Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-03-19
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1855.
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Capt. W. B. Wingfeld, a lead
ing citizen of Franklin county, Va,
died last week.
Two grown daughters of Peter
Biggs, of Loudon county, died one
day last week of pneumonia.
4 party of Northern gentlemen
are purchasing large quantities OF
timber in Northampton county, Va.
W. j. Boyd, for many years
merchant of Richmond, and after
wards a resident of Baltimore, died
in HenricO county Friday.
Peter Compiler, aged 90, and Jos.
Hoffman, aged 90, of LOudOn cOun-
ty, died last week. The former
was a soldier of the war Of 1872.
Joseph English, of Boston, who
seems 10 be man Of leisure, has
wasted ten and a half hours in
writing 4,l62 words on a postal
card.
The dwelling-house of Thomas G.
Gait, near Columbia, Fluvanna
county, was burned Friday night,
with most OF the furniture. No in
Surance.
Fincastle has, with only ten dis
seuting votes, decided to subscribe
$1,000 to the Allegheny Institute,
in case the trustees should agree
to locate it there.
A summer hotel stables at Marks.
vile, Page county, owned bysNlar-
tin Biedler, were burned on the
18th inst; loss $4,000, insurance
5000.
A strange disease has broken out
among the horses in Campbell
county, Va. Over 10 fine animals
have died within the last few weeks.
The disease is called brain fever or
jaundhce.
John King, who died a few days
ago in Cincinnati, was only news
boy, crippled and poor, but he gave
10 tue public library a valuable col
lection Of 1900 volumes, which he
had purchased with the savings OF
years Of toll and privation.
The Rev. DIR. Theodore Pryor,
of Virginia, father of Gen. Roger
a. Pryor, is in his S1st year and in
the Jlth year of his ministry. It's
said she breaches with as much
frequency, fastness, fuency and
force as he did forty years ago.
Andrew Pennington, who lives
near the WhitetOp Mountain, in
smythe county, Va, has eleven
children living. These are all mar
ried, and have 100 living children
and four grandchildren, making a
total in the four generations Of III
souls.
y large force of wOrkmen will be
put to labor on the Atlantic and
Danyille Railroad next week for
the construction Of the road from
lIicksford west to Danville, Va,
and the work viii be pushed for
ward to completion as rapidly as
possible.
Myron Rowland, aged l3, while
in school at New Boston, Mich,
Monday last, printed some letters
on the back of his hand with red
ink. Later the hand and arm be-
gan to swell rapidly, and soon after
commissions set in, continuing until
Thursday, when the boy died.
Christiansburg, in Montgomery
county, is ''dry town" having not
long since voted in favor of prohi-
bitiOn. Sunday 9th inst the
principal hotel of the place caught
ire, when, singular to relate, some
thirty barrels Of choice old whisky
we're rolled out on the sidewalk
from the imperilled premises.
A Western young woman having
started in for forty days fast to
atone for her sins. a New York
rural town comes forward with a
tale to beat it. II produces an in
valid eirl who has been semi.cOn-
scions and has taken no nOurish-
ment foreighty days. This entirely
snashes the record, putting even
Tanner to the blush.
It was noticed when the local
option bill was before the Legisla-
ture that those members who are
from fruit. growing counties were
in favor of local.option, if it did not
prohibit distilleries; while in those
districts where there is little fruit
growing and no distilleries they all
went for lOcal.OptiOn, il it did not
embrace cities and towns of five
thousand inhabitants.
TO General T. j. Jackson belongs
the credit of having started in Lex.
ington, nearly thirty years ago, a
Presbyterian Sunday school for col
ofed people. At the time Of the
starting Of the enterprise Jackson
was professor in the Virginia
Military Institute; then the cOlored
pupils whom it was his pleasure to
teach every Sunday were mostly
slaves. His Sunday school is still
IN a very promising and flOurishIng
condition, with large number Of
scholars on its rolls.
Frederick Douglas having re-
signed the position of Recorder Of
Deeds for the District of Columbia,
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