Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-09-04
news Items.

some grain, farming implements, 'har
ness and one horse.
At recent sale OF Jersey heifers, II
Philadelphia, Col. E. II. Webster, o
Hartford county, purchased "Queen" fol-
$500.
VIM. Oldfeld, of Hartford county, oil
twenty-eight acres of land raised al
average Of thirty-six bushels ofwheat t.
the acre.
On seven acres Of land David Hanson
of Hartford county, has taken GOO bush
els oftomatoes to the acre.
A twentJ-year-old son of Mrs. Jane
Wickard, of Cumberland, was run ovel
BY freight train, in that city, Thursday
and killed.
BY the explosion Of the rusty boilei
of a steam thresher, near Livingston,
Mimi, Thursday, six men were killed
The thresher was thrown two hundred
feet by the force of the escaping steam.
Another frightful nitro-glycerne ex-
ploslon, the second within eight days,
occurred at Negannee, Mich, Thurs
day, and three men were instantly
blown to pieces, while a fourth was
landed on a shelving rock almost unln-
iured. The killed are Andrew Sullivan,
Ste phen Day and Stephen Keanus. All
were married. Cause unexplained.
Victoria is reported to have said not
long ago, when she had given an order
to one of her domestics l am Queen
of Great Britain and Empress Of India {;
but have not power enough to make
one Of my servants put Goals on the fire
ifshc has been hired to look after the
bed-chambers.
A majority Of the coroner's jury in
the case of Smith, the murdered jersey
City policeman, have returned a verdict
accusing Mrs. Jennie Smith, his widow,
of the murder, and exonerating Coye
Bennett from completely in the murder.
A minority verdict named Bennett as
Mrs. Smiths accomplice.
A special dispatch from Harrisburg
says the two tramps who bound and
gagged the Beltzhoover family and stole
a large sum of money from the house,
at Butler Springs, Cumberland county,
about two weeks ago, pleaded guilty in
court at Carlisle Tuesday, and were
sentenced to nine years in the pcniten-
tiary.
Collector Woodcock telegraphs the
internal revenue bureau from Nashville
that his men were surrounded BY tive
hundred men, led by Campbell Morgan,
the notorious moonshiner Of Overton
county, Tennessee. The revenue Off
GERS escaped without making any con-
cessions, and were expected to reach
Nashville yesterday. Collector Wood
cock announces his intention to organ
ize for work again at once.
If you take one Of the new silver halt
dollars, pour little muriatic aci on the
figure of the eagle, and set it out in the
sun for twenty minutes, when you come
to look at it it will be gone. And the
tramp who took it will be gone also.
The home farm of DR.. r, W. Stone.
in Somerset county, 260 acres, has been
purchased by Alfonso Lord for S2.25O.
Daniel Roddy, of Frederick county,
Nd, was thrown from load Of hay on
Thursday last, and his back broken.
He is sixty years Of age.
A tornado and hail storm struck the
city Of Fargo, Dakota Territory, with
considerable violence Monday evening
last. A number Of houses were blown
dewn, several persons badly injured
and half-dozen horses killed. The
loss was about $4,000. A sewers tor
nado also passed over portion of Gun
dy county, Iowa, Saturday afternoon.
Houses were blown down and one man
killed by falling barn and another by
the lightning,
At Williamsport, Pa, Friday, Peter
Herdic, former millionaire, filed his
petition in voluntary bankruptcy. His
schedule Of liabilities show over 81, 600,
900, with no assets, except such as arc
held as collateral, attached or have been
sold at judicial sale at an enormous sac
rifce. To Mr.. Herdic's petition is at
tached statement in which he traces bis
financial difficulties directly to the enor-
nous shrinkage in real estate, in stocks
of incorporated companies of all kinds:
and to the financial disasters which have
overtakcn very large number of those
with whom he has had business transac-
tiens since the fall Of 1873. At the
beginning Of the great business depres-
sion Mr.. Herdic estimates that he own
ed real estate to the Value of over &C.,
900, 900, and stocks, bonds and other
securities to the value Of over 81, 200,-
900, on which he estimates q shrinkage
on the real estate Of s. ,000,0 900 and on
securities, including stocks and the like.
of 5000, 900, besides which he lost by
the failure of others the sum ofsl 200
900.
The Manassas Gazette says: On Men
day last the barn of Mr.. j. {. Colyin, Of
this county, was struck by lightning
and seven hundred and forty bushels OF
wheat just threshed, wagons and har-
ness, straw and unthreshed grain, and
his barn, newly erected, entirely con-
sumed. Mr.. Colvin's loss is vero seri-