Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-11-19

washed away from the wagon aud gain
ed the shore, but his wife and daughters
were drowned.
Thos. Truitt, Of Wicomico county,
was killed by the falling OF a tree on
Sunday morning last. He was hunting
coons during the night and had cut
down the tree. In falling it caught on
another tree. Truitt ran under and
was crushed by the tree suddenly fall
ing.
On one day last week between Elmira
and New York there were sixty miles
of eastern bound freight cars, heavily
laden, in motion at one time.
Wood county, W. Va. has shipped
this fall 10000 pounds Of grapes, be-
sides the quantity sold athome, yielding
in all 10000.
Three HUNDRED and fifty wcevils and
but three grains Of wheat were found i'll
the crop of a yellow bird shot by a
Maine farmer.
The stove and hollowwarc works at
Bowers Ford, Montgomery county, Pa.
have more orders than they can attend
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p,ne.tree cones. containing the seed,
are being exported in large quantities
to Europe from British Columbia.
Moses Taylor sand he has had $1,000
600 worth of coal stocks locked upin his
safe for the past year.
The farmers OF the Northwest have
made from $7OOOO,OOO alO0,OOO,oOo
by the rise in the price Of gram this
season.
Fifty-lhree cotton mills in operation
in North Carolina consumed last year
IS, 484 bales Of cotton.
Seven nail machines in littsburs
have a producing capacity OF l'O65'54'
kegs per year.
Warren county. Mss. IN three years
and nine months has reduced her IN
debtedness $ll4,095.
Chicago kills six hogs for every mi1-
ute Of every hour Of every day III the
year.
Corn is selling at S! cents bu'hel at
Quincy, Florida.
Superintendent Walker says he Will
complete the work OF taking the nationa!
census in one monlh-June-HeXt year
and that the total cost Will be about 4j,-
ooo. 900. About 20 900 persons will be
employed. General Walker has the
plan of his work all mapped out, and
there is universal confidence expressed
in his ability to do all he processes.
The totol amount Of gold and silver
in the world in 1892 is estimated TO
have been 5000, 100000. Tms year the
production alone OF these metals VIII
be about sl35, 100000. Of which sum
the United States will furnish about
e75, 900, 900.
Gen. Garfield has been ovcrhauling
the opinion OF the republican members
of the OHIO Legislature, and finds he
lacks at least seven votes Of enough to
secure the domination of the caucus.
Being asked in regard 10 bis presi'
dental favoute, Mr. John Kelly Is
quoted as responding: 'Tammany
Hall is very much divided as TO tie
best man. Speaking for myself alone,
il seems to me it will be either Union
general. like Hancock, or an eminent
civilian, like Bayard. twill be nobody S
tool"
In Southwestern Virginia chestnu's
are selling at % cents bushel.
The Canada Southern railroad is
gre atty embarrassed On account OF tie
low stage Of water in the Detroit river
at The Crosse Isle crossing. The watt
has fallen in au extraordinary manner,
and. unless, there Is a rise soon, there
is great danger of freight blockade.
Miss Hof, Of Cincinnati, who shot
Scheurer, her seducer, was discharged
Yesterday, after examination before the
magistrate.
There is at present considerable dis
cusslon among Minnesota farmers in re-
gard to sowing winter wheat on Tic
pralrles. Conflicting opinions are enter
tanned, but there is dsp position among
them to give it a fair trial.
The Seminole Indians in the South OF
Florida have threatened to kill young
boy of their number, known as Little
Billy, because he persists in going to
school al Fort Myers and learning to
read, write and speak English They
denounce HIM as deserter from his
tribe. The Key West Key says thai
the indians must be taught that their
tribal laws will not be tolerated in
Florida. and that they can ostraclsc
Little Billy if they choose, but if they
| kill him the tribe "will be destroyed as
the prairie grass before the summe +
fires" for their conduct would be resist
ed by every citizen in the southern part
Of the State.
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