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

poor, the money he formerly PAID IN nhet
for drunkenness.
Mr.. Thos. j. Jackson, senior member oil
the law firm of Jackson & Jackson, com
mitted suicide in Richmond on the 18th
inst.
Alr. Robert Hume Butcher, prominent
citizen of Warren county, died at his
home, near Cedarville, in that county, on
the l1th. He survived his wife but five
days
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. John c..
Downing, near Bird's-Nest station, in
Northampton county, fell out OF rock
ing-chair and broke its neck, living only
few minutes alter the accident.
Information from Halifax county is to
the effect that bread famine prevails in
sections of that county remote from the
railroads, owing to the freezing up of the
mill streams and machinery. The peop'e
affected by this state Of things have to
travel long distances to procure bread.
Students Of Roanoke College wanted a
holiday on Thursday, and 10 obtain it on
Wednesday night locked COW into the
chapel, Uttered straw through the college,
turned the supply -pipe to the steam heater
boiler into lectuIe-room, flooding 1t and
cracking the boiler. They got tie holiday.
Benjamin r. Burton, a we'll known
citizen of Richmond and a timer by
trade, lost his life Thursday morning Of
last week, at Hot Springs, Bath county.
He was working on the new bath-house
being erected at the resort, when be
slipped and fell to the ground, meeting
instant death.
Rev. John Jasper, colored, of Richmond
of "Sun do move" fame, in an interview
on Saturday, said the cOlored people are
becoming as worldy-miuded as the whites
and the whole human race so wicked
that the Almighty has sent this severely
cold winter as a reminder to the people
that they must do better. He predicts
that the population will be considerably
thinned out in the near future.
Colonel williams F. Wickham, of the
First Virginia Regiment Of cavalry, oil
Richmond, has received a letter from
General Mcmahon, Of New York, declining
to give the regiment the post Of honor at
the inaugural ceremonies OF President
elect Cleveland. He says it is customary
to grant that post to the Washington
military, and this course will be pursued
in March Col. Wickham's regiment will
not go:to Washington.
The stockholders of the Bank of Buena
Vista at their annual meeting on the 18th
inst, decided to discontinue the banking
business, pay out the cash assets Of the
company in the shape of stock dividends,
and cenfne the transact ans of the COM
pany hereafter to the rental and sale oil
their real estate. After January 3lst de-
posts will be declined. The cashier says
thai he is ready to settle with depositors
in full, whenever desired, as the bank
has been fully prepared for this step for
some time.
John Mock. aged seventeen years, and
residing near Onaucock, olopOd with the
fourteen-y ear-old daughter Of his neigh
Dor, VIM. Ailworth, to Maryland, where
they we're married. On their return, the
angry fatherin-law opened fire with a
double barrelled shotgun on Nock's house,
keeping up a lively bombardment for
several hours, aud shooting holes throsgh
one side of the house. Fortunately, no.
body was hurt, but Mock had his father
in-law arrested and bound over to keep
the peace.
Thomas Weaver was arrested a few days
since at Floyd Courthouse, for stealing
-four from the smokehouse Of Isaac Vie
Weaver is a very poor and shittlsss man
and when arrested confessed his guilt
and told a sad and pitiful tale. He said
he had nothing to eat at home had beer
out during the day looking for work, and
found no employment that when he
came home at night bis little children
were crying for bread, and as he had
none to give them, he went forth IN the
night, broke into the house, took the flour
and carried it home to feed his hungry
children.
Mr. Houston Trevillian and Mr. Ewell
Donegan, two well known young gentle
men of Williamsburg, performed the re-
markabls feat of skating from Kings
Mil wharf, near there, on the James river,
to Newport News, in three aud half
hours, a distance of thiriy-fve miles.
Both young gentlemen skated much OF
the way over the channel, where the ice
averages eight to ten inches ia thickness
and is very rough. In many places the
ice is piled up several feet, having been
broken early in the freeze by passing
steamers and washed up by the waves.
Owing to the heavy snow the skaters re-
; turned on the train.