Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-05-26
News Items.

Five new cases OF Jlpnlnerla were re-
ported at Waynesboro', Pa. and two
deaths from the same disease.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars has
been subscribed with which to build a
large public hall at York, Pa,
Gen. Grant has as yet sent no answ-
err to the telegram ordered BY resolution
of the Illinois republican convention,
informing him Of its action in his favor.
Mr.. Geo. Peabody Wetmore's sums
mer house at Newport, r. l., has cost
about half "a million dollars. Tie cost
of the main staircase alone, the wood
of which was imported and the carving
done IN the Florentine style Of work.
manship, was $40, 900.
The New York Sun thinks Senator
Bayard will have majority Of the New
jersey democratic delegates.
1t is thought in Texas that the tax
Oh commercial travellers there will
yield the State $50, 900 a year.
Senator and Mrs. Bruce, colored, are
quoted as expressing their regret that
people should come and pay them
"duty calls" when their hearts were left
behind.
Mr.. Horatio Seymour, in declining an
invitation to speak at the Suffolk county
fair, writes that "he is getting too old
to travel as he once did,"
Colorado's vote this year will be
largely affected by the enormous stream
of immigration that has poured into her
mineral regions. The republican ele-
ment is SAID to preponderat9 in the new
population.
A difficulty at Abingdon, Va. Friday,
between Mr.. Rife and 5. A. Jackson,
merchant, resulted in the shooting Of
Rite, who died few hours after the
shooting.
"Should John Sherman be the candi-
date Of the REPUBLICANS" says the Bos-
ton Journal, ut is understood that
Joseph r. Hawley. Of Connecticut, will
be nominated as vice-Presldent. This
would take Connecticut out of the list of
doubtful States. Massachusetts will en-
dorse Hawley with whoop."
The French and English ministers
and several attaches OF the prominent
legislahons will spend the season at
Newport. Prince Leopold is among |
the expected guests. If he comes at
all he will be entertained by the En-
gish minister.
A special Dispatch to the Washington
Post from San Francisco claims that
but two of the delegates from California
to the Cincinnati convention are tor
Tilden, and that a majority OF the dele
gates will support Judge Field il he has
any standing outside Of California. Mr..
Hendricks. one of the delegates, is a
cousin of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks,
Of Indiana.
AT Stockbridge, Ills. Thursday, VIM.
Dedrich and Herman Moss, two warm
friends, went target shooting with a
revolver, and after using all their am.
and dischargng every cham
Der of the revolver, as they thought,
returned home. Before parting, Moss
lcveled the pistol at Dedrich,
pulled the trigger, aud Dedrich fell
dead, shot through the heart. Moss is
almost frantic with grief.
John Cochrane, Horace White and
other independent republicans are
circulating paper for signatures of re-
publicans in New York city aud State
" ho will not cast their votes for Gen.
Grant, if nominated for the presidency.
Thi, paper will be presented to the
Chicago convention to show the danger
that cannot be overcome in New York.
9 opies of this paper are 10 circulation in
different parts Of the State, and the in
.crested persons claim that 5000 names
nave already been appended to it.
They claim that they will have all OF
.ho on 00O sscratchers' of last wear.