Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-04-16

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it was a sin to use tobacco. They
were severely censured for its use,
and quit it on that account.
At the election held in Wythe-
willie, April 10, the local optionists
carried Wytheville magisterial dis
trict by thirty majority. The vote
pOlled was a very large one, fully
eight.tenths of the registered vote
being polled. At Floyd Court
House the "dry" movement was
defeated by a vote Of 1 to l in
favor of granting license.
Prof. Foster, meteorologist late
Of Iowa, predicts in the Leaven-
worth Times, that "great storms
will pass over the United States in
rapid succession during the last
ten days OF April, and all shipping
int rests, especially in the north
ern states, should prepare to pro
tect their property from heavy
rains, high winds floods, sleet,
snow and extreme changes of the
weather on land, and from danger
GUS gales on the lakes and Atlantic
coast. The heaviest of these storms
will be ever the Mississippi basin,
about April % or 20, west of that
earlier and east later
Two colOred men, named Briefly
and Olden, near Middleburg, while
drunk quarreled and the latter
threatened to kill the former. That
night while Briefly was returning
to his home he again encountered
OldeD, who struck him a terrible
blow with a fence rail, crushing
one of his jaws and iniuring him
so badly that he died Sunday
morning. 1t was stormy night,
but Olden, still half drunk, sat
with the wounded man in the
pouring rain all night, after trying
TO get him under shelter ina neigh
boring barn, Olden escaped Sun
day, and has not yet been captured,
L. G. Jones, a commercial travel
er from Philadelphia, who offered
to pay his taxes in coupons, which
were refused, was arrested for sell
ing goods without license. His
case came up before the Hastings
Court for Richmond on Tuesday
of last week, on demurrer TO in
dictment. The demurrer was sus
tanned, the Court believing that he
had right, under the decision Of
the U. S. Supreme Court, to go Oh
with his business without license
after having rendered coupons, and
that the prosecution could not be
maintained. Jones was bailed
and the case will go the Supreme
Court of the United States. Jones
has sued the State officers who
ordered his arrest for $4,000. And
such will be the result of all at
tempts to evade or defy the de
cisions of the Supreme Court.
1t is with profound sorrow that
the people of the United States
hear of the serious illness of ex
president Arthur. Though his adj
ministratiOn was rather an unevent
full one, but few of the presidents
have retired from the Office with
more friends and admirers, among
all parties, than Mr.. Arthur. He
gave the country a clean admins
tration. In all of his official acts
he seemed to be actuated by an
honest purpose, and this is some
thing upon which the people set q
higher value than they do for some
startling achievement such as has
given prominence to other admins
tratiOns. Mr.. Arthur occupies a
very warm place in the hearts of the
American people, and they would
be sorely grieved to hear OF his
death.
1t has often been pleasantly re
markedI that the Bible is a tolera
bly, safe place in which to hide
money, and the following seems &c
lie a case calculated to strengthen
the theory; An unexpected fortune
was found IN a Bible at GTeenville
Mich, on April md, after being
hidden thirty.one years. In 1880 a
man left New York and went West,
leaving his two little boys in the
care Of his mother. Five years later
he died, and his effects were sent
back to New York. The boys were
cared for and educated by the
grandmother until they we're able
TO provide for themselves. Recent
ly the grandmother died, and some
of her personal property was sent
to one OF her grandsons, who re-
sides at Greenville. Among it was
an old chest, the contents OF which
seemed of little value save as fami-
ly relics. The man, however, cx-
amined it last week, and found in
1t his fathers Bible. On turning
over the leaves he discovered his
fathers VIII and a bond for $4,000,
to which he and the children of his
brother, who is now dead, are
heirs.
Killed by a Cat Scratch.
READING, Pa, April Frank
Endy, aged twenty-nine, a strong
and temperate man, in the enjoy
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