Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-01-23

islature providing for a bureau oiimmi-
grafton for louisiana, and the appoint
ment of agents in the North and West,
the Sonth, Great Britain and the CONT
nent.
In Pittsylnania county, Va, last
week, Giles Johnson, aged seventeen
years, and Alice Richardson, aged
thirteen years, were married.
Tabitha Ann Cotton was OH Friday
last granted license to practice law in
New York. She passed highly crcdi-
cable examination. She is the first wo-
man granted a license in that State.
VIM. Johnston, of Pittsylvania co.,
began his Christmas morning at egg
nog drinking and started to run his horse
home. He was fonnd the next night
lying in the wood dead. having been
thrown against tree.
When the officers arrested Mrs. Lydia
Wlnso for Illicit distilling in Tazcwell
co.. Va. last week she refused to get
out ofbed and the officers had to put on
her clothing even to her shoes and stock
inss. before they could get her out.
Augusta Kabemann, poor boy oil
eighteen. receiving SO "a week as a drug
eisps clerk in st, Louis, has fallen heir
unexpectedly to the estate of an uncle
at San Francisco which is valued at
100000,
1t has been discovered in Plttsburg,
Pa. that less than a bakers dozen of
wholesale liquor dealers and brewers
have signed all the bonds Of the l.SOO
retail dealers in the county. One beer
brewer is or sixteen bonds for $4,000
each, and one liquor dealer is on two
hundred and twenty bonds.
John Asa Brown has just been ares
ted in South western Virginia for dis
char1ing five men from his employment
who voted iorIIayes aud Wheeler last
fall. Fees for the |. 5. officers you
see!
p. T. Banum. the prince ofshowmen
writes to friend: NO, my friend no
more new enterprises for me. | am
now doing the work Of ten men
and am sixly-cight. l am setting my
house iii order and shall be ready to
pass in my checks whenever required
Henry Daub, Of Wheeling, Va, once
wealthy. but married the last time to a
woman who held the purse strings her
SELF went out to his first wife's grave
The other nig'. and puta bullet through
bis heart
When Gen. sherman passed through
Cbcvenae on the Union Pacific road
lately. a rough-lookiug man Oh the plat
form remarked The list time l saw
sherman he was bareheaded and bare
footed. and running Ike sixty, with the
johnny Rebs after him." Where were
YOU ?" qucriod press representatives
-cbasjnn him. No" said the from
tjer,man. Il was ahead Of him, and
when l 90. into camp he wasn't in
sight"
The tallcst man in the United States
Is probably Henry Thurston. anatiyc OF
Missouri. now residing in Titus county,
Texas. and formerly Confederate SOL
der. who stands seven feet and six inch
cs in his bare feet. Barnum offered
him q large sum to Join his exhibition
but he declined.
4 Worcester war widow. now mar
ricd aeain. has just received from a
Louisiana Confederate soldier photo
grauh Of herself which she sent to he
husband who was killed before Peters
burr. and which was picked Up on the
battlefield.
\ telegram from Springfield, Mass
announces the death ofSamuel Bowles'
tho distinguished editor of the Spring
field Republican. Mr.. BowleS had been
i'll for some weeks with paralysis, and
his condition has been considered hope
less since the attack, His death takes
from the independent journalism Of the
country one ofits best and most conser-
vatyc writers.
The Ohio House has passed a resolu-
lion in favor of the reconciliation OF
silver. and asserting that President
HAYES and Secretary Sherman in their
opposition to the resolution ofthe silver
dollar, do not represent the views nor
wishes Of the OHIO people.
AT Moundsyille, W, Va, last week
the clothing ofllrs. Sarah w. Tomlin-
son caught frc from the stove, when she
iumned INTO the cistern, but there being
no water in it, and being too deep for
her TO cat out. she was burned to 4
crisp. She died in an hour after
The county comptroller OF Allegheny
Pa, makes the following esti'
mate of the loss by the riots; Strictly
private property, e36O,OO0; mixed prop
erty. including freights, *l,lOO,OOO;
strictly railroad property, $l,l5o,ooo :;
total. 81. 100000
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad a
line Of 400 miles. extending from Rich
mond to the OHIO River at Huntington
West Virginia, is advertised to be sold
on the 9nd OF April.
The expenses Of SANKEY'S great
African tour were $4,000, borne