Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1871-09-21
News Items.

before committing suicide, died to-day
from his wounds.
The City Treasurer Of Richmond yester-
day paid into the State treasury, $780,
4o6. 02. making the collections for August
$115,603,S2
An ARRAY recently occurred at Lebanon,
Russell county, which ended in the circns
tent being pulled down, and one man
| killed.
The Galveston Ne,os thinks that the
republicans will nominate uolored man
for Vice President next year. and it names
Lieut., Governor Dunn. of Louisiana, as
the man most likely 10 be nominated.
Col. j. R. Mitchell, of Virginia, and
an officer of the old army who was
Confederate Col. of cavalry during the
war upon the staff of j. Il. B. Stuart,
died in Norfolk. Va, on the 9th inst.
The Lexington Gazette says: The
prospects of our University and Y. NJ.
Institute for the next session are said to
be more fattering than usual. We hear
of more enquiries for places to board and
lodge than we have known for several
sessions.
SpRINGF1ELD, Mass, September IA
The Democratic State Conven ton, Ed
ward Avery presiding, has nom mated
John Quincy Adams for Governor.
Resolutions were passed accepting the
new amendments and denouncing pro-
hibitiou.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. ia collision
has occurred in Russell county, Ky,
between the Federal forces and alleged
Ku Klux: One soldier was killed and
a sergeant wounded. The sold iers cap
tured two of the alleged Ku Klux:
ST. LOUIS Nkw DEpARrURE.-St Louis
has struck out in new direction to reach
salt water. Her latest project is to
| build cana, from the Tennessee river
to the Georgia scaboard. The restless
ness of the future great city, and its
desire to undertake any great work Of
public improvement, no matter how
impracticable Or costly, speaks we'll for
her energy, if not for her discretion.
Chief Justice Howes, of Omaha, has
decided that women are legal voters in
| all the States in the Union. In the
words ofSofon Single, 'Jes' So
On the Goth ult, little child of Jacob
Meyers, near North River Gap. aged
about years, was So badly scaldcd by
kettle OF boiling water falling on it, that
! it died on the End inst.
OAAuA, September IS The election
in Colorado yesterday. went Repub lcan
by increased majority. The Legislature
is almost unanimously Republican.
WHOLESALE Ku- 1LUx PRosEcUTIoN.-
A dispatch from Greensboro, n. c.. II.
instant, to the Richmond Enquirer, says:
"Seventy five persons, recently arrest
| ed in Rutherford county On charge of be-
ing members OF the Ku-Klux organiza-
ton, passed through here last night en-
route for Raleigh, where they will be tried.
They were under. strong escort of
United States troops
A HApLEss CARPET BAGdER.-The life
of the Char lesion s. c.. health inspector.
who ran away when the yellow fever came,
has boea rendered burden to bin by the
publication of derisive stanza, composed
By boy Of 8 years, 10 the air Of Capt
| Jinks.' 1t is sung whistled aud played
wherever the wretehcd man goes, until he
has been driven to prowl around alleys
| and back streets like hunted thing.
Thirteen men. women and children
arrived at Charlottesville, Mecklenburg
county, on last Saturday, direct from
Scotland having left their native land on
the [ til of August, coming via Norfolk
direct to Christiansville. They expect to
settle in that neighborhood, and if they
are pleased it is thought that large pum
pers of their countrymen will follow them.
4 COOP SHOT - On the 4th instant.
Tom billiard, Jr., Of Sussex county, Va,
aged IS yetr>, killed with single bar
re shot gnD, loaded with buckshot, Two
bucks, weighing $50 pounds each, oil al
one fire. billiard WAS sitting on the top
rail Of q fence when herd Of FIVE deer
approached, and two of them bit the dust,
after one discharge Of Mr.. D.'s trusty
weapon.
| LAURA Fans FtMALB FRlENDs.-
Laura D. Fair has put in conspicuous
places in her prison quarters The cards of
nearly 400 of her feminine sympathizers.
who have called on her since she murder
ed Judge Crittendon. She boasts, it is
said, of having more Of the sympathy of
San Francisco than any woman in the
whole city.
AN UNUSUAL DEATH.-Freeman Schem-
orhorn, defendant of the old Knicker-
bockers, while praying very devoutly at
a relig ious meeting in Schenectady, Id
New York. breathed his last as he pro-
nounced Amen He had often express
ed desire to die under just such cirsum-
stances.
SINK Hole MIR. r. B. Helm in
forms Us that on the night of the 18th,
OF. August, he turned his horses in the
field as usual, but on the morning one of
them was missing. -Dilig ent search was
made bat he cosld not be found. In
walking over the field, however, on the
Sunday following, sink hole was discov-
cred and the horse found therein, W itb
bis head uppermost that being fully II
feet from the surface. lie was wedged
tight in the hole and quito dead. =
Charlesto'on Spirit.
S..V. r. R.--Yice President Walker,
Col. Collins, contractor; and other Off
GERS of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad,
were in our town last week, seeing after