Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-02-10
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kota are preparing for mutual hostlllties
The New Jersey Legislature wants
Congress to recognize the beligerent
rights OF Cuba.
An effort is being made at ST. Louis to
shut up the theatres there on Sunday
nights.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
IN San Francisco and vicinity OH Friday
Theodore Nicholas was convicted last
week, IN Little Valley. New York, of the
murder Of Dr.. Meade, and sentenced to
be hanged.
Simon Cameron has inherited 81 ,000,-
| 900 from his lately deceased father law,
Mccormick, of Harris burg.
DR.. Samuel Bard, formerly editor of
the Atlanta GA } Neic Era, was nom
in zted by the President as Governor of
| Idaho, not Ohio.
Henry Munguin, boy who was run
over by horse-car In New York. has re-
covered 5000 damages from the compa-
ny.
Evidences of submerged bnt acti We
volcano, ten miles northeast of Smiths is
land, ia the Pacific are sepoF ted.
Seventeen hundred barrels of whis ky.
belonging to G.. A. Fellows, in New
York, were by order of Collector Bayley
turned over to the district attorney.
A Mrs. Patterson, aged sixty Years, K,
fit of mental aberrasiou, placed hers ell,
in front of a railway train, in Casw ell
county, N, c., Tuesday, and was killed
horror of trichin@, has benevolent way
whenever he slaughters any pork, Of send
inga piece to neighbor. He then watches
the result, and if the peigbbor survives,
reyels in faspess.
A REoUIsfrloN Governor Walker of
| Vire.nr::.Ic. has made a rsguisition on the
Governor Of Maryland for the delivery and
return of Wan. Light fugitive from JUS
tics, charged with having committed a rape
Ia the County Of Frederick.
A terrific storm prevailed off Hatterss
on Friday, and four marine disasters are
reported Several men are known to
have bee9 lost, and it is feared that the
full extent OF the loss of men and vessels
is BOT yet known.
DEATH OF A CONGRESSMAN Hon Trn-
man H. Hoag, representa- tive in Con
gress from the Toledo district of Ohio, died
at the Metropolitan Hotel, Washington city
on Saturday evening. Mr.. Hoag was born
near Syracuse, New York, April . 1916
The Dominion government have ordered
the construction of large number of
boats, to be thirty SIX feet long, six feet
wide and three feet deep, for the purpose
of sending men into tho Winaepeg set
Element on the first opening Of spring.
Young Gleaves, of Wytbeville, Va,
who killed another student named Hines,
in that town. on Friday last, was admitted
to bail by the County Court (before whic!
be was exainined) III the sum of $40, 600
In the Maryland House of Delegates.
yesterday, the resolutions proposed by the
| Committee on Federal Relations soule tiioe
since, rejecting the Fifteenth Amendment,
we're passed by a unanimous vote by the
members 10 attendance.
Of kerosene horrors there appears to be
no end We take up no paper that some
record Of death by explosion or accidental
| ignition of this iiluminator does not greet
the eye An entire family Was dreadful
| ly burned in Buffalo or Monday uight by
an explosion of kerosene.
the Postmaster General reports that 10
the month of January there was sent
from the Washington Postofice ever two
hundred snd.thirty seven thousand Il aux,
| ed letters, at cost of. about > ., OOO,
and one hundred and fifty tons OF printed
matter, at a cost Of $38, 600.
How THE VIRGINIA MEMBERS VOTED. =
On the Substitute offered by Mr. Beck ad
hitting Mississippi Internationally, the
| Virginia members voted: Yeas-Messrs
Gibson, Mckenzie, Mines, and Ridgway.
Nays Messrs. Aver, Booker, and Platt
| Mr. Porter was absent
METHODIST CoNFERENcas The Wilm-
ington, Del, Conference of the III. E
Church will commence ia Port Deposit,
Nd. on the 10th of March. Bishop
james is to preside The Quarterly Con,
ference of the NJ E Church, comprising
bat is known as the Wilmington Confer
ence, embrasing elaware and the East
err Shore counties of Maryland and Ac-
oouac and NortkamtoG of Virginia, will
| assemble in Elkton Nd, CD the same day.
BAD CONDITION is asserted that
nearly every man in this part of Virginia
is either running fer some office; or is
plaintiff in some suit to trip some luckless
debtor of the last shred be wears ;or is de-
fepdant in some other suit TO protect him
self from being divcsted Of his own last
shred BY some iinportunatc creditor.
Which doesn't convey to cur mind any
very encouraging idea Of the business sit
uation. Lysch5py. Repauicaa.
Gen Candy, under the new regime,
issues Gen Orders, No / announcing
that he ''i,as command of the Department
of Virginia, embracing the State Of
Maryland, Virginia West Virginia, and
North Carolina. headquarters at Rich
mind. Va, and directing officers and
soldiers, in the department to make nil
ifary reports aud returns to him. Order No
q announces the officers on tile personal
! IL.