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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

Atlanta Constitution ldem.D The
Blame boom in Georgia didn't cost as
much as Sherman's, and there seems TO
be more of it.
Senator J. ". Johnston was sudden
ly called home to Abingdon from WASH
inton last Wednesday by telegram
informing him of a painful accident to
Mrs. Johnston by which that lady had
one of her wrists broken.
Mr.. Fletcher, the father Of the clever
young author Of 'Kismet" and mir.
age," is quoted as saying: 81 would
rather see my daughter married to an
American blacksmith possessing the
attributes of a true man than to any
scion of the British nobility lacking
Them"
Some well -dlggers at Birmingham,
Ala, struck oil last week, and it has
since been flowing at the rate of 90
barrels a day. The widest excite
ment prevails.
At Greensburg, Pa. Saturday night,
a man named Chiselm, whose wife had
ordered Mac Dixon, saloon keeper,
not to sell him liquor, called at the
saloon, ordered drinks, and on being
refused, quarreled with Dixon, who
knocked him down twice. In the last
fall Chiselm struck on his head and
broke his neck. Dixon was arrested.
Three roustabouts, two colored and
one white. were sent into the wheel Of
the steamer Guiding Star, at Cairo, Ill.,,
Saturday, to disentangle line, when
the pilot, unaware of their position,
rang for the engineer to start. The
men were dashed into the water by the
wheel, the colored men not rising again.
The white man was rescued alive, but
horribly mutilated.
A tremendous wind storm prevailed
st. Louis Saturday night, the wind at
tanning a velocity Of 60 miles an hour.
Telegraph lines west were Frustrated,
and much other damage was DONE
High winds prevailed all over the West
Saturday. At Evansville, Ind, a barge
with $4,000 bushels Of corn was swamp
ed. Two barges were sunk at New
Albany.
Homer Wellington, OF Cambridge,
Mass, in prison, charged with forgery,
is now charged with the murder Of his
infant child by poison. lie admits
giving poison to his wife, but denies
poisoning his child. Arsenic has been
found in the child's stomach.
All the cases of the Virginia judges
in the United States District Court at
Lynchburg have been continued except
that of Judge Hill, who has been ac-
quilted, and Judge Griffin, who is now
on trial.
Gen. Henry Peasants, who died at
Pottsville, Pa, last Friday, was IN
command Of brigade Of Federal troops
in trout of Petersburg, Va, during the
late war, in June, 1864, conceived the
idea of excavating mine under a Con-
fcderate fort on Cemetery Hill. The
work was begun without tools, lumber,
Or any of the materials necessary for
such a work, but after much labor tools
were made and timber secured. On
July 81 the powder was placed in the
mine and on the Goth the famous
Petersburg mine was exploded. The
explosion was a success; but the at
tempt 10 follow it up proved disas
trous failure.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31
Political.

The Richmond DispDtch estimates
last November's vote in Virginia as fol
lows: Conservative Debt-payers, g.
Oh; Conservative Readiusters, 49,
644 ard Republicans &c, The
Richmond Wing estimates the vote al
the same time as follows-COnserva'
tive Debt-payers 49,7O7; Conservative
Readjusters 5s.1Sl and Republicans
$4,000. The Republican vote the
Wing estimates $4,000 for the Readjus
tears and 1900 for the Debt-payers.
The'New York Herald's correspon.
dent has polled the Tennessee Legis-
lature as TO presidential preferences,
with the following result: Thurman IA,
Bayard 10, Seymour 9, Tilden 8, Hen
bricks 7, Hancock 2, and Pendleton
and Voorhees, one each; Grant IA,
Blaine 3, Sherman /.
The Neffolk (Va.) Landmark favor;
the nomination Of Gen. Hancok as the
democratic candidate for the p:esi-
dency.
Westmorcland county has sent
Tilden delegation to the Pennsylvania
democratic convention.
Ia So counties in Kentucky republic
can conventions in thirty have lnstruc-
ted for Grant, three for Sherman and
one for Blaine. Where no instructions
have been given Grant delegates have
generally been appointed.
The Texas republican convention al
Austin, after a somewhat acrimonious
session, admitted all the delegates. and
adopted resolutions demanding the free
exercise Of the elective franchise, favor
ing both gold and silver currency, but
believing that the two should approxi-
mate each other 10 value as currency as
nearly as possible, and leaving the
nomination Of State officers 10 another
convention. A resolution instructing
the delegates to Chicago for Grant was
bitterly opposed. TWAS finally agreed
TO instruct the delegates to vote as a
unit for President. This was at once
accepted By the Grant men as equiva-
lent to instructions, and adopted. Gov.
ADayis was elected one Of the delegates
>tlarge.
"a majority OF the Texas delegates 70
national republican convention
" declare for Grant.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

DEATH OLA PRoXNENT VIRGIN
IAN.-A dispatch from Winchester,
Va, announces the death on Friday
last of Judge Edmund Pendleton, a
prominent citizen Of that place. De-
ceased was leading member Of the
Virginia Legislature thirty years
ago, and a Union member OF the
Virginia constitutional convention
from Berkeley county i'll 1S6O-6l.
Judge PendIeton, whilst a Uuion
man, took no part in the war, and
his elegant home in MartinsburS
was frequently the headquarters OF
Confederate generals during the
struggle: In 1867 he removed to
Winchester, Va, and was, at the
request Of the prominent citizens,
appointed by Gen. StOneman Judge
of that clrcnit, where he served with
great efficiency. Since than he
has acted with the conservatives,
and in 1869 came within couple
of votes of being elected United
States Senator from Virginia. He
was learned lawyer and an accom-
plished gentleman. Judge Pendle-
ton married Miss Robinson, OF
Baltimore, sister Of the late DR.
Alexander Robinson.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31
VIRGINIA AND THE PRESIDENCY

VIRGINIA AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The New York Herald has a
long letter from Richmond, in
which it is asserted that, owing to
the revolution Of last year, Virginia,
instead of being conntcd upon as
among the very safest OF the South
ern States for the national demo-
cratic ticket, can now be classified
as among the most doubtful"
Considering the situation in Virgin
ia from a presidential standpoint,
there is, the correspondent thinks,
no boom worthy the name tor any
candidate, if on the republican side
the ex-Presidcnt is excepted. Over
forty members of the Legislature
have no choice as to a presidential
nominee, and the proposed indepen-
dent electoral ticket of the readjust-
ers or liberals may prove the boom
after all. State Senator G. T..
Smith, leading conservative in
the General Assembly, while be-
lieving that the situation in Virgin
ia is critical, thinks that the best
way OF escape is to nominate man
whose nublic career will need no de-
tense and whose private character is
above suspicion. The nomination
of Tilden would fall like a wet
blanket on the people, and insure
victory either to the republican or
Independent ticket. Seymour, he
further thinks, can carry Virginia
over both the republican and indie
pendent electoral tickets by ma
iority, and Hancock and others can
carry it in such race by a plural
ity.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

To Mr.. Conkling has been assigned
the solemn duty of nominating Grant
at Chicago IN case his managers think
best to enter him IN the race. As the
resources ofall modern languages have
been exhausted 10 paying homage to
the greatest living American and the
head and summit Of the human race,
MIR. Conkling may decide to fall back
on the classics and trot out his third
term candidate with Greek oration.-
Wash. Post,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31
IMPORTANT
TO GomsunaptIves

Gentleman having been 80 fortunate as TO
cure his son Of Consumption in its worst strges,
after being given up to die by the most celebrated
physicians, desires TO make known the cure
(Which proves successful In every casel to th9se
aaiic,ed with Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds,
CONSUMPTION, aHd all Affections OF tue Ihroat
aud lungs, and will send the Recipe, free o.
charge 10 all who desire It, If they will forward
this address 10 DANIEL ADEE.
March 3l-omo, 81 Liberty st., New york,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

Boston, March 25.-The Adyer-
tiser tomorrow will publish the
following: az dispatch was re-
ceivcd in this city last evening from
Washington stating that positive
information had been received there
that Gen. Grant will Withdraw as a
candidate before the Chicago con-
yention.
at is further stated that the
friends of Secretary Sherman have
been expecting the with drawal OF
Gen. Grant, and have been form
ing a skeleton organization through
out the country, with the hope OF
bringing to the support of their can
idate the Grant strength IN the
event of lis retirement.
Mr.. Parker G. Chandler, the
representative of Massachusetts, on
the Sherman national committee,
states that a Massachusetts, Shcr-
man club is just about to be organ
lied here, and is 10 be put in active
work all over the State
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31
Brutality In Prison.
THE "CAT-O'-NINE-TAILs" USED or
THE NAKED FLESH OF WOMEN,

In an examination before the
Governor and Council of New
Hampshire as to the management
of the State prison, Ella f. Bow
ers, of Nashua, testified that she
was convict in the State prison for
three years; Clara E. Gould was
there at the same time and locked
in my cell; was whipped March 6,
1879, for wrestling with Clara
Gould; matron came in while we
were squabbling and said she saw
my person | said she did not; she
took hold of me, and l pulled the
matron's hair ; was put in a cell
kept three days on bread and water;
the warden and the matron came
In and the latter told Clara Gould
and me to take off our clothes took
them all off but our chemises the
warden told us to take off our che
misses down to the waists and sit
down facing a table ; this we did,
and the matron struck us twenty Or
twenty-five blows with a c2t-'O-nine-
tails the whipping did not produce
blood on me, but did on Clara
made me black and blue, and affects
me at times now the warden was
present during the whipping.
WHY IN PRISON.
In the cross-eXamInation she said
the crime for which she was SEN
fenced was for attempting to sci
fire to a county farm building, in
which there were many old people;
wouldn't state what her motive was
for wishing TO burn the building
the matron had trouble with me once
before the time mentioned, because
| split some warm water upon hen
dress; 1 gave sudden jerk; be-
cause she mad heard some lies which
other prison girls had tod about
me, she kept me in a cell, without
a bed, upon bread AMI water, for
two days and nights; after taking
hold ofmy hair the matron raised
up a chair and put my head on the
chair to hold myself up, after she
put hers down; faced her as | went
into the cell, fearing that she might
hit me over the head the warden
pulled our hair while we were being
whipped, because We put hands be-
hind our backs to ward off the
blows; got more than six blows OF
the cat o'-nine-tails, which had nine
lashes about as large as a lead pen
Gil, knottcd at the ends; she struck
me with all her power; the warden''
wife was present during the whip
ping.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

The MAINE ICE CRop.-Thc rise
in the price of ice in the Atlantic
cities has caused great excitement
in Maine, and vast quantities OF ice
are cutting there. At Bangor work
has been going on nights, days
and Sundays without cessation,cach
crew being divided in night and
day squad. The demand for lam-
Der has been SO great that hem
lock boards have more Than doubled
in price within week, until finally
the supply has been almost entirely
exhausted. Sawdust, in which the
ice is packed, was two weeks ago
in the way at the mills, Now it
readily brings 50 cord, and the
supply near Bangor is exhausted,s SO
that ice men are hunting up the sites
Of burned sawdust many years old
Several persons are stacking the ice
without any packing.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

AT the February term Of the County
Court of Shenandoah County.
Ordered that the following named
persons be and they arc hereby APP
point Registrars for their respective 70 :
Ing places who shall discharge the d.
ties OF said ollicec until their succa ssors
shall have been appointed aud qualified
tO.Wit:
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

Beaver county has elected an anti
Tiiden delegation to the Pennsylvania
democratic convention.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-03-31

!. AAfBLER SMITHS PosIrIoN. -
The following card from EX-Consress-
MAJ J. Amber Smith appears III Sll-
urnay's Washington Star:
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
March Goth, 1880.
Editor Star,-Iu your issue Of yes
torday YOU do me great injustice in re-
porting me as having advocated in
Richmond, Va, on the 9th inst, a
mixed electoral ticket, aud also having
said that Mcssrs. Conkling and Blaine
were in favor of il. l did not declare
for a mixed ticket, nor did l state that
senator Conklihg and Blaine favored 1t.
[ advocated the recollection, ofGeneral
u. S. Grant; and ". II. Leslie, OF the
Internal revenue Office, aud the Rev.
L. p. Phelps spoke for Mr.. Blaine.
After the speaking was over, the meet,
ing Of 300 white and colored men voted
unanimously to endorse the eX-Presi-
dent. Truly yours,
J. AMBLER SMITH.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-29
What Women Should be.

Very few women are qualified either by na- ture or training to play the part of judici ous domestic providence, unrestrained by any husband is generally attended by humiliation and suffering to the rest for without bal ance of power we may expect abuses to steal in, whether States or families victimized by an unfortunate adjustment of circum- stances. For it is men on whom the stern and more serious responsibilities of existence fall. Men who bear the burden and heat of the day, husbands and brothers who give their lives for their country, and die by thousands of every lingering torture under foreign sky; they must act often under heavy mental pressure and distress; while women, who are generally led by any other bias save their judgment or intellect, may indulge in hysterical views of everything at their ease and at home. Marriage protects women, who in return, are expected to embellish life,
 soften it's trials, and with womanIy graces, smiles and kindness avert the threatening clouds of diversity from bursting in uncheck- ed violence on the family circle. It is fine field of enthusiasm, action, and enterprise, in which women may enlist, and the more high ly toned their moral ethics the better they may form character, direct aims, sooth des- pair, and by their delicate tact instincts, and perception, assist in mitigating much cruel suffering and disappointment. Women should represent beauty of some kind or another. There is nothing man so detests as @ masculine woman she expects to share his equality; while at the same time refus- ing to accept his claims and responsibilities
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-29
WARMED OVER.

Brains will tell so will the absence of brains.-N. O. Picsyune.
 ssNo tick here' would be two-edged sword in a watchmaker's establishment.-Fond du Lac Reporter.
 ,'tAfter Cincinnati, what ?'' asks political exchange. O., of course. Williamsport Breakfast Table.
 The announcement is now made that gum arabic was discovered in the Mucil Age Rome Sentinel
 Young Pinkington complains of taking cold by leaving off his winter cane too soon Boston Transcript.
 mute in Hackensack, in transport of joy, squeezed his afianced to death. The jurys verdict was Died of mute-elatios."
 The young man who was referred to pa when he popped the question stated that he visited the convention as an instructed dele gate Philadelphia Chronicle.
 The Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald an- nounces that Commissioner Le Due will short ly bring to perfection the scheme he has in view of introducing breed of ducks that will give buttermilk.
 'sWill you please pass the milk, Miss Brown ?" asked a young man of a fdgety old maid at the supper table. ''Do you take me for waiter, sir ?" she answered. ''We1," he added, ''as no one has taken you thus far, and you've waited so very long, I should think you were one. Howell Sun.
 s'Gem'len," said Brother Gardner, as he rose to reply to communication from Troy New York, the writer of which wanted to sell the Limekiln Club a patent pain less-death mathematician, ''gem'len kin any one of you tell me what dis club has to do wid chickuns? What has de culId race got to do wid chickuns? Does de black man like chickun any more dan de white man Would black man lay violent hands on bullet any quicker dan white man?" At this juncture Elder Toots awoke. He seemed to be under the impression that the Chair expected reply from him, and he arose and said ''Chickuns, sah, chickuns? [Cheers.1 doan' believe, sah Tcheers1 dar am pusson in dis room Echeers], a pusson in dis room, sah [cheersl who would steal par of [cries of Hear !'] of butes if he had eber so good chance Wild yells.1 Mo- sahl More yells. Mo- sah [Cheers. I doan' know much ['Hear Hear!'l, and I doan' want to take up de time of dis meet in [continued cheers, but I will say, sah ferries of Go on!'l, dat-any man who would steal one hoss wagon from an alley Tcheers would be mean huff to steal de eyes off a dead mans cents. 'Hearl Hear !'] Yes sah, an dat's my opinyun about chickuns sah." The old man sat down amidst the widest applause which might have continued all the evening had not twenty-three lengths of stovepipe fallen down and produced di- version in favor of danger.-Detroit Free
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-29
Price Four Cents.
Meditations of a Hindoo Prince.
A Correct Translation of Remarkable
 Poem.

A. c. All the world over, wonder, in lands that I Are the people eernaily seeking for the signs and the Westward across the ocean, and northward beyond Do they all stand gazing as ever, and what do the Here in the mystical India, the deities hover and Like the wild bees hear in the treetops, the gusts
 of a gathering storm; In the air men hear their voices their feet on the Yet we all say Whence is the message, and what may
 the wonders mean 2" million shrines stand open, and ever the 6ense As they bow mystic symbol the figures ancient
 kings: And the incense rises ever, and rises the endless Of those who are heavy laen and of towards 10th to
 die. For the Destiny drives together like deer in pass Above the sky and around the sound and the shot Pushed by Power not, and struck by hand pray the trees for shelter and press our lips to
 a stone. The trees wave shadowy answer and the rock
 frowns hollow and grim, And the form and the nod of the demon are caught
 in the twilight dim; And look the sunlight falling afar on the noun Is there never path ruis upward to refuge there
 and rest The path, ah who has shown it, and which is the
 faithful guide = --=- The haven, ah who has known it for steep in the mountain side, For the shot strikes surely and the wasted
 breath Of the praying multitude rises whose answer only
 death. Here the tombs of my kinsfolk, the first of an Chiefs who slain the warheld, and women
 who died in the flame They gods these kings of the foretime they are
 spirits who guard our race, Ever watch and worship; they sit with a marble And the myriad idols around me, and the Eegion of The revels the unholy the unspeakable
 feasts What have they wrung from the silence Hath even Of the secret-whence and whither Alas the gods
 dumb. Shall list to the word of the English, who
 the uttermost sea The secret hath it been told you and what is your It is naught but the wie-word story how the earth
 and the heavens began, How the gods are glad and angry, and the Deity
 was man. had thought, s'Perchance in the cities where the
 rulers of India dwell, Whose orders flash from the far land who grdle the
 earth with spell They have fathomed the depths we float on or meas Sadly they turn from the venture, and say that the
 quest is vain. Is life, then, dream and delusion, and where shall
 the dreamer awake :? Is the world like shadows water and what if
 the mirror break Shall it pass a camp that is struck, 8 camp that
 is gathered and gone From the sands that lamp-lt at and at
 ing are level and lone. Is there naught in the heaven above whence the hail
 and the leven are hurled, But the wind that is swept around by the rush of
 the rolling world The wind that shal scatter my ashes and bear me to
 silence and sleep, With the drge, and sounds of lamentng, and voices of women who weep
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-29
Some Strange Cures. lsrom Helps for Sudden Accidents by Stephen Bard 1rell 16S3

well, 1ooo.I
 These also that follow are especially com mended against all kinds of Poysons what soeyer Viz the Hoofe of an Oxe cut into parings and boyled with bruised Mustard seed in white wine and faire water. The Bloud of Malard, drunke fresh and warme j; or els dryed to powder, and so drunke in @ draught of white wine. The Bloud of a Stapee also in the same manner. The. seeds of Rue and the leaves of Betony, boyled to- pether in white wine. Or. Take ii scruples 1tfat is, fortie graines) of Mithridate of pre- pared Chrystall, one dram (that IS, three grams, fresh Butter one ounce. Mix all well together Swallow it down by such quan- titles as you can swallow at once and drlnke presently upon it a quarter of pint of the decoction of French Barley or so much six shiIlinps beere. Of this I have had happy proofe Take sound horse, open his belly alive, take out all his entrayles quickly and put the poysoned partie naked into it, all save his head, while the body of the horse retains his natural heate; and there let him sweat well. Not@ong ago I saw young man stung in the eyebalI with bee, while he was too closely looking into the doore of the hive ]; but the bee left not her sting there. Upon the place applyed this Playster. tooke a handful of Carduus benedictus newly gath cred, pounded it in 8 mortar very fine, and mixed it with the white of an egge, so spread ing it upon pledget of haxe, laid it to the eye and as it waxed dry renued it twice. This Playster of Carduus is excellent to recover the eye if any venomous juice be spurted into it, or if the eye be hurt by corrupt ayre, which the common people call blasting :. it easeth pains, taketh away bloody spots in the eyes, and is good for all burnings in or about the eyes. To this let me adde the bitings of Spiders; the garden ones are the worst, for they are of the kinde of Phalangioe The In ward Antidote for them is draught of New mike wherein the inner meate of River Crabs is boyled, or Spoonful of the braines of a sheepe boyled in water and Vinegar. Out wardly, apply the Oobweb of the same Spider, binding it on with fine linnen rag