Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-09-08
BY ADV EIEsI ISER.
News Items.

dora Smith turns up In the census OF
Brown county, Indiana.
General Grant. has promised to review
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, of
Boston, on the 10Th inst.
Some one has invented bullet-proof
cuirass again. But it would be queer
ass indeed who would test it first on
himself
Lemons are extensively raised in Lower
California, and yield about $1,000 an
acre.
A punster ask whether: if Titan $
wife had been named Polly, that fact
would have made her politician
Once when bad man died, savage
wit being apprised of the event, observed
that the average value of mankind was
sensbly raised.
A st. Louis merchant left his hydrant
running.oyer-night. The flooding of his
cellar damaged him $4,000.
The English manufacturers, it is stated
are already beginning to reap rich har-
vest from the war.
Paris ladies now wear the same style
of hat that was worn one hundred and
| FIVE years ago,
The land Office in Washington give S
mott ce to sloyaP' soldiers of the late rebel
lion, that they can receive their title
papers for 160acres of government land,
by application with the proper papers to
any register or receiver of any land
Office.
Various statements are made Of the
atrocities of war in Europe, but none that
we have seen equal those which were wit
messed during Sheridan's march through
the valley of Virginia, in the war in this
country, Or trial and execution Of Mrs.
Surratt in time of peace !!
Late advices from Mort h western Mexi-
co state that Placedo Veg a has organized
another expedition. He demands
800, 900 and complete immunity fer
the arrest of young Mejia, on which con-
ditions he promises to release him, other
wise he threatens to Kill him.
Menard, the colored contestant of the
seat of Mr. Baily from the Second Louis
lana District, has teon arrested in New
Orleans on the charge Of attemp ting an
outrage on the person of a colored girl
living in his family.
The repairs to the railroad bridge
across the Potomac will be completed, it
is said, in time to allow the passage of
trains by the III idle of next week.
The scenes of the last bloody fights in
which NAPOLEON was routed is the local
ity were the Duke of Brunswick and the
flower of the German armies were crushed
by the ragged and half-s;arved French
Republicans under DUMoURlEz and WIsp-
| OFF,. What strange vicissit udes fall
to the ii5t of .catiQn.
REMOVAL OF THE PENITESTfAEY.- " e
learn that the PenitcntIaly C'mmlssion-
ers appointed to take into consideration
the propriety Of removing the pcuitentIa-
ry, ana to recommend a new site, have
agreed upon report, and will urge the
removal of this Institution from the vicin-
ity of this city, and suggest two or three
suitable sites for it on the canal.-Rtch.
,Stute Journal.
The Radical State Executive Commit
tee held meeting in Richmond yester
day, at which it was decided to call a
Convention of the party. to meet in that
city on the 22d inst, for the purpose Of
effecting thorough organization prior to
the Congressional election in November.
Mr.. franklin Stearns resigned the Chair
manship of Executive Committee, to which
Judge Alexander Riyes was then elected.
Mr.. John T. Lewis. U. S. Senator, at
tended the meeting.
! In South Carolina the Legislature. a
majority (which is composed Of blacks,
passed bill empowering Board of Com
missoners to purchase large districts of
vacant land, and to sell them at cost and
on easy credits to the freedmen. All
this looked very fair; but it now turns
out that the individual commissioners
formed a ring, bought up lands, and sold
them to the Board at enormous profits
and that the blacks cannot afford to give
the double prices paid per acre.
An article in tho last number of the
North British Review asserts that ",lnce
the defeat at Sadowa." the internal cor
solicitations of AUSTRIA have been gradually
advancing, and the honest acceptance of
constitutional principles has made her the
most liberal government Of Europe, and,
for the present, the only safe refuge of
liberty between the Alps and the Baltic
But, this new Development, it Is added
cannot yet be considered as practically com.
plcte. This could not be effected with
in SO short time as four years, even in
centralized State, and it would be chimer
ical to expect it in polyglott empire d.
vided into two distinct political halves
with mixed populations, culture, taste,
history, &c. Nevertheless it seems
strange to hear it said that Austria is the
most liberal government in Europe.
Such are the changes of modern days.
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