Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-07-24
News Items.

George Watt, of Richmond, has
been granted patent for harrow.
A student at Cornell University sells
lemonade in one of the college halls to
save money to pay for his tuition.
A man in San Francisco has been
fooling away fourteen months in max
ing a table out of 100000 pieces of
wood.
The Republicans of Elizabeth City
county have elected Hughes delegates
and alternates to the Lynchburg Con
vention.
The publication of the Stanton
Daily Times will be suspended until
the formation Of a joint stock company
is consuinated
The serious illness of Laura Keene,
iii New York, greatly alarms her
friends.
Mr.. A. r. Stewart, of New York,
sailed i'll the Scotia for Europe last
week.
The search for a silver mine near
Hillsboro Loudoun county is still pros
cclited.
Patents were granted last week to
Lewis L. McGilvray, of Staumton, for a
velociPede, and John d. Bell, of
Waynesboro tor broom
There have been II accidental
drownings, 3 murders and one suicide
at Riclnfend, Va, in the last six
months.
Gov. Fayette McMullen has been
elected oversedl' of roads in the town.
ship of his residence, and has accepted
the place. e
ST.. Louis, July 18.-Thc thcrmom-
eter yesterday was up to 80 degrees.
There were nine fat..l sunstrokes.
The Lynchburg News learns that
Alexandria Krons, member of the
Virginia Military Institute Band, com
mitted suicide last Monday, at Rock
bridge Alum Springs, by, cutting his
throat with razor. He had been
drinking very freely.
The two magazine scholarships.
University Of Virginia. awarded to
the best editors of the Magazine, have
been won by X. I. w. Duke, Jr:,
| Charlottesville, and Jefferson r. Mason,
OF King George county, Va.
Wythe county has elected delegates
to the Conservative State Convention.
Wytheville township instructed its
delegates in favor of Col. r. f. Withers
for the Governorship, and it is said the
other delegates favor the same gentle
man.
LEXINGTON, VA, July 1S.-To day a
heavy and destructive rain storm, ac-
companied by terrific lightning, visited
this vicinity, damaging crops and pri
vate property
Ground was broken on the Valley
railroad here to day.
CINCINNATI, July 49, Storms have
prevailed again throughout Ohio, dam
aging the crops and fruits. The spire
Of the German Reformed Church at
Fort Wayne has been demolished by
lightning. The trains have stopped.
The washes are quite serious.
THE KENTUCKY LoTrERY.-L Louis.
oille, July, 16.-By examining then
books the, Public Library offic-
ials find that the ticket drawing
the capital prize, 100000, was bought
by l.. II. Keith, of Kingston, Mass,
and the ticket drawing the second
prize, $4,000 was bought by Willis
Worry, of Giles county Tennessee.
The statement going the rounds o
! the press that the late Jesse r. Gran
was the only man who lived to see hi
son President of the United States i
incorrect. John Quincy Adams was
inaugurated March 4, 1925, and his
father, John Adams, did not die units
July 4, 1926.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, writing from CulpeperC. H., says:
81 may as well inform you that the
tales that have been recently going the
rounds of the papers about a father
having his throat cut while defending
the virtue of his daughter are all bosl,,
and without even the shadow of a
| foundation