Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-14
Attention !
EXCHANGE NOTES.

Stauutcn Tindicator A sufficiently
signed petition for Lotal Option election
in Middle River District having been pre-
sented to Judge Stout. be has ordered an
election there for August 29th. This
makes the fourth Local Option election
TO be held in Augusta in August-Staun-
tor, Beverley Manor, Riyerheads and
Middle River.
Among the cases from Rockingham
that will be heard at the Stanton sitting
of the Court of Appeals in September,
will be that of V. II. Lam, Admir-. oil
Thomas II Sites IS. the Shenandoah val
ley Ry. Co. Sites was killed by train
at Elkton while walking on the track
four years ago. A jury gave s62O dam
ages and the railroad company appealed
the case. The appealed case of James f:
Bell convicted of poisoning his wife, and
sentenced to the penitentlary in Rock
ingham, will also be heard here in Sep
TENDER.
Page Courier Mr.. McKendra w.
Stricken, of BlXler's Ferry, has eve
that has given birth to four lambs within
six MONTHS in January and in Jnly.
Rather a remarkable occurrence.
Messrs. VIM. Martin and Isaac y. Short
made this year and have now stored in
their cellar near Alma 1900 gallons OF
blackberry wine. They paid out SOU ioI
lblackberries this summer, ont OF which IL
was made. This is beyond doubt the
largest quantity of wine from this fruit
ever m AIDE by one firm in the comfy, and
we record 1t to show fact which we have
az often demonstrated IN these columns,
that there is "big money in small things" u.
Blackberry wine is rot only delightful
beverage, but is largely used for medicinal
purposes.
farmer who has no cause to abuse the
railroads. Some years ago he bought a
| tract of sixty-two acres of land lying near
Fast Liberty for $500. The Norfolk and
Western railroad runs through the prop
ertv. and in order to avoid crossing a
high wooden trestle the company IS now
engaged in changing the track at this
noint TO a more desirable route, where
| the ravine will be filled with earth. BY
IL e change Mr.. Lucas receives $3.50 land
damages, $50 more than he paid for the
entire tract.
Strasburg Tirginidn and Ne'r8 There
was brought through Strasburg Friday
| last from his home at Markham in Eau
amer county, en- route to the Western
| Lunatic Asylum at StauntOn, an unfortu-
nate gentleman, who has been prominent
| in his Observation-Disclosures well as IN
the affairs of his county during his long
| life. his age now being more than three
score years and ten. 1t was DR.. Alban S.
PAYNE. This distinguished gentleman
has been suffering for some months, we
learn, from mental alteration, and re-
Gently, when he had become more violent,
| it was fonnd necessary to coniine him In an
asylum. DR.. Payne was the author, we
are informed, many years since of a
pamphlet in which he set forth treat
ment which is the same as that
which is now creating such a world
wide interest and which is accredited
as discovery to DR.. Koch, a German
pbvsician, and known as Koch's
| iymph-a cure for many diseases hereto
fore pronounced incurable. DR.. Payne's
treatment at the time met with no en-
enlargement. This gentleman is also
vertiably "the man who struck Billy
Patterson" There are but few OF our
readers unfamiliar with this old and OFT
quoted expression. Itoriginated in Rich
mond many years ago when Billy Patter-
son, who was not a myth, received a
severe drubbng at the hands of an I'M.
known stranger who could not be found
when the friends of Billy hunted him up.
The justice of the whipping which the
Doctor gave Bill was not questioned. we
believe. bnt the question OF "Wbo
struch Billy Patterson" remained in mys-
terry wrapped for long time, as it became
a prover6ial phrase, until it was saddled
on Dr. Payne by his acknowledgment,
we b, heve. The matter was much mooted
in the papers for q long time and is really
an incident of local history without
moment.
The Highland Recorder reports that
Thursday, of last week, while Robert
McCray and his son William were NOW
| ing in meadow near Shaw's Forks,
| lightning struck both father and SOD,
killing the latter and burning the bair off
the head of the former.