Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-08-06
News Items.

| fly, Of Marietta.
At Norfolk, Va, Saturday, a colored
man named Henry White was drowned
while attempting to board o sloop.
VIM. Fitzpatrick and Edward Ryan,
dock hands, had fight at Chicago,
saturday, and, tumbling into the river,
were drowned.
Mrs. Mary McDermott, of Hemstead'
IL. l., fell out Of a window Of her resi-
dence on Thursday, and received inju-
ries from which she died.
Mrs. G. w. Whitaker, Of Richmond,
Iva, was thrown from a buggy last
week in James City county, and recelv-
ed injuries which resulted in her death.
Jas. w. Walsh, a letter-carrier, has
been arrested in Detroit, Mich, for
robbing the mails. He confessed that
he has been rifing registered letters for
two years.
Two huckleberry pickers on Broad
Mountain, Schuylkill county, were put
to flight Tuesday by couple OF bears.
They lost their breath-they ran so
bard-but not their lives.
wv. DENNIS, employed on the new
trestle of the B. and o. r. R. at Little
Seneca river, washington county, had
his hand badly crushed on Tuesday by
fellow.wolkman' hammer.
Mrs. Howard, wife Of Rev. Mr.. How
ard. minister of the Episcopal Church
of Dundaff. Pa, committed suicide
by drowning herself in the Lackawanna
river. Insanity was the cause.
New York reporters have unearthed
the son of the King of Sarony, or gen.
tleman who says he is, which is almost
as good. He goes by the name OF Fer
dinand Albert Gustaye Rueiger, which
is long enough fof kings son.
It is stated the Dominion government
has determined not to renew the order
in council prohibiting the importation
Of American cattle in the five eastern
provinces. The present order will ex-
piro on the 9th OfSeptember.
A negro uamed Thomas Ellsworth
Freeman committed an outrage on
x.year-old daughter of VIM. II. Willis,
near Williamsburg Station, on the Penn
sylyania railroad, near Pittsburg, and
though he has been holly pursued by
an Infatuated mob, made good his es,
cape.
The Dover authorities are vigorously
executing the tramp law. Twenty
tramps have already been incarcerated
IN the county jail.
The Ohio republican State executive
committee have received a challenge
from the OHIO greenback Commute ask
inc that Chas. Foster engage in a seS
ries of JOINT debates with either ex-Gov'
Chas. Anderson, w. NJ. Cory or Dom
Piatt. The challenge has been accep'
ed. and meetings will hereafter be ar
ranged at prominent points.
Mr.. Samuel A. Hatcher, OF Peters
burg, Va, is reported ill of yellow lever
in Memphis. This is the third time he
had yellow fever. He was very i'll 10
1873 in Memphis, and was sick again
during the epidemic OF last year.
Frank Ogden, newsboy on the New
Jersey Central railroad, was drowned
Wednesday at Bound Brook, n. j"
while bathing in the canal.
Henry Myers and Peter Wykof, OF
of New York, while out cunning tor
woodcock in Pike county. last week,
came across nest of rattlesnakes, and
claim to have killed thirty-eight fine big |
fellows. This Is more snakes than has
been developed in the worst case report
this summer.
The Bangor (Me.) democrat county
convention nominated straight demo-
cratic ticket, refusing almost unanimous
ly to await the action Of the grecnback
convention. A greenbsck meeting was
held IN the afternoon and another in the
evening, at which speeches were made
by leading greenbackers.
A rowboat containing a pleasure par
ty Of five persons, named VIM. Guise,
Geo. Kenyon, Mrs. John Dunnigan,
Miss Kate Koran and Miss Jessie Gould
was run into by the schooner Hayes,
in the Raritan river, about Is miles from
New Brunswick, n. j. The boat was
capslzed, and two ladies, Mrs. John
Dunnigan and Miss Kate Koran were
drowned. Their bodies were not recov-
cred.
Mr.. Ca.tleman, near Russell Springs,
Kentucky, is the father of child eleven
months old that weighs sixtytive pounds
and a half, and growing at the rate OF
six pounds per month. 1t Is perfectly
healthy and as active as other children
of its age. At birth it weighed but nine
pounds.
The Memphis correspondent, OF the
New Y ork Times, says that on Thurs
day a flock of Al sandhill cranes flew
to the city from the surrounding country
and, after circling above the city for two
or three minutes, started for the South.
An old negro standing near remarked
that it was a sign Of the destruction. of
city. and called on all folks present to
mark his prediction.
Mrs. Simmons, resident OF Miners