Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-05-07

Frank Devlin, the victim ofthe Phe.
nixyile tragedy, once promised the
priest of bis parish to abstain from the
use Ofllquors Of all kinds for a period OF
TWO years. He kept his promise. The
time of the pledge expired on Saturday,
which was also Franks birthday. He
| went on roaring celebration OF both
events, and was killed in the heat OF 1t.
A woman aud her two or three little
children were found starving to death
IN Pottsville the other day. The Min
ers' Journal says: 1.-The family had
had nothing but q little dry bread 10 eat
Tor three days, and had not tasted meat
for as many weeks"
Robert Anderson, white, aud Chas.
Webster, colored, will be hanged at
Louisville, KY, June 81, the former Tor
| wife murder, the latter TOR outraging a
girl under twelve years of age.
During the past two weeks o,27s,667
pounds OF leaf tobacco were sold in the
Danville Va, warehouses, realizing
s!42, 800 cash.
A number ofthe principal bar rooms
| in Norfolk, Va, were closed, the keep
ers having been refused licenses for not
properly ringing the Mofett bell punch.
The licenses may be renewed this
month.
Winter Payne, colored, fOrfi'ling Jas.
Adams, near Salem, Fauquler county,
Va, on April Is, was tried at Warren
ton, Va, and the jury brought n a ver'
dict Of murder in the first degree.
Miss Addie Austin, an equestrienne
with Cooper, Bailey l. Co.'s circus, Tell
from her horse during the performance
at York, Pa, and had her leg broken.
Mrs. Rebecca May, Of Hagerstown'
daughter Of Mr.. John Gruber, Of " Cru
Der Almanac j." same, died last week,
aged SO years.
A San Francisco Juror, who offered to
sell his veto for $500 to save the prison.
err, a woman, from the penalties Of her
crime, has been sentenced to four years.
Imprisonment in the State prison.
Five hundred men now have constant
employment in the Harrisburg (Pa.) car
shops. The Car company is receiving
carloads Of timber and iron, and boat
loads of the best lumber the sunny South
can produce, much of 1t being North
Carolina yellow and white pine.
During the recent session Of the NJ.
p. Conference, Rev. S. D. Treadway, a
widower, now stationed at Cumberland,
became acquainted with Miss Nellie
Palmer, an inmate Of the homo to which
he was assigned. There was a case OF
love at 6rssts-ss;ight, the parties became
engaged in three$sys, and they were
married in BallimdSe last week. So
says the Centreville Observer.
A fire at Carbon Hill, near Pittsien,
Pa, at la. M. yesterday, destroyed II
house owned and occupied by0p L.
Keogh and his five children. A son,
aged IL, and daughter OF Is years,
were burned to death. Mr.. Keogh had
his face and hand terribly burned in
his efforts to rescue his children. His
Youngest child, aged FIVE years, had his
head and arms badly burned, and his
recovery is doubtful. Keogh had no
insurance on his property.
A Mrs. Gates, supposed to have died
in confinement, was buried at Proctor
vile, twenty miles above Irontop,
Ohio, Saturday. Her brothers, suspect
ing foul play, asked tor an investigation
by the coroner and the arrest OF DR..
Gates, her husband. The latter drove
back the constable with a revolver, took
to the river, compelled the ferryman to
carry him across. drove back pursuer
who followed in skif, and escaped TO
Kentucky.
James A. Harrott, John G. Maxwell,
alias WIN. Maxwell, and John n. Daily
have been arrested 10 New York charg.
ed with forging bounty applications. Ii
lie said that the ring to which they are
alleged to belong has dcfrauded the
government OF over 100000.
A man lately murdered woman in
London whom he lid not know, and
for no reason that he could give, exS
cept that he was tired Of life. He
started out with the aycwed purpose Of
killing somebody, and he seems not to
have cared who his Victim might be.
An inmate Of the Columbia Wis.
county jail named Wood, committed for
burglary, has escaped, taking. along
with him the sheraos daughter, aged l6.
The sheriff says it is case of abtluc-
ton. The general opinion is that it
Was an eiopement.
Near Bethel Academy. Fauquier
county, Va, on Thursday night. Benz.
F. Smith was painfully wounded in the
breast by load Ofshot fred from gun
in the hands OF his insane son, Eustis
Smith.
KoSTOS. May A-The funeral of little