Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-02-15

Slate cOlOreu Normal Scn00l located 10
that city.
The city of Adrian, Mich, is in a
state Of great excitement over the dis
covery of the seemingly unauthorized
negotiating of $50. 900 worth Of bonds
by the mayor of the city-Thomas J,
Navin who, it is alleged by New Y ork
parties, negotiated the bonds and drew
money 90 them. Navin has abscond-
ed.
Trains on the railroads in Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick have been blowing
snows6rifts for week or longer, and
time schedules have been practically
abandoned.
A guano island has been discovered
IN the Gulf Of California, % miles south
west of Port Lobos. The deposit is
very large. The island contains about
lG square miles.
The Standard Iron Company has
been incorporated at Wheeling, w. Va,
with capital of 100000.
Gyumber, "!he sleeping Hungarian,
who remained for many months in
eataleptic state at the LehIgh county
almshouse, has regained his strength
and is working 10 q rolling-mill at
Allentown.
An ordinary days business on change
in Chicago is the sale OF about 10000.
900 bushels of grain. On Saturday the
sales amounted TO nearly 90,000,0O0
bushels.
A heavy frost but little shor. Of a
fall Of snow visited Tallahassee, Fla.
last Wednesday. Tillers of the soil and
fruit-srowers fear considerable damage
was done to their crops.
Proposals from Helena, Ark, state
that there is great danger of crevasse
occurring In the levee there, and that
large force of negroes is working day
and night strengthening the embank-
ment which protects the city.
Two infants died IN New York on
Friday from smallpox. The parents
OF both are tailors, and reside in tene-
ment-houses. At both houses the
clothing prepared for delivery was seiz-
ed, and will be thoroughly disinfected.
In one Of the houses six hundred pairs
Of trowsers were discovered. Ten new
cases Of smallpox were also reported
on Friday.
As freight train pulled up at O'Kean
Mo-, station on the Iron Mountain
Railroad, last night, George James
leaped off the cars and went into the
depot, where q man named Belts was
sitting, drew q revolver aud fired three
shots into his body, killing him instant.
ly. James then disappeared.
A collision occurred on the Virginia
Midland Railroad Saturday evening,
near Springfield Station, between two
freight trains, by which several cars
were smashed and the fremsn on the
nort-tound train was injured.
A. NJ. Soteldo, who was MORALLY
wounded in an encounter en- Thursday
night, in the editorial rooms of the
National Republican. died at the Proyi.
dence Hospital, Washington, at 1920
on Saturday night. The bullet was re-
moved from the place where it had
lodged at the base Of the skull, by
post-mortem surgical operation, and
will be compared with the bullets that
remain 10 Mr.. Barton's pistol, and with
the calibre of A. c. Soteldo's pistol for
the purpose of developing the true
theory of the shooting. The cOroner's
inquest will be held to day.
At a recent meeting Of the Phlladel-
phia Committee OF One Hundred it was
reported that since February %, 1881,
the committee had, IN its endeavors TO
prevent election frauds, taken action in
IS cases. II had secured convictions in
II cases; Is are lugitives from justice,
and 7 indictments remain 10 be tried.
A resolution for turning out all the
school trustees in Virginia and filing
their places with readjusters has bee
introduced 10 the Legislature. and will
doubtless be adopted. And of such ia
the liberalism OF the party that is op-
posed 10 'proscriptiye Bourbonism.'
Advertisements for relatives Of John
Conard, who died recently in California,
have brought TO light his only child,
James b. Conard. who is a common
laborer at Skippackyille. Montgomery
county. He will at once 90 West and
take charge oflhe large estate awaiting
him.
The dead body of male child was
found Friday locked IN trunk in the
loom of Mary Jane Davis, single, Of
Cns6eld, Nd. She admitted before the
corners jury that the child was hers,
but said she did not know whether it
was born alive or not.
The body of Conrad Kite, who died
twenty-four years ago and was buried
10 q metallic case near Conrad's Store
on the Shenandoah Valley Road, has
been exhumed ard brought here for
refinement. The undertakers who at
tended to the work say that the wooden
box inclosing the case had crumbled
away, and the case was covered with
rust half an inch thick; but when the lid
coverisg The face was pried off the body
was found 10 be perfectly preserved, as
we'll as the clothing, and though the
glass was not removed the body pre-
scented all the appearance of petrifacs
tion uhich fbeorv was sunn0ried nv fha