Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-03-09

BROKE JAIL.-Saunders. the inan who,
short tine since, was lodged in Front
Royal jail charged with stealing Mrs.
Rinker's horse broke prison a few nights
since and is at large Winchester News.
FARM SOLD. The farm Of Mr.. z. Bow
en-. sltu.!ed near the line between Warren
and Clarke counties. and containing 205
acres. was sold last week to Mr.. Ch4s
Wood 1T SIS per acre -CtoA Courier.
. AN AGED NEdao There il now liv-
ing near the m nth Of Brooks Gap. in this
county. negro man who is said to he
one hundred and thirty-one years cid /!
The authority for this statement is re-
presented 10 tie good -Rockingaans Reg
lister
We regret to learn that The wheat looks
bad. Unless the spring shall prove very
favorable, the coming crop must be very
light one -Register.
SuoT HlMsELF. On Thursday of last
week, Wm. Cav. wing in this town. shot
himself in the left side with a revolver.
His life was despaired of, bnt under the
careful treatment of MIR n. d. Baker.
We learn he is revivng Berkeley Union.
ACCIDENT. One day day last week. a
negro man employed at the Paper Mill,
fell into one of The large tubs, scalding
himself, though not dangerously. He
will be able for duty soon Winchester
News.
GRADUATED.-We are gratifed to notice
the names of j I. Pence and John H. Nef
in the lis: of graduates of tie Medical Depart
ment of the New York University, on the 2lst
of Febuary.- Vdtiey.
Forty thousand dollars. in silver ore
was sunk with barge III New York har-
Dor last week.
An cntorprising 1oui sianian insured
his life and hired man to a5sassinate
him.
Congress has appropriated S25 600 for
the ensuing year, for the purpose of facil-
itating the detection of couuterfeiters.
OF all the States of the South engaged
in the late war, South Carolina has suffer
cd the most iii every respect.
The Petersburg Courier thinks that the
close of this Congress will be an exit
that will give universal joy"
Seventy-th:ee thousand horses were
slaughtered and eaten in Paris during the
siege.
The Legislature of Nevada is on strike
the treasury being bankrupt and 10 salaries
forthcoming.
Tie Springfield Republican says that
vexation, caused by his quarrel wiih the
President, was the cause of Senator
Summers recen iIlness.
A Pittsburg man his sued his brother
to obtain possession of the ambrotype
picture of their dead sister.
Joseph Janres. formerly of Winchester,
a noted gambler, was killed in Washing
ton, on Wednesday, by Race Bolster, who
belonged to the same fraternity.
The sugar and molasses production of
Louisiana is regaining its former impor-
lance. The increase of receipts is fully
fifty per cent. over those of last year
Miss Cornelia JeffeSon Randolph,
granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. who
died in Alexandria few days ago at the
age of 70 years, was buried a. Monticello
on Monday.
The population of Richmond is so. 1888,
according 10 statement furnished the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of the
United States Superintendent: of the Cen
sus.
Large supplies of -four, beef, pork peas,
beans, &C., are being shipped off at New
York, FOX the relief of the sufferers in
France. A speedy voyage to this offering
of charity.
A restaurant keeper in Washington has
been fued $50 for not furnishing col
ored man with food. when called for by
The latter The case will be carried upon
appeal.
The first cargo OF cotton ever sent from
Charleston, S C. for the seaport Baltes
Port in Russia. near.tbe mouth of ih.
6 ulf of Finland. was dispatched last week
1t consisted of six Hundred and twenty
bales upland cotton.
Dispatches from HAVANA state that
battle was fought 10 the interior. on Feb
ruary 10Th between six handred Cuban
insurgents and four hundred Spanish
troops. The latter were defeated ard
connelled tn leave the field