Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-02-12
GENERAL NE VS..

The Britisher to whom Nellie Grant
is to be married is not no bleman.
He is only a man.
Professor Anderson, the we'll known
magician, has just died in London. He
was one of the best juglers of the
age
The latest charge against Governor
Moses, Of South Carolina, is that he
pays for his private music out of the
contingent tund. The people think
those who dance ought to pay their
OWL fid,ilers.
A dispatch from Calcutta ia the East
Indies says; ''The famine is increasing.
1t is estimated that 10000 natives are
already severely distressed.
A New York Herald special, dated
Madrid, says: General Sickles took
his final leave oc the spanish govern
ment to~day, and placed Mr.. Secretary
Adee IN charge of the legation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe having an
athematized Blyon and apotheosized
Sambo, has now eternized Underwood :
who, if the half she says about him be
true, was much too good for this
world.
Stanley is with "our army in Africa, -
writing very good war letters to the
Hera1d There is something in that
fellow after all. lie has pluck energy
and intellect, with a faculty for 70
mancing equalled by few and surpassed
by mons.
The Ke'1oeg State government has
been apho!i,,:.Iy blown sky high
s, veral times buj an irate octogpna,ian
attempted the actual thing last s5atur
day by putting canister of powder
under the Senate chamber He was
secured before he could light the fatal
train. What pity!
An Alexandrian at WASHINGTON hear
ing swell call for "Maringo cigar"
though he would take some in his.
"Four Maringoes,' he said, and threw
down five dollar bill He saw the
joke when four cigars and a dollar bill
were returned to him.
A delegation of Marylanders from
Hagcrstowu called upon President
Grant yesterday and extended to him
and his Cabinet an invitation to visit
an agricultural fair to be held at that
place October is next, The President
accepted the invitation for himself and
Cabinet.
DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP. "A flock of
sheep, consisting OF sixteen valuable
Cotswolds, belonging to Mr. a. T.
jenkins, whose farm is opposite Alex
andria, Va. was attacked by dogs
night before last and entirely destroyed
not one being left alive
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Elm the SUI
preme Court, on application for further
time for the preparation of argument
for new trial Of the Undertook muir
der case, Judge Agnew stated that the
case could not be argued until the
Philadelphia cases were disposed of
and this would carry the case over until
March
4 CURIOSITY OF THE BATTLE FIELD.
IN a debate In Congress Oh the army
| bill, General Butler stated that of ev-
cry hundred men wounded in the late
war, thirty three We're wounded in the
right arm. This, he alleged, arose
from the fact that they were compelled
to raise the right arm in using the ram
rod in loading their musbets.
| w. F. Storey, editor of the Chicago
Times, has been converted to spiritual
ism. He has been receiving com
munieations through medium from
Horace Greeley; says Horace has
written several editorials of him, and
he thinks of employing him permanent
ly.-Ec.
Why the dickens dosn't he publish
some of them instead of his own earthly
trash?
GETTING AT IT RIGHT Mr. Beecher
! in one of his late lectures said that if
we want to purify and reform society
we must begin at the root; making,
laws to force people to be temperate
appears to be beginning at the other
end. Mr.. Beecher has got hole of the
right end this time. Shapes rifles,
coercin, and prohibition are not to be
compared to moral suasion
The Lynchburg Republican SAYS ::
ga large delegation of colored people,
recruited in and around Lynchburg,
left for Tennessee last evening in
charge of an agent, where thoy have
engagement to work at liberal rates of
wages. There are many idle colored
men in this community, who must
either go to work somewhere soon steal
or starve to death.
MADAME LUCIA AND MAX MARErzEK.
In cable dispatch of January %, sta
ted that suit brought against Mad
anne Lucca Max Maretzek for breach of
contract had been staid by her banker
paying into the court $4,000. 1t now
appears that it was Madame Lucca who
sued Mr.. Maretzek for breaking con-
tract, and that it was he who deposited
the $4,000 in the custody of the Court
of Chancery to answer any judgment
which she might recover against him,
whereupon he was granted stay of
| proceedings till he could return to Eng
land and defend the suit.
The Choctaws in their council in In
dian Territory have passed resolution
protesting against territorial govern
ment and allotment of their lands, pro
testing against the Chiekasaw survey
and allotment, and refused to entertain
the proposition to adopt the negroes
residing among them. They appointed