Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-07-09

county, Va, has recently been cleaned
out and is to be operated by Balti-
more company
Hon. Thos. Ewing, Of Ohio, is In
Richmond Oh business connected with
the proposed Richmond and Alleghaney
railroad.
Henry e. Cabell, of Richmond, APP
pointed cadet TO West Point 10y Gen.
Jos. f. Johnston, has passed his ex'
animation and entered upon cadet life.
Mrs. Frances d. Ross, wealthy
lady, was sitting in her carriage In front
Of her residence 10 New York when she
suddenly dropped dead. She was aged
Ct years.
Joseph Atkins, fruit gardener, near
Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pa
aged II, shot and killed his wife, aged
70, then put the gun under his chin and
fired, killing himself instantly. Atkins
had decided piece of property to his
wife, but wanted 1t back and their
quarrels about it are supposed to have
led to the tragedy.
At Moundsville, Marshall CO., w.
Va, at an early hour Saturday morning
last, difficulty occurred between VIM.
Bergin and Jacob Teetor, in which the
latter stabbed and killed the former
Teetor says he does not know what
cot into him; that Bergln came ur and
caught him by the coat collar, and that
he turned around and stabbed him.
James B. Miller, six-year-0ld
child. residing at Sinking Springs,
Berks county, wandered away from
home few days ago and was bitten by
a snake, from the effects of which it died
the next day.
Mr.. Henry Lorentz, of Frederick
county, has just thrashed go bushels
of Fultz wheat from y acres.
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette author
itatively announces that no further sur
rical operations are to be apprchended
on the eyes of Hon. J. Randolph Tuck
or, as the eye recently operated upon
will be all.suflicient for the work OF his
future life.
The marriage Of loving couple IN
Germany is being deferred because the
bride cannot prove that she was born,
her existence seeming not to answer
German legal requirements as to.proof'
The loss by the incendiarY fire at
Amherst, Mass, Friday, amounts 10
about sSj, 900, and includes the Amherst
House, post Office, savings bank, town
offices, the public library, enc OF the
largest livery stables IN Western Mas
sachusetts, TWO college society lodge
rooms and a number of stores.
On Friday last Capt. Appleton Oak
smith, with four daughters and one son.
embarked IN a small boat from Fort
Macon for Beaufort, y. e.. When
about half way across the sound the
boat filed and sunk. and tlo eldest
daughter was drowned. Passing boat
men rescued the balance ofthc patty IN
an exhausted condition, and The three
girls died the same evening.
Some of the sophomUres in the agri'
cultural college near Amherst, in Mas
sachusetts. are likely 10 be taught that
a college prank may be serious ohense.
A number OF them, a few nights ago.
carried from the college grounds a can
non and Ammunition, worth in all about
$4,000. As the property belonged to
the federal government, the on-nse was
not merely laughed at, but five OF the
perpetrators of the Joke were ar
rested and held in $500 bail each Tor
trial IN December.
The board of visitors of old William
and Mary College have unanimously
declined the proposition Of the Uni
versty of the South to remove William
AID Mary t. Suwan &c, and nm ttee
has Dcen appointed TO devise means
for raising $4,000 to extinguish the
present Indebtedness Of the college.
The Northwest has again been Wis.,
tied by a series of storms destructive to
life and property. The greatest damage !
seems to have been sustained in Min
nesota. where in one place, alone, the
little village of Vasa, church, an
orphan asylum aud several dwellings,
were destroyed, eight persons killed
and thirty injured, several severely.
In other parts Of the State, and also IN |
Iowa, Wisconsin and Dakota, dwell
in IS. barns and other property were
DESTROYED, and number OF lives lost
b. tumb'ing buildings aud by lightning.
Packages warranted to contain the
means of sure death for potato bugs,
without poison, were sold at fair IN
in Illinois. Each contained two blocks
ofwood, on one of which was written:
place the bug on this block and smash
him with the other"
W. +. Page, Of the Virginia Fish
Commission. has just placed 1000
Young black bass in the North Branch
of the Shenandoah river.
The wheat harvest in Louloun county
is over, aud the farmers are busily
engaged in housing the crop. The gen.
eral opinion is that while there is perhaps
not as much straw as in former years,
the heads are well filed and the wheat
Of superior quality.
The Lynchburg 'Virginian' is author
lied to contradict the report that Gen.
G. W. Gusts Lee has rendered his res
lgnatlon as president OF Washington
aDd Lee University, Lexington, and 1t
will probably be accepted.