Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-02-22
Items Of an sorts.


A bullet fired by hunter in Texas
struck the surface ola lake at consider
able distance, glanced upward, and
wounded girl who was walking on a
hill beyond.
"a Christian gentleman, widower,
over fifty, in splendid health, trse from
vices, and rich," advertises IN the Bos-
ton Traveller for a wife, and the editor
says that he is all he claims to be.
Inquiry in Philadelphia developes the
fact that N. H. Weldon, the young man
who made an attack upon Gov. Pack
ards life in New Orleans, is the son OF
Rev. G. F. Weldon, highly respected
Lutheran clergyman of West Philadel-
phia.
On Tuesday Rutherford &, Hayes,
with the stolen votes buttoned safely in
his pocket, presided at religious meet
ing in Cincinnati, and made briei
speech urging Christian men and women
to aid in the suppression of crime.
An old Comstocker, being reproached
by his prospective mother-in-law that
he was much too old for her daughter,
that he was even bald-headed, replied
Madam, my badness is no Indication
of age-it runs in the family. In fact,
Madam" said he, in sudden gush Of
confidence, II was born bald-headed ~
A singular suicide recently occurred
III Drowana, Australia. A Greek whc
had become insane BY reason Of power
ty and misfortune poured a quantity Of
molten lead down his throat. He died
in agonies, and after death lump Of
lead nearly half pound in weight was
taken from his stomach.
| A frightful accident recently took
place in refinery situated in the Rue
de Londres, Paris. While one Of the
caldrons was boiling hot, a workman
bent over its side to ascertain the con.
sistency of the syrup. Losing his bal
ance, he fell in and was scalded to the
bones before he could be extricated.
There was controversy after the
death Of All Fung in San Francisco be.
| cause his wife was an Irish woman, and
she desired that wake should be held
over his body. His Chinese friends in
sisted on Chinese ceremonies, and saiG
that 70 woman could attend. She
rallied her relatives, sat in triumph al
the head of the coffin, and afterward
had wake without the remains.
A man and beautiful young woman
registered in hotel in Jefferson, Texas,
as "a Munroe and Lady,, Cincinnati
Next morning the man went, away, and
no trace Of his subsequent movements
has been found. The woman was dis,
covered dead in her room, having been
murdered. Who they were, or what
| was the cause Of the rau-ser has moi
been learned. ....
Tive boys IN San Francisco resolved
to become robbers Of the Claude Duval
kind. They began by breaking into s
store and stealing $3.50, with which
they boughta horse, guns, and camp.
ing outfit. Loading themselves and
their goods, On the horse, they took tc
the road, intending to undertake daring
highway robberies. They made thei,
first attempt on a stage coach, werf
captured, and are now IN Jail. .s- >s
A duel Of the fashionable sort was
fought in Peoria. The Germans wanted
to marry the same girl, and quarrelled
Of course. They agreed to duel witt
knives, but subsequently the weapons
were changed to pistols. On the Geld
they trembied SO violently that they
could not aim the pistols, and the sec
onds POSSIBLY fearing that their OWL
lives might De lost in the wild firing
advised bloodless reconciliation. Thu
principals gladly accepted the advice
and both agreed to give up the girl.
Stephen A. Douglas, one Of the de
seated Democratic candidates for tht
Presidency in 1860, held Lincoln's ha
while Lincoln delivered his inaugura
address. 1t would hardly be appropri
ate, however, for Sam Tilden to hoyt
Hayes's hat while he delivers his in
ausural address, after being boosted in
to the White House by Madison WelL
and Joe Bradley. Lincoln would have
scorned to take the Presidency By tht
means which Hayes approves. f