Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-06
State News.

SJaJo NCWS.
Mr. z. ". Honey, Of stafford, has sold
to Mr.C. &. Strouse, of Salem, his fine
stallion, "Fire Brand" The price paid
was ono thousand dollars
An Englisbman passing under the name
of Hope aud Dag, and claiming to be an
English lord, was arrested in Sta1Gton
Saturday night and lodged IN jsil upon
warrants gotten out in Harrisoobnrg
charging ban with pettit larceny.
Col. A. s. Buford, president Of the yir-
gina Agricultural and Mechanical Socis-
~, last Thursday appointed Major 4. II.
Venablo .Ir., Of Farmville, n prominent
alliance leader, secretary of the socioty.-
His salary is 81 GOO per year
A special to the Richmond Dispatch
states that in the eTnhle gale which
swept the lower james river Thursday
night Of last week, twenty-i0ur oyster
men. mostly Colorcd men, were drowned
at points Just above and below The mouth
Of the Warwick
The dead body Of Sir. W. II. Steven.
son, who disappeared from his home in
Richmond. Thursday night. was found
Monday in Glllie's k. Mr.. Stevenson
left home on that night, and in the dark
ness Of the storm, it is supposed, be fell
of The bridge into the stream AID l9st his
life.
Erue.t King. a colorcd boy of nine
years Of age, who was iearfully beaten by
bis mother in IIcurlco, Friday night, was
taken to Jail Monday Martha King, the
boys mother, beat his little sister to
L i 60 o.. al inn IN
boy wa logged for tho same cfienSe.-
lli5 body is said to be sickeniUg sight,
covered as it is with bruises and cor
tusiOns.
Last Thursday Nh A. c. Pack Of Ora
ham, Giles county, received telegram
announcing the death OF bis mother, and
almost At the same moment anuther dis
patch came to his wife bearing the sad
news Of The sudden death of her father
Mr. Jacob Lugar, who lived in Craig
county. Mr. Lugar was 102 years OF age.
and was remarkably active up to the
time Of his death.
The Governor haylrg COMMITTED The
senter ce3 Of George Richardson, from
Accomac. and George Davidson, from
EOckhridce county, those boys were
ton OF Virginia, being received hy Mr. W.
C. Samp on, Superintendent Of the H.
dustral School near Richmond.
Instead of spending their term Of i'm
piis0nmcnt in learning more villaiuy and
becoming greater adopts in crime they
will be placed under religious i iluences
and make beginuins towards a higher
and better lite.
At The Farmers Institute at Char'oifes-
willie ou Wednesday, of last week, JOSEPH
Wallersiein. OF Richmond, appealed to-
farmers 10 raise those crops u0w regarded
rs uumporiau;, potatoes, Leans, onions,
and showed by the iml OTIS that these
are IN demand nesail the soil here
would produce these vegetables as readily
as the soils Of the foreign countries from
which they were imported. The institute
adopted resolutions requesting tho 5. te
board of agriculture to revise the crude
aad inefficient dog Law passed for The
protection of the sheep Of Albsrmarle
county and present it to the Legislature,
urging is passage in its revised form for
the wi ole State.
4 Dispatch from Pocthontas f. the
Richmond Dispatch. say- "On Saturday
N0grady Bella broke open q trunk belong
ing % John k-rchs aud robbed IL q! $50
and escaped. Soon after the thct was
discovered crowd Of lIungaTiaas fol
Owed in pursuit, hgt he ha goo start
and nothing WAS heard of him uatil the
Sunday morning train WAS coming INTO
Flat Top yard about four miles from here,
when one OF the crew io,icsd a man
o Z 4r pa o i'm n
vas found to le Bella. some persons had
stranglcd him and then hung him by the
strap he wore around lis waist, having
been first robbed of everything he had
There is no cine to those who did the
deed"
J. ". Doyle, OF GrreayilIe county, who
had FOR some time been confined in the
Southeastern fanatic Asylum, was re-
turned home hy the authorities before
Christmas as well Monday night Of last
week. III a sudden tit of madness, he got
M and ;oid his wile she must leave home.
Mrs DOyla, being alarmed, ran over to
neighbours. Doyle's father very old
man, James Pair, ana S. B. Farguson
were present, and seeing his domented
condition, attempted - con:ne him,
when Doyle raised an iron POKER and
dealt Pair a blow on the bead, crushing
his skull, from which ho diet the next
inornlng. Doyle then struck his father
severe blow. telling him to the ground.
Ferguson alone was left to contend with
Doyle. and he received several severe cut,
about the head, bat finally, with the as
sistance of some colcred men. succeeded
in binding tine madmaU. Doyle was taxi
IN to Beii III aud safcly lodged in Jail.
lie is a ravia.. maniac, his mind being
unbalanced ON the subject OF religion.
He saws God told him to do these things.
lie viii be kept closely confined by the
taller until ne can be returned to lhe asy-
um.
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