Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-05-18
News items.

Gov. Geary. of Pennsylvania, in his
message to the Legislature, urges compen-
sation 10 the border counties for injuries
sustained during the war.
A~bill giving married women their sepa-
rate earnings has been passed by tie Penn
sylvania Legislature.
Some very unreasonable people think
it bad taste for choir-members to tall
during the church service
The Merchants National Bank Of
Cincinnati paid on Tuesday New York
draft altered from 200 to $12. 900.
Albemarle county, is suffering from
borsetheives, and depredaiors op al kinds
of portable property.
A dispatch from Germany says that
the fiha treaty of peace between France
and Germany has been sigued al Frankfort
and so the distracted country is left free
to settle its own internal troubles The
news from Paris indicates that this is
rapidly being accomplished by the Govern
ment and lis army.
Rev. Mr.. Cheney. Of Chicago, lately
sentenced to be removed from the ministry
of the Episcopal Church, does not sue
cumb. He says he is sustained 10 his course
by many bishops. priests and deacons,
aud large number Of the laity
Mr.. Anderson of Norfolk, on Monday
shipped from his farm near the city four
teen thousand quarts of strawberries, the
fruits of one picking from his patch of
nearly one hundred acres.
The Charlottesville Woollen Factory
offers for the contract for furnishing the
Virginia Volunteers with grey cloth for
uniforms. They are all to be clothed
alike and it is thought that the Governor
will prescribe grey as the color.
On Tuesday Cd instant, a Montgomery
(Ala.) justice of the peace dcputlzcd
colored man, named Mccain, to arrest
another accused Of felonoius assault
Next morning Mccain was found murdered
on the road near the place where the
arrest was to have been made.
Governor Clah in, of Massachusetts, has
appointed Julia Ward Howe aud Mrs.
Stevens, of Cambridge justices of the peace
for Suffolk county. The appointments
await confirmation by the executive
council.
1t is the practice of the students at the
Virginia Military Institute to collect every
morning on the second floor OF The porch
Institute building to receive their mail
On Tuesday 9th inst, the pla tform gave
way. prccipi,ating them all about 6fteen
feet to the floor below, by which twenty
one were injured. Cadet A. L. Wilcox,
of Tennessee, had leg broken ten got
limbs sprained; the remaining ten were
considerably bruised. but fortunately had
10 bones broken. -.-
The High Commission Treaty.
New York, 1.-THE Tribune thi
morning publishes the text ofof the treaty
signed by the joint High Commission.
The Alabama claims are referred to five
arDltfa tOrS-luC Executives Vi LtIS i1uu,
the United States, Italy, Braz !, and
Switzerland each to name one-and they
are to hold their sittings in Geneva. If
instead of making the awards in bulk,
the arbitrators only establish ules for
adjustment, board of assessors. one
chosen by the Queen of England, the
other by the President of the United, and
the third chosen by the two, will meet at
Hashing ton and finish the work. Three
special rules of neutral obligation are
laid down.
LIST. 1t shall be the duty of a neutral
nation to use the due diligence to prevent
building and fitting out or escape of any
vessel III crested to mako war upon any
nation with which it is at peace.
%. 1t shall be the duty of a nation
not to permit such vessels to enter any
Of its forts for repairs, intuition OR sup
plies, or, having entered, not TO permit
their departure.
Sd. 1t shall be the duty of a nation to
use due diligence to prevent the viola
tiou of any of these obligations in any of
It's ports or waters.