Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-08-03
NsWs Items.

on Monday of last week, VIM. Newman,
colored, was sentenced to months i'm
pr isonment in the jail of that County.
| Somerset county (Md.) papers give the
particulars of tornado in Hungary Neck
in that county, last week. The Prin-
cess Anne Herald SAYS that its force was
terrific. The width of the line it pursu-
ed was about two hundred yards.
E, In Cincinnati pew sort of piano has
been invented and patented during the
present month. The peculiar feature o:
the invention is that. instead of strings
stretched across the sounding board ,smal Il
steel tongues, each with hook Or arm
on either side. are attached to the sound
ing-board, and struck by hammers.
A letter from the Warm Springs, in
Monroe county, W Va, says: Deer,
wild turkeys, pheasants. cartridges, and
trout are quite abundant within the con-
fines of this princely domain of broad
acres. Mountaineers bring in venison
this morning, and we shall soon see. the
busy preparation by the annual huntsmen-
guests who congregate here to onjoy tina t
sport.
FALL OF A RAILROAD BRIDGE.--&. L9u-
is. July 27.-The Fulton (Mo.) Fair
i'hy, of the Goth says a portion of the
bridge on the Louisiana and Missouri
railroad Dsing built over Anoanse river,
eight lies north OF Fulton, fcl! last
Sunday. carry ing With it n lie men l0C
feet to the bed of the river below. On
ly one man, A. MEG ills, was killed, and
one, Charles Gray. fatally injured. Geo.
Breming ton and VIM. Brothers suffered
severe in terna injuries, and i'll proba-
bly, die. The others were not seriously
hurt.
A married man named Robert Sumner,
who resided near Pedlar NJ ills. in Am
herst county, eloped ith young girl,
named Sallie Stinnett, on Sunday night,
leaving beh ind him his wife and small
| child.
A remarkable family lives in Dallas
county. Arkansas. The father is 10S
years old, the mother 106, and the two
are parents. of TWEEN ty-nine children-ff-
teen boys and fourteen girls.
NEGRO MORTALITY. The mortuary Ia
bles of Columbus, Georgia, just publish
ed, show that out ola popa lation fisk
thousand whites and three thousand
blacks the burials for three months were.
white adults. thirteen; black adults,
eighteen; white children, twel I've; black
ch ildreu, thirty-six. The proportions OF
dea tbs, taking into consideration the
number Of white non-res idents buried, is
nine white and forty eight blacks. Tue
proportion of deaths to respective num-
bers, it will be seen, is ope white to ten
and two third blacks.
Terrible Effects Of Earthquake.
LONDON, July 27.-The earthquake in
the Phi illipine Islands on May 1st affect
ed in terrible manner the small Island
of Camaquin FIVE miles from Misamis.
For some months previously especially in
March, there was succession of violent
shocks, which opened extensive crew.
ces in the earth. Finally on May 1st the
leve plain near the village of Cattarmin
began gradually to subside until the tops
of the houses became leve W it'll the sur
face of the earth. This remarkable phe-
nomcnon attracted lsrge number oil
people, when suddcnly some terrific
shocks we're felt, and before the thunder
ing vibrations had died away the whole
level place fell in, engu lphmg hundred
and fifty persons. The plain became a
crater of volcano fifteen hundred feet, and
from it smoke, ashes and stones were
thrown into the ar. A pause till dark
succeeded when there was another explo-
sion and rain OF fire followed by the woods
becoming ignited, and men. and cat tie
went flying before the flames. The spec
tacle was frightfu in the extreme. The
volcano continues to eject stone, and
earth. Tue inhabitants have left the is
land, which formerly con aimed popula-
ton of $4,000. Carmaquin produced
Man lila hemp, one tenth of the whole
quantity grown.