Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-02-26
Valley News.

with good improvements. Cheap.
The property, known as the Bank o.
Winchester. was sold Monday, by spe
cial commissioner Barton. Purchased
by Mai. Conrad for s2,250.
The series OF meetings in the Kent
street Presbyterian church was closed
last Friday night. The meetings were
productive of much good.
The meetings at the Braddock street
Methodist church still continue, and
with good results. They are we'll at
tended, and many penltents are nightly
at the altar.
At the Market street NJ. L. church,
Rev. Mr.. Ferguson, an interesting SER
les of meetings are in progress. a
number of mourners are at the altar.
We have to note the burning to death
of another child, which should be a
warning to parents who are in the habit
of leaving their young children alone
that of Mr.. Richard Triplett living near
Capon Springs. Mrs. Triplett, it seems,
was from the house a short distance
when she heard the screams OF her two
children. Returning she found that the
eldest Of the children whilst playing
with fire haG set fire to the clothes OF
the youngest child, and it was nearly
burned 10 a crisp. l. lived only a short
time. 1t was aged two years.
The farm of j. r. Locke, in Clarke
county. Va, l55 acres, has been sold
to J. II. Frasher at 500 So per acre
Capt. j. NJ. Locke has sold to G. L.
Rickamore Green HILL" II acres, adj
joining Berryyille,' for $500. j. L.
Griffith has ssld his storehouse property
in Berryville, to Lynn Davis, OF Nd,
for So, 500.
From the Bridgewater Enterprise we
learn that on W ednesday night last,
about one or two O'Clock, the store
house Of VIM. +. Sheman, at Pleasant
Valley Depot, was broken open ana
robbed of about s25 in cash that had
been left in the drawer. The th'efs
object seems to have been money only,
as nothing else was disturbed.
Mr.. J. 5. Loose, President Of the
Farmers Bank, of Brldgewater, has
been appointed a Notary Public by Gov.
Holiday.
Grant County Gazette: On the night
of last Monday, a very large wild cat
was entrapped by Mr.. W. D. Shireman,
nerr his house on the old Fraycl Farm,
on Lost River. 1t was very large, but
its exact dimensions we did not learn.
The varmint " had been carrying OF
Mr. SIS poultry for some months, and
he had tried number Of times to catch
he old fellow, but failed until Monday.
Page Courier Auditor Taylor in re-
ply to Col. Spitler's resolution Of inqul-
ry, stated that he had paid the interest
and dividends TO the incorporated col
leges and other institutions of learning,
in accordance with acts Of the Legisla-
ture passed some years ago. The COL
has now very properly introduced bill
repeating these acts. If Col. 5. will
follow him up. he will both accomplish
much good, and win the applause OF his
constituents.
Considerable excitement was occa'
stoned last week by the disappearance Of
little 10 year cid daughter of Adam
Stricken, who lives on the river neal
Reuben RuiIner's. 1t seems that The
little girl had been guilty OF some mis-
conduct and was threatened with pun
ishment, to AVOID which she determined
to run off. She was found, after severa
days absence, in Shenandoah county, a
the residence Of her sister.
Leesburg Mirror William Jackson
died at his home in Lcesburg last Sat
urday morning, after brief illness, il
about the Goth year of his age. MI
jackson was well known in this CON
munity, and by the travelling publ
generally, as an old driver in the day
OF stage coaching between Wlnchcst(
and Washington. On Sunday aiternoo
his remains were attended to their la!
resting place IN the Union Cemetery b
a large conceurse of citizens.
Shenandoah Valley: The 2StL of la
August Mr.. Thomas L. Williamson pul
chased at Gen. Mems sheep sale, |
ewes and one buck Cotswold. Up
this date Feb. -, there has been an il
crease of II lambs from ewes. The:
lambs are very large and healthy, al
weigh from s to Ii lbs'-one, day oil
weighed Is lbs.
These sheep are good wool producer
yielding from II to Is lbs. OF wool
to the head, and the cost Of keepiI
them is not more-hardly as much
than that of common sheep.
Good, substantial stone abutmen
for the bridge at Nef7s Mill have be-
completed by the Messrs. Estep. I
timber has been hauled and the necess
:, ry preparations have been made on 4
=. ground, to go to work on the bridge
once. Four or five hands have arrive
! who Will go to work as soon as I
:. weather will admit. The bridge pro-
r ises to be good one, and ofgreat &C
yenience to this section. Let us la
r more bridges and better roads. I
J. people stand in their own light, VIII