Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-10-22
News Items

Readiue's new mill, that started We'd
nesday. employs 200 hands.
1--WE have more than we can do " Is
q common cry in Pittsburg.
Robert Bonner is about TO dispose of
81 Of lis fast and wellbr trotters at
public auction.
Amrlcnulum Of trade " Is what the
Wheeling Register calls it, adding:
"All our mills arc booming, all our
factories running On double time, and
why not ?"
The recent advance in the price ofoll,
says the OIL City Derrick, gives the pro-
ducers about $4,000 more a day than
they were receiving fifteen days ago.
Tie Huntingdon Commercial says ::
But two hundred men were employed
two months ago in the five iron fun
aces along tbe line ofthe Chesapeake &
Ohio railroad, and now there are over
twelve hundred employed"
The Tribune Home Club of Chicago
is going 10 found a kitchen school for
girls. The girls could have found such
a school in their mothers Kitchens at
home. but instructions there would be
inconsistent with high art and scientific
usefulness.
The steamer Carrie V. Koontz, from
st. Louis for New Orleans, struck a
snag Is miles above Memphis, on Tues
day night, and sunk IN ten minutes. No
lives were lost. The cargo is a total
loss.
Large bodies Of well armed Apaches.
probably renegades from Indian Terri
tory. are travelling south towards Mex
leo. Gen. Grierson, at Fort Conche,
Texas, has arranged TO intercept them.
Alexandria Gazeae, 10th Dennis
O'LearY, n track walker on the Virginia
Midland railroad, was run over and
Killed at Cameron run by tie passenger
train HAT arrived in this city about 9
o'clock last night.
The Catholics Of Portland, Me-,
leaning n few days ago that the Rev.
D. NJ. Bradley, Of the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception, was about to
visit Europe presented him with a
purse Of $l,7OO to deray his expenses
and bring him back again to them.
Says The Louisville Courier Journal:
"Wc may lose Ohio, and we may lose
New York. and If we DO, Heaven help
Us I! But, in either event, or in both. the
necessity for the old (presidentiaD
ticket is rather increased than dimin-
ished. twill be for Mr. Tilden to say
whether he can afford TO m axe the
sacrifice Of another campaign"
1t is announced that experiments
recently made on the Lake Shore rail-
road prove conclusiyely that petroleum
can be successfully used as fuel for
locomotives and as it is cheaper than
coal, and by the process adopted does
not produce smoke or cinders, it is
possible that in time oil may replace
coal on roads distant from the mining
regions.
While the canvas men of Baruum's
show were leaving the circus grounds
at Wilmington, Del, Wednesday night
with Their wagons, they were pelted
with stones by gang of roughs, num-
bering about three hundred, who chased
them through the city. pclting them
with showers Of stones. causing the
horses and elephants to stampede, dur
ing which numerous pistol shots were
fired. 4 number Of persons received
injuries from flying stones and bullets.
One man had.an eye put out.
Near Woodsboro, Frederick county,
on the Pennsylvania road, Thursday
morning. one Of The special trains struck
a hand-car containing five repair men,
instantly killing VIM. Wachter. and
injuring Jacob Wachter, his brother. to
such an extent that lie died soon after.
They were both worthy young men, and
were highly respected. At the time of
the accident the fog was so thick that
they were unable 10 see the approaching
train until too late.
1t is believed that over 1000 people
have persisted by The recent foundations
In SPAN. The magazine of the Bala
Hissar, at Cabul has been blown up.
Tweniy-seven British troops and many
Afghans were killed. .Ameer Yakoob
Khan has determined TO abdicate. "A |
Russian surveying expedition has been
warmly received on Afghan territory.
The bngand GasparonI, formerly the
terror of Italy, died recently in the poor
house az Appialegrasso, Lombardy,
aged 90. The treaty between Germany
and Austria has received the sanction
of Emperor William. The Turkish min
istry has been reformed, wllhSaid Pasha
as grand vizier. friedrich Bodenstadt,
the German Journalist and traveller, has
left Wlesbaden Cor lecturing tour in
America. a fire at Samarcand, Indeo
pendent Turkestan, destroyed the great !
bazaar, seven carayansa1es and seventy