Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-12-05
NEWS ITEMS.

a peach tree In Fairfax CO., Va.
bore three crops this year.,
Over 100000 have been raised for
len. Aleades family.
Gen. f. Glaize has erected large
planning mill in Winchester.
The secondary symptoms of the horse
ilsease, the dropsy, has developed itself
mong the horses in Norfolk.
Mr.. Peter Craven, citizen of Abe
marie county, was killed few DAYS ago
cliff. ="
There is now only an unfinished gap
OF ~ Ell es on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, between Richmond and Hunt
ington.
Rev. F. S. Cassidy, of the NJ. E
Church, Baltimore Conference, died in
baltimore on Friday last.
Southern freight is now carried to
Baltimore via Manassas, Strasburg and
iiarper's Ferry, owing to the track
being torn up in Washington.
Miss Alexander, California actress.
who was for ten years member of
Brigham Young's family, will be the
next to tell on the lecture platform what
she knows about Mormonisrn.
A Boston yankee recently eloned
with an Irish Heiress, worth 81. O0lDDo
IN her own right. These Yankees are
noted for picking up such things, when
they ate left lying around loose.
A telegram from London has been
received In Richmond, stating that the
Norfolk and Great Western railroad
company have negotiated q loan of
fifteen millions Of dollars, with which
10 construct the road.
Judge Underwood, of Alexandria
Va, and Col Edward Daniels. editor Of
the Richmond State Journal, have been
elected vice presidents of the National
Womans Suffrage Association.
Miss IDA GREELEY-More than Or
binary sympathy will be felt for Miss
Ida Greeley, who, in one short month,
mas lost father and mother, and whose
betrothed lover went down in the ill
lated Missouri Wash. .Nor.
The present Judiciary system of the
State will probably be the subject of
much attention at the approaching ses-
sion OF the Virginia Legislature. There
Is much talk about it among the people.
We find by the account from tie
New Y ork Herald that the eight hun
dred tracklayers on the Chicago and
North Western Pailroad are safe at
New Ulm. The account shows what
peril they were in. But for the for
tunate suspension of the storm they
could not have escaped 50 well, if at ali.
1t Is said that at the coming session
OF Congress there will be complete
trlM OF pnuematic tube Interpretations.
The inst tube is to he laid between the
capltol and the government printing
office, the work pron which has been
mmenced, and will, it is expected. be
mrleted within a month. it is pre-
poSed 10 connect the capitol with some
OF the executive departments by SINH
lar tube.
a dispatch from Montgomery, Ala.
says that Gov. Lewis has sent a ccm-
munlcation to the Boilers Convention
promising corporations with them in
legislation. Gov. Lindsay before reti1-
ingssent in his message to the regularly
constituted Senate and House. in session
at the capito'. 1t thus turns cut that
both bodies have received oube,natori
al recognition. he Boilers were with
out quorum in either House hut by adj
hitting five in the Senate, none Of
whom held certificates CT other creder-
tials, they made up the necessary quo
rum. The same rule prevailed in get
ting up quorum in the House Of I.ep-.
resentatives, men enough having been
there admitted without credentials to do
SO. This action Of Gov. Lewis is Sc
verely criticised by the people who say
that he has assumed to. ere; te Q ceislf
ture where, for wsnt Of q ouoirm, ne Ne
existed before Much excitement OK
lists.