Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-03-26
News Items.

pine, caught up by the wind and carried
from southern or New Jersey forests.
An alteration IN the Planters Ho.
tel, at Levenworth, Mo-, Monday, be-
tween D. B. Smith and o. B. Satin
resulted in the former being fatally
shot and the latter being slightly woun-
ded with Ratchet thrown by Smith
who was the aggressor.
1t is understood that the splendid
villa at Newport, r. l., built by Nathan
Matthews six years ago at a cost o
sl20, 900, and purchased year ago at q
mortgage sale by the Savings Bank o.
Newport ha, been sold to Keene, The
great California broker, for sos, 900.
A family of seyen persons named
Stanley, near Terre Haute, Ind, were
poisoned Sunday by eating food in
which poisonous plant had been acct
dentally cooked. Thos. Stanley, the
father, is dead; the others are very ill.
An unknown boy,aged about Is years
was found al Cohoes, n. Y, near the
New York Central railroad track, fro
zen to death.
In an alteration near Hinton. W.
Va, Monday, a man named Wilburn
shot and killed George Farley, whom
he accused of being too intimate with
his (Wilburn's) wifes At Big Bend
Tunnel, w. Va. on the same day, Page
Edwards entered his house, dragged his
wife, with baby in her arms, from her
bed and shot her three times in the
body, causing her almost instant DEATH
Mr.. p. Hendrckson, of Locust Hill,
a stock farm near Milllngton, Kent
county. Nd, has a calf which, when
one day old, weighed "a pounds, one
week old l02 pounds, two weeks Old
lis pounds; three weeks old l9S pounds;
four weeks old l6O pounds. The calf is
pure Hereford, and was bred by DR.. w,
Fl. De Courcy, of Wye Neck, Queen
Anne's county, Md. The mother was
purchased of DR.. De Courcy in Septem'
Der, 1878, by Henry Cray Hendriekson,
son of 2. Hendrickson.
In New York, Surrogate Calvin rem
dered his decision in the long-litigated
contest over the will of the late Com
modoIe Vanderbilt. His opinion is
that the probate of the will and codlcll
should in all things be confirmed.
At Homecoming, Nd, Tuesday morn
ing, young girl named Mary KEELING
attempted to cross the railroad track IN
front of train. She caught her foot in
a frog, fell in the middle OF the track,and
the train passed over her, cutting of
both legs. She has since died.
In January. 1877, Golly Boudar, a
young man living near Memphis, Tenn.
killed man in cold blood and ran off
with his daughter, whose marriage with
him the father opposed. He left the
girl at a neighbours and escaped. but
was arrested in Texas and brought back.
He has just been adjudged insane, and
will be put IN the lunatic asylum at
Nashville.
At Starkvlle, Mss, Tuesday night,
Thos. J. Wood, a prominent attorney,
was MORALLY shot BY VIM. Gilmer, coll
ored. Wood had caned GilIner last
week for using insulting language in the
presence of his wife. Gilmer made
public threats of killing Wood, and shot
him as he stepped into the back yard.
Gilmer was lying IN ambush. He has
fed.
An lncendary fire destroyed all OF the
town of Piueyille, county seat OF Sc
Donald county, Mo-, yesterday morn
Ing, except the court house, one hotel
and two business houses,
Lowenthal's dollsr store, Davidson x
Sons grocery store and Hofman's
hardware store, at Vicksburg, Miss,
were burned Tuesday night. Loss
about 100000.
A forged check on a New York bank
for $500 was passed on the Central n a
tional Bank at Columbia, S. e., yester-
day, Dy man giving the name of James
Z. Kingsley, Thursday, who escaped on
north bound train before the fraud was
discovered. He travelled with young
woman whom he called his daughter.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean believes
Thurman. AS a democratic preslden-
tial candidate, is gaining ground in
the South, and Tilden stock stock Is On
the Decline"
1t is said that ex-C Congressman A. ).
Hewitt Is In Washington in Mr. Tilden' s
interest, working to haye the extra
session of Congress as brief as possible.
The Cincinnati Enquirer warns Mr..
Blaine that if he "has any relations
living around in Indiana he had better
file his papers and put in squatter's
claim on that State. Colfax has been
skipping around the State pretty lively
within the past few months.
rhere arc fifty-fve cities in the
Northern States that have population
Of 20, 900 and upwards in which United
States deputy marshals may be APP
pointed to take control Of elections.
There are fourteen such cities in the
South.
The late Duke of Newcastle is said to
have insured his life In different Offices
to the astonishing amount OF 81. 500, 900.