Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-04-29
NEWS ITEMS.

! Roswell c. Smith. author of Smiths
grammar and other school books, died
at Hartford, Conn, last "Wednesday
aged seyenty.eight.
The Postoffice Department has orr
dered postal car service on the Baltl-
more and Ohio railroad from Grafton,
West Virginia. to Chicago, Ills.
An extensive oilcloth factory at
Elizabeth, N J., belonging to the
Eastern Manufacturing Company, was
burned yesterday. Loss 100000; in
surance $4,000.
Now they have it in New Orleans
The Jackson route has reduced the
fare to New York to $50, and has
made reduction to other points. 1t
looks like a railroad rebellion down
that way too.
The mines in Clearfield county, Pa,
are all being worked with reduced
force, under protection of special police,
at the old rate of fifty cents ton. A
great many miners are leaving to seek
employment elsewhere.
Some very horrible story may almost
at any time be heard from Mexico.
The latest tells of ten savages of lxta-
calico burying three men alive, leaving
their heads above ground, and then
hacking them to death with knives and
hatchets.
"A New York dispatch states that
three men who were engaged; in clear
ing out cesspool at Factoryville,
Staten Island, came upon between
twenty and thirty thousand dollars in
gold coin. 1t seems the premises were
formerly owned by city bank cashier.
who proved defaulter to the amount
Of $3.50, 900.
In the case at Chicago of Alice A.
Early, of Rockford, Ills. against
Wilbur, F. Storey, editor of the
Chicago Times, for libel in the publica.
ton of a statement, nearly year ago,
in which Miss Early's character was as
sailed, the jury has rendered verdict
awarding the plaintiff $4,000 damages
A retractlon of the charges was pub
lished herel ofore in the Times.
Richard T. Foster, a well known
citizen of Richmond, Va, was found
Thursday night about midnight on the
street in that city insensible. He was
carried to the station house, where he
lied soon after The corners inquest
found that he came to his death by
self administered morphine. Deceased
was at one time in the brokers' bust
ness in Richmon and prominently con
nected.
THE PEACH AND BERRY CRoP.-The
Philadelphia Inquirer of yesterday cons
tains brief kilograms from several por
tons of Delaware and from Salisbury,
Nd, most of them giving encouraging
accounts of the peach and berry pros
poets, stating that there will be full
crop, whilst others say there will be a
half crop of peaches and three'quarters
of berries.
ST.. Louis, April 23.-Tnformation
from nearly all sections of the State re-
garding crops is to the effect that
about three quarters of the fall wheat
is destroyed. One-half of it will be
plowed up and corn planted instead.
There is only about half the usual
average of oats. The peach crop in
Missouri and Arkansas has been nearly
destroyed. Apples and pears are un-
injured. Reports from other Western
and Northwestern States are more or
less discouraging.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington is in possession of the decree Isl
sued at Caracas, Venezuela, closing the
ports of Maracaibo and La Vela Del
Coro to foreign commerce. The object
OF the decree is officially stated to be to
prevent unlawful trade with Cuacoa and
to punish that place for past offenses.
| A custom house has been established at
Porto Cabello in pursuance of the poll
| CIV of the decree. AS the exports from
| Marcaibo to the United States for the
year ending September, 1s74,amounted
to $4,l9S, 1853, including more than 90
100000 pounds of coffee, the change
| NAV effect considerable interest Of mer-
chants of this country.