Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-03-28

the wife of John Whitney, circus mau.
ager.
The blockade Of the Eastern aud Nortl
american Railroad is at last broken, ane
trains are moving.
Miss Louisa H. Farleigh committed
suicide OIL Saturday in Il edmond by tax
ing laudanum. Cause, disappvin ,men
i'll Il love matter.
Richmond. Va, shipped 5 $50 46(
pounds of chewing tobacco, and 40S 2S4
pounds of smoking tobacco. between
October /, 1871, and March l 1872.
The Board OF Direc ers of the Berry
vile Clarke County, Bank have electe
Maj s. j. G. Moore president, and +
G. Marshall, r., cashier.
A train from Fonda. N. Y, on thu
Gloversville railroad, W it'll three eng ines
is fast in snow bank Que m,l. long aue
ten feet deep. near the LITTER place.
John G. Stanton has brought suit it
the Uui,ed States District Court at Mont
gomery, Alabama, against the Adper
tiser Of that city. for 500 900 damage
for alleged libel in charging him Will
robbing the people.
We join the Petersburg lnder in ask
ing these persons who do Cor do no) be-
licvc in equiuoc,ial storms, ID id no; the
wind blow on the 20ih?"
A gentleman died recently in Back
ingham county. Va who owned, at the
surrender of General Lee, twent7-two
,laves Twelve of them left him, but the
other ten remained with AMI worked for
him until the day OF h is death, taking fo
their services just al much as he chose
to give them. At his death. to show hi
appreciation of their services aud BIZ
gratitude he gave them his farm, OF
which they can all live com fortably.
'fhc rivival at Lawrence, Kansas, ii
sill in progress. Druukards, indde Ii
and professional gamblers are among
the numerous converts. No church Or
all in the city will hold the crowds
which flock tc the meetings. From twt
to seven hundred proplc attend the morn
ing prayer meetings. The city was ne
yer half so mu,h stirred relig iou>ly.
The sma i pox is worse than ever il
New York and Brooklyn. Fifteen new
| cases we're discovered in the former city
yesterday, and seven in one house in the
latter. 4. T. Stewart has given up hi
| residence to o, c Of his servants, who
| is sick in il with the disease.
A Richm ond despatch reports tina
three members Of the Virgini Senate
and three Of the House Of Delegates
h We been served with notices by Uni,ec
Estates Attorney Robert ". Hughes thai
he will institute proceedings agains
them for violation of the Fifteenth
Amendment. by acting as members of the
General Assembly while laboring under
political disabilities.
A telegram from Charleston, Soutl
/ Carolina, states that arrests Of parties
charged with Ku Kluxism are still 60
ing on in Union and Chester counties
causing much excitement aud apprchen-
sion in both.
You KNOW HOW IT Is YoURsxLF.-A
friend of ours. who has been out on !
general collecting tonr, gives it as hi
opinion that majority of his debtor
would make capital Legislators. Th'
first one to whom he presented his bill
..laid it on the table," the second passec
ais 10 a third reading" and the thirt
..po -tponei the subject indefinite =
Fred. Ledger.
| AconHagration attended with the mos
disastrous results occurred in Dusscldor
on Tuesday night. The Town Council
| Hall aud world famed Academy Of Al
we're burned, and large number Of tn
most valuable paintings ia the latte
ltu;liiag were destroyed