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

The Atlanta Constitution reports
that all the Congressman from Georgia
will vote for Randall for Speaker.
ANDREW yaeksonJ has been arrested 3S,I IN
in hog stealing for three years.
A Maine postmaster, woman. has
been fined Sill so for opening letter
passing through her office.
Hereafter the presidents Of railway
companies are to be provided with the
"bell-punch" as well as the conductors.
On last Saturday evening, W. T.
Hord, a teamster of Richmond, shot
and killed a farmer named J. G.. Nc
Cloud, who lived in Chesterfield about
six miles from Manchester. Cause-an
old feud.
A telegram from Orchanie states that
it is reported there that twenty-four
Turkish battalions escorting convoy
to Plevna have defeated Russian
detachment sent to oppose them.
The six tramps arrested at Manassas,
Va, charged with attempted robbery, of
a train on the Virginia Midland rail-
road have been acquitted.
Rev. Wallace Duncan, of Woford
College, South Carolina, has been cleo
ted president of Randolph Macon Col
lege, Virginia, in place Of his brother,
Rev. DR.. James \. Duncan, recently
deceased.
A prisoner in Louisiana Jail patient
ly feigned paralysis for three months. so
as to get a chance to escape; and.
when the chance came, IN the language
of the local newspaper, ''he was off Ike
a telegram
The fact comes out in st. Louis
divorce case that Joseph Siemon COM
PEELED his family to dine every day
solely on soup made from ten-cent
shin bone, and tabitually skinned out
all the meat for himself.
Joseph Smith, son of the originator
of Mormonism, is president of the
monogamic sect Of tter Dag * Sc Sesi-ttii1e
in Plano, I'LL &c AelaYeIattons from
God, and the divinely chosen successor
of his father.
Mr.. Tilden is talked of for United |
States Senator from New York by his
friends, who would thus hold him in /.
position for another contest for the |
presidency. The nominees Of the late |
democratic State convention are all
said to be OF Tilden's friends.
tits stated that the King Of Spain has
givun orders to his lieutenants IN Cuba !
to make peace on any reasonable terms !
with the insurgents. 1t is believed that
both parties are eager for permanent /
cessation Of hostillties, the long warfare
having been dreadfully disastrous to all
interests in the island.
There are Sc cases ofyellow fever at
Port Royal. S. C. The population Of
the town is 2Sl, including 81 white and
1877 colored. The mayor telegraphs to
Augusta for medicine, nurses and pro. I
visions. Three deaths and six new
cases occurred at Port Royal yesterday. !
Henry W. Mann. cashier of the Stock !
Yards Company of Kansas City, No. |
shot his little daughter, aged three
years, through the heart. Saturday. and
then shot himself through the head. |
Both died instantly. |
A guide known as Charley was hung
on a tree in the Black Hills last week
Tor lying. He had led a party of mi
ners to place where he said the dig
glngs were rich, and on arriving there |
confessed he had lied. 1t is believedlre |.
led the party out for the benefit of n
post-trader.
Senator Morton is constantly anxious
to hear the latest news, seeming deeply !
interested, it is said, in nearly every-
thing IN the newspapers except base !
oail items. He listened intently to the |
reading Ex-senator Conkling's speecb. |
lie is determined to see everything
which the newspapers say about HIM
sell. He likes to see callers, and cues
tons them as to their opinions regard
ing his condition. He lies in a reclining
chair, and takes only aeef tea. chicken
broth and grapes.
Gov Wade Hampton makes Jokes as
we'll as the President. At Nashville
one day, Mr.. Hayes stood erect in the
carriage, bowling to the shouting throng
aud steaGying himself by hand placed
On Hampton's shoulder. In making n
gesture he removed his hand, and. the
horses starting at the same moment. Re
Was suddenly thrown down in the car.
rage. Mr.. President" said Hampton.
quietly, ''lfyou want to stand firm Won
must lean on the South And Tho |
President laughed.
There were nine new cases Of ve,,ow
fever reported at Fernandina Fla SAT
urday' and three deaths Sunday. Yes |
terday there were five new cases and
one death reported. DIR. T. P. Wexford.
zone OF the physicians that went to Fer
nandlna from Jacksonville when medi-
cal aid was asked is among the sick and
Is reported dying. AT Port Royal, S.
u, TWO new cases and one death have
occurred since Saturday. There have
teen forty cases in all. !