Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-08-06
EXCHANGE NOTES.

for So, 900, equivalent to'cash, reservlng
the right to saw mp the several millions of
timber yet standing on the premises
There is fine deposit of Manganese on
the land.
.Srasburg Ners A disease resembling
cholera is playing havoc with the hogs in
the vicinity Of Toms Brook. Mr.. Ham
man lost last week lG hogs, some of his
nelphbors have been almost equally I'M
fortunate 90 Wednesday morning, while
attempting to mount his horse from a
fence. Mr.. Noah Funkhouser, living at
the Four Mile House, was thrown to the
ground and had a rib broken Last
Thursday Keller q Wakeman's saw mill
was the scene of very painful accident.
John Hall, an employe, had fragment Of
wood forced through the muscular part OF
the forearm. The wound is not neces-
sarily of q serious character, but was ex-
tremely painful.
Dalley DirginiGH On the 18th inst,
the fine barn of Mr.. Daniel Bell, near
Spring Hill, was consumed by fire, to-
gether with lot OF hay, wheat, and
farming implements. The fire WAS dis.
covered about 2 o'clock, a. m, and IL
thought to be the work Of an incendiary
The loss falls heavily on an honest and
industrious farmer, the barn only being
insured at 800 by the East Augusta
Mutual - Mr.. VIM. Buckley, Jr. who
recently purchased part of the Geeding
farm near Churchvile, showed us
beautiful amathyst which had been found
in Amherst county, near the Rockbridge
line. In the rough state 1t was nearly an
inch square. Whilst in New York recent
ly Mr.. Buckley had the stone cut and
handsomely mounted, and it is now one
of the most beautiful triangular amathySts
we have ever seen. This is but another
evidence of the wonderful natural wealth
Of the Old Dominion
Stanton J'indicdtOr : A few days since
Messrs. II. c. Palmer, Buck Fitch and {.
Z. Kregloo, left Greenville at dawn for
Hog Back Mountain, six miles distant.
At night the party returned with three
hundred and TWEEN ty-fve nice mountain
front II. J. Stuart Coiner, the lunatic
who murdered Montezuma Brown on the
Far Grounds last fall, is evidently going
into decline in jail. He has been in
Jail nine months, including his incarcera-
ton at Richmond and Staunton. He is
haggard and hollow checked and has fall
on off greatly. When he was brought
back from Richmond and committed here,
he paced his cell like some animal In his
cage, but has become so weakened and
emaciated that he now lies down all the
time. 1t looks like pity that something
cannot be done TO give him trial and
get him to an asylum. He is pitisble
sight
Roclingham Register: James Harlow,
whose trial for cruelly beating and then
cutting the throat OF his little step
daughter, Cornelia Barton, near Elkton.
this county, in May last, occupied the
County Court for several days last week,
was found guilty by the jury on Saturday
morning, and his punishment fixed at
years in the penitentiary. The trial OF
VIM. Finchum, charged with the murder
of his brother, Preston Finchum, near
Elkton, In this county, on the 18th day OF
March last, began in the County Court Oh
Monday last, and is still in progress as we
20 to press The Commonwealth ID
represented by Chas d. Harrison, and the
prisoner by W. $. Luriy and w. l.. Yam
ccy. The examination Of the Common
wealth's witnesses, numbering about 40,
was concluded on Wednesday, and the
argument will be made to-day, Thursday
and the case given to the jury.
(The jury found the prisoner guilty Of
murder in the first degree.
Paqe Courier In the case OF the
Com. VS.. David Breeder q consent verdict
was rendered to some effect as resulted
from his trial in the other case Of similar
import-i. g., sl25 fine and two months
imprisonment IN the county jail. j. 1
Jackson. on trial for the Illicit sale o.
liquor. was found guilty by the jury, who
fixed his fine at sl25, the Judge adding
six months imprisonment in the county
iail. Mr.. T.. Brnmback made upon
his farm this year, we are reliably in
formed. one hundred tons Of hay. QUITE
an item for one farm. Even at the low
price Of $40 per ton, It would realize The
handsome sum Of $1,000 MI Is. is one o.
the largest and most successful farmers II
the county, and his other crops are not
whit behind this. Mr.. Samuel A. Bur
acker. Marksvillc, found a tortoise on hi
/ farm one day last week with initials "A
/ +. G.-l-6l," cut upon its breast. Th'
tortoise was medium size one, and thu
/ lettering was as plain as though 1t ha'
| been cut last week MIR. Il. lives on th'
farm owned by Col. A. +. Grayson in hi
| lifetime. and the initials are donbtlesi
his. DR.. Peter &. Brubaker brought Il
our Office last Monday specimen heads o.
wheat measuring & inches in length. Tit
seed he bought Of Mr.. Fielding, an'
sowed one bushel on one-fOurth of al
acre, Ifrom which he raised lot bushels
weighing sc pounds to the bushel The
specimen brought us is very line, and W.
think it is a very superior species IA
the copper mine near Brannin's on I'M
Blue Ridge il a shaft through solid rocl
70 feet deep. One day last week seyera
gentlemen who had been on the Rapl'
Ann trout fishing, returning by the mine
detected stencil, and looking down thu
shaft discovered fine steer at the bottom
1t belonged to Dir. F. r. Biedler, we un
derstand, and had been taken to the Ridg
early in the spring to Craze.
Shenandoah Press : One day last week
little daughter OF Mr.. ID. NJ. Grabill
near Quicksburg, while playing fell owe
one Of her playmates breaking her arm Dr
+. +. Rice rendered attention Solomon
son of Mr.. S. A. Henkel, Of this place, wa
bitten by large Shepherd dog, belonging
to his father, on Tuesday last. He wa
bitten in the face in three places by tn
brute. None Of the family were presen
when the dog attacked the little boy, AM
what enraged the animal, which ha
heretofore been quite docile, is not known
Mr.. Henkel, in order to guard sgains
further accidents from that source, admin
istsred a dose Of strychnine to the brut'
which soon had the desired effect. Oh
Monday last, lightning struck the hous
of Mrs. Thornton Thomas, about 2 mile
10. n,