Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-10-23
News Items.

tly pald OIL, was robbed OF S250 III q
Catham street den in New York Mon
day night.
Rev. II. II. Hayden has been indicted
at Madison, Csnn., for the murder, IN
the Grst degree, Of Mary Stannard.
The barn of Thomas Davis, near
Smyrna, Del, was destroyed by fire on
Monday morning, to gether with 800
bushels of wheat, harness and farming
implements.
r, Lyman Peter, who undertook to
walk acrsss the American continent
with a wheel-barrow, arrived at San
Francisco at noon yesterday.
The bsx stolen from the First Nation
al Bank ofFishkill Landing, n. Y, by
burglars, Wednesday, was found in the
woods on the Highlands. The contents,
consisting of bends and mortgages to
the value of from 100000 to 100000
were undistWbed.
The commissioner Of pension states,
in answer to inquiries made my pension
claimants, that it is not at all necessary
for them to employ Washington or 9th
Ell agents to prosecute their claims, but
quite as well fer them 10 communicate
directly with the pension bureau or en-
ploy a neighborins attorney or magis-
trate 10 assist them.
Red Clouds and his chiefs had a con-
ference Sunday at Camp Sheridan with
the officers of the the military eXpcdi-
ton now pursuing the Cheyennes, and
Red Cloud promised to arrest and deliv-
er the renegades. He expressed a great
desire for peace, and promised to pro-
mote it by all the means in his power.
The conference closed with banquet.
The California constitutional con
vention hale resolved TO memorable
the President and the Senate to so
modify the Burlingame treaty as TO pro-
hiblt Chinese immigration.
Daniel NJ. Dickerson. for embezzlng
$4,000 of the Manufacturers Bank Of
Newark, n. j., has been sentenced TO
ten years. Imprisonment in the State
prison.
The New York military regiment are
arranging for grand ball for the benefit
Of the yellow fever sufferers. Lester
wallack proposes giving matinee at
his theatre for the same purpose.
The First National Bank Of Tama-
qua, Pa, the failure of which was
announced last Tuesday, was declared
solvent by the bank examiners. but it
is not yet known whether it will resume
business or not.
Mrs. Matte Farrell, aged GS, was
found horribly murdered in her houses
in Detroit, Mich, having a great cash
on the temple, the head and face batter
ed and the neck broken. Henry
Languade, her son, b. a former marri-
age, has been arrested gu suspicion.
Edison's recent invention, by which
electricity is expected to take the place
Of gass in every house, is sending down
the price ofgas stocks in New York.
New Yerk city Gas Company's stock
which sold at sSj about two months
ago, sold at auction at SIS.
The reports from the yellow fever dis
lricts in the South indicate a marked
decrease in the mortality, but there was
little or no abatement in the spread Of
the disease, Among those who died 10
Memphis wasJef'' Davis, Jr.. only son
Of jefferson Davis.
Lexington Gazette: The large barn o.
DR.. Zachariah McChesney, who lives
Just across the line OF Rockbridge, near
Mlddlebrook, Augusta county, was bur-
ned 10 the ground on Thursday last.
The barn contained 1000 bushels Of
wheat and a large quantity Of hay and
fodder, which was entirely consumed,
together with stable and corn crib
near it. His entire loss is estimated at
$4,000, upon which there was no insur-
ance.
At Meadville, Pa, Thursday morning,as
the funeral Of Professor L. D. William.
was about to leave the residence for
the church, and the friends were taking
leave Of the remains, his wife, aged six
ty, fell dead beside her husbands coffin.
1t is stated that General Kilpatrlck's
hired man, Hungarian, named Myers,
received, two weeks ago, the informa-
ton that property of SIS, 900 had fall
len to him, and draft of s5,O 900 in gold |
on Seligman Brothers. to defray his
expenses to Europe. He sailed last
week from New York, and, it is said,
will return to this country and purchase
the Fitzpatrick farm.
Stagle Bros, Greenfield, Ohio, run
ming a 1900 acre farm, have failed
Liabilities $4,000 assets 10 per cent
VIM Gum 81 Co., grain exporters,
suspended. Liabilities within
81, 500, 900. The Bank of Montreal
suffers largely, aud its stock has fallen
per cent.
Jefferson Davis, Jr., whose death in
Memphis from yellow fever has been an
bounced. Yves in Louisville few weeks
ince. He was then on his way South from
he North, in company with his married
lister. He was asked if he did not fear
0 return while the epidemic was atits {
worst; but nc replied that his sister