Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-12-11
State News.

Mr. Henry talrlaA, Vi LOudOuu COUNTY
has sold Aldie, yedrling hackney colt
to Mr.. Mitchell Harrison, of Philadelphia
for $4,000.
Mrs. Annie Smith, of Danville. whose
petition to the last Legislature to be al
lowed to practice law was rejected, will
petition the present Legislature.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Hefin, mother of Lee
Hefin, has been committed to Fauquier
Jail charged with being a party to the
murder oe the Hines family,
The body of the colored man who was
shot in the mountain near Iron Gate at
the time of the Clifton Forge riot was
found on Tuesday, Nov. Oath. 1t was
much GecOmposed.
Z. B. Simpson, postmaster at Fincastle,
BotetOurt county, is under arrest, charged
with embezzling some five hundred dol
lars of the postoffice funds. Simpson
claims the money was stolen while he
was ILL.
A car containing 100000 slate pencils
weighing 81, 800 pounds, has been shipped
to ]. B. LippincOtt g. Co., of Philadel
phia. The pencils were the product OF
the ALTERNATE Soapstone Slate company
which is situated few miles from Char
lottesville.
John P. Chase, proprietor of the Hotel
Bessie, at ClintwOod, Dickinson county,
fell down a flight of stairs last week,
sustaining injuries which caused his death
in a few minutes. He was sixty years
old and had served two terms in the
Legislature.
A family of five persons named Griffin,
from Culpeper county, passed through
Orleau Tuesday on their way to the mad
stone. All of them had been bitten by a
mao dog, which had been pet in the
family. Before they could kill the dog il
ran at colt which kicked and killed It,
Joel Johns, the oldest citizen of Lunen-
burg county, died Monday, aged ninety
one years. He was the youngest of the
thirteen children of the Rev. Joel Johns
ST., Baptist preacher. A strange charac-
teristic of the family is that OF the
thirteen, twelve died in their eighty
fifth year.
The damage suit of the cOlored preach
ers in the Uuited States court at Norfolk
resulted in a verdict for the city of Ports
mouth. Judge Hughes ruled that the
ferry management had right to estab-
llsh regulations in regard to carrying pas
sengers. The case will beappealed to the
United States Supreme Court.
Some of the Northern settlers in Ches
terfield county, some distance from Peters
burg, are putting up perslmmons and
shipping them to the Northern markets
where they are sold for Sl2t cents per
pound. The seed are first taken out Of
the fruit with small machine made for
the purpose, after which the fruit is placed
in five-pound boxes and sweetened with
white graduated sugar.
One of the largest industries in Peters
burg and one of only a few years growth
is that of the manufacture of trunks
There are three large establishments OF
the kind working on full time and with
large force of hands. Vast quantities OF
lumber are used and thousands of trunk:
are shipped away to the markets North
West and South every month. Over 5,OOC
we're sent away last month.
William NJ. Smallwood, living neal
Ketoetin church, LoudOun county, haC
purchased a new gun and stopped at Eu-
banks mill for friend to accompany hin
on a hunt. While waiting he placed the
loaded weapon OIL a carpenters bench on
the second floor of the mill, and wher
ready went up to get it. Standing or
the top step he reached for the gun and
drew it to him muzzlc foremost. Int
hammer, it is thought. caught on a nal
and as he drew 1t forward slipped off, dis
charging the entire load into his stomach
He fell backwards down the steps and il
few minutes died,
w. A. Richerson, who keeps a grocery
store at Buena Vista, and his clerk, l.. j
Campbell, have been arrested on some
what novel charge. Some days ago thu
passenger train on the Shenandoah Valley
road ran into and killed bull belonging
to Richerson near the Buena Vista June
ton. Richerson put in claim for dam
ages, but the Norfolk and Western au-
thorities, thinking the case somewhat
suspicious, sent Detective Early there II
investigate it.
At the preliminary trial before tn
MAYOR Campbell made a full confession
saying that he tied the bull on the tract
to be killed under instructions frou
Richerson, bis employer He said ths
be was instructed to place the animal OF
the Norfolk and Western rather than tn
Chesapeake and Ohio, because the dam
ages could be obtained with less troubl
than from the latter company. Richerso
was placed on the stand and denied th
story altogether. The entire day wa
consumed with the examination, and til
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Jury, to be tried in the County Court Bal
was refused and both prisoners we're sen
to Jail at Lexington.