Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-05-12

tlonal convention on the subject Is to be
held in October next. Ex-senator Hen
derson presided at the meeting Of the
committee. sssa.@
The us. Marshall for the Southern
District of Ohio having appointed two wo-
man Assistant Marshalls to take the cen
ssus. the Superintendent, Gen. Walker,
writes to him that such appointments are
illegal, and cannot be accepted.
NJ James T.. Ford of Fredericksburg
has been appointed Assistant Professor at
the Visgiaia Military Institute.
Nearly everybody was vaccinated in
Paris last week-the ladies'. of course, in,
Guided. Many Of them, however. dis
liked to disfgure their arms. and for this
reason it became quite fashionable to be
vaccinated in the leg.
4 San Francisco, Cal, dispatch says
From nearly every portion of the State is
received alarming intelligence of short
crops In Santa Clara county half the
grain will not pay fox harvesting. In
Secisin Valley the north winds and dry
weather have almost Destroyed the crops.
More favorable reports come from the
northern part of the State.
The General Conference of the NJ E
Church South, is in session al Memphis.
All the Bishops, except Bishop Early, are
present.
A prominent Rad is said to-be prepar-
ing bill to strike out the word tWhlte"
from the title of the Presidential mansion
so as to thoroughly conform to the Eff
tcenth Amendment. They ought to add
the word "plack" so as to make it con
form to the colored mans white party
New Orleans ladies are raising money
to purchase testimonial for Robert E.
Lee.
The Radical party in Nississippiis said
to be divided, out the division seems only
to be difference as to the division OF the
spoils. ..- ..........
The re is considerable gold excitement
in New Mexico. and the metal is said to
be pure and abundant.
There was a general suspension Of
business in Memphis. Tennessee, on
Saturday. on account of the cmmcmora-
ton in honor of the Confederate dead.
There were fully ten thousand people in
attendance.
The earnings Of Aleliua Tatti, for the
gast season. have been one million francs,
to say nothing of the presents She has re
ceived. The Marquis de CaEx, her hus-
band, has just contributed 800 francs to
the funds OF the plebiscitary Committee.
G. W. Sehalfer, engaged in the grocery
business in Pittshurg, aosconded yester-
day with Is, eco in his possession. He
leaves wife aud six children.
Andrew K9esecjer, eompositor on
the Dubuque He5pld, fell dead at his case
on Monday. He had been printer for
81 years and set type on the first news
paper in Iowa He learned his trade at
Martinsburg, in the G'sseiie Office then
published By Washington Evans, and
and was born in this town in lolO, and
many of our older citizens remember him.
A bar of red hot iron entered the
abdomen and passed tlrougha workman's
body in Troy mill, recently, yet a physl-
ieian i: made to say that 'she wound Is
not necessarily fatal.
Later accounts from the Scat ern Bap-
list Convention at Louisville. KY, state
resolution looking to a cooperation of
Baptists, North and South, had, after
long debate been referred to a committee
for examination.
Mormons are classified according to
faith, as Brighanifes Gobeites and JOSEF
hitcs.
The Prince Of Orange IS going to mar
ry the third daughter Of Queen Victoria.
A tax Of four cents has been laid on
every lcech used 10 Germany.
The Cuban sugar crop is estimated at
Is per cent. less this season than last.
OF the nincty-two counties IN Indiana
eighty are reached by railroads.
A yearly license fee of FIVE dollars is to
be rec uired of all who carry fire arms in
En- gland. - 4
The three divisions of the Demo cratic
party, in New York city, held united
meeting at Mozart Hall on Saturday even
ing, and means were adopted to fix a.
basis agreement on which to act in nomina-
ting candidates for the approaching CAM
paign. t-a @
In the Superior Court Of Baltimore on
Saturday, John H B. Iaterobe, Reverdy
Johson, Charles J. NJ. Gwinn and J.
Randolph Tucker. entered as counsel for
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the
suit against it by the State.
A tremendous conha grafton was repor-
ted on Saturday. as ranging along the
.Wikesbarre Mountains. near Wiikesbarre,
Pa. The loss is immense. and nothing
but heavy rain will end the FIRE.
INTERESTING TO CANDIDATES. An act
passed the Legislature on the 9th of March,
1870, which is still in force, making it
unlawful for any person, licensed or. I'M
licensed, to sell or give. away any kind of
liquor, wine, cider. or any mixture of any
of them on the day Of any election The
Penalty is fine and imprisonmcnt.--L Lynch
brig Republican. . - t7