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

All is quiet in Pope county,. Ark.
The militia have been Withdrawn,
and registration is progressing quietly.
No further trouble is apprehended.
In the single item of wheat, the pro-
duct of Iowa in 1850 was 1000 900
bushels, and in 1870 it swellcd to 90
100000
A California farmer has shipped 600
tons of frliit from 100 acres this year.
Alligator leather is fashionable ma
terial for .gentlemen's. walking boots
this winter. ~.
The King and Queen of Saxony
celebrated their golden wedding at
Dresden next month.
| India rubber has so much supersed-
ed wood and other inatrials for the
manufacture of many useful articles
that a progressive gentleman has con
ceived the idea of soon celebrating his
lndiarubber Wedding.
The Chicago Times publishes an ar
tlcie which claims to > show that there
has been nearly one hundred murders
! in that city within seven years ''and not
aneck stretched" " g.
The poor Indian complains that loco
motives frighten away his game. 1t may
be so with buffalo and deer, but he Ger
talnly has increased facilities for rail
shooting.
The letter in falling out of the word
shines made Grant paper in Iowa call
upon its party to ''maintain the lies"
1t is said that Mrs. Lloyd in Lees
burg, will shortly remove from that
place to town in Illinois where her
relations reside. The prosecution of
Mrs l.. cost Loudoun county, $4,000.
a white man named Franklin Ho t
was killed on Saturday by the caving
of an embankment at the Chesapeake
and Ohio tunnel in Richmond
Two Young boys of Buchanan county
were out hunting on Purgatory noun
tain recently and killed two wild cats
This mountain is said to be full of
these varmints
The horse disease has made its ap-
pearance in several places in Devonshire,
England, and is especially severe in
Tivertcn and its vicinity.
Five persons were killed BY collision
on the Huntingdon and Broad Top
Railroad on Friday. Nc further infor-
nation than that they were all train
hands has been receive atd Cumberland.
A Pennsylvania who had repeated
indefinitely, when asked by friend
what puzzled him, replied in all sim
pllcity, Il was trying to think Of an
other name to vote on"
A London telegram reports the de-
struc(ion by fire, ON Monday night,
of Lords Masseys country seat, in the
county of Limerick, placing the loss at
seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars
A Mrs. Jones, at Cambria, Iowa,
fell dead on seeing her little son sitting
at the top of the staging of a newly
built windmill to which dangerous
perch he had climbed @
The late James Gordon Benefits
elegant residence at Washington
Heights and on Fifth avenue, New
York, are to let for five years The
city house is offered for business pur-
poses.
Rev. Father Ryan, the popular
s'poet priest" as he is sometimes called,
of The South, has started on pilgrim
age to the Holy Land
The Albany Jo"rno1 says: "Phil.
Sheridan has been captured at last, not
by the Indians, but by the beautiful
Miss Morgan, daughter of ex-senator"
1t is to be hoped that she did not cap
ture him as he was captured the Piegan
Indian women and children, by giving
them the smallpox and then storming
their hospitals.-Courie~ journal.
An accident similar to that at Rich
mond two years ago occurred on Satur-
day at Durras. ireland. The county
assizes We're being held when the floor
Of the Court room gave way. precipitat-
ing the crowd to the floor twelve feet
below. a number of persons were
killed and forty wounded
DENVER, Nov. Part of Hol-
brooks Arizona expedition have start
ed, and are in camp near Pueblo await
ing the balance of the party, who will
join them within one week. The party
numbers fifty men, and have printing
press and full outfit for starting new
town in the diamond district.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3.-The mint
has commenced the melting Of one mil
lion dollar gold pieces, to be converted
into pieces of larger denomination
Twenty millions of this description are
to be recoined
A gentleman from Pennsylvania, "a
Mr.. Yost) has gone to Lebanon White
Sulpher Springs, in Augusta comfy, to
establish and operate large steam saw
mill He is interested in 1920 acres
of timbered land, and proposes toreduce
it to lumber
One thousand insurgents entered the
town of G,lisa on the 10Th instant and
burned fifty houses. Government troops
encountered and repulsed the insurg-
ents. Seven of the latter and three of
the Spaniards were killed
The Culpeper Observer says:-"A
gentleman of the vicinage, a fewdays
ago, whilst digging a post-hole, un-
earthed about bushel Of tiints, design
ed for obsolete musket use, and which,
from indications, seemed to have been
perdu since the Revolution.