Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
State News.


Stanton is to have electric streets-car
next fall.
i. c. White, q saloon keeper in North
Danvillc, has Voluntarily closed his bar.
room in respect to the wishes OF the
temperance people of that town.
Mrs. Hoffman, whose husband Is a
truck farmer abont four miles east OF
Roanoke, committed suicide By cutting
her throat while insane.
1wo young men Of West Virginia
calling themselvs Bill Brown and Jack
Smith, respectively, have been tried aud
convicted OF horse-stealing in Bland
county.
In the whole State of Virginia of the
entire " bite population the males only
exceed the females 80, while the coloIed
females in the State are 1864 in excess
of the males.
A man (name unknowp) was murdered
near Coeburn, Wise county, few days
ago. After being shot be was dragged
out of the road, robbed and left for dead.
He rallied and wandered about for some
time and reached st. Paul, at which lace
be soon died.
The Governor has committed the SEN
tence of William Robinson, who was to
have been hanged on July in the Lynch
burg Jail. to Imprisonment for life
Robinson murdered a cOlOTed girl named
Molle DAVIS. The colorcd population
generally were anxious for his execution.
The Natural Bridge Company is en-
gagged in opening a large cave, which Is
situated not over halt mile from the
hotel. II is in the same geological lorna
ton as tho famous Luray cave and the
crottoes of the Shenandoah, and is OF &c
dimensions, one cham Der I'D 1t being OVV
feet long and 100 feet high.
George Madison, a colored man baiiing
from Shenandoah City, in the employ OF
Messrs. Deiord * Co was fonnd tead III
his bed at his home, near Lur.y, last En-
day morning. at o'clock. lie retired
the night before apparently In good
health and was supposed to have died OF
heart disease.
David A. Parrock, for fifty years deputy
clerk of the county and circuit courts OF
BncKingham. committed suicide Thurs
day by shooting himself in the head. lie
was in his BIRD year, unmarried and OF
considerable wealth. As a clerk he had
no superior. In letter he gives as his
reason, that he was sick aud tired OF Nv
ling.
Ex-Congressman Libby Of Virginia, is
one of the company thai bought the
building at Harper's Ferry nwhich John
Brown was caught, and had it regretted
IN Chicago 1t is now encased in frame
structure. Its site is close to that OF the
regretted Libbey prison, the stock Of
which has already advanced from 80 cents
to Sl.5',
Coz. Mckinley received letter Tues
day from &. l.. Cole, of Buckner, Mo-,
who announced that he had made
discovery that will be worth millions to
this country. 1t is a bean which takes
the place of coffee. This bean. he says
Will produce forty bushels to the acre on
good lAni, and il is better than the
imported article He sent the governor
a sample. The flavor IS very much ike
coffee. Mr.. Cole informed the governor
that he is a bro her-in-law of Dir. HuO
Snoddy, of Buckingham comfy, who his
excellency knows very well.
VIM. HELM, VINO lives near a9u'nS
ton, in Rappahannock county, caught
rattle snake with seven rattles on 1T which
he brought to WalrentOn Tuesday last to
sell it to the shOwmen who exhibited there
on that day. Mr.. IIeAn had pulled ITS
teeth out and handled it freely, but the
circus snake charmer who had Travelled,
according to the show bills, in Borneo'
Africa. Greenland and elsewhere 10 pur'
snit of snakes to awe into submission TO
his IRON will vas afraid of it and col
ored man offered Mr.. Helm a dollar for 1t
that he might have the pleasure Of mash
ing its head, but this Mr.. HELM indlg-
uantly declined and started home with
his treasure refreshing himself at inter
yals by peeping and pgying at it through
the cracks OF the box in which he had 1t
confined