Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-06-25
w ednesdav June sS, 1879.
News Items.

tIen. LOuSSlI0St, "As~A - -
financial a diversity, reported to be max
ing money at keeping hotel at Cams
vile, Ga.
Hill, who killed Simmins' at Atlanta
Ga. for running his wife, has been
found guilty of murder, and will be SEN
fenced TO Imprisonment for life.
The house of Samuel Miller near
Montoursville, Pa, was burned on
Monday night. Mrs. Miller perlsned ID
the flames, and her husband was so bad
" burned that his recovery is considered
doubtful.
The body Of a cOlOred woman has
been found in the North Anna river IN
Louisa county, Va, with rocks tied 10
tbe head and feet with a grape vIne'
General Walker, who is to superln-
tend the United States census OF 1851
estimates that the population Will be
between forty.six and fOrty-seyen MIL
lions.
Miss Marie Gordon Pryor, eldest
dauohter of Gen. Roger A, Pryor. OF
Rrooklyn. y. Y, was married on
Thursday evening to Mr.. Henry Cren-
IO;olponn6 Va.
4 freight train on the Chicago and
Northwestern railway was thrown from
tbe track near London, Iowa, Saturday.
Four tramps, concealed in car loaded
with corn, were killed, and the conauc-
TOR was fatally injured.
Edison's loud-speaking telephone a
new invention, was publicly exhibited
in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Mes
saoes sent through it could be heard
distinctly in every part ola large lee
ture-room.
It's sand in Boston by Butler demo-
crafts that Gen. Butler will receive and
accept the gubernatOrial nomination
both from labor reform and demo-
cratic convention this fall, the former
leading of.
A colored man named Badgett and
wb,te woman named Martha A..
Simmons have been lodged in the jail
of Pittsylvania county, Va. for inter-
marriage.
The colored brother in a Virginia
church hit the nail on the head wheh
he prayed at the close Of the white
brotber's sermon, Lord, Dress de truG'
der to whom we has listened 10 SO
patiently
Professor Mayer, lecturing in Paris on
suicidal impulse, declared that every
one of his hearers had at some time
thought iavorably of committing suicide
He challenged contrac lotion, land nobody
r1-ponded.
James Burns, charged with stealing
$4,000 from the govern ment printing
office at Washington, WHO was arrested
~ New York with George Carson, an
alleged confederate, was yesterday
committed in default Of $4,000 bail.
Mrs. Potts, who is on a tramp from
Philadelphia for New Orleans, was
erected on her arrival at Atlanta, Ca
saturday, by about 1000 people, who
cbeered her as she entered the depot
She saws she is walking for a wager Of
5000; that she will get to New Or
leans and back to Philadelphia in tve
months, and that is now geo miles
ahead of time.
The Governor OF Minnesota was
summoned at midningt Tuesday night
TO Tracy mines, at the terminus OF the
Hastings and Dakota railroad, to sup
press q riot. A number Of telegram;
received by the Governor from Tracy
state that three hundred railroad labor
ers and tramps are in the town making
riotous demonstrations, and the officials
are trying to restore order. There seems
TO have been no violence or blood-sheC
thus far.
E.A. White, a wealthy planter OF TO-
living near Selma, Ala. married 6
Young wife, who recently eloped with
another man. Mr.. White, oppressed
with modification, abandoned the scene
ofhls discontinue, and with a body ser
want arrived in Evansville, Ind, where,
on Tuesday. he attempted to commit
suicide by cutting his throat with razor
He was removed to a hospital, where
he tore the bandage from the WOUND
and now lies in critical condition.
A Young man named Shelby l4egget
committed suicide in Hagerstown, Nd &.
Tuesday night, by hanging himself will
n strap from cross-beam in the black
nth shop Of John CARING. A jury o
suest rendered averdict that Legget
aue to his death by hanging himsel
UNFAIRLY and feloniously.' He lef
tote saying that his friends, excep
mother, had ''all gone back on him, .
denying the relations with a Ger
woman which had been attributed
him, Deceased was ouly 20years o
e,snd yas said 10 have been brigh
and active boy.
The sheriff Of New Orleans has seiz,
ed the property Of G.. Casanave, mem
Der Of the notorious Louisiana returning
bead, to satisfy an execution for So, 200
the claim Of the attorneys who defended
the members Of the late returning boarC
on charge of forgery some time ago
Casanaye is an undertaken, and thi,
Judgment, says the New Orleans Dem