Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-07-25

The Enquirer says the Best pronuncia-
zion Of Chappaqua is chop a0ay. and
Greeley proposes to "chop away" the
timber of Rsdic,lism which the Liberal
Republicans and Conservatives have so
ffectually girdlod by his nomination.
There IS still vast amount OF feeling
manifested in Grams papers. They weep
for 1.-THE glory and traditions of the
Democratic party" The situation is very
affecting.
Ex-Vicc President Breckenridge was
in New York Wednesday, and express
ed himself in favor of Greeley
The New York World says it is report
ed that A. T. Steward has contributed
$50, 600 to aid in the election of Horace
Greeley.
Ulysses Grant ORR has sailed for Eu
rope. Il he had waited until next sun.
mer he mig ht have taken his father along.
General A. P. Hovey. ofIndiana, pre-
sented Grant with an hex robe, worth
$500 and hasn't received an Office.
In the trial of Stokes for the murder of
Elk the jury failed to agree. The mry
was hung and Stokes has another trial.
Ger. Sherman has been snubbed by the
Pfussian Court.
A Florida correspondent of she
Savannah Republican says that tho In
dams in the rglades refuse to free their
slaves. and swear that Sheridan will have
TO ride the tail off every horse in the
army before they give up..a single Niger
The late foods in Alabama were ter
ribly destructive. the damages being es-
timated at five million of dollars. Scores
of houses along the streams were swept
away and the cotton and corn badly
damaged. The crop Of tho former will.
i. is said be cut. short forty thousand
bales - 5-F ..1 ..f
. A letter from Richmond says: "a
conference Of several prominent strais-out
Democrats WAS held yesterday with the
alleged purpose of forming coalition
against Greeley. aud to stump the State
for Grant: The conference was secret,
and the names Of the participants we're
not reportad, except Hon. James Lyons
and j. Harrief Gilmer."
The democrats Of the sixteenth district
OF Illinois, in convention at Vandalis
Wednesday, nominated S. L Bryant
for Congress: A liberal republican con-
yention at the same time and place rati-
fed the democratic nomination, and pledg-
ed the liberal republicans to a hearty
support Of the ticket.
The newspapers are publishing records
Of impromptu ballads under tho head of
z 'straws" The Hartford "Times" says
that vote taken on Saturday among the
workmen in the Western Railroad shops
at Springfield resulted in just three votes
for Grant-all the rest for Greeley. and
there are about 800 workmen in the
shops.
{ r. WILMINGTON, N. c., July 21.-A re-
port has inst reached here that Tom Low
cry enc of the Robson county outlaws,
and brother of the notorious Henry Ber-
ry Lowry, was killed near Moss Greek
this morning by Robert Wishart, younger
brother of Col. F. NJ. Wishart. who was
killed by the outlaws some mon tbs since.
His body had reached Lamberton just be-
fore the train passed.
3 Brick Pomeroy says that now is the
time for "every Democratic voter to
sell his vote to the highest bidder, and
take his cash in hand" Without ques-
t;ouing the morality or smartness of this
proposition, because it is both moral and
smart in Pomeroyian sense, we would
suggest that if every Democratic voter
was as little worth buying as he is there
would be mighty few bidders and slow
sales. -Lynchbury News.
TENNESSEE CLAFLIN threatens to open
club house for women up town, which
shall cost not less than 100000, where
''no woman, no matter what her ch alac-
ter, shall be excluded" The board of
directors is to consist OF TWEEN ty-four wo-
men, twelve of them conspicuous advo-
Gates OF women's rights, and the remain
der 'those who have been led from
life Of shame to path Of virtue" When
al this is done it strikes us New York
will be very good place to emigrate
from.-Ne,0 York Commercial AdUertis-
e.. a
AM AFFECTING SosNa.-In speakind
of the recent food, which was so disas.
trous in several sections Of Virginia. the
Lynchburg papers record the following
sad event:
A mother and several little children
were making their escape from a narrow
neck of land which lies between the riv-
or James and the canal. when they were
amazed to find that the bridge WAS already |
gone. and that their only hope was to !
cling on to the abutmcnt Of The bridge
until the angry waves should subside.
But as they stood there clinging to the
abutment, the waters continued to rise
higher and higher. while in the deep
darkness they could hear tho crashing Of
trees amid the tbunders of the bridge !,
t,mbers that we're wildly dashipg all !