Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-11-07

Ill Tie venice WIN IHem. 1ney were
taken before Commissioner Osborne,
and held in $4,000 each for trial. No
one appeared to bail them, and they
were taken to Ludlowstreet jail.
Colonel James Blood, editor %!
Woodruff and Cloain's Weekly, and VIM.
A. Smith, its publisher, We're arrested
and locked up at the second district
police court this P. M, in default Of
bail, for examination. The feeling
against Woodruff and Clafin is intense
throughout the city, and threats Of
mobbing them have been freely indulg.
ed in.
THE "SrRA1cHr-OUr' ELECTORAL
TICKET 1.-THE following is the result OF
the conference between Mr.. James
Lyons and the five other Strai ght-outs
who assembled at the Exchange Hotel
in Richmond.
''fhe Democrats lately assembled in
Richmond, few in number, but repres-
enting, as they believe, the true Demo
cratic party Of the State, submit to the
people of Virginia for their suffrages at
the approaching Presidential election,
the following Electoral ticket, viz: =.
First District Gabriel Johnson.
Second District-G. D. Parker.
Third District-Robert Greme
Fourth District-Edwing j. Harvie.
Fifth distIict-- =--.
Sixth Distribution. John Robertson.
Seventh District Campbell.
Eight District-Gen. J. NJ. Bethune.
Ninth District
''No representatives from the Fifth
and Ninth Districts being present, no
Electors for those districts are named,
and the people Of those districts are re
questeG TO vote for such person as they
may choose Electof.
''As Electors at large-Hon W. j.
Robertson and Hon. James Lyons"
AWFUL ACCIDENT-Two wine-erow-
ers, named Rousseau, were employed in
throwing gFapes into vat at Gevvey,
France, recently, and man was sent
down to treat them,. but was sufocated
by the gases arising from fermentation.
One of the propr!etors went down to
help him, and shared the same fate
The survivor followed, and was likewise
Frustrated. Their mother then went
down and was overpowered, and when
taken out she was the only one that
could be brought back toconsciousness.
New YoRk, October 3O.-Alrs. Mary
S Greeley, wife of Hon. Horace Gree
ley, died this morning at the residence
of Mr.. Alvin Johnson. During the
evening yesterday her symptoms were
of such favorable character as to in
spire some faint hopes of her recovery
Such expectations, however, prove d
unfounded, as she had two chills' dur
ing the night, after she was very easy
until she ceased to breathe at A. NJ,
passing away peacefully, without any
perceptible struggle. The funeral will
take place from DR.. Chapin's Church,
at II o'clock, Friday.
EscAPED-Five thousand sadly dis
appointed people slowly took their way
homeward from Hendersonville, North
Carolina, on the morning of the 25th
ult. They had assembled to- witness
the execution of one Martin Baynard,
convicted of the murder of a certain
Silas Weston and his three children.
The gallows was prepared, expectation
on the stretch waiting for the show to
commence, when intelligence was
brought that if the play was acted that
day the important principal part must
of necessity be cut out The prisoner
had escaped the previous night in his
wife's clothes, and the humane and gen
tie country folk, baked of their spec
tacle, grumblingly dispersed.-Bal Gaz-
cite.
William Craig, negro, charged with
committing a rape on the person of Mrs
Lottie Dayton. a white woman "a years
of age, near New Greek, about two
months ago, was tried last week in the
Circuit Court of Allegany county, at
Cumberland, found guilty and sentenced
by Judge Pearre to be hanged. The
day of execution will be fixed by the
Governor of Maryland
1t is said that 'the original Declar-
alton Of Independence is fading out. "
And the duce of tits, we haven't among
our statesmen a single Thomas Jeffer-
son to write another
The Memphis Savings Bank has sus-
pended payment Its liabilities are
reported at $4,000 The Southern
Railway security and the Carolina life
Insurance Company are said to be the
heaviest losers. The institution has
hitherto been regarded as perfectly
solvent.
WHITE LABOR IN THE SOUTH. The
popular fallacy that white laborors can
not endure the heat of the cotton, sugar
and rice plantations of the South, is ex-
ploded by the New Orleans Picayune,
which says that white laborers are work
ing in the fields all over the State Of
Louisiana the year round as low down
as tide water from the Gulf of Mexico,
and the islands along the Gulf shore.
And these laborers are not more sickly
than colored men, or men who stay in
the shade.
DEFALcAT1oN OF PuBLIc OFFICIALS
A Washington correspondent says the
forthcoming report of the second audi
tor will show large amount due the
United States of defaulting officers. The
amount due from paymasters is shown
to be nearly $4,000. The number