Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-05-11
News 1t ems.

Thursday evening iOL eAS
taking into consideration the develop
ment and improvement Of the city,
necessitated by its growing commercial
importance. and to consult as to the
best means Of securing such city ceuncil-
men as will most intelligently and IN
dustriously labor for the best and hisn-
est interest Of the community.
Alta meeting Oftbe cOlOrsd resdjus-
tar, of Fredericksburg, Va, .Wednes'
day evening, the course OF Senator Ma
hon. was warmly Endorsed. One 1.-THE
speakers, Andrew Williams said ne
.,wanted the law so fixed that the col
ored man should have the right to SIT on
iurles, hold Office and marry white Wo-
menn-a sentiment which was loudly
applauded.
Congressman DezendOrf, of Virginia.
has published letter mildly protesting
against merging the $4,000 Virginia re-
pudlicans into the readjuster party OF
$4,000. He does not think Malone can
ever poll as many votes as be did isS'
November.
SM. Woodward, Jr., superintendent
Of the Valley Railroad and agent OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Staun-
tou,Va. has resigoed, and been succeed
ded BY James Bartel, Of Baltimore.
"A ioint.stockc ompany has..been form
I'd who will erect q large steam -FOUR
ING mill at wytheville, Va. A mill Tor
making car wheels is also to be started
at Max Meadows, wythe coun ty.
Charles D. Hyde, recently depot and
express agent at Berryville, Vs.' took
with him only tive or three hundred
dollars when he decamped, and not e2''
600 as extensively published.
The readjusters.ot Rsckbridgs county
bave determined not to contest the re-
election ofthe present county aud circuit
court clerks, both Of whom are regular
democrats.
A dispatch from Albany, n. Y, says
judge Robertson, on hearing OF the
Presidents action, expressed the opln'
ION that Garfield lis to be the Andrew
Jackson of the republican party"
Five persons were arrested in Phila-
delphia yesterday in connection with the
execution Of worthless bonds for star
yeute contractors.
Sam. Riley, horse thief and whisky
pedler, was shot and killed at Fl. Glib
son Indian Territory, Thursday, by
Marshal Frank Smith.
A fruitless attempt to inpeach the
Governor and attorney-g sneral OF Penn
syIyania was made in the Legislature at
Harrisburg.
The Omaha Herald OF Tuesday says
that two trains of ffty-6ve cara each,
loaded with seed OYSTERS" passed
through that city on Monday in roure
tam Baltimore to San Francisco.
It's stated tonight BY friends OF Col.
Thomas A. Scott that bis death u new
only q question ofhours. He has had a
third stroke OF paralysis and has lost
Consciousness. He rested somewhat
last evening, but DR.. s. Weir Mitchell,
bis physician, has no hope ofhis regain
ing bis senses for any length OF time.
He was out Oh Tuesday for the LAST
time.
There wat great excitement at FAN
Play, Col yesterday, on the asquittal
eiTst.erso!l, tried for the murder o.
fitzgerald. The widow Of tho latter
procured a musket and rushed alter Tat
tersoll, but bystander disarmed her,
The excitement and sympathy for the
woman Ian high, aRd Abraham Burgh,
g Q delegate to the Legislature, openly
q. advocated lynching. Tattersoll saved
g himself by leaving town.
Charles Baker, Of Winchester, Va,
jumped from a Chesapeake and Ohio
train Friday night, at Ronceverte, Va.
and was killed. lie saw anothet trair
, approaching, and fearing collision triet
to escape. The trains were 10 collision
out did no damage.
AT a recent meeting Of the Mshon
ties IN fredericksburg, the speech tina
received the greatest applause was tina
. delivered by a negro, who said he wan
ted the capitation tax and the whipping
post laws repealed, and the 50 fxed tina
the colored man should have the righ
10 sit on juries, hold Office aud MARI,
white women. We don't slame the ne
gro for these wants, but what can be sail
of the white men who stimulated him
to express them, aud whose applaus
will induce others to make the sam
demands Surely the worst teaching
Of carpetbaglsm are being inculcate,
again, but, huniliatlng Is Is the con.
fesnon, the teachers are native Vngi
mans. Fortunately there are only
few Of them, but these few should b,
buried politically so next November tina
the hand Of the resurrecttionisr can new
OF find them.
The New York Herald, which trie,
hard to work up enthusiasm over th
proposed worlds fair IN that city, be
become dishsartened over the pros
pect. 1t declares that idea 10 no
popular, nor does 1t grew In POPULAR
IT, and Its conclusion Is that 18th,