Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-01-08
News Items

The Anditor recommends q change
of the Constitution so "a to make the
capiiation tax S2to be devoted exclusive
" to The support Of the Public Schoo S.
and that az increase of % cents on the
the 800 till such amendment
shall go into effect.
Mr.. Bruce. the colOrod Senator from
Mississippi, has rented one Of the most
elegant mansions in Washington city.
and Mrs. Bruce was "at home" on the
first of the new year and received a large
number Of calls-among them II mum.
Der ofwnitc ladies in high life.
S.M. Smalls, (|Old sly of the At
lanta Constitution, was set upon BY a
crowd Of ruiiaus in Atlanta on Christ
mas day and most cruelty hurt. He
made gallant defense. but was struck
down BY persons who sought to punl'h
him for something he had writ en-. He
now lies critically i'll.
The life insurane of the late Hen.
Beverly B. Douglas is understood to
he a considerable sum, and his dru h.
ters are left in a comfortable condition.
The Richmond correspondents sTy
the next L. S. Senatorshlp is being dis
cussed there and John w. Daniel. Jas,
Barbour. r. Z. Withers. VIM. Malone,
II. c. Allen and Elk Gov. Kemper are
the gentlemen chiefly named.
Hon. Morton McMchael. senior
editor and proprietor OF the Philadelphia
North American. an ex-naJ or Of that
city, died Monday evening Of heart
disease.
AT Carbon, Wyoming, Sunday night
a party Of masked men broke into a
baggage car took out and hung TO q
telegraph pile Dutch Charley, nOto-
rious character and one Of the murderers
of the widow Fields. He was being
taken to Rawlins for trial.
( Sixteen years ago Frederick Eckert. a
private soldier in a New Jersey regi-
ment, was pierced by a Confederate
minnie ball at the second battle Of Bull
Run. Since then it has been gradually
moving around his side until Saturday
il touched the vital point, when he died.
The Legislature OF South Carolina
has repealed lis law Of divorce. and
thore is now no law in that State by
which divorce for any cause can he
obtained.
DR.. 5. T. Brooks was found dead in
his room, at Greenville, H.. with one
hand roasted and q large hole burned
in the floor. Appearances indicate the
/ explosion of his lamp. but the fire had
zone out evidently for the want Of air.
The doctor had humorous friends and
relatives at the East.
!. At Shamokin, Pa. Katie Royle. a
child. was burned TO death bv her
clothes taking fire, and at fremont,
Pa, a little daughter Of John Core WI S
clicked TO death by a walnut kernel.
Jacob Van Ieuson. aged sixiy-two
years, went out at Albany, n. Y,
Friday night, to dig grave and was
found Saturday morning in the cemetery
frozen to death.
At an entertainment in GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. New Years night, $50 persons
were taken violently i'll. some miscreant
having mixed croton oil with the food.
Charles Langley and one o! his chill
dren we're fatally burned by a lamp
explosion at Nlcholasville, Ky. Satur-
day; another child was seriously burned
and The house was burned doSn.
Ex Governor Bravo. who headed the
rising in Collma. Mexico, has been
killed. with fourteen of his followers.
As snow-plow, eriven by five
engines, was pushing through the snow
on the New York Central railroad, near
Batavia. yesterday, four engines left
the track and two Of them, it is said,
exploded. One fireman, named ThOs.
Tawlers, was Caught under an engine,
and his leg Ind to be cut off in order to
extricate him. 1t is believed he will
die. Five Others were injured more or
less.
Stephen A. and George NJ. Skinner,
brothers, Pullman car detectives on the
/ Canada hprs, met yesterday at Bostoa
10 settle up some business. An angry
conversation arose, during which
stephen drew revolver and fired at his
brother, the ball taking effect on the
left slde Of the nose, close to the eye.
George then chased Stephen into the
bnard-room. pistol in hand, when
stephen fired another shot without tax.
ING effect. Georges wound is not
necessarily dangerous. Stephen was
arrested.
There IS a daily increase Of the pop.
ular distress in every quarter OF En-
Gland. New collicry and railroad
strikes are developing, nevertheless.