Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-20
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have surrounded the Egyptian army (
A Russian corvette foundered nea
Piraeus, Greece and all hands were
| lost.
The striking colliers in Yorkshire
and Derbyshire, England, nunbel
$4,000. *4s
Holiness boot mandatory, Wor-
coster, Mass, was burned Saturday
night; loss $4,000.
A battleis reported in Bosnia, wherein
the insurgents. were routed and 800 Of
them Killed or wounded.
Kelly, one of the Mollie Mcguire
murderers, was sentenced, at Mau:h
Chunck, Pa, on Wednesday to be
hung. He denies his guilt.
During the year 1875 no less than
three hundred and thirty seven Ameri-
can hotels were burned, and not hotel
clerk so much as scerched.
A suit has been brought in Boston
By, S. c. Name against Gen. b +
Butler for 100000, for alleged viola
ton of contracts relative to certain
patents.
Abont.one hundred feet Of the dam
|'aeross the Kansas: river. at Lawrence
broke Saturday, and carried down one
pier and two spans of the bridge over
the river.
Gen John Mcdonald, Of '.crooked"
whisky notoriety, has been sentenced
at St. Louis. Mo-, to. three years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary and
S., 900 fine.
Gov Letcher has reached his home
in Lexington, and is improving in
health. He has lately received as a
present from an uncle, a 400 acre farm
worth about $4,000.
Among the treasurs recently
brought to light in Pompeii is a silver
altar, Oh which were placed two silver
cups and spoons, the latter precisely
like those now used.
Esquimaux theologians reverse
heaven and hell, placing the penitent
and saved in a sheltered world under
ground, and keeping the sinners above,
where they are frozen.
The large tobacco factory of J. T.
Stovall, at Danville, Va, together with
fifty thousand pounds Of leaf tobacco,
was DESTROYED by fire on Friday. Loss
S25, 900; insured for $4,000.
Though there will be no gene raj
election 10 this State next May, as the
Legislature failed to amend the regis
tration law the registration books will
be opened on the I'd of May in all the
counties.
There has been destructive storm
and inundation at McGregor, Iowa, b,
which $4,000 worth of property is
destroyed. A similar catastrophe at
Davenport, Iowa, destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
W. Q. Avery, late private secretary
TO the Secretary Of the Treasury, has
been sentenced to two years imprison-
ment and fine OF $1,000 on couvic-
ton of conspiracy i'll the ''crooked''
whisky frauds st st. Louis.
An old tombstone in the burying-
ground at West Lynn, Massachusetts,
bears the inscription ''God took the
good, too good to stay, and left the
bad, too bad to, take away Rather
rough, that, on the mourners.
The Virginia republican convention
was organized, with Hon. J. Is. Sener
as chairman. Resolutions were adopts
ed expressive Of preference for Blaine
President, and complimentary ihdors<
ing Senator Morton's course.
At Portsmouth, Va, on Saturday
morning, two men were killed and two
badly wounded by the explosion OF a
she'll which had just been taken from
the wreck of the Confederate iron~clad
Merrimac, which was sunk fourteen
years ago.
Ella NJ Collinan was shot in the
neart by her lover, John E. Mcnamara,
at the Arcade Hotel, in Corning, N. Y.
She died in ten minutes. jealousy
was the cause of the deed. Both are
about twenty years old. The murder
er escaped.
The United States Court at St. Louis
has declined to delay commitment in
the case of w. o. Avery, who prefers
a transfer to some eastern penitentiary,
and he and Mcdonald were to be
formally committed to the penitentiary
at Jefferson City.
The South Carolina republican con-
vention has sent uninstructed delegates
to the presidential nominating cunvenS
ton at Cincinnati, but passed a resolu-
ton expressing high appreciation of
the services and character of Senat OF
Morton, of Indiana.
Adylces from Fort Laramie state
that a party of whites were attacked
by indians April 7 south of the Chey
enne river, and N orman Storms, OF
Iowa, killed, and another of the party
wounded The Indians have run of
much stock in that section.
Secretary Robson is in bad health
He don't feel we'll He has night
sweats. He dreams of future punish
ment. He is uneasy. He has shed
buckets of tears; to no purpose, hows
ever, for the ''do nothing Democratic
Congress goes on in the good work.
The schooner Katie, which left Port
Musgfaye on the 2aiastsht for Boston.
slith 9aHasss esrsk Hf uhing several
no ao, f1reA II hot siuce been
tSkead fFoiily ala 1T is feared has found-
cred with all oH aboard 4 Most. NJ ~