Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

oo- Colonel Fremont and Captain Inprab.w
have both been nominated for the next Presiden.
, cy' by Western papers, recently.
, o. Quack doctors thrive in England. Tbs
census OF l84l showed 81 ,435 persons practising
ifcation
w oha!ls fed on strawberries are the last To-
Yghlea oellcacy. They are brought to Paris from
JIM vi ue Danupe. The favour is said to be
1- man named Jean Dedidier has beeu ann.
fenced to a years imprisonment at Paris. and Il
lne Of five hundred francs for speaking di,re,n,ef.
fully eta portrait Of The Empress Of the French.
o. 1t is estimated that not less than four mil.
IONS Of dollars have been spent by Southerners
ills summer in sight seeing and pleasure hunting
} at the North
eo- Boston, they say, isthe richest city in tho
world. in proportion to IFS population. lifts taxa
Bile property were equally divided every Bostoni-
an Would have fourteen hundred and forty dollars.
} o. The f1on. John NJ Bolts has received and
accepted an Invitation from number of Wings of
New jersey, TO partuke Of dinner at Newark on
the 18th Instant.
o. The price of a passage to California. which
few years ago was $500 in the United States
mail line of steamships. now cost as follows:-
Throhgh tickets, first class cabin, 500; second
do. $75; Storage with bed and board, $50.
| MustMEET TO Mn CALHotH.-The South
Carolina papers are agtating the subject Of form
ing a Calhoun MOniiinent Association, for the q.
rectlon of Monument to Mr.. Calhoun in Charles.
ton. m
| e5- When General Washington was in New
York, year or two after the revolution, he had 4
set Of false teeth inserted by the ohly Dentist ID
the city There are now practising, in New
York, nearly thousand dentists.
o. Tho N. Y. Herald publishes document
which il says emanates from the Cuban Junta iii
that city. intimating that the elements for ste
cessfnl Cuban revolution have been organized,
both within and without that island.
o. The Vermont Standard, the Temperance
organ in the State, in summing I'D the results of
the election comedies that majority of the House
will be found in favor Of the repeal Of the Maine
law. Still it thinks the law will be safe in the
hands of the Senate.
o. The Nformons arc making an effort for the
conversion of India to the creed of Joe Smith
Thirteen '.minisers" arrived there from the city
priest" has induced one uf the newspapers to pub
lish his manifesto.
e5- In May last Mr. j. j. Roberts was re.elec-
ted President oftbe Republic Of Liberia over Chief
Justice Benedict. At the same time Stephen A.
Benson was elected Vice President. At the end
of the present term President Roberts will have
served eight years as President and six years %
Governor of Libera-in all fourteen years.
| CAP STONE OF THE WAsHINGToN MONUMENT.
The state of Maine" newspaper says a gran
lite boulder from the summit Of Mt. Washington
evidently deposited there durng the "drift epoch;
while the mountains were submerged" been
selected and set aside for the apex or browning
stone of the Washington Monument.
MAINE ELEcrIoN-There 10 no choice ofGov.
ernor by the people. Cosby Wing, has = much
larger vote than last year. while the toic Of Pills.
bury. regular Democrat. and h1Urril. Independents
Democrat il much smaller The Wings have
plurality of senators, and the Wings and Indepen.
dent Democrats will cohtro the House.
{ MURDER IN McCAHEYsv ILLE-We under.
stand that man by the nan Of George Liileyl
living in the negborirood Of Sietahetsyille,w 81
killed by man named McCauly, living in tho
same neighborhood, on Tuesdoy evening last
Lilley was stabbed with knife AND died instant.
| ". The murderer made his escape and has NOT
yet been arrested. II tnrisomburg Rspubiieoa.
o. It is stated that in lnakdg an estimate of
the amount Of iron contained in the iron rnohntai
in Missouri, enough has been found alsvs its base
to make 100, 600 900 tons, Now. if 5,000.00U
only be Converted Into railroad fur III would mako
800 900 miles Of yoa!; aid s6rid of the remain
der, al The rate OF 900 per dat. would employ
railroad oser 300 years 10 remove it.
! AIJ FOX New OnuEaxs,-1he NV York
Committee Of the Howard Association. in ac-
know lctsgiDg the further receipt Of Sl,l47 giva
notice that the fever is decrcxsings New Orleans;
and that the Association has nos all the funds
necessary inr the relief Of the sick. The eptirG
amount contributed is Supposed 81 BE over $780,
| 000.
Or Masonry ssas nfrodifcea into the United
States BY grant of warrant to Henry Price, Of
Boston. ~ the 30sh OF JAY, 1893. as Right
Worshpful Grand Master Of North America,
with full power and authority to appoint his
Deputy" by the Right Byuorsble and Most
,Norshipfal Anthony Lord yiscornt Montague
Grand Master of Masons in England" -
o. France, with 40 900 600 Inhabitants; has
a public revenue of abott fi9 ,C00,O 900 sterling,
England with 2S.C00 900 raises f52, O90, 600.
I
pay the interest Of no national debt Franco
has public debt of about E220,0 GOO; while
GreatBritais, (without the coeosies, (owes 1884,
100000.
ACURiosrrT OF f.rfERA1UKE.-The n. Y.
Sunday Atlas says that it has been the practice of
Captain Isaiah Rynders, Of the Empire Club. all
his lie. to keep diary, in which is recorded alb
his political financial and personal exploits, and
that he is now writing book for the press, which
will contain all the minute "reminiscences Of his
political operations.
PERsEcUrIoN IN SwEpES-Surplise will be-
felt by many at the intelligence from Sweden, oS
the cruel persecution endured by dissetaers from
the State Church. Men, and even women. have
been fined, bapishcd and imprisoned on bread and
water. in common Jail, especially in Ovsa an d
vicinity The accounts represent the course az
exceeding the severity shown towards the Dladiai
family in Tuscany.
CHANGES TO SoUTB AMERIcA.-The WASH
inpton Star understands that James S. Green, Of
Missouri, Charge to New Grenada, Philo White,
of Wisconsin, Charge to Ecuador. and Governor
Dana. of Maine, Charge to Bolivia, are expected
to sail together for their respective destinations by
the Panama steamer, sailing from New York ear
ly in the next month, though il is possible thsi
they may not start until fortnight later, by the
steamer of the Goth proximo.
nn- Some writer in the Washington Union,
seems to be paying Senator Dickinson of. for call!
inc this 'a hybrid Administration" The arti-
Gle shows that Mr.. Dickenscn was in favor of the
Wilmot Provso as late as lS47. We wonder it.
it can be so,and could the Virginia delegation havo
known it when they were going So strong for Mr..
Dickinson in the Baltimore Convention. The