Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-09

We want TO see all onr friends Monday
(court-day.) Call and give us the new
OF your section, and if you bring a new
subscriber or two, so much the BETTER
| Try It, aud see If it won't make YOU fee
better, as well as us.
Ladies, ladies, think of the engage
| ments you have broken and tn disap
poIntmeuts consequent to others and per
haps also TO yourselves, all on account o
headache. Bradycrotine will cure you il
| fifteen minutes.
Reports from different parts of tn,
| county are TO the effect that the corn cror
is letter than it has been for wears
The recent dry weather has done its part
well by maturing the crops and now
that most of the corn is cut up there is nc
danger from frost.
Just received eight magnificent piano:
direct from the celebrated Decker Bro.
A. b. Chase, and Bush & Gert's facto.
ries. Call aud see them at the Wood
stock Far, or at my music store, Middle
town, Va, where have them in stock at
all times. G. w. BRAGG.
Que day last week while eating com.
MIR. Frank Didawick OF near Calvary,
found swarm of bees which had settled
on the branch of small apple tree. The
amount of work done by the little crea-
lures shows that they must have been
there several weeks. By the aid of one
of his brothers he succeeded in putting
the little workers in house where they
can lay M treasures for winter.
You will find at all times fine assort-
ment of pianos and organs at G. w.
3ragg's music stoie, Middletown, Va
Second hand organs from S25 up; second
hand pianos, from $50 up splendid new
Story & Clark organ for $65.O0 an ex
cellent new pianos for S250-sold low for
cash or easy installmeDts. For catalogues
and terms address G. w. BRAGG, Middle
town, Va.
Gel. Jos. A. Mutton has had two more
fine companies attached to his splendid
regiment, the Ono Va, (Valley) One of
these new companies is from Roanoke
and the other is from Abingdon. The
regiment will soon be fitted out with
complete U. S. regulation fatigue uni
forms, which will include canvass or
leather leggings Col. Joe. Mutton is a fl Q
officer, and has brought his regiment TO a
very emcent condition.
Mr.. II. B. Chapman, the popular aud
efficient agent of the B & o. X. R., at
this place, has 10 out portion of Ills
large stone dwelling on the corner of
Court and Mublenburg streets. By rea-
s N of a large crack that extended to the
roof. caused probably by the sinking or
bullying of the foundation. the building
was thought to be insecure. We under
stand that Mr.. Chapman contemplates
other and extensive Improvements to his
The hot weather Will soon be played
out as an excuse for so many persons not
church and Sunday school.
The weather seems TO have great deal to
do with some peoples religion, and as it is
probably carried to such an extent with
some OF them that they will sometime in
the future discover that the hot days of
summer that were so oppressive inside
the charch won't be a huckleberry in the
Little Fort in comparison with the heat
that But we sll know. or, at least,
believe this anyway, and our sermon here
won't do one bit of good, we fear.
Rev. William Bowman, a native OF this
county, where he is widely known and
highly esteemed, has been sOrely bereav-
ed in the loss of his wife, who died at
their home IN Charlotte, n. C, a short
time since. MIR. Bowman has long been
regarded as one of the abest and most
eloquent Lutheran ministers in the South,
and IS exceedingly popular with all de-
and the people generally.
He has for years filled the pulpits of some
of the most prominent churches in Char
lesion, S. c., and Savannah, Ga. The
sympathy felt for lin in his sad afflictiOn
is deep and widespread.
The Virginia penitentiary Will soon
number among its inmates an English
lord. On February last this adventurer
arrived in HarrsOnburg and registered as
Lord II. A. Hope. London, England. He
showed what purDOrted to be Bank of
England draft for $4,000, and claimed
to be on the lookout for investments in
lands, and negotiated for several tracts
around Harrisonburg, and managed to
borrow small sums of money from real
estate agents, and also purchased clothing
which he forgot to pay for. He then skip
ped the town and was next heard of near
Stanton, he stopping with Mr. Jno.
Thompson. He robbed Mrs. Thompson of
a gold watch and $40 in gold, and her
little daughter of $40. He was caught in
Stanton by Harrisonburg policemen
and the watch and part of the money re-
covered. The Rockingham authorities
turned him over to those of Augusta
On Tuesday of last week he was
put on trial, and pleading guilty be was
sentenced to two and a half years in the
penitentiary.