Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-07-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

o. The ladies at Saratoga "wear their shoul.
ders bare to the lower edge Of decorum."
o. Alexander r. Boteler, Esq.; of Jefferson,
has accepted an invitation to deliver the Annual
address before the Agricultural Society of Viginis
eo- The venerable Judge EstilI; Distinguish
ed jurst of Virginia, but for the last three years.
resident of Louisiana, died at his hosrtsble man.
rion at Harrod's creek, in Kentucky, OH the I4sk
instant
o. The New York (Democratic) Post thinks
'hat when the Washington Union shall have
read oil the Freesoers out of the Democratic par
ty at the North, the Democratic party will have
very little flesh, blood, bones, or grstIe left."
o. Madame Sontag has acquired fortune Of
100000 in her musical tour through the country.
| Doubtless she is great singer and an excellent
woman, but such reward is altogether out of mo-
portion to that which is paid to other professions,
Or The home correspondent of the Republic
mentions the existence ola vague and doubtful
rumor to the effect that the Hon. Il. j. Walker
will delay his departure for China until winter,
and that possibly he may not go at all.
o. We understand there are 80 visitors at the
Red Sweet Springs. Mr.. Bias has made arrange.
ments for the accommodation of an increased nun.
Der over last year, and expects good season.
LewisLwg Chronicle.
o. 1t would appear, from humorous observa-
tons, that soldiers hit during battle according
to the color oftheir dress, in the following order:
red the most fatal color; the least fatal Austrian
gray. The proportions are: red l2; rifle green
I brown 6; Austrian blush gray 5.
Rev. DR. Ivns.-The statement that the Rev.
Dr.. Ives, late Bishop of the Diocese of North Car
oina was about to be ordained priest in the Cath
Ollie church, and that the Pope had informed him
that he separate from his wife, is positYely
contradicted by the Freemans Journal.
o. The imports from China, in 1851, were ST.
065, "A, or little more than double what they
were twenty years ago. Since 1912, no cottons
whatever have been introduced into this country
from China. The principal items of import still
continue to be tea and silks.
o. The President and Cabinet 1.-THE talk is)
have determined to appoint Minister Resident at
Constantinople, but suitable man is not yet fixed
upon. Robert NJ. McLane, of Maryland, has been
named but influential men in the State, il is said,
object to him.
Hoes in KENTUcKY.-The Louisville Journal
publishes table of the number of hogs in SS coun-
ties Of that State, over six months old, showing
an aggregate excess on the number last year of
$4,000 head. There are l3 counties yet to heat
FROM the total increase in the State will herefUie
he about 2l5,0 900 head.
A SOLITARY VoYAGER-The schooner Elm.
pire, Capt. Barker, arrived at Boston on Saturday
from Daren, Ga. During the voyage, all of the
crew, consisting of two sailors, cook and boy,
together with the mate, died Of Southern fever
The last man died on the 9th inst, since which
time Capt. Barker has been obliged to navigate
the vessel and bring her into the port alone. He
himself had been sick, but had recovered. lie
was for :ir days alone on Tie Orsan'
Gov. UJHAzY.-The ST. Louis Republican says
that Gov. UJhazy and his family and two or,tbree
followers have beeh there on their way overland
to their new home in Texas. He has sold out his
claim in town. and fances that the "sunny South"
will afford him more genial cline. He looks
weather beaten and care worn. an exile from his
beloved Hungary, and having lost in the western
wilds some two years ago the wife of his youth
and the sharer of his tolls, whose bones he is
rying with him, as the most sacred relic on earth'