Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-27
State News.

In Botetourt county, last Thursday, the
house of a cOlOred man named John Eos
ter was burned, and his three children
aged respectively three and two years and
six months, Were burned 10 death.
The case of the colored Baptist preach
ers who sued the city of Portsmouth fol
500, 600 each because they were elected
from the ladies' cabin of ferry boat nill
come up December 3.
Engineers have begun work at the
terminus of the Valley branch Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad locating a
line of railroad to Glasgow, Va, a dis
lance of sixteen miles.
John May, aged seventy.fou years, of
Greenbrier county, was stricken with
paralysis while leading in prayer at a
revival meeting, last Saturday evening,
and died in few hOhrs.
The jury in the case Of CHARLES Watkins,
charged with the murder of his wife, in
the County Court at Salem, brought IN a
verdict of murder in the first degree last
Friday. He has leen sentenced TO he
hung January Sth.
Clifton Forge IS now lighted by cleo
tricity. The rates given by The Review
for incandescent lights are 81 30 per
month for four lights and thirty five cents
for each additional light, to burn every
night till midnight.
Last Thursday evening, just at dusk
Mr. Robert p. ! Dung OF Augus county,
and Miss Ida May Jndy of Rockbridge,
we're married by Rev. J. II. Harris, on
the top of the Natural Bridge, the bride
and groom sitting IN buggy while the
ceremony was performed,
At Fairfax Count House, last week, Gen.
Lees will was prObated. The document.
which is in the testator's own handwrit-
ing was executed last August, and be-
queaths the entire estate. valued at $ll5,-
600 to Mrs. Lee during her lifetime to be
divided at her death between the tao
sons, r. Z. Lee and George Boiling Lee,
who were a 80 appointed as executors.
The Fredericksburg Free Lance tells this
story The tenant of the farm in Stafford
belonging to DR.. Gustavus W. Wallace,
known as Crows Nest" lying between
Accoteek and Potomac creek, set nam
Der of traps last Monday. Tuesday
morning the trappcr caught seven cOons,
FIVE opOsums and ten old hares. After
emptying the traps he fired into a flock
of mallard ducks, killing five of them.
In magistrates court at Newport
News, Wednesday, George Mitchell, cf
Nausemond county. prosecuted his wife
for blgamy, she having married Bob Jen
kns without the prior foTmality of di-
vorce from her legal husband. Jenkins,
also arrested. testified that while the wife
of Mitchell had followed him around the
country and be had paid all her bills,
yet they had never married. Mrs Mitchell
was sent to Jail and jenkins war fined $50.
The time for the removal of the remains
of President DAVIS from New Orleans to
the section in Hollywood has not yet been
decided upon. Il Is not improbable that
next Memorial Day will be the da'e
chosen. That date is favored by some Of
the officers of the Monument Association
and others prom nrnlly identified with
the movement to raise a memorial to Mr.
Davis. The remains of the dead PreSl'
dent are now in vault in the Crescent
City, where they were placed immediate
ly after death.
Morrison, the deputy clerk of Scott
county, who is under indictment for
defrauding the Commonwealth Of large
sums OF money, has been declared luna
tic. The accused was recently arrested in
Rogersyllle, Tenn, in the neighbOrbood OF
'Powell's Valley" and held to await the
demands of the Virginia authorities. 4
few days ago the officers Of that place de.
liyered Morrison to his father aud General
Pridemore, the latters counsel.
The accused vas carried to Lynchburg
where a commission of luuacy examined
HIM and declared him insane. Sergeant
Alex. TOmlinson, who was sent 10 Ten
nessee after Morrison, Monday tele-
graphed these facts to the Governor and
asked for instructions. The officer was
notified that if Morrison was deranged
and in the hands of civil authorities to re-
turn home,
Later reports show Morrison's insanity
to have been fake" assumed for the
purpose of escaping, and was successful.