Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-04-03
News items.

Col. Richard Dulany, and Mr.. Car
ter, Of Loudoun county, received nine
cal. loads Of cattle from Chicago, last
week, for grazing.
There is some talk Of a resumption Of
work upon the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad.
We are informed that Mr.. VIM. Say
age. a citizen Of Surry county, while
ploughing in his field last Tuesday.
ploughed up forty thousand dollars
That is, verify, rich land.
The New York Assembly adopted
resolution favoring the introduction Of
the Moflatt liquor tax puch in the State.
A similar resolution was introduced in
the Massachusetts Legislature.
At Eastvlle, Northampton county,
Va, Sidney Pitts and A. p. Thoms
fought with pistols to settle dispute.
Two rounds were fired by each, and, as
they stood only six feet apart, Pitts was
killed. and Thoms received ball in the
head, from which he will probably die.
Canada is beginning to substitute whip
ping for Imprisonment When crimi-
mails don't mind imprisonment, and, in
the estimation of the world at large, are
lust as good after they are released
as they were before, provided
they have plenty of money, as is
now the case, jails and penitentlaries
have no terror that man need regard
and the sooner the whipping post is set
up the better
l. is said that there arc about 10000
men in Baltimore seeking for days
work at the present time, and that such
distress was never so general,
Eigath five failures were reported IN
New York during the month Of March,
with liabilities amounting to S1,l16,-
32G.
1t is stated that the Russian govern
ment has contracted for the delivery Of
600 new locomotives and l4,3l2 railroad
cars by the LIST Of May. 1t seeks to
obyiate the difficulties Of transportation
of troops and munitions of war into the
heart Of Turkey. Measures have also
been taken for the laying ola second
track on all the railways running south
and to the Black Sea. A great number
Of locomotive engineers and railway
laborers have been engaged in various
neutral countries.
From Philadelphia comes warning
which it would be well for the parents
of school children to profit by. A Phil
adeIpnia paper gives an account OF a.
slrl having been poisoned by sucking a
colored slate pencil. Children buy
these pencils in preference to plain ones
because they are prettler, but
they are colored with a poisonous
paint.
\ most remarkable feat Of bridge en-
gineering was accomplished recently at
New Brunswick, New Jersey. On Sat
urday morning the railroad bridge cross
ino the Raritan river was burned, and
in the short space Of l27 hours pas
sencer train crossed new structure
being 1000 feet long and 80 feet high.
Four hundred men were at work upon
i, at one time.
\ negro woman named Margaret Will
son was burning brush in a field near
Manassas. Saturday, when her clothing
co,oht fro aud she was burned to death.
Her husband was near by when tho ocoi-
dent occurred, but when he got 10 her it
was to late. The body was baked to
crisp.
MI. J. b. Knight, secretary Of the
Franklin Institute, who accepted Mr..
Keely's challenge for an expert ex-
animation of his motor, has published a
report of his investigations and their
results. He states that he was not
allowed to make searching eXamina-
ton. but even with the facilities offered
him he is convinced that the motor is a
humbug, and cannot produce pressure
beyond five hundred pounds to the
square inch, and that the substance
winch Mr.. Keely CLAIMS TO be a new
vapor of his own discovery is nothing
more than atmospheric air which had
been previously compressed and stored
nm in secret chambers Of the apparatus.
Attached to the report is certificate
from DR.. Cresson, stating that an
ANALYSIS of the gases taken to him by
MIR. Knight, collected from the motor.
showed them to be nothing but at
mospheric air composed Of about So per
cent. nitrogen and 20 per cent. oxygen.
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