Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-06-16
News Items.

W. VI Seoso coSoo'
At St. Louis convention of colored
clergymen is in session. nNA 94q oe
The days are sig hours longer than they
were in midwipter. =. ~
:, -Four prominent English magazines are
edited by women. .ssssz-ssssa
A hundred tons of STRAWBERRIES day a
Philadelphia. ss,s - ~ -
The St, Domingo treaty still hangs il
the Senate. .3i +. ssss. va
The bouquets thrown to Patti at hel
last Paris appearance filled eight carriages
The consolidaticnists of Norfolk anG
Petersburg and Bristol had great rejoic.
ings on Tuesday night, over the passage
OF the consolidation l blli. sai ss,gi yss-;. =.
A lady one day last week opened The
session of the Connecticut House O
Representatives with prayer. u e.. 70 a
Judge Underwood will hold specia
term Of the u s. District Court, at Rich
mond, GO mmencipg on Tuesday, the 21s
inst. -; s,e = .'.'. 80 '.I
General D. +. Butler is said to be dral
Iatized in the title role of a French play
called e.The Fiend of New Orleans"
Archduchess Sophia is about to cree
in the suburbs of Vienna chapel to thu
memory Of her i'll -fatcd son Maximilian.
A Nashville merchant received box o.
young pole cats by express. and immedi
ately dispatched the pets to a rival house
They are nov going the rounds down
there. la. ... ~ =
Forty-nine seamen, survivors of the
Oneida, were paid off at Brooklyn on Sat-
urday and discharged. They were gen
orally dissatisfied at the amount allowed.
Seventy-fve Cinnamon have arrived in
Chicago en- route for North Adams, Mass +,
to work in boot and shoe factory.
John Men ally, dissipated shoemaker,
murdered his wife, in Williamsburg, Sat-
urday night, smashing her skull with a
hammer, a ~ -sE.s 3: s,
=. Twelve thousand eight hundred immi-
grants arrived at New York last week. "a
1t is reported that two members Of the
Cuban Junta 10 New Y ork are in the en-
plQy of Spanish spies. 7o.-....
Hon G. L. Cobb was unanimously re-
nominated for Congress by the Republi-.
can Convention at | lymouth, N. c., on
the Cd instant. % r-
SPOILED. THAT story about Cotton Ma
Their and Eye scamp Willard Pcnne."
The Bostonians say the whole story is a
fabrication. =
Mrs. Ann Brady was dangerously sh OF
in New York on Saturday night by Joseph
Farrell. who said he was was shooting at a
fellow named Cries. zt ...-.-.-
Gov. Walkers to address the gradua-
ting class at the Virginia Military Insti-
tute on the 18th of July.
The Balti more Synod now comprises all
the Presbyterian Churches of Virginia
aud West. Virginia A meeting of this
Synod is to be held in Wilmington.
Delaware. on Tuesday, the 18th instant.
Judge Deadly, of Oregon, has decided
that marriage celebrated at sea, or
within the jurisdiction of another State,
Letween persons leaving that State for the
purpose. is fraudulent evasion of the laws
Of Oregon, and therefore null and void
The us. Government, after occupy
ing the jeff Davis mansion for five years
and damaging it, has proposed to the
Richmond City Council to relnquish it if
they are first relieved Of all responsibility
for rent sor any other claim whatever -
The Marchi pess of Hastings is hasting
to second wedding. 1t is to be hoped
that she will not exemplify the. proyerb
which, in connection with marriage, trans
lates Tasting repente." -
Q HIGH War Frs olliertown was visi.
ted Friday night with a food-greater
than for fifty years. Hogs drowned, mill
dams washed away. and crops damaged
are. among the items ofthis freshet..
Miss Louisa strattop, Of Cass county.
Indiana, challenges any man in the State
to blowing match with her She pro-
poses "a two horse team, each competitor
to drive the horses and hold the plow.,
The citizens of St. Joseph, Mo-, have
made handsome subscription to endow
a Missouri professorship in Gen. Lees
college in Virginia. Iii So.
The old Cooper restaurant, below Wash
ington avenue, in Philadelphia, was burn
ed on Saturday. Loss Sc 600. The
hands employed by Walcott & Dixon, on
the second. Roor, were on strike, and in'
ccndiarism is suspected. s
Colonel Joseph Hodgsen. editor of the
Montgomery Mail, is spoken of for Gov.
ernor of Alabama. Mr.. Hodgson is ;
native of Virginia, and reflects credit upon
the land oe his birth. He has many
friends here who would be glad to see hin
honored in bis adopted State. The
Louisville Courier compliments in strons
language. zslg,r issgsr-fs;-,
One of the greatest aud m ost destru'
tive fires that ever occurred in any city
has Just been subdued in Constantinople.
1t is reported that ! 900 houses were
destroyed, and that perhaps three hundred
people lost their lives. A rough estimate
Of the total loss of property is twenty-five
millions of pounds sterling. The English
underwriters lose heavily. 4aJ2 - I'll,
Death of WIN. Gilmore Simms.
CHARLESTON, S. c., June II. -Wm
Gilmore Simms. the distinguished South.
efu novelist, died at the residence Of hi