Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
State News.

Stanton has commenced the paving of
her business streets with vitrihed brick.
Mrs. LYDIA Bull, who died recently at
ut. Sidney, had reached the extreme old
age of ninety years.
J. A. Tce was convicted of perjury in
Danville Friday and sent to Jail for g
days and fined so.
"Nelly Bly," the famous enclrcler of the
globe has been in Charlottesville. and
while there visited Monticello, the Uni
versity and other places.
A class OF ten law students from the
University of Virginia were licensed to
practice law by the Supreme Court last
Thursday. One of the applicants, Gen.
VIM, Dalton Warren, from South Carolina
is fifty years old.
The Mclean House, near Appomattox
Court House, in which the articles for the
surrender Of Gen. Lees army to General
Grant were written, will be removed to
Chicago, but will be returned after the
exposition.
At Boydton, Mecklenburg county, Miss
Annie Mason IIedderly. aged eighteen,
was shot and almost instantly killed by
the accidental discharge of gun in the
hands OF her brother, Ernest Hedderly
fourteen years Of age.
In the Hastings court at Danyille,
Saturday, George W. Wooding entered
suit against b. S. Crews, well-known
merchant, for Sd, 900. Woodlng charges
that Crews has allenated his wfe's affec-
tions and destroyed his domestic felicity.
This is the most startling social sensation
Danville has known for many years.
Friday night near the Rockbridge
baths, local santarian, Frank Snyder,
a prominent young man, had his skull
badly fractured with a rock in the hands
of John Anderson, Young desperate
who distinguished himself and won an
inevitable reputation some time ago by
cowhding Howard Harrison, an aged
citizen, without hands. Snyder's con-
ditional is critical.
A Goochland county lady missed a
very valuable and hIghly-prized watch
aud chain from her jewelry case. Con-
WINGED that one of the female servants
about the house had purloned it she
made no ado about the matter, but con-
fidently informed the suspected culprt
that she would go to Richmond and con-
suit fortune teller, who could easily tell
her Just where the watch was. The next
day the stolen articles were found in their
usual place of abode. Superstition had
done good detective work.
Henry PeS ton, one of the oldest and
most prominent citiz ms of Augusta coun-
ty, and admitted to be the best farmer in
Virginia, died at his residence near Staun-
ton last Wednesday aged ninety-three
years. He was the father of Col, S. E.
G. Peyton, manager of the Natural
Bridge Hotel; George L. Peyton, pro-
pretor of the Rockbridge Alum Springs
Hotel Bernard PeytOl, clerk OF the West
Virginia House OF Delegates; DR.. Edward
Peyton, of Albemarle, and Charles Peyton,
ientenant-colonel of the Nineteenth Vir-
gina Regiment during the war.
At Salem last Tuesday Mrs Marks, ac-
companed by her daughter, Miss Alice
Cary Marks, a pretty blonde under twenty
years of age, walked out shopping. Later
on Mrs. Marks went to a dentist, while
her daughter said she wonld 60 aud see q
friend. She met John Payne, an en-
ploye OF the Salem Wagon Works, then
drove 10 buggy to Elliston, where they
took the train for Bristol and were mar
ried. Miss Alice was engaged to another
s1ltor which is the reason for Payne
clipping with her. She is sister of the
Miss Marks that eloped recently from
Bedford City,