Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-03-23
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iron clads on the stocks.
The first Centennial bell that has
been cracked this year-Bel-knap.
The New York San has sold 1911,
600 copies of one days issue.
Grant accepted Belknap's resignation
with ''great regret" He was sad.
The jury in the Tweed case have
found verdict against him for So
537, III.
Schenck was in such hurry to get
away from England that he did not saw
'bye bye" to the Queen.
Belknap had small income and his
wife small foot, and thus poverty and
pride could not stand,together.
David Jacks, of Monterey. Cal
netted $37, 500 on 10000 acres planted
in wheat last year.
a private telegram received in Rich
mond. Va, from New Y ork,, announces
that Judge Bond viii appoint Charles
Perkins receiver Of the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad
Somebody Suggests that the funeral
of ABEL, the unfortunate young man
who was killed by CAIN, was not a
large ore; but it was very select, and
attended only by the FIRST families. -
Happy thought
Mr. Taft, the new Secretary of War,
has wife; and it is needless to say that
he is indebted to that amiable lady for
all he knows about war. But az she IL
a woman Of good: understanding, and
doesn't wear ones and-a>halt, there is
no danger that Mrs. T. will follow in
the footsteps of Mrs. B. Exchange
Hallett Kilburn, the great head center
of the real estate pool in Washington
city, has by order of the House Of
Representatives been committed to com,
mon Jail of the city for declining to
answer certain ipterrogatories pro-
pounded to him by one of the invests
eating committees.
The Baltimore mans fying-machine
is not an overwhelming success j;
Keeleys motor is as quiet as the grave !;
Virginia has refused to take part in
the Centennial; but German chemist
has obtained ferrocyanide of tetrameth
ammonium by saturating ferrocyanitle
acid with tetramethy Ammonium
hydrate--aud this is some consolation,
apyhow.-Free Press.
Sr. Louis, Mo, March 16.-The
locomotive and eight cars Of freight
train on the Atlantic and Pacific road,
went through a bridge over the
Meremec river Yesterday, killing Chris.
Leason, the engineer, and badly hruis
ing Harrison Preston, the fireman,
besides destroying a good deal of
property.
WILMINGTON, DEL, March 49,
News from all points OIL the peninsula
report the effect of the cold snap on
peaches as follows: Georgetown and
below gle,t injury, and great damage
as far as as Middletown up; at Middle.
town and Kent county, Md consider
able, but not serious damage.
The contested election case of Brady
vs. Gayle for seat in the Virgii,ia
Senate from Portsmouth district results
ed yesterday in the adoption of the
minority report of the committee on
elections as substitute for the MAJORS
ty report, by vote Of 10 yeas to II
nays This action retains Gayle, the
sitting member.
"A snow slide occurred al Ophir, Utah,
carrying away the boarding house OF
the Poorman Mine, and burying with
it William Higgins, James Hissinson
and Thomas Lynch. No hopes of
recovering their bodies are entertained
The snow storm was still raging, and it
is probable that much loss of life and
property will follow.
An election was held at Cincinnati to
decide whether the city of Cincinnati
would issue S6,000,00O bonds in ad-
dition to the $4,000, 900 already issued
to construct the Cincinnati; Southern
railway. Returns from forty nine out
Of fifty seven precincts give majority
in favor of the measure of H., l26
BLA1NE's BRoTnER.-A Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says that j. E. Blaine. brother of the
ex-Speaker, is held responsible for Sc :
curing the post-tradership for Benjamin
Simpson at Fort Walla-W ALA, Wash
ington Territory.
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