Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-05-16
News Items.

We regret to see the announcement
that the Hon. j. Randolph Tucker,
now visiting friends in New York, is SC
all that his friends are alarmed.
The coalition county convention of
Albemarle 10 nominate county tick
CT broke up in a row without nomina-
ting.
An unusually severe hailstOrm, ac'
companied by heavy rain, prevailed a
Dayton, Ono, May 18th. Hail fell al
most an inch in diameter, and covered
the streets TO the depth Of several In
ches in places. Considerable damage
was done.
Addison Samuels, q railroad-Iracl
foreman, was brutally beaten oyer thC
head with a shovel at Pottsdam, Pa,
Saturday by VIM. Taylor, a coloreC
laborer whom Slmuels had discharged.
and died Monday. Taylor fed to Vir-
ginia.
Last Monday a twelYe-year- old
daughter OF Lewis Spikes, residing on
the Manchester road, near Winters
Mill; Carroll county, Nd, fell into &
well IS feet deep, with Is feet Of water
She chung 10 the well rope and was
drawn out unhurt.
A party of nearly 300 Dunkards me-
at Cumberland Thursday afternoon
from Somerset. Uniontown and Other
poluis 10 Pennsl lvania. and from Wash
lnglon county, this State, and from the
Valley Of Virgiuil, on their way To at.
terd the annual session of the Dunk.
arIs TO be held 10 few days at Bis
marck Grove, Kansas City Mo,
An encounter occurred in the clerk
Office of the Cnmi0al Court iu St. Loui,
Friday between TWO attorneys, Marsh
al F. Mcdonald and 2 w. Faunlleroy
son OF Judge FauntltroY, Of the Virgi
MIA Court Of Appeals. The gcnllencr
got into an alteration 0y,r The trial o
case iu the Criminal Court, and settl
ed The matter after virl. BY a regulir
sei,io in the c'e irk' off e. Bob came
out with bloody hoses lod black eyes.
ExGov. IIoja 10 Seymour la, been
iulervie ~, d and what he said make
four columns in The New York Maj
and Express. In brief, he thinks t..
Gov. Cleveland is on trial and shoul'
not be discussed as a presidential can
dldatc; that Mr.. Tildea is able but mis-
understood; that Mr.. Kelly is a man Q
impulse and contest, to whom restrain
may at time be Of service that Will
ireland has been misruled we ought tC
pass anti.dynamite laws that a tar.
if Tor revenue only IS he tue democra
tic policy.
The funeral Of Mrs. Jessie II
Grant, mother of Gen. Grant, too
place on Saturday from the residence 0
Mrs. Corbin, daughter OF the deceased
on Payonia avenue, Jersey City. TIL
services were conducted By the Rev
Mr.. Henderson, pastor OF the Simpson
Methodist Episcopal Church. assisted
by the Rev. DR.. John p. Newman an
the Rev. Mr.. Hathaway. The reman'
were put on board an express tram {
be taken to Cincinnati. Among sh0s'
who accompanied the funeral part
were Ges, and Mrs. Grant, Ulysses 5.
Grant, Jr. and wifi, Col. Fred. Gran
and Mrs. Dent.
A little boy just old enough TO tall
was found under some Bushes IN Henri
county, Alabama, abont the time o
the cyclone, and no one knows wher
he came from or why he was there. |
is surmlsed, however, that the litil
fellow is waif Of the late great siOrr
that swept over that section and owe
FIVE States. II is not unreasonable t
suppose that the child had ride on tn
wind 10 the spot where he was ioun
uniujured. He IS nov IN the hands {
good pc Jple and IS doing we'll.
Mr. Oscar Taylor, of Monmouth, Obi
owns Confederate silver half dolla
one of only four that we're issued G
Shat stamp. He gave 800 for 1t, an
has refused 81 900. Ga the liberty sd
the die is the same as the present. half
dollar, but on the reverse side is subSli
tuted seven bars and seven stars, SUI
noun ed by pole @i'h The cap Of lib
erty. \ stalk OF sugar cane and stall
Of cotton are shown, around which ar,
the woid>. The Confederate States c
America"