Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-10-08

1t is announced that Ulysses Grant,
Jr., is about TO marry a daughter of the
bonanza king Flood.
The loss by the Gre Thursday morning
in Shakopee, Minn., Is about sl5, Oo0.-
The National Hotel was the only inn
portant building burned.
At Altoona, Pa, the prospects for a
prosperous winter are very good. The
car shops will be completed ia another
month, when large force of hands will
be put 10 work.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: =" Some
of our merchants and manufacturers are
so overun with business that they are
calling home their travelling salesmen."
The cost of the materials in freight
ear is $3.50 more than it was few
months ago, owing to the remarkable
rapidlty with which iron has been adj
vancing in price.
Last week, at Its monthly pay, the
Cambria Iron Company paid out to It's
EMPLOYEES oyer 100000 in gold. The
event was quite unexpected to the men,
who were much pleased at the sight OF
the "yellow boys"
New Haven manufacturers cannot
get hands enough to do their work. One
company was compelled to reject an Or
der for l40 platform cars, to be fitted
with oil tanks, for which $4,000 was
offered.
Between eighty and ninety young
Indians arrived at Carlisle, Pa, to be
sent to school at the old barracks.
At Waverly, n. Y, John Corleight,
aged l6, was shot in the head and killed
by his uncle, James Corleight. lie
didn't know the gun was loaded" but
be was arrested nevertheless
About the guitiest looking people in
the world are a man accused Of crime
of which he is innocent and a newly"
married couple trying to pass for
veterans.
Friends Of Gen. Hancock propose 10
establish at Washington next winter
the headquarters of committee to
promote his nomination for President
by the dem ocrats next year.
Eight men were being lowered into
the Tioga mine, near Bodia, California,
Thursday night, when the engine es-
capped the control Of the engineer and
they were preclpitated five hundred feet.
AL were fatally injured.
The Sharpsburg (Md.) Enterprise
publishes some revolving particulars OF
au alleged outrage perpetrated near that
place last week by a young man named
Samuel Stride upon Mrs. Cox, the wife
of Mr.. Moses Cox, teacher. Stride is
a cousin of Mrs. Cox, who has been an
invalid for some time. A warrant has
been issued for Strides arrest.
John H. Bogley, of Montgomery
county, raised this year 2,40O bushels
of wheat from 70 acres-part fallow and
part corn land-being about "a bushels
10 the acre. Mr.. Bosley bought this
land seven or eight years ago for s23 an
acre.
Judge Stuart, Of the Corporation
Court Of Alexandria, Va. refused 10
admit Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood TO
practice as lawyer in his court. He
said it was contrary to the spirit and
policy Of the State institutions for a
woman to hold public office, and he
would not admit them unless the Legis-
lature, in express terms, or the Court oil
Appeals required 1t.
There is three-year-old boy IN Lam
caster county, Pa, who may some day
rival Jesse Pomeroy. On Tuesday he
attempted 10 amputate the arm OF an
infant with a peuknife, but fortunately
its screams brought other members oil
the family TO the rescue. He was not
able to get through the bone with his
pocket-knife, but the arm was sadly
mutllated, and if a surgeon had not been
near by, the baby would have bled to
death.