Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-08-27
News Items.


James Sharpwick, II years old, was
arrested in Volcano, w. Va for alleg-
ed outage upon Sarah f. Cook u
gears old, Of Campbells Run.
George Clark vas fatally shot in
Tuscola, H., BY Hugh MCGUIRE, his
step-son, who told HIM he had come all
the way from Kansas TO kill him for de-
sorting his mother.
Two men here lynched at Trinidad
COL, Friday night, for attempted OUT
rakes on little girls.
The st. Louis Times Journal was
sold on Saturday to James z. Beck, OF
that city, for $4,000. A. s. Mitchell
recently connected with the New York
Times. was installed as managing edl-
tor.
y. K. Bell, cashier, of the American
Express Company at Kansas City, Is
missing, with $40, 900 Of the company
money. He has been absent from his
post since the 10th instant, and was
last seen in st. Louis.
The Cambridge News denies the state
ment which first appeared IN the Sails
bury Advertiser that boy had been
killed IN Dorchester county BY mosqul-
toes.
At Toledo on Saturday, Police Ser.
Nohl fire two shots at Ross Salisbury,
an ex-convict, who had published card
abusing the former for arrestlng him
en- Thursday on suspicion. and then
shot himself. Both men died in a short
time. Nohl Is said 10 have been an ei-
ficient officer.
The body of Sacrist, the murdered
mail contractor in Indian Territory, has
been found. 1t had bullet hole in the
head, and was nearly eaten up be
wolves. Fifty desperadoes were re-
ported in the woods in the vicinity.
The colored exearsienists from Mis-
sissippi, who went to look at Kansas a
few days ago, have returned satisfied
that while it is a lovely land 1t Is no
place for colored people or any other
people without money. A number OF
smigrants returned with them.
Eugene Gardere, colored, formerly
member Of the louisiana Legislature,
and for some years clerk in the postotfice
at New Orleans, has been arrested for
embezzling valuable letters, one firm
alone claiming to have lost 300 letters
containing remittances.
An Augusta.(Me.) dispatch says Sen
ator Blaine refused to debate the fnan-
cial question with Congressman De La
Matyr on the ground that he was not
his equal In social position, but SAID he
would debate the question with Gen. b.
F. Butler, and no other man.
The cornerstone Of the New Catholic
church at Manassas, Va, will be laid
on Sunday, Aug. 81. Rev. 2. Dono-
hoe, pastor Of the church at Warrenton,
has had charge of the construction Of
The edlfce. All the Washington Ca
tholic societies will attend the services.
Cool Burgess arrived in Toronto,
Canada, Wednesday, to answer tue
the charge Of shooting Wldgery, his
wife's alleged paramOur, with intent to
kill. He consulted lawyer who adj
yised him to leave, and he departed Tor
Detroit, from which place he is nego-
tiatipg with Widgery's lawyers Tor
settlement of the case.
Taylor AXE, colored, was hanged in
Austin, Texas, for outrage upon little
German girl aged Is. -Four thousand
persons, mostly colored, were present.
Axe declared his innocence, and main
tanned his composure until the black cap
was put on, when he deferred the final
moment by various pretexts. The drop
fell while he was singing John Browns
Body.n His neck was broken.
Ex-Gsv. Warmoth expresses the be-
lief that the republicans cannot count
on a single electoral vote from the
South in 1880. He says that as the
Southern republicans will not be able
to assist in electing the next republican
candidate for the presidency they should
be modest about insisting upon making
the nomination. He says the South
ern democrats prefer Mr.. Bayard as
their candidate for the presidency.
Under a law which went into force on
the lst day of July Illinois sheep are
given rights which dOg-owners must
respect. The owners of dogs are TO pay
into the county treasury dollar
year for each dog, and from the fund
thus created owners ofsheep killed by
dogs are to be compensated. If the
dog-tax money shows surplus at the
end of the year the surplus goes to the
school fund.
Hostllties in Zululand will be vigor-
eusly renewed. Sir Garnet WoIseley
intends seading 10000 native volun-
teers after Catewayo. The bome-rule
meeting in Dublin Thursday night was
embellished with knockdown arguments
Russian despotlsm is making the
peasantry feel its grip. "A fire at Bor-
deaux, France, destroyed 1000, 600
france worth Of property. The band at
the Palais Royal, Paris, refused 10 play
the Marseillaise. A small riot ensued.
1t still stsrns in England. .Commo-
dore Selfridge, U. S. N, was presented
to Queen Victoria Wednesday,. Lieut.
Carey has been released from arrest.