Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-01-16
American apples bring $40 a bushe
in Australia

American apples bring $50 bushel
in Australia.
Petersburg, Va, ships Christmas toys
to Scotland.
Germany has less murders than any
other country.
-Four girls in Augusta, Me-, were
married about eighteen months ago, at
Two have since separated from their
husbands, and the other two want di-
vorces.
The income of Virginia from convict
hire last year was $3l 900.
Corn is used for fuel in Ohio, and is
cheaper and better than wood or coal.
A slight shock of an earthquake was
felt at Brunswick, Maine, at 5 o'clock
this morning.
Stokes, his father. aud relatives, all,
seem to have great confidence that a
new trial will be granted him. He has
it is said, resumed his regular meals, and
received a visit from his spiritual adj
wiser.
A fashionable young lady dropped one
ct her false eyebrows in church pew,
and badly frightened a young man
next to her, who thought it was his
moustache
The, Richmond State Journal saws;
l,"lt WI perhaps astonish those who
have been educated iuto the belief that
the course Of the star of empire is un-
alterable and continuously westward, to
learn that the Atlantic States. and
especially Virginia, have lately drawn
large numbers of permanent settlers
from the Northwest.
Nearly seven thousand men and one
thousand horses are gathering ice on
the Hud5on river, and it averages
eleven inches il thickness. About nine
thousand five hundre d l. rs ere gather
I'd per day. The crop viii reach fifteen
hundred thousand tons, and will be
gathered by the first Of February.
NE STOKES cAsE-B1LL OF EXCEPTIONS.
+ !, New YORK, Jannaay 11.-The bill
q except in, favor of Stokes has
been completed, and will be soon ar
gued before Judge Boardman. II he
does not grant new trial, the bill will
be taken before every one of the thirty
one Judges of the Supreme Court.
BosToN, JANUARY 1l.-Despatches
from Maine report the renewal of ex-
tremely cold weather. The ther1home
ter at !SholIegan this morning stood
thirty degees below zero.
MIR. Fisher, General Transportation
Agent ofthe O., A. & NJ, r. r., has
advertised for 5000 cords of wood be-
tween Manassas and Strasburg, and s.
OO0 cross-ties between Strasburg and
Harrlsonburg, the wood and ties to be
delivered at such points and in such
quantities as may be directed by the
company.
The Stanton Spectator says that the
radical leaders in the Legislature are
busily intent upon devising shemes to
cause discussion and difficulty in the
Conservative ranks, for the purpose of
obtaining ascendeney in the State, and
to control hereafter all State interests.
Scott the redoubtabie is reported to
have absorbed, within single fort
night, two western railway lines, from
Cairo to Vincennes and from Indian
apolls to Omaha, aggregating some
seven. hundred miles. Now, if he
would only condescend to bestow at
tention on our beggarly little link of
ninety miles from Snickeville to Paw
paw, Cumberland or New Creek J.
1t ~ ould be but y mouthful = Vim Ne,cs.
SHENANDOAH VMLEY.-The census
reports give some interesting facts in
regard to the Valley. 1t SAYS the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is 125
miles long 25 wide, embracing the coun-
ties Of Augusta, Rockingham, Shenan-
doah, Page, Warren, Clarke, Frederick,
Jefferson and Berkeley, with popula-
ton OF about 10000 to an area of A..
495 square miles, of cash valuation of
S870,ooo,0oo. 1t produces more from
the same amouut of agricultural labor,
and IS freer from sickness Of all kinds
than any portion of the United States.
There are l,Ool,971 acres of impro we'd
lands, and 1880 unimproved.
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