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

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teen years old, has been appoin ted a
tutor in Greek in Simpson Collie &c, at
Indianola. Size reads and write Greek
huenily, and at fourteen had made a
complete lexicon ofonc Of s ophocles's
tragedies.
David Fender, the thief who was ar
rested in New York for robblng Mrs.
Dc Barry Of ore of her db .mond earrings
on Filth evenue, last We .ek, has confess
ed his guilt. He is onG Of gang OF
desperadoes who havf before attempt
ed similar robberies. HIS accomplish
in this case was Jno- Flynn, IAN ex-con-
vict, who has also b. cen arrested.
A strange story bJ that Of Charles
Gilbert, who has 81 rived fourteen years
of q life sentence for the murder OF
Henry Caldwell, Of New Britain, Conn,
in 1864. Gilbert says that the crime
was committed by his father, Jonathan
Gilbert, and a man named Charles Par
sons, with tb object Of plunderlng
Caldwell Of 500, and that he (Gilbert)
allowed hlm,elf to be convicted in Or
der to save his parent The farther has
since died and Parsons committed sui
eide. 1t is claimed, however, that both
the elder Gilbert and Parsons made con-
fessions generating young Gilbert.
Should the convicts story prove true, his
devotion to his parent has exceeded
anything recently imagined by writers
Of romance.
At an expense CISCO to the people,
beside his own lawyers's fees, farmer
of Jones county, Ia, has recovered one
cent from a man he sued for fourteen
fence rails, worth ten cents.
Near Springfield, Ohio, Saturday
Henry Williams, his wife and little girl
were drowned while fordlng Mad river
with fractions horse.
Jos. II. Eoush and w. I. Scott have
been sentenced at Pittsburg, Pa, to
one yearln the county Jail and 500 fine
each for altering ballots IN an election
for aldermen. They were members OIL
the seventh ward election board.
Counsel for Mrs. Kate NJ. COBB.
convicted at Norwich, Conn.,, of poison
inc her husband, have Withdrawn their
motion for new trial. 1t Will not be
renewed unless mpsrtant new evidence
should be obtained.
John C. Howard died on "Wednesday
last, of paralysis, in Paris, Ky. lie
was the tallest nan..in Kentucky, being
six feet and eleven and ahalf inches,and
weighing 267 pounds.
VIM. G.. White, a young man OF
prominent family, while on spree In
Nashville, Tenn, was arrested and
fined, and being too much mortified to
return home took room in the Com
mercial Hotel, swallowed an overdose
of morphine and was subsequently
found dead.
A fire at Cohoes, n. B., destroyed
The Atlantic knitting mills, loss t25,-
900. and .he Courier publishing house,
loss s25, 900. A panic occurred among
the employees OF the knitting mill. about
100 in number and mostly women, but
all escaped unhurt.
The Virginia Senate on Saturday
passed the bill for the settlement oil
the State debt by vote Of 80 to IL.
The Senate chamber and galleries
were crowded during the session. Inc
bill. 1t is stated, will meet strong OPP
position in the House, but its passage
il considered assured, though some
provision may be engrafted in the in
terest of public schools.
Miss Jackson, the daughter oil the
Alexandra hotel-keeper, who killed Col.
Ellsworth. of the Zouayes, in lS62,wa
kept in the Treasury Department place
at Washington by Col. Mosby until he
left for Hong Kong. Since his depart
ure Miss Jackson has lost her place.