Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27
sTRAsBURG NEWS.

The quantity Of wood bauled to this
town within tbs past six eeks Of extreme
cold weather has no parallel within the
memory Of the oldest inhabitant.
There are So copies of the Philadelphia
Duly Record sold in this place daily, bv
that live and husliug news boy, Chas. S.
Cooper.
It's boy at Russell's, aud be came 10
stay on last Monday night. Noah is as
prond of him as Vanderbilt is of his
millions, and his many friends here, as
elsewhere, heartily congratulate him.
There has been royal fun for the skaters
on the river and creek near by for the last
month. On Saturday afternoon last over
one hundred skaters, of both sexes, en-
ioysd this exbllrating sport on the river
near town.
Bro. Brady, OF thu Virginian and Ne'cs,
is quite right when he says the price of
hen fruit is eggstraordinarily high. The
figures per dozen are now rs cents The
price was up to 80 cents per dozen last
week.
Mrs. Replogls, wife of John Rep'ogle,
living about miles south of this place
on the river, was found dead in her bed at
an early honr Wednesday morning Cause
supposed to bs heart diselse. She was
aged about 60 years.
A number of our citizens lost. during
the late severe weather, all of their flow
ers. Some Of their potatoes, apples,
canned frnit, &c, &c, where also nipped
by the frost, and this happened in cellars
where freezing never occurred before.
The Strasburg Steam Flouring Mills are
running on full time day and night, and
the product turned ont by this excellent
plant, stands without a superior and with
but few rivals. Their shipments extends
to all parts of the country but more os
pecally to the south.
In strong cout.sst with the extreme
cold weather of the past four or five
weeks, is the present mild and spring-like
SPELL welcome alike to all and yet feared
by many on account of the ice gorGes
which are the certain concomitants Of o
rapid thaw. Appropros of this. the Rich
mond & Danville r. r. Co., have men
watching the bridges on their line of road
and are preparing to use dynamite at and
near the bridges to break the force of the
hinge ice foes when the ice breaks up.
1t appears from private adviccs received
from Mr.. j. o. vlrmillion, of Washington,
D. c., Secretary of the Southern Horse
and Mule Shoe Co., formerly holding
headquarters at this place, but now at
Washington, D. c., that there are no flies
on Judge Jno. D. Billings, President of
the Company. Judge Billings, tho letter
states, Is placing the stock rapidly, and as
soon as tho weather Is mild enough the
works here will 60 into operation on a
large scale, employing large number of
hands.
The protractsd meeting held in the
Methodist church, this place, for the last
three weeks, and conducted.by the pastor,
Rev. w. w. Watts, closed on Wednesday
night, the 18th inst. That there was no
additions to the church as q result, was
certainly not the fault Of Rev. Watts.
That gentleman la5ored long and arduoUs-
" IN the cause of Him to whom he has
given the service of his life, and while
the effects of his efforts so ably put forth
in the cause of bis espoussl may rot now
be so apparent, he has the comforting as
surance that it shall be as dread cast
u pom the waters, which shall return unto
him after many days"
Mr.. Geo. w. Brown, tho photograph
man, is doing q regular land Office bust
ness hero in his line. In fact he is the
busiest man in town has hardly time to
get his meal,. Brown is turning out
large quantity VI htoo Niass "V'Nf anu No
world do more, but from the fact that he
is seriously handicapped by what at FIRST
thought might seem trivial, but which in
reality was the cause of the undoing of
the worlds gIeatest men from father
Adam, Marx Antony, &C., &c, on down
the centuries to the present time, and
Brown, poor fellow, is no exception. He
stops short in his work aud starss like one
dazzed and ENHANCED upon the sylph-like
forms and dazzling bsautS Of Strasburg's
lovely 81 Is, and only RECEIVERS his senses
and proceeds with his work when. by
strong effort, he is able to cast aside the
fascination aud realize that they are
mortal,