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

Among the marriages in Pocahontas
county, W. Va, last year, were those
of one girl at fifteen and another at
fourteen years of age.
A saloon in Dublin (O.) was blown
up with powder early yesterday NOR
ming, it is alleged by the temperance
people. The building was wrecked, but
no enc injured.
The Episcopal Church at Llthgow
On. W was burned Tuesday. The
lenten service was in progress, and the
congregation escaped through the
windows, no one being injured. Loss
about $4,000.
Youth, beauty, grace and sl5O,OOO
a year" airs described as the possession
of Miss Maynard, who was recently
presently to Queen Victoria. Her
courtesy 10 the sovereign is said to have
been a marvel of flexible loneliness.
John H. Mosley, highly-respeeted
citizen of Charlotte county. Va, was
shot and instantly killed, Monday night,
by Andrew J. Cassidy, who, it was
stated. mistook Mosley for a negro with
whom he had a difficulty.
At Lawrenceyllle, Tioga county, Pa
Tuesday, Sidney Green shot his wife and
then himself, both dying instantly.
They were married six years ago.
Shortly after marriage Green began to
abuse his wife and she went West, re-
turning two weeks ago. Green sought
an interview with her at the house OF a
friend and soon after shot her five
times. On being pursued he shot him.
self in the head.
An italian in Reno, New, boasts
that he is the strongest man in America
HIS spinal column seems to be double
and his bones and joints are all very
LARGE. He has repeatedly lifted with
the third finger of his right hand men
WEIGHING from $50 to 200 pounds, by
nlacinc his finger under the hollow OF
one of their feet, and thus carrying them
orornd the room. He can strike with
his fist a blow with a power OF oOO
pounds, as measured on register ana
when couple of Irishmen attacked
him the other day he seized one in each
hand and knocked them together until
they were insensible and half dead.
A government check for s3lo'oVV'
for payment of quarterly interest on the
four per cent. bonds, was paid through
the New York clearinghouse Thursday
This interest represents a principal OF
s3l, O5O, 900, which is the largest hold
ing of any one person IN any OF the
government securities. The daily H.
come of that amount Of bonds is sS'49o'
The check was to William H. Wander
bit.
Miss Alice Pine, of Martlnsburg' W.
Va. who was so severely buried by
coal oil at the residence Of Capt. Virtue
in Frederick, Nd, three weeks ago died
last Thursday. She was only Is years
ofage.
The Mobile (Ala.) Register publishes
an interview with S. H. Sonar. color
ed man returned from Illinois. lie
owes a sorrowful account OF his broth
ern in the West, and says their con-
dition is worse than it ever was IN
slavery times. lie intended to travel
through the State and warn his colored
brethren. He says the South IS the
best place for his people.
At ball in Mason county, W. Va''
Wednesday night, Jesse Arthur anu
William Ray quarreled about GIRL
Raw barred his breast and dared Arthur
to shoot. Arthur did so, without effect
Raw then fred twice, shooting Arthur
through the heart and the head. Ray
escaped.
Within the past ten days about
Twenty converts to Mormonism have
gone to Utah from Lawrence county,
lKy., where Mormon missionaries have
been laboring for year. Among the
converts is handsome married woman
who left her husband behind.
The unconditional surrender in New
York OFF. Wheelock & Co., 10 then
mems demand for 10 pei cent. increase
I'm their pay, left only three piano man
ufacturing firms at loggerheads, VIZ
ISteinway & Sons, Hale & Co., ant
Albert Weber.
The iourneymen tailors Of Pttsburg
and Allegheny City, Pa, nrmberin!
| 500, struck for an advance ranging from
| 20 to 100 per cent,
1 The snow storm which began at st
John, n. B., Wednesday Afternoon
continued Thursday morning. Over
loot ofsnow fell on level, while there
were large drifts In many places. Train
and steamers are delayed.
BY the accident to the construction
| train on the Western North Carolini
Railroad, Wednesday, caused by run
ming into Landslide, two convicts. boil
colored, and a white guard were crush
ed to death, and several others serious
Ily injured.
The rapid advance in firearms ant
munitions of war is attracting attention
lin and out of the market. Lead ha'
gone up from q to 81 cents per pound
copper from l6 TO % cents, gunpowde
Ifrom 10 to 20 per cent, and fxeC
cartridges from 10 10 copper cent. Th'
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