Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-06-29
News Items.

in Loudoun county
A COOP Moyg.-A large meeting IF
the most successful farmers was held at
Amherst Courthouse Monday last, (court
day) at which preliminary steps were
taken sootganizo county agricultural
society, which will perfected at suly
court.
CATTLE DISEASE We were informed
Yesterday that a disea similar to the
Tsxas cattle disease, which prevailed in
this city last year, has attacked the cattle
in the moun aims of Amherst, and many
have already died from it.-Lynch6urg
| News.
John Key. on trial for billing his
father and another person. 10 Elemings-
burg, Kentacky. was convicted on Thurs
day of murder in the first degree.
Who Says they are Decreasing in
Number ? We learn that colored woman
living short distance from Staun Ton,
gave birth within the last. few days to
three bouncing boys, healthy, aud likely
to live to swell the vote of the fifteenth
amendment ia old augusta. ALPS we
that ends WE'LL
|. Tie officers Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad are in earnest to complete
their work, for the Monroe Register says
that the company have now six thousand
men working like beavers on the un-
finished portion of the line, less than two
hundred miles.
A railway disaster occurred in Germany
last Thursday, by which twenty,thres
soldiers we're killed and fifty injured.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
reports that the amount due the govern
mcnt from Collectors of Internal Revenue,
is two million eight hundred thousand
dollars and most of this from the officers
in Louisiana
| The Rhsladelphis Age tales occasion to
remind certain politicians and others.
I that the Fourteen til and Fifteenth Am
endnients do not, by any reasonable in.
.tsrpretation, put the colored race above
the white , It thinks its reminder nec-
essary, at this time. especially since the
late proceeding in Washington, which
| allowed mob to run riot without
proper steps being taken to suppress. ii,
for two or three days.
A, careful investigator has ascertained
that when newly. married couple reach
hotel, the bridegroom enters; in the
register MIR. So and So and wife, but
when a man for whom years have destroy
ed the novelty of the situation puts down
the names, it is Mr. and Mrs. Such a
One.
/ A recent pension bill has run up the
E.rollot veterans for the war of 1925 to
over 26> 900, and the cry is still they
come. Before the year is oat they prom
Use ID outnumber those in actual service
tiftysix years since when the war ended.
When the bill was before the Senate it
was stated that there were not more than
5000 to'S,000 soldiers in the war of 1912
surviving.
Five young men Who last July we're
engaged in tarring and gathering "a imam
and a young woman in Cohocton, S.teu-
ben county, Ncw York, have just been
tried and sentenced 10 the county Jail fog
six months.
Fhc Baltimore Gazette says that it is
not true that there is any limit whatever
put to the duration of the Ku-Klux act.
1t has been made the law of,the land It
contains no provision defining the time
when it SHALL cease tc'bc operative, and
may be continued Id force as hong as the
Radicals remain in power.
|. AN INDIAN CnIEF KlnhE1-St' Louis,
June 18:-Dr. Gfiitia, agent for the
/ Choctaw and Chickasaw indians, arrived
here to-day from the council in tie Indian
Territory. He states that Sautauk, a
K iowa chief, one of the three chiefs cap
tured near Fort Sill during the recent Vi
sit of General Sherman at that post, was
killed while being sent to Texas He
slipped one of his handouts, seized knife
and stabbed a sergeant. A soldier i'm
mediately fred, killing Sautauk The
shot also Killed wagon driver.
There are reports frcm Lyuchburg that
Lucicn Beard has already killed young
Sprouce, Of Rockbridge. who. by accid-
/ ent or otherwise, shot and killed the
father of Beard few days since. These
reports may not be correct. 1t is, also
reported that Beard is still engaged In
/ the horse stealing business.
PARSONS, June 20.--A terrible tornado
swept over South western Kansas: on
Friday evening last. The tc*n Of Tel
Dorado was nearly destroyed, Loss $780,
900. Thcra was great damage to crops.
WAsu1NGroS & ONO RAILROAD. The
Clarke Courier says: The Mortgage of
the So. coo, 900 on the property of this
road is nj: de TO J. B. Alexander and
| FL. d. Baltzes, of New York, who are to
furnish two millions in money for the
extension and construction of the road,
and place in market S25 .00o in bonds
for every mile of the road maIc until it
reaches the Ohio river.
We understand that Mr. King, Of
New York, has bid for the contract of the
entire line from Hamilton to Winchester.
4 colored woman, NAMED Martha Nash :.
lives in this vicinity who is the mother Of
seventeen children, through she is only
twenty. three years of age. If her yalua-
BILE life is spared, she enjoys prospect
fof having quite family around her to
comfort her in her declining years.
/ Much trouble is expected by the ebgi-
'neer corps Of the Northern Pacific rail-.
road in running their line through the
Sioux couutry,- as the Indians declare
they will not tolerate the, construction Of