Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-08-17
News Items.

Rev. I. Y. Moore pastor Of tho First
Presbyterian Church ofRichmond Of At
to ,6S-21 ycars-died in Nashville,
Tennessee, On the 9th inst.
A U. s. soldier shot turbulen negro
at the pc lis in Charleston last week and
for some time serious riot appeared IN
evitable.
A jeweler of Southbridge, Mass, has
made silver low pressure marine engine,
every part complete, which covers no
larger space than a silver quarterdollar,
it is described as of ten mosquito power.
| Oficial returns have been received at
louisville from eighty-four counties of
Kentucky. and it is now estimated that
flu Il returns will probably make Leslie's
majority 40 GOO. The Republican gain
upon Stevenson vote is attributed to
the vote of the negroes.
General Ewing made the opening cam.
paign speech for the Ohio Democracy in
Columbus on Friday evening last. It was
ma inly devoted to financial issues.
The petroleum projectiles used during
the concluding struggle between the
Versailles government and the Commune,
] before Paris, were made from the ordinary
spherical bombshells. A perforated tabe
nearly an inch in diameter, was filled
with powder, connected with fuse and
introduced into she'll, which was then
filled with petroleum The quantity of
powder in the tabe suficed to explode the
she'll and set fire to the oil, which the
exp losion scattered abroad in fiery rain.
The Ohio Poisoning Case.
LONDON, ONO, August 9.-Mr. and
Mrs. Colburn nee Buffenbarger are here
at their old home. They are confident of
success The feeling here is all in their
favor the majority til mixing that the
poison was injected after death by the
malice of Thompson, the prosecuting wit
ness, who has not, up to the present time
| made his appearance.
At the inquest to-day, Professor Worm
| ly, Of Columbus, will be cross examined
on the presence of poison by absorption,
and new question in medical SC ieHce
raised.
The highest court of Maryland has
dec ided that Mrs Henry 4. Wise is en-
titled to the insurance on the life of her
husband. It will be Remembered that the
Mutual Benefit Company of New jersey
refused to pay her the amount, and that
the cause was first in Baltimore, then
removed to Howard county. and suisse
quently taken to the Court of Appeals of
MARYLAND. Mrs Wise's claim, which
| amounted to S2a 600, has been paid over
to her.
New ORLEANS, August 10.--The up
train on the Great Northern Road, push
ing two fats containing officers of the.
company, was thrown from the tack by
obstruction placed by some malicious
persons fifteen miles above Houston,
Texas. DR.. G. G. Young President,
William NJ. W ilson. Assistant Civil En-
gncer. were killed; Turner, brakesman.
probably fatally, ard G. S. Noble, Chief
Engineer and Superintendent North and
several others severely hurt,
FRUIT CANSING.-A writer i'll the
J3urnag Of the Farm. in speaking of can
ming fruits says that last season he put
up some pears in cans. and attempting to
use the fruit found their taste so disgust
ing in consequence Of a metallic taste that
be examined .hem in order to discover
the cause. He says he found that the
covers were not made Oft but zinc, or
an alloy of zinc, metal very easily acted
upon by acids, and calcu lated to produce
poisonous salts. The lids of several of
these caas were found to be entirely eaten
through By the acid , so that beside the
danger of poisoning those using the fruit,
they did not suceoe ed in protecting it
from air. The contents of all these cans
were Immediately buried.
The editor of the Elmira IN. "
Adcertissr has poor luck buying medi-
cine- He says: I went to drug store
early one morning for dose of morphine
for sick rie1d.-The night clerk OBJ
jected to giving it to me without pre-
scription. evidently fearing that might
destroy myself. 'Pshaw, said 7, do l
look like a man who would kill myself?
Gazing at me steadily for half minute,
he replied, I don't know. Seems to me
if l looked like you I should be greatly
tempted to kill myself"
( SAD CASE OF ACCIDENTAL SnooT1NG-OSE
SISTER KILLED BY ANOTHER The Lou
douR (Va.) Mirror states that on Sunday
afternoon last. Miss Caroline Clarkson,
daughter of Mr.. Thomas Clsrkson. re-
siding aboutt zee miles FROM Leesburg,
was acc identaAy' shot and killed by her
sister Mary. The evidence before the
coroner shows that the two young ladies'
were starting to Sunday School, and that
as during their absence there would have
been nonody about the house except some
little children, who were at tie time out
in the field, Mary determined to carry the
gun. a smooth-bore rife loaded with
SOU irrel 5hot, which was standing in a
corner the lower room, up stairs, out
o { their reach. La ascending the stairs,
the barrel of the gun resting on the left
arm, the IN uzz lie pointing up, she sup
posed the hammer became entangled in
her dress. causing discharge. Her sis
ter was at the top of the stairs, and re-
ceived the load in her back, causing in
slant death.
THAT WHISPER AT ApPoMArTox. 1t
! has been said that Grant Mhisnered some