Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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sssippi, are candidates in that STATE for the U.
S. Senate Both gentlemen have taken the stumo
and are urging their claims before the People.
4 oo- In the southern district Of the province of
Buenos Ayres there are grazing estates which
Fl have on them twenty. fifty, and some of them a
t hundred thousand head of horned cattle.
e5- Four thousand passports have lately been
issued to Hungarians who design coming to Amer
t lea. Most of them are bound for California
The emigrants promise not to return to Austria.
ec,-Wm NJ. Blackford, Esq was elected Cash
Ter of the Branch of the Exchange Bank at Lynch
burg at the meeting of the Board of Directors on
Saturday week.
o. white man was sold for vagrancy. for the
sum of twenty FIVE cents, the other day. in Ogle
: county, Ill., His purchaser not being able 10 make
change, the 'chattel" loaned the necessary sum.
The man had family.
INDIANS FOR THE WORLDS FArR.-The St.
Louis Republican announces the arrival at that
city of eight Indians, all Chiefs and Braies, from
ST. Josephs, who intend to visit the Worlds Fair
at New York.
&C. The citizens of Fredericksburg, on last Sat-
urday authorized corporation subscription Of $751;
900 to the Fredericksburg and Gordonsyille rail-
road, by the following vote: For subscription 327,
against 20. ~.
A LEGISLATURE ON AN ExcuRsIoN.-The
members Of the Legislature of the State of New
I York departed from Albany on Saturday morning
on an excursion by railroad to Niagara Falls,
where they arrived early in the afternoon The
distance is upwards Of three hundred miles.
GJ-The second trial of Ann Wheeler at MiIwau.
kie, Wisconsin, for the murder of John w, Lace,
whom she accused of being her seducer, wa5 brought
to close ON the 9th. and the jury after being out
four hours, rendered a verdict not Guilty, on the
ground Of insanity.
AMERICAN ScHoLARsHIP.-AIiig high compliment
has just been paid to American scholarship. by the
appointment of Mr.. Hall, graduate of Harvard
College, in 1876, to the post Of Anglo Sanscit
Professor in the Benares College, British India.
Mr.. Hall is the fourth member of his class who
has been called to fill Professors chair.
o. An anti-Bible Conventioil, Composed of the
fag ends of fanaticism, was ia session Last week
in Hartford, Conn., On Sunday night the Con-
vention broke up in row, the chairman annoupc-
ing that they should meet again before great
while in some other part of New England, None
Of the various resolutions introduced were passed
PAYING FOR LrvEs-As the statdteS Of Illinois
provide that railroad companies Shall pay 5000
for every life lost on TRAIN of cars thnongh the
carelessness recklessness of the company or iis
agents. damages for the Chicago massacre will
| reach $l05, 900 if sued out as there were twenty
one persons killed.
Co-The Wing presses in Virginia are expressing
| themselves very freely about the .s'no eiot.tS
| Wings at the recent election. We hope that the
g. Il. 80.
There is always use to 'stry" To ptryo hard
is often to gain victory. Never to .stry," is al
ways TO be in minority, always to see our cause
and our principles acrifced.-.3ierandria Gasstte.
o. The Board of Visitors o. the Virginia Mill
tary Institute is composed of Gen. Francis NJ.
Boykn, Isle of Wight; Col. w. b. Taliaferro.
Gloucester; Gen. Douglas B. Layne, Allegheny;
Major A. V. Fulkesson. Scott; Col Samuel l..
Hays, Gilmer; James Barbour, Culpeper; Ben
jamln Z. Garrett. Halifax; VIM Seymour, Har-
dy; Wm III. Richardson, Adjutant General ex
officio
G5- 1t is stated in the papers that the Hon..
Daniel NJ Barringer, our Minister in Spain, left
Madrid on the | lth Of May, with his wife and
family, for the purpose of making a short journey
into Andalusa previous to his retirement from tbs
Spanish peninsula. After visiting Curdoya, Sc
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he VIII reman until the arrival OF Mr. Somle wis
is expected to reach there ia the month of JUL.
The LIaUoR QUEsTroY-At late term uf
the County Court Of Washington county. tho
Justices refused to grant licenses to retail ardent
spirits. An appeal was taken from tho decision
OF the Court and carried before Judge Hopkins
The Judge reversed the decision Of the Court be
iow,and at the last term the Justices proceeded to
grant licenses in accordance with the Instructions
of the appellate Court-Vaiiey Hhig.
O. A Washington despatch states that Mr..
Champion, the British Minister, has received des
patches by the last steamer relative to the fishe-
ry and reciprocity questions, and urging the mat
ter upon the attention Of our government. Mr..
Buchanan. the same authority asserts. is desirous
oil having the negotiations transferred TO London.
while Mr. Marcy considers they can he conduct cd
with more advantage at Washington.
e3- A post moriem examination ola little dauph-
ter of Mr.. John Bragg, of Petersburg, developed
the fact that her death was caused bv pin which
was found in the intestines. The pin was cover
ed with the concretions formed about il during its
passage through the bowels. with the exception Of
about one eighth of an inch of its printed extrem-
ty. This should serve as caution to mothers
and nurses.
o. AT the election lately held 10 Virginia, the
defeat of Hugh w. Shelley, the Wing candidate
for the State Senate in Augusta, is subject Of
much regret. He lost dis election by some thirty
votes, the temperance question" having been
brought into the contest. and he refusing TO recog-
Mise it as proper issue In politics. Mr. Shelley
is an able aud excellent gentleman, and was a
business member Of the Senate. His loss cannot
easily be supplied in that body.-.4ler Gazette.
Nct- The question of license or no license was
decided at the polls in Washington ON Monday
week. The majority against LICENSE was 972.-
This vote makes it the duty Of the committee who
have charge of the interests Of Washington city
before Congress TO urge upon that body an amend
ment to the City Charter which shall give the
Councils the po%eg 70 pass such laws as will pro,
hbit the sale of all intoxicating liquors within the
limits Of the city.
Hon. WIN. G.. RlvEs-This eminent states
man passed through Richmond on Thursday last
on his return to his residence in Albemarle. We
welcome him "back to Old Virginia" He has
represented his country at the French Court with
very distinguished ability, winning the most pro-
found admiration and respect Of his talents aud
worth from the French Government and the whole
diplomatic corps. assembled from the various courts
of Europe in that splendid capital.
JENNY LTvD At HoME.-A letter from Dres-
den, dated April IL, says:-Durine nv short stay
in the city, have often passed the residence Of
Mrs. Otto Goldschmidt. or Jenny End-a name
by which, here as elsewhere, she is best known.
They reside in the finest section of the town, call
ed the English quarter Dresden is without
doubt chosen as their future residence, although
they have not yet purchased, as was reported in