Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-10-03

A Hartford mosquito binga nErily
since q woman broke he Arr in line
to Kill him. W b
The New Orleans Denlpcri putt the'
cotton crop for the seas0a at four
million five hundred thousand bales.
Gen. Joe. Hooker thinks the Eastern
war viii last . year Or two longer, and
then it Will probably be drawn battle.
Senator Conktng says he has received
mora than 4. thousand letters imploring
him to oppose the Presidents civil
service policy a' Us '1a 'zs.''- !.
Snow has been falling in the Shipka
Pass since Monday. The Russians ex-
press the utmost confidence that Plevna
win fall into their hands.
" ade Hampton is convinced thatit is
the mission Of the Democratic party to
make fraud infamous. and he is attend
ing well TO his part OF the work. i:s
Frank Davis was acquitted on .
charge Of murder by . jury in Carson,
New. A mob then tried, convicted, and
hanged him. el
Samuel Stickney, of Waterloo, Iowa,
Rugged girl SO hard that revolver in
his pocket was discharged, seriously
wounding q boy who was passing the
gate where the pair stood. 91l
Texas is so anxious to secure emigra-
ton that she is virtually giving away
her public lands. The head Of a family
can get 100 acres for the expense Of the
survey and patent, which is altogether
about fifteen dollars.
Texas has l, 75O, 900 people, and Lou
isiana only about 100000. When the
war ended Louisiana was the more pop
ulous State of the two. Three years
from now Texas expects to have twenty
congressman.
Lord Beehive lately gave 500, 500 for a
Canadian cow, which is the largest sum
ever given except that for the Duchess
Of Geneva, in New York, two years ago.
Lord Bective's mother was sole heiress
Of Alderman Thompson Of London,
who left s4,5OO,000. .-.,5.b 57s
The peach orchards of Delaware and
Maryland embrace sixty thousand acres
Of land valued at fifty dollars per acre.
New York has pinned its faith to the
granite block pavement as the best
known. Ht -.f'
Mat. Pierce, who was implicated in
the killing Of Story and Fitzpatrick in
Pickens county, Alabama. was taken
from the Carrolton jail on Wednesday
|by mob oftwenty men and hanged. T.
In Burrittville, R. l., on Saturday
night, J. Herbert Browne, a young man
of good family, being refused admission
to disorderly house, fred two balls In
to his head. He afterwards drove home
| alone. Surgeons were called who fail
| ed to find the balls by probing. Brown
is still about. eating and sleeping as US
ual. The surgeons regard his situation
as most remarkable, but very critical.
Number Of prominent names have al
| ready been mentioned in connections
with the presidency Of Randolph Macor
College, Of which DR.. Duncan was
president. Among these are Rev. Mr.
Wilson, of the Baltimore Conference
Rev. DR.. John E. Edwards, of Balti
Rev. Mr.. J. w. Blackwell, Lynchburg
Francis Smith, Of the Virginia Universe
ty and Major R. W. Jones, Professo
in the Mississippi University. -.,-ea
The worklngmen's party is becoming
more and more communistic. At
convention Of that party, held in Baltl
more, President W ard delivered speech
| in which he referred to the burning o
the Patent Office, and said the intelli
genee of its destruction caused him grea
qualification. He hoped it would neve
1 be rebuilt. The convention expressed
Its sympathies with bis Inference BY
warm applause. IL s-.... s. .y-t
The boller.-Of freight locomotive o.
1.-THE Louisville and Nashville railrcd
lexploded W ednesday night at Rcky
Hill, KY, killing Charles Wilson the
engineer, Thos. McCrea, fireman and
brakeman Mccormick, of Greeasburs'
Ind, aud wounding slightly ssvral 9TH
ers. A. L. Church, conductor, tas badly
bruised, but he succeeded in eawling fal
Ienought forward to flag the iouth bound
passenger train and ave. q collision.
4 There were a number ofrte horses on the
train, Darden's Morganilly and Saaerac
being killed, and Satirt and Bergamot
injured. .- lf-s
An oil train on Ne Lake Shore and
d Michigan soutFrn railroad, near
Ipainesville, OBJ, broke into sections
YESTERDAY untown to the engineer,
who halted . usual at the crossing OF
, The Painesyde and Youngstown rail
,lroad. Tn, sections collided and left
the trac, A tank of crude oil ex-
ffploded, citing fire to five tanks.-The
ldepot uilding was destroyed. Its con.
! ltentyvere saved. Ten or eleven car
5lloa; of oil were consumed.
4 rhe Success, so far, of the Mofet
liquor punch in Virginia is leading to a
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