Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-07-13
Storm in the West.


Dies MoNEs, July Later advices
show that some twenty>tve persons,
were killed in Warren county alone;
that six or eight were killed in Madison
county; that probably one hundred and
fifty houses were completely destroyed
and as many more badly injured, and
that the destruction of crops, fences
and animals by Tuesday nights storm
was immense. The names of the per-
sons killed cannot be Obtained
They are mostly the wives and children
of farmers. Some reports place the
number of killed in Warren county
alone as high as forty. A circus Is
water bound at Indianola,. and the
train on the Des MONIES and Ipdianola
railroad which left here last night is
water-bound between the North and
Middle rivers.
CHICAGO, July IA Des Moines
Qowa) special gives further details Of
the terrible tornado in Central Iowa
Tuesday night. 1t appears that actual
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ported. Mrs. J. P. Morton and child
we've both killed, Mrs. Elderly also
killed Reports from other parts OF
Warren county show that the storm
was general and disastrous. About
fifty houses were blown away, and their
inmates killed or badly hurt. From
Madison county reports are equally
disastrous. Reports from Norwalk
state that the house of Mr.. Gideon was
swept away and his wife and three sons
drowned. Between Winterset and
NorwaIs eleven persons were killed,
seven drowned and four struck by
lightning, The devast alton is terrible
and canno. be known until communica-
ton is ue-established.
SMIra's ISLAND EsrATE-In the
United States Circuit Coupt, Judge
Hughes presiding on Thursday, judg-
ment was rendered in the case of Der.
ney and wife against G. W. G. Lee and
others This was a suit to obtain pos
session of the Smiths Island estate Of
G. W. P. Custis, which the plaintiffs
bought at direct tax sale during the
war, but of which the defendants hold
possession. The cours held that the.
sale made during the war was Illegal
because the authorized agent OF Gen.
r. E. Lee, who was the administrator
of Mr.. Gusts, had rendered the amount
of taxes aid costs, and they had been
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that the defendants retain possession of
the premises, and that they recover of
the plaintiffs their costs expended. l.
should be stated that Gen. II. Z. Lee
got possession of the premises as ad-
ministrator III 1868, and afterwards
sold them to Gen. G. w. G. Lee, in
accordance with the provisions of Mr..
Custis's will, In order to pay certain
legacies therein provided for.-Ale1an
dria Ra.) Gazette.
This case is very similar to that Of
the Arlington estate, which was sold
for direct tax during the war and
bought in by the government, despite
the fact that the tull amount of taxes
was rendered by a representative OF
Gen. Lee, the administrator OH she
estate.
The indians are supplied by the
Government with the best and most
improved arms, then they are goaded
to desperation by the rascality OF
Government agents, and then forces
greatly inferior to their own are sept
against them by the pGeseat model
Administration, while thousands of
soldiers are kept scattered about
through the Southern States tof the
purpose OF aiding futile attempts to
carry some of those States for the
Radicals in the approaching election.
A1er. Gazette.
1t is highly probable that the admin
istrtion that sacrificed Custer as though
he had been pawn at chess will now
make his death a rallying cry against
military retrenchment. But the country
should not be misled by this. The
United States troops now in Louisiana
and Mississippi, where they are kept to
contro! the coming ELECTIONS, would
have been amply sufiicieist so have saved
poor Caster from defeat and death.
When one thinks how the whole force
Of the Administration is now turned to
the protection OF the Belknaps and
Babcocks, and the gallant and noble
young Custer hnmillated for doing his
duty and sent ont to court death i'll an
ill~provided Indian expedition, the cup
of the iniquities of Grantism seems
overffowing Baltimore Gazette.
Things might have been diferestiy
and, as we believe, mole advantageous
~ arranged, but the time for discussing
the merits of men has passed, and the
time for discussing measures OF pro~
gress has come. He must be a duh
student of contemporary history who
does not see that apart from all persons
al considerations the nominations at
st. Louis embody grand and inspr
ing uprising Of The people in favor Of
reform. Mercury.
Colonel Forney received letter from
an old subscriber of his paper, the
Z Philadelphia Press, the other day,
which scast a gloom over his life for
the time being. After all the colenels !
terrific labors in behalf of freedom,
this party informed him that he had, |
with large number OF his Republican
acquaintances, resolved TO abandon
Hayes and Wheeler as a ''dead cock in |
he pit and vote for Tildcn and |
Hendricks. lie signed hiulselt "A I'll |
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