Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-10
EXCHANGE NOTES.

Winchester Leader The dwelling
house of Mr.. A. Pitman, near Welltown,
was totally consumed by fire last Monday
morning. Nothing was saved. Ills fam
lily was away aud Mr.. Pitmln bad inst
left the house.
IIarrisonburg Spirit: Lewis Franklin,
of this place, has t. remarkable hen She
began about two weeks before Christ mas
TO lay an egg with double yolk aud has
been LAYING that sort of an egg ever since
that time mp to this. the 3Td OF April
She does not lay every day, but every
other day.
Iynchburg Adrdnce; In digging post
holes for line Of fence on the farm OF
Harmon Lodge, at Round Hill, Loudoun
county, few days ago, nuggets of gold
were found in the soil and the stone "a
ilint) under the surface il said to be rich
in that metal. Mr. l.. has been asked
for an option on his property, but he de.
clines to sell.
Strasburg VhghiGn : Mr.. Josiah Stick.
ley met with quite painful accident dur
ing the storm of last week. Fearing that
the roof of bis stable would fall in under
the weight Of the snow lying upon 1t, he
was engaged in taking his horses out as
measure of precaution. As be was in the
act of leading the animals ont of the
door, the roof fell in with crash, the
horses became frightened and plunged,
trampling and brulsing an ankle OF Mr.,
Sticklcy.
Bridgewater correspondent of the
Rockingham Register On Monday morn.
ing of last week. Miss Ida, only daughter
of Prof. NJ. II. Richcreek. left for Roam
oke, Va, TO meet Mr.. J. Frank Broker to
whom she had promised her hand in
marriage. Her parents knew nothing Of
the arrangement which the Young people
planned and carried ont satisfactorily to
themselves. When the bride-elect reach.
cd the Queen City," Frank was on hand
with tickets for Bristol, Tenn, and at II
o'clock that night the knot was tied
They returned to Salem, Va, the next
day. where the groom has lucrative
business.
Front Royal Gazette Tho Improve
ment Company has decided on The plan
for The iron bridge TO connect Front
Royal and RivertOn. 1t will span the
South Branch of the Shenandoah River at
the present eastern terminus of Sbenan-
doah Aveuue, and at point about one
quarter of n mile west of the Riverton
Roller Mills 1t will he three feet aboye
high-water mark and about 300 feet
long. The two spans over the low-water
channel will be 200 feet each. 1t will
consist of roadway l3 feet IN width
The cost of this bridge will probably reach
$25, 600. This is the third iron bridge
built by the Improvement Company. and
they are all splendid structures. They
show that the Improvement inaugurated
here is permanent.
II is reported that Bob Bland colored,
shot and killed d. Legg, a white man,
who lives between Deaplane and Oak
Hill. The trouble occurred Tuesday
Whiskey was at the bottom of it.
Winchester Ne,cs ] he two remaining
members of the family of Adam Barley
who were reported very i'll last week, are
slightly better. Mr. Adam Dean is also
improving. Fonr members of the family
of John Campbell, three of George Kel-
leI's family and several members of T. r.
HarrIson's family are very sick. Albert
Bush, G F. Mayors and son ofC. o.
Rowland are on the sick list These are
all in and around Stephens City, and are
afflicted with the grippe.
Clarke Courier We have learned from
q reliable source that the Tin Mining
Company are making preparations to go |
right along with the work of developing
their valuable property near Berryville.
The superintendent Mr.. Pasco, has rent |
ed honse here and will direct operations |
from this point The Exposures thus far
made warrant the inference that there Is
an inexhausiible body of the tin-bearing |
rock in the tract owned By the company. |
The lin hill is 500 feet above the sur. |
rounding tract AND IS supposed to be a |
compact mass of the metal bearing stone. |
OF course it Is impossible TO determine |
the trnth of this responsible conjecture |
without the spending of great deal OF
money in making further exploration.-l
This, however, will be done as soon as
practicable. Already sections across the
hill more than hundred feet in length |
have been cnt and shaft 40 feet deep |
has bcen sunk. The exposure at all |
points shows that the precious metal is |
present throughout the stone.
There is hardly donbt that mining |
operations will proceed very soon or an
extensive scale.a.
Stanton TipdicaiOr: The long delayed
Spring brought forth quaint expression |
OF grim hun.or last Friday morning With |
twelve inches of Snow on the ground end |
the Snow still falling fnriou-ly, some
mourner over the lost Spring got little
bnnch of faded flowers and tying them
with q string. stuck them IN the snow
pile on top of the iron letter box corner
cf Main and New streets, and over them
large placard with this legend printed
in n bold hand "The flowers that bloom
in the Spring, ira Ia"
On Thursday evening. inst after
freight coming East on the C. & o. ran
into ITarvey's Tunnel near Ronceverte, the
following local passenger train from
Huntington, dashed into it splitting the
caboose and seriously iniuring Mike Cliff
ford, freight conductor. and Russell
Jennings, freight brakeman. The whole
passenger train and three cars of freight
were burned. The total loss to the G. g. o.
is 5000, OC0. Until Monday last through
passengers were transferred nine miles
over the mountain.
Mr.. Marryatt Steele was find 1924 and
costs (about 500 in ally for an assault on
Walter SearsOn, the manager OF the Nc
Cormick farm, last fall while hunting on
that farm. TINS wa1 in the county court.
Judge Mclaughlin has set aside the
verdict of the jury awarding Thomas
Jarman, ST., of Albemarle, $1,000 damages
from the C. & o. Ry. Co. for the death of
his son at Goshen, caused by an engine
running into a caboose as the latter was