Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-03-30
News Items

Connecticut is the next State to vote
this spring, following New Hampshire on
the Sd p, oximo.
Grant now says that he intends TO go
straight for Somana Bay, and fight it out
on that line if it takes all Summer.
Philip McNaily, of Cleveland, while
abusing his wife and daughter, the other
night was shot by his step sou. only II
years old.
The fru t growers of the Northwest are
xuberant over the prospect of fine crops,
the trees having passed through the water
in fue order,
Judge Robertson, at whose deathhed
NJ iss Cary was induced to sing pathetic
negro ballad a few weeks ago, is how I'M
proving rapidly in health.
james Bloomer, of Ulster county
n. Y. bounty Jumper, horse thief,
highwayman, and desperate character
generally. did the people the kindness the
other day to comm it suicide.
Two men in an iron foundry at Lowell,
Mass, recently quarrelled. when one
threw the contents of iadle fu h of mel
ten iron at the other, burning him terri
bly,.
The English University Loat-race, be-
tween the Oxford and Ce:nhrilce crews,
will take place on April 1T.
A strike is said to be going Oh by thu
hands of the NJ. & p. Il. Il tar regular
payday, aud ten houy system OF work
One hundred women ia the Unite
States are now studying law. The o ith-
full maie attorneys will soon le5n to
wall in caorus with the physicians.
4 Sedalia editor says thatn gal who is
now called .beauti;al blonde" would
lew years az have been termed a low
head
The Southern loyal claims commission
has decided that he taken Of the ie>t-oath
by the claimant should be condition
precedent t, the reception and cxamina-
ton Of any claims.
The little boy who fell from the sixth
floor of the Gait House, in Louisville, to
the marble tiles Of tie cfice. nearly one
hundred feet below, is rapidly recover
lug.
X son of Judge Ba>ce, of Missouri
and you"g man named Harris have
been examined at St. Louis. charged with
the murder of United States Collector
jenkins. at New MadriI, Mo ana
discharged.
A party of young men attacked some
players in bowling alley, in Louisville, |
Ky, on Monday. and stabbed Lawrence
Ack.ey, it is supposed fatally.
1t is said that number of Americans
have recently established themselves as
merchants III Berlin. and that many more |
ofou. countrymen intend to initiate their
example.
A gentlemen who has communicated |
with number of farmers in the regioa
beyound and contiguous to FredeFicks-
gurg, says they are very hopeful over the
tine prospects for wheat crop.
GERMAN LANGUAGE.-Tt is said that
nearly oue-half Of the children of the |
district schools Of Cincinnati are employed |
in the stud Of the German language. and |
occupy at least half their time with it
The Richmond correspondent of the
Petersburg Courier, IN eaumerating tie
signs of spring. says Early vegetables
are appearing in the market; the birds
have begun to ling shade are plentiful
aud falling in peace; and there is a
fragrant breath of mint juIep OF the air
The Richmond Wing says operations
for cutting out and deepening Buffers
canal across Dutch Gap have fairly COM
menccd The contractor who has IN
dertaken the work obligates himself to
flush it in ninety days This will shorten
the distance to Norfolk about seven
miles.
Gov Geary has decided that the cannot
interfere iu the quarrel among the Goa!
men of Pennsy lvana. lie says:-"Iu
1868 | spent weeks at the mines exanIn-
ing the whole subject then saw that
the m iDers and the operators. at IA certain
period of the year. found it beneficial to
strike and when carefully arranged,
the consumer only was the sufferer
Exactly so. Between them the public have
to 20 to the wall.
The German Celebration 10 New York
1t is stated that eighty different military
and civic organization have signiGed their
intention of taken part in the great Ger
man peace celebration in New York on
Easter Monday. In addition to the process
sion during the day there will be gen
eral illumination in the evening by all
who claim Germany for their father
land.
MURDER IN " EST VIRGINIA. "A farmer
named Rogers, living in Tyler county.
w. Va. near the Doddridge line, was
found dead in the woods, near his house.
on Friday morning last. with bullet hole
through his head and another through
his breast A neighbor named Isaac
Ovens, with whom he had an old feud.
which used to break out in reciprocal
hays!aclS and fence burnings. has been
arrested, charged with the murder.
The HopE OF TIE CoUNTRY.-D Piatt
says and no doubt truly
1t is hard to make the people from the
interior believe it, but any man can verify
the fact by coming to Washington. that
there is not an honest prominent Repub-
lean but what looks to the Democratic
party for relief This man, General