Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-06-26
News items.

uTtu lnllllOu UuSuclS-lhC iulSOo1 S'SA
produced In the United States. 1t is
believed the yield per acre last year was
was greater than it will be this year, but
the average Of wheat is much greater
this year.
Gev. Mathews,of West Virginia, is
confident that there will be no labor in.
surrection IN his State this summer.
He says that the re lations between en-
ployers and workmen are Of the pleas
ATTEST sort, and that the latter are toe
law-abiding and intelligent to have theil
wrongs redressed save by legal meas
ures.
A military company has been organ
lied at Shepherdstown, w. Va, will
John H. little, editor Of the Register, "a:
captain.
Gen. Beverly Robertson, the ex-Con-
federate cavalryman, was summoned t.
West point, n. Y, as witness in the
Fitz John Porter court-martial.
A salt Lake husband asked for d.
vorce because his wife had not informed
him before their marriage that one OF
her arms was badly Scared.
Howard Miller, the Thinker minister
Of Pennsylvania, who recently made a
tour of the Valley Of Virginia, writes
home that the kindness and courtesy he
received leads him to believe that the
northern man who benaves himself, in
the ordinary acceplaton Of the term, will
find a pleasant home among the people
of Virginia"
A Bridgeport man sang and played a
guitar for an hour before his sweetheart.
house, the other evening. Then his
rival appeared at the window and thank.
ed him for the serenade.
It's now believed at Madison, Wis,
that the reports Of Indian troubles in
Burnett county, in that State, are SEN
sational, and have very little lounda-
ton.
The Washington correspondent of the
Utica Herald says that the Potter Com
mlttee have six weeks work before
them ere the investigation is ended
The same correspondent asserts that the
President has had some sharp words
with Secretary Sherman because the lat
ter did not deny instantly that he wrote
the alleged letter to Anderson.
D"c'. u Wv '-e~-l...,, Cnperinten-
ent Of public instruction in Pennsyiva-
MIA, has been appointed by Gov. Hart
ranft commissioner on the part Of that
State to inquire and examine into the in
dustrial schools and systems of general
and technical education in the various
Of Europe.
Pearson and Sadler, who 1t is supposed
outraged the person Of Mrs. Groves
near Mitchellville. Tenn, May 16,
were taken from the Springfield (Tenn. }
jail at one O'Clock Thursday morning
by one hundred armed men unchanged.
They protested their innocence to the
last.
-Four hundred Of the SIX hundred
coopers in Chicago went on strike
Thursday for an advance ofwages. The
rate fixed last February, and prevailing
since then, is thirty cents per barrel.
The cOopers' union voted to assist them
ID their strike.
\ Large Colony of Germans has
settled in Tyler county, Texas, where
they are putting a farm of 10000
acres under one fence. The residences
of the colonists are built together in
town plat as in Germany. They have
with them doctors, merchants, black
smiths, ETC., and are perfectly ndepen-
dent.
A man committed suicide by jump
ing from a ferryboat at Philadelphia,
Saturday night. 1t was thought to have
been Geistlich, the murderer, but the
captain of the boat, on being shown a
photograph Of Geistlich, was positive he
was not the man. The slip tender
thought the picture looked something
like him.
The Western Nebraskian says: There
will be about half billion of dollars
worth Of cattle shipped over the Union
and Pacific railroad this season to the
East; and is not the business Of sufi-
cient value to give it some protection?
Allowing the steers to be worth 800
each on the range. this would give -,
500, 900 cattle to be shipped from that
region. Again allowing 10 cattle 10 the
car, it would require G25.00O cars to
transport them, or 90, 1893 trains of 30
cars each, or about 70 trains a day for
every working day in the year. Tho350,
900 credit to the Texas drive, and those
already shipped would be but drop in
the bucket, to say nothing about the en-
tire number of cattle contained in the
whole country. The whole number Of
cattle, of every kind, young and old,
according to the census of 1870, was 3d.
$40, sos. Nebraska is fertile and al
so great State, so far as territory is con-
cerned. The actual number carried by
the Union and Pacific out Of Nebraska
for the year will show this statement to
have been drawn with a very flexible
string TO the bow.