Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-05-22
Wednesday May 80. 1878
News Items.


The men in the car-shops at West
Troy, n. Y, are working twelve 10
sixteen hours day to complete orders
from all parts of the world.
Mr.. Joseph Segar is trying to get pay
as senator from Virginia by reason OF
his election BY the Alexandria Leglsla-
ture.
An earthquake at Qua, in Venezuela,
killed COO persons. Heavy shocks were
felt at Caracas. The heat at Laguavra
Is intense, and the health Of the city is
bad. There are but few vessels IN port.
Business is stagnant.
Further reports from Port Jeryis, y.
y, state that the heavy frOsts Of the
past four nights have been very dlsas-
trous to growing crops, that gardens
Will have to be replanted, and it is fear
ed peaches, pears and grapes are almost
entirely destroyed.
A body Of strangers are reported rs
encamped in the woods near North
Troy. Vermont. They are all Irish,
well dressed, and accessions are hourly
arriving, going to show that there Is
some foundation for the apprehensionS
OF Fenian raid.
The number Of pounds OF tobacco
consumed in the manufacture Of cigars
IN Florida last year was 72S,5O4, pro-
ducing nearly o9,OoO,OOO cigars, the
internal revenue tax on which was
sl7o,2Ol.
The Haserstown Woman thinks the
recent cold snap failed to do any serious
damage to the growing crops in Wash
ington county. The vegetables, how
ever. suffered severely.
In New York, on Saturday. the
clothing ofMrs. Abraham j. Cole. who
was married two days previous, WAS
set on fire by the explosion Of can Of
liquid polish, and before assistance
could reach her she was fatally burned
dying on Sunday.
James jameson, a man sevcntyyea
old. attempted to cross the railroad
track at Long Run. Doddrldge county,
W. Va, Thursday morning. in front Of
the express train The engine struck
him and he fell under the wheels and
was inatantly killed.
Joseph Gordtn, an alleged counter
feiter. who has figured quite extensively
in Philadelphia and Baltimore, was ar
rested in Philadelphia yesterday, and
committed in default Of $1,000 bail.
William Mckinney, Of Princess Anne
county. seeded last fall on his farms in
that county 1900 bushels Of wheat,
averaging one and quarter bushels to
the acre. Present prospects indicate
that he Will raise 10000 bushels Of
wheat.
II will be remembered that Senator
Conkling early in the session introdu-
ced resolution OF inquiry into the
Presidents right to restore Benjamin
P. Runkle to the rank of major IN the
army. and his motive was generally
supposed to be characteristic desire to
spite" Mr.. Hayes. The resolution
was referred to the judiciary committee,
which, it is now said, has agreed to re-
port that the Presidents action was
unauthorized by law.
A Bradford Pa.) dispatch states that
another heavy frost destroyed all the
fruit in the valleys in that section
Wednesday night.
The New York Times has specials
from large number Of important points
in the North and " st concerning the
damage done to the crops BY the recent
irosts, from which ii appears that while
hardly any section escaped the vista
ton, the loss will be confined chiefly to
small fruits and early vegetables. The
general effect of the cold snap is to
nut back the crops a week or two.
The trial of Rev. Geo. V. VOsburg,
pastor Of the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church, Jersey City Heights, is in pro-
gress in the Hudson County (N. j.
Court. lie is charged with poisoning
his wife under peculiarly atrocious cir
cumstances. The case eXcites extraor-
binary interest, aud the courthouse is
thronged to excess with spectators.
The Williams & Guion steamer
Wyoming, which sailed to-day, took
out sixty-eight head OF horses for the
English government, part Of an order
being filled by Isaac Mehrbach, Of Nos.
l52 and l54 East Twenty fourth street.
Fifty more will be shipped tomorrow,
aud thirty on Saturday. Seventy were
shipped on Thursday last, and thirty
five on Saturday. They arc purchased
in various parts Of the country, and are
generally large farm-horses.
A rope walker collected 81 from a
crowd that had catered IN Catasauqua,
Pa, to see him perform. He spent the
money in barroom, and was drunk
when the time came for his feat. The
rope was stretched across a street from
the roofs of two houses. He started
uusteadily, reached the centre, and fell.
His recovery is improbable.
A special train Of fourteen cars on
the Port Royal railroad was thrown
from the track last Saturday morning at