Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-04-15
NEWS TENS.

! The first shipment of green peas from
Charleston, S. c., to New York was
made April 8. ii
The residence of William Brown, in
Loudonn county, Va, was burned last
| week; Insurance $4,000
The Danbury man who tried to st art
a meat market in lent is now travelling
in Africa with preparation for curling
hair.
Senator Gordon, of Georgi /, declines
to allow his name to be used as "A can,
didate for nomination for Vice Pres
dent.
MIR, J. 3. Gentry, general Souther
ticket agent of the Richmond, Fred err
icksbnrg and Potomac route, died in
Monticello, Fla, on last week
In France the project is being dis
cussed of an international exposition
solely for the wines of various coun.
tries, to be held this year in Paris.
The Piedmont Air>line Railroad
Company intend to establish work
shop at Danville, Va, for the in>
creasing motive power of their road.
The dwelling of r. E. Gardner,
member of the Virginia Legislature. in
| Hanover county, was burned on Tues
day night. Loss $500, no insur-
ance. u
The barn of S. 3. Carney, of Norfolk
county, Va, together with contents, in
Guiding three horses, was burned on
Saturday. Loss $4,000, no insur-
ance. +t,-.
An additional warrant of attach
! ment has been issued in New York
and delivered to the sheriff for execu-
ton against the property of William NJ.
Tweed.
Dan Rice has been engaged as ring
director of s'America's Racing Associa-
iion,' a show just organized at Gins
cinnati, at a salary of $4,000 for the
season.
The death by suicide IN Brooklyn,
~ =, 10 tttihodilCett VI SOi. ''pui III.
Powell, a once wealthy Mississippi
planter. Heavy reverses, principally
resulting from the late war, occasioned
the act.
Michigan's new liquor law sorbids
sales to minor and habitual drunkards,
and also contains a provision for the
punishment of drunkards who buy, as
well as persons who sell, in violation Of
the act.
The New York Tribune asks: care
the administration orators satisfied now
that the ''bloody shirt business has
! played out, and that it is time to fold
up that sanguinary garment and put it
aside forever H
The Montreal sugar rcfners are NOV
ing for protection. They represent
that their interests will be extinguished
by American competition under present
rates. The finance minister intimates
that relief will be afforded.
A fire in the sixth story of the brew
cry of W. B Ebling. at fremont, New
York, caused damage to the extent OF
$4,000, which is fully covered by in
surance. The fire was principally in
! what is known as the malt house.
The popular vote this year, and even
for local elections, as in Ohio, showed
extraordinary public interest, and III
Connecticut it is rerv remarkable.
| What it means is foreshadowing of
next Years presidential excitement.
A large force of laborers are now at
work on the extension of the WASH
inoton and Ohio railroad from Round
Hill to Smckersville, in Loudoun couns
ty, Va. The new bridge oyer Tusca-
rora run, on the same road, has been
successfully erected.
France is in earnest in military Or
ganlzatlon. The government has in~
structed its consuls in all parts Of the
world to summon, for the last time,
French subjects abroad who are liable
to military service to have their names
registered at the consulates.
An Omaha CNebraska) dispatch
states that the number of emigrants
westward bound at the present season
is unprecedented. Ninety-three hun
dred have left that place since March l.
Upwards of one thousand were delayed
there Thursday for want of cars, but
were sent out on special trains yester-
day.
The Springfield (Afass.) Republican
thinks the Connecticut republicans
would have Jared quite as well if they
hadn't invited quite so many force bill
| Congressman into the State to help in
struct the people in their political du-
ties. Too many cooks spoil the broth,
especially if they are not the right sort
of cooks. :
The success in Connecticut causes
the New York World to remark: GAS
the no-party papers are now talking,
and as the people are nearly every
where voting, it is not at all improbable
that the democrats will by 1876 carry
three-fourths OF four~ffths of all the
States. 70 ordinary mortals the Con-
necticut election bears every mark of a
sweeping victory"
The New Haven {Conn.) Courier,
republican, owns up as follows AS to
the defeat of its party in that State on
Monday "We have been fairly and
soundly beaten in a square, stand up
fight. There was no contention in our
ranks, no pretense of apathy on either
side, and no reason why we should not
have beaten except the very good one