Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
THOUGHTS. SELECT AND ORIGINAL.

mduJ hBuO Ncocolo NoAo Nii'Oh
ashore.
Ferdinand Ward, of the firm OF
Grant & Ward, was sentenced to
prison on Saturday last, for term
of ten years.
The crop of raisins grown In
California has increased from l 600
boxes nineteen years ago to 400
900 the present season.
The hot.water cure retains It's
popularity in Hartford, Conn.,,
where, it is stated, it is mere tax
en- than any other medicine.
DR.. Spottswood G. Perrow, OF
Nelson county, died in Lovingston
on Saturday last in the 73d year
of hisage, after protracted illness
For the nine months ending Sept.
80, there were 25S,s36 emigrants
landed at the principle psrts OF
the country against 326,449 for the
anne period of last year.
The application of the white of
an egg toa snake-bite wound saved
the life of a little girl in st. Johns
county, Fla. She was bitten twice
on the foot by ground rattlesnake.
A Louisville woman asks for a
divorce on the ground that her
husband will not allow her to see
the morning paper until no has
first looked it over and cut out all
advertisements of dress goods.
Senator Stanford, of California,
has decided lands, valued at 50, 600
600, to endOw q university to be
ell ected at PalO Alto 10 that State.
1t is his intention to make this in
stltutiOn the best in this country or
Europe, and the ablest professors
will be secured, both at home and
abroad.
A dispatch from Pittsburg Pa,
dated 31st, says; Pref. T. W.
Steele, principal of a college at
Lynchbur6, ", while enroute East
last night, was decoyed from the
train by u stranger, taken to q
Water street "dive," drugged, and
robbed of $500 in cash and jewelry.
A man named Miller, Of Pleas
ants county, West Va, recently
bought sheep from David Will
hanson. lie tied a rope around
the innocent animals neck, tied it
to his horse and dragged it home, a
distance of o mile and a half. The
grand jury found an Indictment
against him for the offence.
When Rubinstein was in this
country Josh Billings was intro
duced to him, and the pianist in
conversation presently endeavored
to impress upon the Yankee an
idea OF his high family rank. ln'
deed,' he said, Il have ascertained
that my ancestors we're prominent
men in the Crusades, and one OF
them accompanied the Emperor
Barbarossa.' 'On the piano, l sup
pose said Josh.
A remarkable surgical operation
was performed at Mt. Sinai Hos
pitaI, New York, on Saturday last.
1t was taking an Overian tumor
from a married lady, which was
about eighteen inches long and
about twelve inches thick, and
weighed fifty pounds. The patient
was doing we'll on Monday, and
there was every reason to believe
she would recover from the opera
ton.
A fearful accident occurred at
the quarries near Pengueux, France,
on Monday. While a large body
of workmen we're engaged in taking
out a stone, the quarries suddenly
fell in, destroying village situated
on the ground above the stone pits,
and killing a large number of per-
sons. Many are buried in theruins,
and it is doubtful if any of them
can be rescued in time to save their
lives. Troops have been sent to
the scene of the disaster to aid in
the work of relief,
At the closing session Of the Ma
tiOnal Women's Christian Temper
ance Union in Philadelphia Tues
day, Mrs. Julia G. Wallace, OF In
diana, superintendent Of the fran
chise department, reported that
there are twelve States in which
women are given the right OF
suffrage, and SAID that the woman
suffragists stood on no narrow plat
form, as God has given to all the
right to rule themselves. A resoln'
ton that the use of alcoholic wine
in the holy communion furnishes
moral support to the liquor traffic,
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