Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-10-31

A mother and daughter eloped with
their lovers from Leesburg, o., leaving
their husband and father disconsolate.
The Democrats elected their Mayor in
Baltimore, Wednesday about II 900 Ma
jority.
A Nashville celored preacher is suing
a member ofhis church for the payment
ola subscription to the parsons salary.
The Richmond Enquirer notes this
remarkable" occurrence: A member
of the Legislature for the session of
lS74-'75 yesterday drew $3.50, which
was due HIM on account of his pay :,
This balance has stood to his credit ever
since the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture at the session of Us.
San Antonio, Texas, has a society of
Free Thinkers, and dispatch from
there to the Galveston News says
band Of fifty Christian Kuklux took
leading Free Thinker Of Bell county out
the other night, hit him fifty lashes, and
gave notice if there were any more inf
del lectures in that county somebody
would hang.
Gen. Forrest is still in critical con.
dition. He has been reduced by chronic
aiarrhea until he scarcely weighs hum
dred pounds.
Senator Morton's recovery is serious
ly doubted, and it is admitted that he
constantly suffers great pain, and sell
dom sleeps without the aid of powerful
opiates.
The Georgia State Fair, held at At
lanta last Week, cleared $4,000 after
paying all expenses. The premium list
was over $4,000.
Walter E. Newman, of Richmond,
fifteen years old, who was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary for rob-
blng his father, has been pardoned by
Governor.
Thomas F. Burch has sold his farm
in Loudoun comfy. Va, to Joseph
Reed, of England, for $4,000.
Captain G. G. Grattan has been ap-
pointed Commonwealth's attorney Of
Rockingham county. Va, in place of
Caption John Paul, resigned.
In Augusta county the pay the debt
nominees have announced that they
favor the reduction Of the salaries of
legislators from $40 to 1910.
A Pittsburg CPa.) dispatch says the
Manchester Savings Bank of Allegheny
closed its doors yesterday. The liabili-
ties and assets have not yet been made
known. The bank is long established
one and depositors are hopeful.
The people Of Emmittsburg, Freder-
lex county, Nd, are agreeably surpris-
ed at the recent alleged discovery near
that town of vein of bituminous coal
of rare quality.
Jane Laughlln, convicted in New
York of abducting little girl, was sent
to prison for ten years.
The removal of the Sioux from Red
Cloud agency to the vicinity Of the Mis-
souri, river has begun and will be COM
pleted in a month, The Indians evinc-
ed no dissatisfaction. Spotted Tail will
not move for few days.
The Conductors Insurance Associa-
ton, in session at Atlanta, Ga, adopt
ed resolution condemning strikes and
pledging themselves not to support
them. Montreal was selected as the
next place of meeting. Samul Titus, of
the New York Central was elected
president.
Diptheria raging to such an extent in
in Hartford county that the attendance
at public schools in some sections has
fallen off about 60 per cent.
Blondin made great fortune by his
ropewalking. A few years ago he went
into the wine trade and lost all his
money. Now he returns to his old bu-
siness, and says that he has a present.
ment that he will lose his life by fall.
Jacob N. Thatcher, letter carrier,
was arrested in Easton, Pa, for steal
ing letters. A decoy letter was found
on him, and he made full confession.
There were five new cases of yellow
fever at Fernandlna, Fla, yesterday.
The weather is unfvaorable. A special
dispatch says: ''We are compelled to
furnish food TO 300 families, business
being entirely suspended. There is no
other way of keeping the people from
starvation, and there is no hope of bet
ter times till December. Total deaths
to date OIL"
Ex-Gox. Seymour ofNew York, has
written letter expressing a deep in
terest in the success of the State and
local tickets at the coming election. He
says that believing, as the democrats of
New York, do, that MIR. Hayes was de-
feated for the presidency last year, SIT
would be source Of regret that the
means by which he was put into the ex-
cutive chair should seem to be approved
by New York."
At Palestine, Barke county, Ohio,
Wednesday midnight, Wesley Guyer,
an old man suspected Of divers unlaw-
full acts, was called to his door, sur
rounded by band of masked men arm
ed with rifles, who Immediately fired,
Kidding him with bullets. No traces of
the murderers have been found. 1t is
thought Guyer's death was caused by
the vigilance committee. Another sto-
ry was that he was killed by his own
gang, who feared his betraying them.