Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-09-10

The Dick farm, 80 acres, IN CarOllne
county, has been sold to VIM. G. HOrsey
for s2,430.
Anderson Carver shot and killed his
wife in Allen county, and then blew his
own brains out.
At Hagerstown, Md, on the out
skirts Of Coles cTcuis, citizen o.
Washington county was fleeced out Of
$3.50 by three-card monte dealer.
Three men, under arrest for the lar
ceny ola saddle in MendocIno county,
Cal, on Wednesday were hanged by a
mob.
Great damage by the storm is re-
ported from Baton Rouge, La. The
cotton and corn crops especially have
suffered much. Twenty mules were
killed in q sugar-house.
The wife Of Lew Benedict. the negro
minstrel, has obtained a divorce in
Milwaukee. She is the daughter of a
Methodist minister, and lately inheri.
ted $40, 900.
Mr.. surgeons church, in London,
employs Seighty colporteurs, who,
within one year, have visited $4,000
families and gwen away lG2,00O tracts
and sold $4,000 worth Of good books.
Speaker Alyord, of the New York
Legislature, who goes every summer
to the St. Lawrence river to fish, has
80 far this season caught 2,lCo black
bass and l,l76 other fish.
The wife Of Mr.. Blackburn Hughes,
OF Martinsburg, w. Va. died suddenly
Tuesday of congestion OF the BRAIN
An hour before her death she was in
excellent health.
J. II. Dickerman, ofCarolne county
will put up the present season about
1900 gallons Of grape WI ne, from vines
be planted ten years ago on land which
Was too poor TO raise corn.
Six weeks ago the wife Of ex-Sherifl
William II. Kern, of Philadelphia, vas
bitten By a pet dog. On Tuesday last
symptoms Of hydopbobla appeared, and
at / O'Clock she died IN great agony.
Clark Brown, whose father aud sister
were murdered IN their home, at West
Winchester, Ont, on Sunday night last,
has confessed to the murder. He claims
to have been the victim Of an uncon-
kollable impulse.
One hundred and seventy Mennonlte
families have become discouraged in
trying to farm the wet lands in the
Trout river settlement, Manitoba and
and intend emigratiDg west OF Red river,
near the international boundary line.
James McParlau, alias McKenna, the
famous Mollie Mcguire detective, was
married IN quiet way on Monday last
at St. Joseph's Church, Chicago, TO Miss
Nary Asp Fitzgerald, daughter of the
captain Of P,vsrOn's fogce Of that
city.
Charles tDemond, late treasurer Of
the massachusetts Home Mission arv
Society, was arrested being charged
with embezzlement. Various irregu-
larities Ia Demond's official conduct
were discovered last spring and an ex-
animation of the books is sand to show
that the amount of the delalcatiOn is
between 100000 and $50, 900.
BY the fall of scaffolding at the new
Opera House building, at LeayenwOrth
Kansas, on Thursday afternoon four
men were precipitated to the basement
floor, sixty feet below. Charles Brown
and VIM. Yokum, the latter the con-
tractor for the building, were probably
fatally injured. Archie Turn err had q
leg broken and a shoulder disclocated,
and Hugh Mulyeny, a boy of l6 years,
was only slightly injured.
In addition to the subscription Of $3.50
from Inman. Swami & Co., OF New
York, to the fund for the children Of the
late Gen. Hood, the members of the
New York Cotton Exchange subscribed
1890. Contributions are coming in
freely at Richmond, Va, and the CUES Is
at Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
yesterday raised 1900. The Louisiana
division of the Association of the Army
Of Northern Virginia and Army Of
Tennessee have appointed a committee
10 receive contributions.
Hunterstown, a village five miles
northeast of Gettysburg, Pa, was last
Thursday visited by cyclone, which
totally demolished the Methodist church,
badly injured the school buildings and
'unroofed a number of dwelling houses
and other buildings ia the town aud VII
entity. The path Of the storm was only
about six feet wide, and ran in an irreg.
Mar direction between north and south.
The cloud was fnnn FL shaped.
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