Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-05-14
EXCHANGE NOTES.

IONf ' ONItff i ifnAiNOf @k'A
sixty-seven, and Charlotte Sims, aged
Gfty.Gve (both colored), were married by
Roy. W. Davenport, in Luray, last week.
We have not learned whether 1t was
case of love at first sight or not, but in
their promenade on Main street the day
after tho happy event it was plainly dis
cernible that they were both as full of
bliss as a demiiohn.
Talley Virginian VIM. H., the fourteen
ysar-old son of Mr.. J. w. Bear, had the
cad joints of three fingers on his right
hand blown of Sunday night by dyna-
mite cartridge. He didn't know what the
cartridge was, and was carelessly handling
it when the explosion took place. The
wounds are painful but the patient is get
ting along all right.
Rockingham Register On Wednesday Of
last week Hon. John f.. Lewis came near
having his house, on the Shenandoah
River, in this county, destroyed by fire.
A lamp was lighted and left burning in
al upper room without any chimney on it,
which exploded A woollen cloth on the
bureau upon which the lamp was sitting
was burned up, and the bureau badly dam
aged, but fortunately the fire did not eI-
tend to the floor, and died ont. A very
narrow escape, certainly.
Spirit Of the Dallcy: Rev. Joseph Bow
man, who resides in t. county, sold to
Samuel Flory, SOL Rev. John Flory,
near Bridgewater HIS .rm in Prince Will
liam county, Va, at the sum of $500
Mr.. F. will move his family TO Prince Will
liam soon. Since the sale Of his Prince
William farm Mr. Bowman has purchased
W that is known M the old CARRIER Farm,
lying between lIarrisonbnrg and Dayton,
and containing about 100 acres, at the
sum of s., 200 Nr. B. bought this farm
for his son, r. |. Bowman, who will take
immediate possession.
Siaanion indicator: Some years ago
Mrs. Gwinn, living near Deerfeld in this
county. was afflicted with a cancer. IL
became so threatening that a surgical OPP
Grafton was deemed all that could be done,
and the late DR.. J. A. Waddell fixed the
day for performing it. Before tho day
came. an old wizard came along and
was told OF it. lie took rag and passed
it over the cancer, at tho same time saying
some words over il, then wrapped sono
coin in the rag and buried it under an ap-
pie tree The cancer, Immediately COM
menced healing, aud when Dr. Waddell /
came was 80 nearly well that an operation !
was deemed unnecessary. In time it was /
completely well. The tree had always I
borne fruit but ever since that day bears .
nothing. Every year it binds and little /
green apples come, which wither and turn /
black and fall of. Mrs Gwinn is alive /
and well and it il from her lips that
physician got this curious statement few
days ago.
Lexington Gazette Lsafy Montgomery, +
negro woman, who lives on North River,
just above Leyburn's Mill was brought to
iail Saturday by Constable Bradley, hay-
ING been convicted Of misdomeansr by .
Justice Of the Peace Gold, and sentenced
to 20 days confinement in the county Jail.
This woman has in charge two children Of
a sister, or Tister-n.lsw, and on Tuesday
last she took the three-year-old child put
it in bag and immersed it in the Iiyer
with the purpose, it is thought, Of drown
ing the little one. At the trial hr. W. W.
Clifton, gentleman Of the neighborhood,
testified that the woman had threatened
to kill the children, which fact was ad-
mitted as true by the prisoner. She
claimed, however, that she only put 1t IN
the bag and then in the river to brighten
it. The act Of putting the child in bag,
then tieing it up as though it were cat,
i, conclusive 10 our mind that she intend
ed something other than TO Brighten the
child.
This woman, q fiend in human form, had
made her brags and threats that she in-
tended to kill the child which had been
left in her charge to care for and protect:
We will refrain from an expression OF
opinion as to what punishment should be
melted out to such brute, but We arc
afraid that there is no law that could sufh-
GENTLY punish her for this bastard attempt
TO take the life Of helpless and innocent
babe.