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

A bill has been introduced In the
Connecticut Legislature for the taxation
Of the real estate Of educational, re-
ligious and charitable institutions which
is not actually occupied by these insti-
tutions.
Ten thousand dollars have been APP
propriated by the Nebraska Legislature
to be used IN prosecuting the notorious
burner, Olive, and his gang.
The Dublin Nation thinks it worthy
Of note that during Gen. Grants visit
to Ireland he meyer said one word COM
plimentary to the Irish in the United
States.
VIM. Conrad, aged l6, while feeding
stock in his fathers barn at Decatur,
Ind, fell from the hay loft and, his
necktie catching in a hook, he was
strangled to death.
AT Cincinnati, man enticed Hattie
Hoberg, aged six years, from school,
with promise Of candy, carried her
into an obscure place and outraged her.
A Washington dispatch TO the New
York Evening Telegram states that the
Central American mission is to be filled
by the appointment Of Senator Conover
of Florida. Gen. Williams, of Louisiana,
is the present minister.
There is a proposition before the
Ohio Legislature to fix the compensa-
ton of members at one thousand dol
lars for the two years, and ten cents for
each mile travelled
Haytl has a penal code in which there
is provision that any libelous matter
admitted into a newspaper may sub
iect the editor TO FIVE years penal
servitude and fogging with the cat-o'-
nine tails.
In the Vanderbilt will case at New
York. Prof. Van Buren,, who attended
the commodore, testified that he had
read a report of the autopsy, and moth
inc therein contained indicated mental
unsoundness.
A number of enterprising Jews have
been engaged in collecting the bones of
horses that fell in late battles between
Russia and Turkey and have sold them
TO Austrian sugar refnerles.
At Fulton, ILL.,, Miss George Arbur.
a clerk in the postoffice, while asserting
the mail was attacked by large.
powerful man, who had entered the
Office and locked the door, and not
withstanding the girls desperate strug-
giles, accomplished his purpose and
escaped.
Apropos of the peculiar character of
legislation now being enacted IN Con-
gress of recklessly increasing expendi-
lures while reducing revenues, the
New York Times pertlnenuy says:
Unless public sentiment be a good deal
less intelligent than we take ii to be.thc
men who are engaged in adding to pub
lie expenditures on one side and decreas-
inc the means Of providing for them
on the other, have a sharp reckoning
in store for them.
After the morning heur the Florida
contested election case was taken up in
the House, and after debate the House.
by a vote of l3l to l22, declared that
Finly. democrat and contestant. was
entitled to the seat, instead of Bisbee
republican, sitting member. Mr.. Finley
was then sworn in. An evening
session was held for memorial services
IN honor of Messrs. WEIGH and Williams
deceased members.
Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire
has purchased Fort George Island, in
Florida. The island is five miles long,
with an average breadth Of one mile,
and contains almost 5000 acres, with a
fine beach along the Atlantic side. ex-
tending four miles. It's intimatcd that
it is Senator Rollins's plan to build a
manufacting city on the cooperative
plan on his new purchase, which also
includes the Fort George Hotel.
An Associated Press dispatch from
New York states that physician liv-
ing near Waverly n. y, ran away a
r week AGO with the wife Of a carpenter,
deserving a lovely and accomplished
wife. the daughter Of one of the wealth.
est residents Of Sayre, Pa, after obtain
mo $1,000 OF he: money with a bogus
check. His wife has since died, it is
thought from the effects of poison adj
ministered before he LEFT.
There is decided commOtion in Ne
wark. o., on account Of the publication,
by order Of the city council, of the
names Of former members Of council
with dates, and amounts OF money ille-
gally taken from the city treasury TN.
der different preteXts, aggregating $1,000
Many of the recipients of the money arc
among the most prominent citizens
The solicitor is instructed to commence
sut..for the recovery Of the money al
once. This, added to the recently dis.
= coyred irregularities in the county clerk:
t Office. occasions considerable excite,
ment.
BY the upseiting Of a passenger coacl
;. ca the Cumberland Valley railroad a
, Cham bersburg, Pa. last Monday, fifteer
or eighteen passengers were injured
including Rev. Or. Stewart. of Newburgh