Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-10-26

a t0reSt IRE ID Oanta CfuZ county,
California, has burned over an area OF
ninety fou: miles, causing great destruc-
| ton of property.
A telegraph cable has been laid be
tween 55srbadoes and Demerara, forming
another LUX in the Geographic chain
whichis to connect the " indwara Islands
with South America On one hand and the
Antilles on the other.
Nor BURNED Our ENoUGH. One gen.
tleman from viIlaga near Chicago. lu--
d,gnant because his .visite to all the
churches, where refugees are housed, in
search of a ser want, was fuItless, as wo-
men declined O 20 10 the country, ex-,
presses the opinion tat they have not
been burned out enough.
No single reynle tionary .pensioner'
exists Only forty line widows who
married revolutionary SC ID iers previous
to 1901 are now alive.
ORANGE, ALEXANDRIA AND MANASSAS
RAILROAD. The ffeighting business OF
this road is now very heavy, and the
capacity is taxed to its utmost TO accom-
modate the demands made upon It, AID
long trains are arriving and departing
night aud day. The passenger bus mess /:
is a lso very heavy just now, the day and
night trains being generally crowded =
Alec. (Ia) Gazette.
TIE SPIRIT THAT WINs.-The pluoky,
Oh icago man who ordered lot of sugars
and sysups in New York, just after the
file, and promised 10 have his store re-
bu lit by the time the goods arrived, has
kept.his word aOn Thusday he -tele-
graphed tohis friends there: I'VE enter.
new store tomorrow. made since the
fire, and resume payment in full and at
maturity" Such men are The living rea-
sols why we pin faith onsChicago.
The series of protraetel meetings in
connection with the Winchester Station
NJ. b. Church South, which began some
five weeks since near the residence of
Mr.. James Lewis. and which, for two
weeks past, have been continued in the
Braddock street Church. have resulted in
the conversion of 80 persons, 80 ofwhom
have united with the NJ e. Church
South. The meetings will be continued
throughout the present week. Wiaches-
ter Times.
General Lemon from Fort Garry re-
ports intense excitementa at W innipeg on.
account ofthe recent gold discovery at
Lake Shebondawin. Specimens Of dust,
nuggets. and quartz have been brought to
" innipeg, and hundreds, are rushing to.
the new gold fields. Lake Shebondawin
is short distance from Silver Islct
The amount ofpublic lands which Il
Republican party bas given to the various
mouopolies, rings, and. jobbers already
exceeds tive thousand millions Of acres
Estimating its present value at one dollar
and a quarter an ~aese, the donation
amounts to two thousand Eve hundred
millions of dollars--Iore than the entire
national debt.
In Baltimore, Friday, two young wo-
men were burned from using kerosene
ore fatally, it is feared.
Tits strange. but true, that large
number of the Radical candidates for the
Legislature in this State were negro tra-t
ders before the war; fredericksburg
J Herald. ave 8
AS an evidence Of the spread
effect of the Chicago Disaster" the
Wilmington N. G. Star records gravely
that merchant of that commercial centre
lost 600 bushels ofpeanuts. They were
only partially insured.
SERIOUS AcolDESr. I'VE learn that
Miss Hingardner, daughter Of Henry.
Hingardner, living some 4 miles South Of,
Ilarrisouburg, was ser iously if not fatally
| injured by falling from wagon on Mon
day Of last week = Register.
On the 18th Instant Richmond, Va.
tobacco manufacturer received an order
from a. Chicago CORE spondent. It was
written since the fire. and the writer
said in. substance Eve are burned out,
destroyed, and have no office ); but send
on the tobacco will have place to put
it." 4 s
tits stated that Rev. T. W Dosh, Of
Winchester, has been called to the pasto-
tral charge If 81. John's Church, in
Charlcstowi. charge which has been
filed, for mere than half century by the
venerable Dir. John Bachman. Il Htnches-
/, ter Times. $50