Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-06-12

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the Courthouse door, JOE bf-ENDo.
May 27, 1850.
P. S.-Candor compels me to acknowledge that have
not always been .Reformer," but am determined to
make up for lost time by my zeal in the cause D. b.
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ORIGIN OF THE TERM "spINsTER."-Among our in
lustrious and frugal forefathers, it was maxim tha'
Young woman shond never be married utl she had spun
,ersef set of body bed and table nen From this GUS
ON all unmarried women were termed spinstes, an appel
alton they still retain in all law proceedings
m Calico sorees are fashionable in some Of the manuac
urng towns Of Massachusetts, They got up for the
ene and improvement of the operatives at the mills and
re attended by all classes They receive their from
he ladies appearing in calico dresses
So- 7 he newly invent ed American Churn, which pro
in ten minutes four pounds Of butter to five quarts OK
eam has been exhibited in London with marked success
The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoess have been among the
lumber Of admiring visers.
e The demand for "ades" cannot be 80 great in Cal
fornia now as was some time SINCE We perceive that
soiree was recently given at Suffers Fort which was
raced by the presence of about thirty of the fair SEX
o. The Texas Emigration is represented asvery nume-
ous the present year, and of excellent class OF people,
including many agrieultuss. Rail roads, and steamboats,
ire attracting much attention there.
SIMPLE RULE.-To sasceriain the length of the day
and night any time Of the year, double the time Of tho
SUMS rising which gives the length Of the night and double
the time of its seng which gives the length Of the day.
o- The theatrical machinists Of Paris have nventeds
beautiful "snow" for,he stage effect The "fakes
drifting and agitaed by the wind, in manner altogether
magical" Tho appearances the the ground.
perfectly resembles nature.
STEALING NEcREss.-Senator Morton, ofFlorida. hss
had negro woman about 26 years old stolen from him ss
Washington. He supposes her to have been taken
free State, and offers $1,000 for her recovery.
o. Two hundred and ninety six thousand eight hundred
and seventy squares Of glass destroyed in four dvs
ions Of the city oDubn during the recent Storm the value
of which is estimated at upwards of f2l 900.
- When the Princess Helena (victoria's second was
born it was told the Princess Royal that she had got
young sister. go, that is delightful" cried she. "Ds
let me go and tell mamma z"
o. Mrs. Parngton thinks that parents should caution
their children against going into orchards about these days,
as the trees just beginning to shoot and the little dea
mightiget shot.
. The stock for bridge across the Ohio river at Gin
cinnat has all been subscribed, and the work will COM
mence as soon the result Of the Wheeling bridge trial
is known.
es- The Editorial Duel at New Orleans, on the 18th,
between Judge Walker of the Delta and Dr. Kennedy Of
oftov
firing pistol at each other.
o. Discoveries of extensive beds of granite Of fine quail
ity have been made in the vicinity Of Aexandra. along
the line of the Orange and Alexandria railroad Also large
deposes Of handsome red sandstone.
- At Louisville on the 25th ut. an application by Mrs.
Sallie w. Lawrence to be divorced from her husband W.
T. B. Lawrence of Boston, was argued before Judge Bull
loch. The Judge deferred his decision in the case.
MARRIAGE OF SOME AccouNr.-Mad'le JagelIo, the
Hungarian Heroine is about to marry the brother Of How
ard, of the Irving House, New York.
FLY rRAp.-A patent was granted at Washinton short
time since, to in Massachusetts, for trap for catch
ing flies
@ Jenny Lind has been offered thirty thousand pounds
to sing at the Imperial Concerts of the courts Of Russia
Punch says that her reply to the dazzling offer was "Hun-
gary"
e- The measured distance from the Battery New York
to l54h street in the north part of the same city.
is nine miles,
0 vessel recently cleared at New Orleans, for Turks
Island, with full load of"Mssissipp Mud,n intended to
be sold to the "salt akers" for the use of their gardens,
oo- E. Louis Lowe, of Frederick, Nd. has been nomi.
mated by the Democratic Convention of that State for Gov
ernor
e- Mr. Solomon Smelte, Of Allegheny city, has invent,
ed machine to make horse shoes, which he thinks will
turn out 1900 complete shoes in hour.
0 The population Of France is thirty-three mo, ,~o
hundred and fyf thousand one hundred and .;ob,v.
two.
oo table is published stating the number Of n.r.oos
killed on the Massachusetts, railroads last wear at srv ur
injured one hundred and two.
o An ncombus,ble paper for roofing houses has been
invented in Germany.
0 The yew-ree attains greater age than any Other
European tree.
o. Lola Monies and her husband Mr.. Head ara sp.;o
living together in Paris.
Ax. Cfvaxv honno ;c c..L n