Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-03-26
FRIDAY MARCH 26. Iss'

at Petersburg, Saturday last.
Boo The emigration from Ireland for
the year 1885 was G., 42O, against
7G,O43 during the year previous.
4 lawyer at Toledo, Ohio, has
been sent to the wOrkhOuse for
kissing a pretty girl against her
. will.
The Aha CalJorRia's advice on
me Chinese question; AGO SLOW
and drive in the middle Of the
road"
The Chinese of San Francisco are
taking advantage Of the low rail
road rates, and are coming east in
large numbers.
The widow of the Hon. Hamilton |
Fish has contributed $50 to the |
Confederate Orphans Home at
Charleston, S. G.
Ex-Governor Smith, of Fauquier,
Va, is upwards of IS years of age,
and his form is as erect, his eyes as
bright and his step as elastic as
ever.
Iowa has 100000 cows, produc-
ing annually S5O,OOO,OOO of dairy
products, and ships out s24, 900, 900
annually, so the State dairy asso-
cation reports.
In Chicago 4,99S,73O hogs were
slaughtered during the year ended
March l, 1886, and the receipts OF
cattle we're 1,9O2,SlS head; ship
ments 724,34S.
The largest barn in the world is
probably that of the Union Cattle
Company of Cheyenne, Wyoming
Territory. 1t covers five acres, cost
s95,OOO, and accommodates $3.50
head Of cattle.
1t is stated that Mr.. TheO. Won
Ringharz, a Bavarian, has pur-
chased 5000 acres of land in the
vicinity of Warren, Va, with a
view of settling lot of Bavarian
immigrants upon it.
\ Cass county iowa man has q
COW which has given birth to nine
calves in three years. Two years
ago she gave birth to twin calves,
last year to twins, and a few days
ago to five calves.
The Senate Committee on Public
Bindings and Grounds authorized
a favorable report to be made on
Senator Morrilps bin appropristing
100000 for the erection Of an ex-
tension to the White House.
The Legislature appropriated the
sum of sl35,OOO for the completion
and furnishing of the Southwestern
Lnnatic Asylum at Marion. Work
is to be resumed on the building at
once and rapidly pushed to COM
petiOn.
Andrew Pennington, who lives
near the Whltetop Mountain in
Smythe county, Va, has eleven
children living. These are all mar
ried and have one hundred living
children and four grandchildren
making total in the four genera
lions of one hundred and seventeen
souls.
IT'S an i'll wind, etc. The Chinese
in the West having made up their
minds that they "must co. sooner
or later, are going now; and, TAX
ing advantage of the Transconti-
mental rate war, are coming East
at about one fifth of what the cost
would have been six weeks ago.
Gus Akers, a colOred man in
Georgia, has served eighteen years
in prison for stealing a hundred
pounds of cotton, and will spend
the remainder of his life in cOnfine-
ment unless pardoned. At the
time of his trial the punishment for
burglary was death, bat the jury
recommending mercy, bis sentence
was commuted toimprisonment for
life.
Ex-senator John Il. Gordon, it
is announced, has recently dispos-
ed Of his large railroad and landed
interests in Florida to Northern
capitalists for sum which makes
hirn millionaire. Gen. GordOn's
name is now mentioned in cOnnec
ton with the governorship o.
Georgia, to which it is said he as
pires.
At Pau, where many men anC
women with light hearts and heavy
purses go in winter, it is not unus
nal to see a person with pair o
skates in one hand and a sun-um
brella in the other. The ice II
found on a small lake that lies deeI
in a hollow, and there is good skat
ing on the lake, while round abou'
Pau people are promenading II
sunshine as warm as that of OctO
Der.
A contract has been awarded fol
the construction of the Ohio Rive
Railroad from Parkersburg to Poin'
Pleasant, w. Va, the work to b'
completed by October the first. Tht
new road will connect Richmond
with Wheeling by rail. The Ches
apeake & Ohio Road runs t
Charleston, short ride from POin
Pleasant, both of which places arr
on the Kanawha river. A roaC