Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-08-10
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are nc indications Of yellow fever.
Yellow Fever is. raging, with great
mortality in Brazil
The Treaegar Iron Works at r ichmord
Virginia, are reported as tanning cut tive
tons of iron now to every one turned cut
before the war.
Two mon we're killed in Lewis ton, Me
Tuesday by the falling Of derrick in
securely arranged on new building.
Richmond is digging the bottom out
Of j ames River, and steamships of 1900
tons will soon be able to get up ithout
disturbing the mud She is as anx ious
now to make the river navigable as she
was a few years ago to block it up.
Such arc times changes.
A new aspirant for the honors of reach
ing the North Pole follows closely
on the heels of the commander of the
.Polaris.' His name is Pavys and he is
the son of a wealthy New Orleans citizen
He is TO start on his voyage by new
route very soDn.
Forney complains that the South Caro-
lima rebels are not 'the lambs they were
believed to be by the North This re-
minds us of the little boy who said,
Nanny, make John behave himself
every time I hit him with this hammer,
he hollers
The government granite con tract re-
Gently awarded to Col. Ordway. Of Rich
mond, Va, will be the means Of employ
ing in that city at least four or five hun
dred stone cutters, as it is all TO be dress
ed at the quarry, previous to being shipp-
ed to its destiuatisn-W ashington.
During game of base ball at Tama
City, Iowa, the batter, in throwing back
his club for a telling stroke, hit the
catcher in the temple, killing him in-
stantly.
The friends of the late Clement G..
Vallandigham held meeting at Dayton,
Ohio, on Saturday. and appointed a
committee to report plan for erecting a
suitable monument to his memory.
The Emperor Napoleon recently declar-
ed that France will not allow free trade
principles to &c torn to pisces.
SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 4-.The case of
Dr. w. G. Brock, of this city, against
the Connecticut River Railroad for S4O,-
600 damages for injuries received by a
collision at Northampton, in June, 1870,
has been concluded, with verdict of
ten thousand dollars for the plaintiff.
Il Nafchot F;gAt.--A fight occurred at
Culpeper, Va Saturday, between j. l..
Lewis commonwelth's attorney. and an
Irshman named Corriell. Both parties
used hatchets freely. Lewis thought to be
seriously injured. Cause-criminal pros
ecution.
CHAnLEsroS, August 4.-The official
count shows that the nun cipal election
of Wednesday resulted iu the choice of
the Citizens cand idate, General John A
Wagner, by y majority of III votes, over
Gilbert Pilisbury, the present Republican
Mayor. The entire Citizens ticket is
elected BY about the same majority.
-Four newly discovered accomplces in
the assassination of General Prim have
been summoned to trial in Madrid.
Among them is an Aide-de-C Camp Of
! iiontpensior The Duke himself has
beer summoned as a witness.
They have freemason in Alaska lis
years old. He is Prussian, and life
insurance societies ought to make lin
general agent.
Hurrah for old Halifax county, she
beats 'em all in the baby line. There is
nothing the matter with the Blue Wing
section A white lady who year before
last was the mother of three boys at time
all dead-vas week before last the
mother of four boy babies-all hearty and
kicking and everybody doing WE'LL Dir.
Andrew Earcly was the physician attend
HillS5oro' N. c. Recorder,
A singular circumstance oc urred on
Coonev Island beach during the storm
last week. A portion of the beach, about
500 yards in extent, was washed away to
the depth of eighty feet, SO that the tide
now flows in over large tract which re-
Gently looked like solid land.
Females are hereafter to be admitted,
under regulations to be prescribed by the
faculty, as students in the Burlington,
lVermon0 University.
A man and his wife in Cecil County,
Nd, whilst in the house, were struck by
lightning during storm on Saturday
last, and both instantly killed.
Mrs. N. j. Saresis, of Carson, Nevada,
arrived at Stockton last night, and learn
ing that her husband was staying at q
hotel with another woman, she went to
their room and shot the woman three
times with revolver, inficting mortal
wounds. Mrs. S. and her husband were
arrested and lodged in jail.
Richmond is excited over the ,clope-
ment of young and wealthy heiress,
with well known and prominent citi-
zen They left for Washington city
! Monday afternoon, where they proposed
to become one instead of two.
The great spot now to be observed on
the sun, forms striking object seer
through telescope. The umbra is pear
shaped, and its length is estimated al
many thousand miles, or five times the
diamet ter of the earth. The spot can be
seen ithout telescope through dark
colored glass, or when the sun is nearly
over cast.
Col. Robert E. Withers, of Virgin ia,
has been appointed genera agent of the
Lee Monumen tai Assoc iation. Heiis au-