Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

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4 man who was arrested 10
North Carolina for stealing another
mans wife was discharged on the
ground that as woman Is not
personal prop erty, she cannot be
the subject of larceny.
A skin containing three men
and two ladies was caught in a
wind and rain storm storm Satur-
dav afternoon while crossing the
river just south OF Memphis and
capsized. All the occupants were
drowned.
Out in Missouri the other day a
man who aad been swindled out OF
$4,000 by bunkO sharpers declared
that he had not read newspaper
in forty years. His statement
relieves journalism of a serious
responsibility.
The Governor has offered a re-
ward of 500 Tor the arrest aud
conviction of the persons who
murdered in Page county a watch
man on the Shenandoah Valley
railroad. The Waterman was asleep
in his bunk when he was shot and
killed.
The Chicago Times says that
Patrick O'Sullivan has lifted the
veil OF conspiracy in the Cronln
murder. After withstanding the
questioning - OF officers day after
day he has given to the police the
names OF every person implicated
in the murder.
General Bates, a retired English
army officer of means, is travelling
through the West. He was rather
surprised the other day when he
sat down TO dinner in hotel at
Seattle. The waiter who took his
order was his own son, who had
ran away from home seven years
before.
Bismarck makes 4 distinction
that is worthy of notice. lie de-
clares that as a Christian be can
pocket an insult, but that as
Chancellor of the German Empire
lie can lick the man that offers it.
As contemporary tersely re-
marks, the Sian of Iron seems to
be doing business exclusively IN
the latter capacity.
At Sligo, a short distance from
the Norfolk county line IN North
Carolina, last Wednesday night, a
negro went into the store Of Mr..
Thomas Williams and beat him
INTO insensibihty with a spade, aud
he Will probably die. The negro
then robbed the store and escaped.
Mrs. Williams first discovered the
condition of her husband.
In Princess Anne county, on
Wednesday, May odd, the residence
of the Rev. +. c. Clarke, Baptist
minister, was burned, aud Mr.
Clarke, his two daughters, and
next oldest son, and Miss Pollen a
niece visiting him, were consumed
by the flames. His wife, with Miss
Ella Bidgood, the governess, and
two children escaped. The fire
was accidental.
The latest discovery by the
redoubtable Professor Virgins is
that the earth is moving away from
the sun, and the seas drying up so
steadily that "the time will come
when it will be necessary to carve
up the continents by canals, as we
see on Mars" It Is safe to predict
that, long before We have begun to
carve up the contents, the surgeons
will have carved up Professor
Virgins, to discover whether the
disorder of his brain extended al
through his nervous system.
The Minnesota legislature has
passed law preventing drunken
ness. It provides that when
man is under the influence o
liquor it Is prima facIa a case o
voluntary drinking. The frs
ohense is punishable by fine Of moi
less than so nor more than $40
or imprisonment for not less thar
ten nor more than forty days
Second Ofense, not less than thirty
nor moro than 60 days lmprison
ment, and fire DISCO to 500
For the third and all subsequent
oflenses imprisonment for not lesi
than sixty nor more than ninety
days.
We learn from the Tombstone
Epiteph that at recent wedding
ont there in Arizona the presents
consisted of a furnished house,
mule, heiier, a barrel Of beer,
cask of wine, some whisky,
corkscrew, and several sums o
money, ranging from S25 to 800
ave would like to know" says The
Epitaph, IN the true Western
idiom, "if these sort of presents
don't eyerlastingly knock the sDOtl
out Of sachet bags, embroidered
slippers, ornamental suspenders
and fancy garters." In soOth the!
do. But if the object was ever