Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-04-07
News ITEMS

The Democracy of Connecticut are con-
fdent of carrying the State at the coming
election.
The negroes Of Tennessee are protest
ing against Congressional Interference in
the affairs Of that State
Ripe tomatoes have already appeared in
the Philadelphia markets. They come
from the South.
A very angry feeling is manifested in
regard to the new CONSUMPTION bill in
Spain.
$5,000,000 mcrtage bonds of the Or
egon and California Railroad have been
negotiated in Frankford on the Main.
The New York Tribune says, e'if the
South can simply 60 on as she is going
for ten years longer, she will be richer
and more prosperous than she ever yet has
been. y"
New constit buttons have been ratified by
the people of Tennessee and West Virginia.
Universal suffrage is a prominent feat
ure in both instruments.
The vote of the people of San Doming0
in faver Of annexation to the U. S., is in
the proportion of thirty in favor of the
measure to one in opposition. I
The affairs of ex-Queen Isabella and
her husband have been arranged by com
promise. both parties signing docu N GU
| c0nSpntlnO to q SenaratIO
Official information has been receive
in Washington that the French Govern :
ment has arranged with the French Allan
tic Cable Company to cancel its exclusiv
concessions for landing cables from the
United States on the French soil.
The United States Marshal mas appeal
ed to the military for aid, as Mayor Ely
son, of Richmond, Virginia, has rcfus ed
to give up possession OF the City Hall and
other property
The strike of the miners Of tie Schuyl-
Kill region has begun, and it is thought
| will be general.
J. Basil Duks and Simon Boliver Bucknei
have declined the office-of Chef of Police
of Louisville at a salary Of So 000
Bishop Johns, on Wednesday evenin g
administered the rite of confirmation t.
sixty-two persons at the St. Johns Prot
cstant Episcopal church, Georgetown.
4 Greece is to have railroad. It is t.
be constructed from Athens over the 18th
mus and along the Gulf of Corinth to som
| point ca tie western coast. Fancy Par
nassus and Hymeitus echoing to the scream
of the modern locomotive.
The meanest thief in the world has as
serted his title to that pre-e nnence by
| breaking open the tomb Of the late Geors
! Peabody at Salem Mass, and stealing tn
| silver appurtenances from the coffin. Fl,
has been arrested.
Tn recent debate in the House @
Delegates, Mr. Kelley stated that 80
days of leave of absence bad been granite
to members during the session. and tina
the sum of $l.926 had been paid to til
members Of the House for per diem, whe
they were absent from their seats.
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A New Colony IN TENNESSEE "A col
| ony of cmmigrants from Michigan hav
i purchased seven thousand acres of land
1 few miles south of Grand Junction, Tenn.
i and have settled there, with determine
ton to stay. Agriculture is their calling
They propose to do their work withou
the aid of negroes These newcomers wi
diversity their crops, and give par
ticuar attention to corn and pork. a'h
farms will be small. and closely and ecien
tiically cultivated aass
MoRMosTsM IN Tus SoUru. -Mormo
converts have appeared in Alabama. TIL
Columbus Miss J 1udex says that fe,
days ago the train bore away from til
depot at that place an e4nigrant party G
about thirty persons, big and little, boun
for Brigham Young's dominion. The
hailed from Sanford county, Ala, all
we're all converts to the Mormon faith.
Rev.O B. Rockingham III a diseonrs
yesterday took ground against the acts {
congress in relation to Utah. The State
he held, had 10 more right to interfer
with polygamy than it has to prescrib
limits to protestanism or 10 interfere wit
Catholicism.
The President of the B. & O. Railroe'
company has submitted a compromis
proposition to the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue in reference to certain take.
due by the company to the Government
TIE proposition is under consideration
by the Commissioners and the Secetary o
the Treasury. The Commissioner hs
| ordered suit to be brought against the Bal
ttmore and Ohio railroad company for tn
1 taxes due on the interest aud dividends 0
the S5.000.000 bonds loaned or endorsed
by the city of Baltimore to the compan,
in 1864. The suit will be brought in the
United States District Court in Baltimore
! HOB in Louisiana--J all Brokea Open
Sheriff and witness Killed.