Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-12-19

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Twenty oil wells are being sunk in
Clinton county, Pa.
On the Riddle farm, near Harms City,
Pa, a 500-barrel oil well was struck on
Friday.
The National Grange, at its session
in Cincinnati unanimously indorsed the
Michigan ship canal project.
Indian out laws in Arizona recently
captured mail stage,a killed the dri-
yer.
The cOEyention Of manufacturers Of
saddlery hardware in New York agreed,
tits said, to maintain prices during the
coming season.
The matters are urging Congress to re-
duce tho duties on silk plushes.
The farmers IN Scotland have suffered
severe loss this year by bad weather,
and their aggregate revenue will fall
short Of that received in good years by an
estimated amount forty million dol
lars.
A steamship from Boston is taking
out a consignment Of American robins
for acclimatization in Yorkshire, Eag-
land.
The mayor Of Covington, KY, formal
ly recommended that an allowance Of
5000 be made to the wife Of George
Hinkin for making him the presumably
happy father Of three babies at one
birth, but the council voted to give her
IS per week till further ordered.
The election fer State Senator in
Beaufort county, S. g., resulted in the
choice Of the republican candidate by
500 majority. This is tho first cleo
ton in the State this year carried by the
repub licans.
The Death Of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. will
require the election of three bishops by
| the General Conference which meets at
Atlanta, Ca, next May. 1t is probable
Rev. DR.. Lynus Parker, editor Of the
New Orleans Christian Advocate: will
be urged for one of the places.
Saturday night the large barn, with
all its contents, belonging to Harrison
| Guhn, four miles northeast Of Somerset,
| Pa, was entirely destroyed by fire. Mr..
Grhn loses fourteen head Of cattle, eight
horses, all of his sheep, farm imple-
| ments, grain and hay in Large quanti-
ties, and leaves him in bad condition.
His loss will foot up 5000 with an in
surance Of $500.
Mr.. Jay Gold. it appears, has bought
for $4,000 the western end Of the
block between Thrty-third and Thirty
fourth streets, fronting on Broadway
and Sixth avenue, New York. This
property, which has been described as
valuable but unproductive," cost
Messrs. Peter B. Sweeny and Hugh
Smith, who have sold, it, three quar-
| tiers of million in 1869. and is mort
gagged for $500, 900. So that on the face
of it Mr.. Gould has been liberal.
In the United States Senate large
number of petitions were presented ask
ing an amendment to the constitution
prohibiting States from DISTINGUISHING
citizens on account Of sex. Mr.. Math-
ews's resolution declaring the right OF
the government to pay its bonds in sill
yer was taken up, and Mr.. Morgan
spoke in its favor and Nj. Christiancy
in opposition. The Senate at ESQ went
into executive session, and the doors
were not opened until O'Clock, when
the Senate adjourned.
Mrs. Marsh, the mother of Mrs. Til
ton, disclaims having written the letter
recently published and attributed to her,
| denying the reports IN regard to the
probable reunion of Mr.. Tlton and his
wife. Mrs. Marsh, however, is very Bit
ter against Mr.. Tilton, and the chief OBJ
lection which she seems to have to the
letter in question is that so feeble a
presentation ofher daughters grievan-
ces should be charged 10 her. Mrs. Til
ton Is suffering greatly with species OF
pneumonia and has very bad cough.
] She recently opened a small SCHOOL in
Brooklyn, but she was forced to aban-
don It on account of her ill-health.
/ At Osceola, Missouri, mob ofmask-
ed men took possession Of the town
Friday night and arrested everybody on
the streets at the muzzle Of revolt
vers and shot guns. They seized all
tho tax books in the county clerks and
treasurer's Offices and carried them
away. The trouble grew out Of a rail-
road tax which has been levied to pay
certain judgments against the county
for past due interest on railroad bonds.
Several Of the mob were recognized by
officers of the Law and arrests will proba-
bly, be made, in which event more trou-
1 BILE will doubtless occur.
The New York Tribune states that
under the laws of the State Of New
FORK the Continental Telegraph Com
tpany" has been organized, with CAPT
tai Of 90, 0o0, 1000, for the purpose OF
building and operating telegraph
lines between New York and all the
other important cities in the United
Estates. Contracts have been entered
Into Tor the construction ola line from