Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.

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Richard Sappinston, of New Market
Frederick County, broke his leg Easter
Monday, while playing base ball.
Thos. Dodworth, the originator Of
the musical band bearing his name,
died in New York, Saturday, aged 81
years.
! Tie Machine shops Of the Ulster and
Delaware railroad at Roundout, n Y,
was burned "Wednesday night loss
$4,000.
At Peoria, ILL.,, on Wednesday, john
Gobel shot John Lockwood, literally
blowing his head off. Lockwood had
beaten Gobel's wife.
Cathaiine Dugan, a tramp from
Easton Pa, was run over by train
from New York on Wednesday near
Edgewater, N. j, and killed.
/ Charleston, s. c., is now shipping
north over 1000 quarts of strawberri es
daily, aud by May will be shipping 3d.
600 to 10000 day.
DR. Shirk, who failed in business at
Lancaster, Pa, the other day. had on
hand at the time of his collapse eleven
thousand dozen eggs.
Dom Pedro left San Francisco,
Saturday morning, for Chicago direct,
whence, it is understood, he proceeds
to OIL City, Pa.
In Toronto, Canada. Friday. Mrs.
McRae; aged one hundred years, was
found sitting by the fire With her
clothes almost burned eff, and life was
extinct.
The courthouse at Shoals, Morton
county, Ind, was burned. The records
were nearly all saved. Loss $4,000.
1t is supposed the fire was the work of
an incendiary.
The bureau Of admission to the cen-
tennial exposition have determined not
to enforce the admission fee to fifty
cent note, hut will allow the fifty cent
silver coin to be used as well.
The 'sgold lottery" at New Orleans
resulted in sending the 100000 and
$40, 900 prizes to Chicago. The others
are supposed to have been drawn by
some gentlemen at the North Pole.
A dispatch from New York las,
night states that Commodore Vander~
bit has 80 far recovered from his recent
illness that be can attend to business
and receive his friends as usual.
The centennial commission at a
session in Philadelphia, decided to
close the exhibition on Sunday, but as
a compromise the grounds will be open
to the public on that day free of
charge.
According to the Boston Globe, Sec
retary Bristow remarked to Govern
ment official well known in Boston, res
Gently: ''If they'will only let me stay
where / am I shall be satisfied have
never sought the Presidency"
The Metropolitan Hotel at Long
Branch, N. j., was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000; insured for
$4,000. The surrounding buildings
were saved. The hotel had just been
enlarged and was one of the finest at
i ASBranch.
Gov. Thayer, of Wyoming has ar
rived at Omaha to confer with Gen.
Crook relative to military protection to
the Black Hills stage line. The Indians
have way of throwing stones down
the narrow passes on the stage and
killing people.
Col. Coobaugh, who, during the
siege of Vlcksburg in 1868, was for a
time attached to the staff of Major
Gen. Mcpherson, is now in the peniten-
| tlarv of Arkansas under a sentence of
fifteen years for stealing a letter from
the mail.
A dispatch received at Chicago by
Gen. Sheridan from Gen. Crook says the
Indians at Red Cloud are on the verge
| OF starvation owing to the neglect in
forwarding supplies; that unless ilnme
diate steps are taken to supply them
| they will leave the reservation, and that
fears are entertained considering their
| present temper
A dispatch from Wilmington, Del,
says DR. Nolen, for some years past
United States collector at that place, is
defaulter to the amount of $4,000
The charge is made by special tire as
| ury agent to the effect that in 1872 a
wrecked vessel was taken to Lewes,
and the salvors were paid their share,
but Nolen failed to turn over to ne
government its portion. <,
SMALL CHANGE.-The New York
Express of yesterday says: ''The silver
business is beginning to create muddle
in the matter of small change. Frac-
tional currency is worth II per cent.
premium and silver coin about 3 per
cent, and merchants and others who
have to have either one or the other for
ehange are becoming disguised with
| this whole business"
John Adams wrote, prophet;cally:-
"But let us take warning and give it
to our children Whenevervanity and
galety, love of pomp and dress, fur
niture, equipage, buildings, great COM
pany, expensive diversions and elegant
entertainments get the better of the
| principles and judgments Of men and
women, there is no knowing where
. they will stop, nor into whateeyils,
natural, moral or political, they will
lead U.S.
Itls said that the Rev Geo. w.
Carter, who before the late war was an
eloquent and gifted minister of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
and who took a leading part in Virgi-.
MIA, among the early advocates of
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