Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-06-19
NEWS ITEMS.

A Methodist church in Iowa has the
stars and stripes painted on its steeple.
A new game, called Modoo, was
played at a picnic in Kentucky. One
boy only was shot.
William B. Aston is said to own
5000 houses in New York.
Munich viii build monument to Ba-
ron Liebig, the chemist
Brick F'omeroy's Democrat has sus
pended publication after sinking about
$25o,000.
A Bangor clergyman calls the new
| spring bonnets ''incomprehensible hud-
dies OF tilIery and friyolity."
A Pittsbarg coroner makes no charge
where he sets on q young man who
parted bis hair in the middle. He says
that his personal satisfaction ID enough
without the fee Commercial -4dcer-
siser.
INDIANAPOLIS, June l8.-1he Supreme
Court has again granted Mrs Glenn,
who has twice been convicted of the
murder Of hr. and Mrs Young, new
trial. This viii be the fifth time.
/, D.LrlMoRE, June 13.-Joshu NichoI-
sons deatllwarrant has been received
here lie and Thomas Hollohan will
Epoth be hung for the Rurder Of Mrs
Lampley August list.
CHARLESTON, June 13.-The annual
decoration Of the graves Of the Confed-
crate dead took place here to-day.
There was a general suspension of bust
ness during the afternoon.
ATLANTA, Ga, June ia man
named Henderson; living in DeKalb
county, while trying to trighten a ten
ant on his brothers farm, was shot and
killed by the brother, who is now fran
tic with grief over the affair.
RALEIGH IN. CO. June 13.-In
Yadkln county, on Saturday, John
| Holcombe, young farmer, deliberately
shot dead his wife on her asserting her
intentions to leave home to visit Sails
bury, and then put bullet through his
own head. He was wealthy, and very
jealous of his wife.
A New Yorker who has had his
pocket picked one hundred times with
in five years, at cost of forty cents
says it is in amusement much cheape,.
than the theatres.
ATLANTA (GA.), June 13.-Isham B.
O'Neal was executed in the yard of the
Fulton County Jail at halfpast two
to day, for the murder of james Lit
tie. He died protesting his innocence.
and without a struggle. Life was ex
tinct in eight minutes. The execution
was private, and was witnessed only by
a few
Judge Critcher is right in saying the
red hot issue in the canvass this fall
will be no ordinary contest between
citizens divided On such issues as the
tariff, but a contest in which Anglo
Saxon civilization viii be on one side
and African barbarism on the other.
The Richmond correspondent Of the
Petersburg Appeal says: GA rumor ex-
citing considerable interest in journals
tie circles is todhe effect that Governor
Walker expects to take editorial charge
of a we'll known Virginia newspaper as
soon as he is freed from the duties Of
Gubernatorial Office There are those
already advocating eleoting Gov Wal
ker to the United States Senate in
place Of Lewis, whose term expires
next year.
! This is how country exchange puts
it: ;'The sad effects of matrimony were
never more terribly depicted than the
other day, when meek eyed man who
had been married about year pat
rolled the village street all day, trying
to swap g meershaum pipe for sec
ond-hand cradle.
The Appeal mentions a Memphis
belle who created q sensation by APP
pearing at church with neither jewelry
nor false hair.
Gov. Davis, of Texas telegraphs
that. he will send Santanta and Big
Tree, the two hiowa chiefs, to Fort
Sill, to be released, in accordance with
the request sof Secretary Delano
but hopes that the Indians will be
held by the military until after he can
make an official visit to Washington.
ENCOURAGING fortunes of
Washington and Lee University are
rising, Kentucky has giving $4,000
for the endowment of chair of His
tory and Political Economy; Missouri
has subscribed nearly $4,000 for a
chair of Applied Chemistry; Louisiana,
$4,000 for the chair of Modern
Languages, and Texas $4,000 for one
of Applied Mathematics. Each Pro-
fessorship wears the name Of the State
{ cndowing it. Last year in requests
and donations the University received
nearly 100000.