Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-11-09
General News Notes.

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+ few days ago,
Within the past five months
$4,000 persons have visited the
| I.uray caverns.
Mr. Algernon Sartoris ard his
wife. the daughter of ex President
Grant, arrived in New York Satur-
day, Oh the German steamer Elbe,
which left Southampton on the
9th ult. OF their three children
they brought two, the youngest be-
ing lett at their home in England.
On their arrival they were driven
at once to the new residence OF
General Grant, at No. B Eat Six
ty-sixth street.
| A clerk in a Cincinnati store in
attempting to remove some goods
from show-window by means of
brass rod, accidentally touched an
electric light wire, and received
shock that threw him healong
through the plate glass to the pave.
ment. His face was badly cut,
but lie was not permanently in
jured.
In the lower House of tine Wash
ington Territory Legislature OH
Saturday, bill giving the right of
suffrage to women was passed by al
vote Of i to IL. A similar bill
was defeated in the upper House
Oh the 26th ult., by a vote of 7
to 8, but it will come up in anoth
shape, and it is believed will pass.
Mrs. Garfield left Mentor Satur-
day, to take up her residence in
the Burke mansion, on Euclid ave-
me, Cleveland. Her three younger
children will be placed in a private
school. Mr.. Rudolph, her brother,
has been appointed administrator of
the late President Garield's estate.
The Warren Memorial Taberna-
Gle, Presbyterian, at Louisville,
KY, the finest church in that city,
was destroyed by fire at late hour
Friday night. 1t was comparatively |
new and cost about $3.50, 600, The |
origin OF the fire is supposed to be
incendiary. A few months since
the congregation feed itself from
debt by the payment OF $40, 900, |
l.. l.. Warren, a prominent mer-
chant tor whom the church was
named, giving $4,000 to the con
grcgation with which all the debts
were paid.
Investments in Virginia lands
are said to be the best that can be
made, ami in this connection it may |
be mentioned that Mr.. John II.
Wilson, the eff lent manager of
Adams Express Company in this
city, has received from his farm in
Botetourt county. some beautiful
specimens of pink marble. Their
has also been discovered on Mr..
Wilson's farm iron ore and ochre.
-Alerandria Gazette.
The demand tor Confederate gov
eminent bonds at this time is
caused by the fact that when the
Confederacy collapsed there was
about 81, 100000 in gold to her
credit in the Bank OF England. |
That sum with its accumulated in
tercst is still there, and the buyers
OF these bonds hope to make it
available, but with little founda,
ton, however, tor that hope,
1t is estimated that the Michigan |
fire swept over surface Of 1880 |
square miles, and that the destruc-
ton OF property amounts to g.
$4,000, of which S624,0O0 was
covered by insurance, leaving
loss to the property-holders amount
ing to $1,722, 900, which means in
hundreds OF cases that everything |
except the land was absolutely lost.
The newly elected Senator from
Rhode Island, Nelson w. Aldrich,
it is stated on the authority Of the
New York Tribune, to have en-.
tered the city OF Providence in the
same modest manner that the illus
trlous Wilmington entered Lon
don-on foot and with a bundle
slung over his back. Being bright,
active youth, he soon procured en-
ployment in wholesale grocery
house. Bat with genius superior
to his station, he rose in life, till he
is now the head OF one of the lar G.
est firms in the State and holds the
high position OF United Senator:
MIR. Aldrich is not quite forty years
old. He is married and has four
children.
George Francis Train announces
that he has spoken his last speech
and written his last letter. Good
bye, George.
Hearing that Mrs. Garfield
wished to spend part of her time at
WilIiamstown, Mass, while her
boys were in college, the business
men at Berkshire county at once
set about the purchase of a house
tor her.
Last week William Wilcox,
of Jerome township, Union county,
Ohio. murdered his wife in a most
brutal manner with n corn cutt er