Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-04-27
n NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The Connecticut republican delega-
ton to Cincinnati is in favor of Post
master General Jewell for President.
Georgia now claims to hold the
political place in the South once oc.
cnpied by Virginia.-Neso York Her.
a,d.
Isaac H. rockingham, formerly
chief clerk in the stamp department Of
the Boston postoffice, has been convic,
ted Of stealing $4,000.
PArERsoN, n. J., April 22.-The
bursting of Kerosene lamp to-day
caused the burning of the Arcade
building, valued at $4,000.
Sioux CRY, Iowa, April PA
great fire has been raging in Iowa and
Nebraska. In South Dakota much
property but no lives was lost.
Professor Watson, at Ann Harbor,
Mich, reports the discovery on the
10th inst, in the constellation Virgo,
of a planet hitherto unknown.
a FIRE Al Milford, Ind, destroyed
Mollins a Gilmore's dry goods store,
Millers shoe store, and Wslburn s large
warehouseand residence loss $50, 1000.
Rev. IS. Glendenning. who figured
in q scaEs3aI case some time since, has
.besn ldssuaea admission to.the Presby-I
terry OF Ps0ria, ILL.,, by large niJori-
ty.
The Washington Republican speaks
Of Congressman Tucker as ''the old
leaven. Probably because he was about
ten too rsaay for Mr.. Blaine. -Bosto,s
Post.
Thore were SAT car loads of goods on
the centennial grounds Saturday morn-
ing, intended for the exhibition.
These consignments are mainly from
the South and West.
John Dolan, the murderer of James
H. Noe, was hanged in New York
last Friday. At Fort Smith, Ark,
tour Indians, a white man and a negro
met with a, similar fate.
A day or two ago a boy, who was
caught on long bridge on the A., NJ
6 o. r. r. by train of cars, saved
himself by lying down fiat on the mar
row space on the outside of the track.
DR.. James Barbour Newman, of Rich.
mond, son of James B. Newman, esq.,,
Of Orange, has received the appoint
ment OF Assistant Surgeon, U. s. army,
and has gone to St. Paul, Minnesota
for duty.
The California grain crop prospects
are reported very fine and an unpre-
cedented yield is anticipated Fruit
also promises well, though in some
districts it has suffered somewhat from
late frosts.
A mountain of superior white chalk
has been discovered in Idaho, and now,
if never failing spring is in close
proximity, an enterprising man might
start dairy there without investing in
a single COW.
Ex-Attorney General Williams has
virtually acknowledged to the Com
mittS - Expenditures of the War
Dep Dent that he paid $4,000 for
election purposes in New York by
order of the President.
A student nam ed John Cummings, of
Abingdon, Va, ommittsd suicide in
his room, at the University Of Virginia
near Charlottes vile, Monday night.
He shot himself twice with pistol.
No cause is assigned for the act.
Nell Mowry and J. P. Smith rode a
fifty-mile mustang race at Bay district
track; San Francisco, Saturday, the
former winning in two hours and eight
minutes. Mowry will ride ons~hun-
dred mi lie race at the centennial.
James Wilkinson, of the firm of
Brewer & Wilkinson, OF New Orleans,
has been arrested in Louisville, KY,
charged with having committed frauds
in Nashvi l., Cincinnati, New Orlea MS
and New York, amounting in all to
$4,000.
SUDDEN DEATH. On Monday morn
ing last MFR, Henry Evans, a respscta~
BILE farmer residing some six or eight
miles from Dsnville, fell dead while
blowing in his field. 1t is supposed he
was attacked with apoplexy or heart
disease.
FINED FOR Kissing IN THE STREET,
At the Yorkville Police Court, New
York, Judge Duffy fined Jno. Williams
and Eliza Brady each $40 ''for kissing
openly in the public streets" The Judge
also delivered an impressive lecture on
the enormity of the ofense.
A conspicuous trial in Dom Pedro's
character is that lie is no dead head. !"
He pays his own bills, speaks his own
mind aud does as he pleases, without
interfering with the rights, privileges
OF business Of anybody model as a
king, an example as man.
A fire occuiYed in Columbia, Pa, de-
stroying Schwartz's ice house, Filbert's
icenhouses and considerably damaging
Vaughn's lumber yard and the coal
shutes of the Philadelphia and Reads
ing railroad. Total loss $4,000. 1t is
thought the fire was originated by
tramps.
Gen Hawlcy, supervisor of internal
revenue, with special agents Crane and
Clark, are engaged at San Francisco
in examining the accounts and proper
ty OF collector Of internal revenue