Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-04-10
News Items.


Scranton, Pa, is soon to erect mill
400 feet long that will employ 400 hands
in thread-making. The business comes
to Scranton from Massachusetts because
coal can be had very cheaply and all
other requisites at rs low price as
elsewhere.
The increase in the export OF cheese
from this country during the last seven
teen years has been extraordinary. In
1860 the amount was only l5,5l5.799
pounds, while IN 1877 it had increased
to the enormous aggregate Of lO7, 364.-
Gee pounds.
The residence OF Capt. NJ. w. Strcther
in Madison county. Va, and nearly all
ofits contents was destroyed by an
accidental fire on Monday night last.
\ prize fight with gloves, for large
sum, was fought in new York by Rob-
bins. a Wall street broker, and Ochl-
richs, well known shipping agent.
Both were terrible punished, and the
latter was declared the winner.
Michigan religious item: The Rev.
William Baker, the pastor, being i'll, the
people were determined not to be Who'll
ly disappointe and organized a
greenback club"
4 young Philadelphian wen the lovely
daughter Of wealthy merchant upon
representing that he was making SlOO
a day. They were married and it has
since been discovered that he does make
that handsome sum. but it is in the mint.
where his salary is sl4 per week.
Within the past eighteen months nc
less than eight persons have been lynch
ed by armed mobs upon the soil Of
West Virginia.
y New York doctor says that per-
son with a sore throat shouldn't kiss
one whose throat is all right, as the
complaint can be communicated. Girls
with sore throats should wear bell.
Twent y.fve young men IN Culpeper
put down their names for the Brazilian
expedition. That night they went
around to bid their girls goodbye, and
the next day they all concluded that the
climate in Brazil was not healthy, and
backed out.
The Moffet bell punch is going The
rounds. New York. New jersey, North
Carolina and Pennsylvania are at pres
ent considering it.
At noon yeste rday it was announced
that the engineers and fremen on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ferailroad
had struck all along the line from
Atchison and Kansas City to Pueblo.
As rule the trains were run to the end Of
the division. and there abandoned. There
was but little disturbance among the
men. Trains were sent out east and
south manned by employees Of the ma
chine shops and others. The sherifi's Of
Shawnee and Lyon counties accsmpan.
ed the trains.
Much effort was made to prevent the
substituted men from working. but ne
absolute violence offered. The officers
of the company are resolute, and de-
clare that they will find men to run the
trains, and will not employ the strikers
again. The freight traffic on the cas-
tern division trans are moving as US
ual. The strikers complain of INSULT
cient wages and ILL treatment.
Clemens Floyd, forty years of age,
in BIT OF Jealousy this morning shot and
fatally injured his wife and then fired
three shots at himself, from the effects
Of which he died shortly after.
Gen. Joe Lane, democratic candidate
Tor Vicc-President Oh the ticket with
Breckenridge, in 1860, is now hearty
'etern Of seyenty-scven years. enjoying
life at his home. in Douglas county,
Oregon.
Five hundred tons of ice have been
.arried over the Virginia Midland
railroad in the past week, from Alexan
ina to Iynchburg.
Sergeant Bates, who carried the
american flag through the Southern
tates unframed, was knocked down
nd robbed of diamond and $37, at
ibson City, ILL.,. few nights since,
y a couple Of ruilians. Whether he
as carrying the flag when assaulted is |
ot stated.
1t is expected that the W. C.. & st. =
. Narrow Gauge II. r. will be graded /
Falls Church within thirty days. I