Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-20
COLUMN OF SENSATIONS.

g. j. Peace, a former wealthy
and once very popular Episcopal
clergyman, of Gloucester City, n.
j., has been committed to the Cam
den county Jail on charge Of pass.
ing a worthless check on a Glou-
chester City saloon keeper. Peace
is a young man, about 30 years Of
age. When he came of age he was
n young minister and he fell heir to
100000. He became disslDated
and engaged in stock speculation
until he has but a bare pittance.
Edith Mitchell Porter, a pre-
possessing young woman oftwenty-
two years, has disappeared from
Auburn, n. Y, leaving letter in.
dicating that she contemplated
suicide. She said she was going
to a bette world and for her
friends to look for her at the bot
tom Of a large stream OF water
near Auburn. Her reason for de-
string to terminate her life is given
as encouragement, because her
father demanded more ef her earn
ings than she could spare. Her
closing words were: "Giye my
kind, loving, dear Joe my love. lie
is the best one love in this world.
Give him a loving kiss Tor me. So
good bye, my dear, loving joe"
A terrible mistake was made by
a physician a couple OF days ago in
Warsaw, Belmont county, Ohio.
A young woman was suffering
with an eye affection. An opera
ton was decided upoa and the pa
tient put under the influence Of
chlorofOrm, when one Of the eyes
was successfully removed. When
the patient recovered consciousness
it was found that the good eye bad
been removed. The physician was
so overcome that he fled the house.
A suit will be entered at once
against him for malpractice.
A telegraph to the Herald from
Montreal, Nov. -, says: Dr. Chas.
Knapp, SAID to be the son Of a
wealthy New York merchant, went
to Montreal in June last, and after
spending some time there married
the daughter Of a Beauharnois
farmer rather well to do. He re.
NAMED in her society just three
weeks, and left one day in the
summer to go out for an hour.
Since that hour she had not seen
him until she confronted him in
the police court in Montreal ycster-
day. She had heard of him, how
ever, and had placed Deceive
Fahri on his track, who arrested
him at Niagara. Yesterday, in
court, he looked his handsome wife
in the face and told her he had
married her for fun and would not
live with her. He was marched oil
t. Jail to await his trial on Wednes-
day next. His wife is inconsol-
able.
Two years ago William Mensing
alias Donnclly fled from Phila-
delphia, Pa, after embezzling
about 81 800 from the funds of the
North Cedar Hill Cemetery Com
pany, of which he was superinten-
deaf. A few days ago chief of the
city detectives, Kelly, learned that
he was in st. Louis. The authori-
ties in that city were asked to
arrest him, and when they went to
his house on Thursday they found
him with the dead body of his
wife, which he had not been able
to bury because he had no money.
He said he would come without
making any trouble if the body
was brought to Philadelphia, and
the remains were embalmed to
await the arrival of the detective,
who left for st. Louis to-day to
bring Mensing on for trial.
An extraordinary and grOteSque
state of affairs is alleged in a bill
of complaint filed in one Of the
courts at Detroit by Louis Stewart
for divorce. The complaint alleges
that his wife is Of most misery
and deceitful disposition, and has
a violent and ungovernablc temper,
but the fault which occasions him
the most annoyance is her habits
of picking up in the streets Old
nails and bits of iron, which she
carries home and locks up in a
trunk. He also claims that she
gathers paving blocks and nearly
fills the house with them. lie
alleges that she persuaded him to
enter into a secret marriage, so as
to prevent him from making IN.
ouiries as to her real character and
ulSpOoillO"'
An arrangement has been entered
into between Edward Payson
Weston and Daniel OLeary, the
old pedestrian rivals, for walk OF
1900 miles for a purse OF - ,OOo
and net gate receipts. The race Is
to commence Monday, December
18th, and to continue twelve con-
secutiye hours per day, emitting
SUNDAYS, until the entire distance
e, 500 miles, has been trayerSed.
The contestant who first completes
the distance is to be declared the
winner, and he is to take $1,000 OF
the purse and two.thirds of the
net gate receipts.
The Lynchburg Virginia says: a
most distressing account reaches
us of the drowning OF four persons
in the Staunton river on Tuesday
G. L. Beal and j. I. Abbott, highly
esteemed citizens of Halifax, and
two cOlOred men, whose names we
we're not able to obtain, undertook
to cross the river at Mclvor's Ferry
with a wagon, when the rope gave
way and the boat drifted down the
stream, striking a rock and sink
ing, with the unfortunate result
stated. Three mules were also
drowned.
The Union CIV. Va) Waterman
says: "On Saturday evening, Nov.
7, Rufus Huffman, who lives about
three miles below the Salt Sulphur
Springs, Monroe county, was re-
turning home from Pence'ss mill.
About Z O'Clock, when a few hun
dred yards beyond the residence OF
NJ. NJ. Pine, his horse became