subject,
go it while you're young" and men
toned Demosthenes, Milton, Knox, Ark
wright, Watt, Stevenson, Peabody, Sir
Colin Cambell, Qord Clyde, as exam
pies of men who event it while they were
young in good sense.
The Trenton Gazete, speaking of
Prince Bonaparl's last shooting affair, says
that "while he was living in Bordentown
thirty years ago, his wife supported him
and their family by teaching school. He
was geutecl. luxurious loafer, who went
back to France after 1917, leaving debts
all over BIrlin ,ton AMI NJ rcer counties,
English steamers are reported to be ga,
ing through the Suez Canal without let or
hindrance. The steamer Stirling, from
Glasgow, recently passed through in
twelve hours, on her way to Bombay, and
other steamers. were following. On the
Tyne they are building East India steamers
constructed specially for the purpose OF
| passing through the canal.
| Prince Murat, about to be tried for
Shaping a magistrates face, was recently
asked at dinner party why he appeared
SO seldom in the Boia. He replied, ssMv
exchequer limits, for the present, the
number of my stud to two horses, ard
his Majesty forbids my appearance in
puplic short OF four" '|Then. why
doesn't his Majesty make up the deicien
/ cyl? asked one of the guests. 's.Ah!"
sighed the Prince, ''he has often promised
but then be has a deficiency of his own
which needs making up good deal
more than mine,
THE New MISSISSIPPI SENATOR JEFF
Davis successor in, the United States Sen
ate, according to a Washington despatch,
is negro named II R. Reves. Musis-
sippi has evidently taken warning from
Virginia, and has shaped her course with
view to readDission ; but in this last
move she probably oserdone it. A negro
member of the House from Louisiana, it
will be remembered, was refused admission
last session, and Rovels may find himself
! in the sane box. Mississipni shonld have