Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1853-02-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

ni@@ly 70 print chlldrens' books on 1t is dearer
'liah paper, but the youngsters cannot tear it
.@.- A company of fifty young men, will leave
Cincinnati about the LIST of March for Australia,
says the Cincinnati Gazette.
ou- The Governor of Iowa has vetoed the bill
calling convention to amend the Constitution Of
the State.
VIRGINIA STATES STocK.-Sales of $4,000 Viz
gina Skies were made at the N. Y. Stock Ex-
change on Thursday at $ll0l at $ll0s
o. The Senate of Michigan have appropriated
ten thousand dollars to be invested in model
farm for improvement in the science ofagrculture.
o. BY late accounts from Texas the indiana
are represented as very oubesome-committing
outrages and murders with impunity.
0J- The citizens of Philadelphia are furnishing
out ship with provisions for the distressed inhab-
itants of Madeira.
Go 1t is stated that the validity Of the appoint
ment of James G.. Dobbin to the IT, S. Senate. by
the Governor of North Carolina, in place of Mr..
Mangum will be contested.
o. The Boston Traveller denies the report that
the Hoossck Tunneing Machine has proved a
failure. OP the contrary, it says that it has an
swered all the expectations Gifts proprietos,
oo- COL Chas A. May, of Mexican war noto-
rety, was married in New York; on the 9Th inst,
to daughter of George Law, the well known
steamship owner.
| o. Last Thursday was the day to take down
the Suspension bridge at Wheeling according to
the decree of the Supreme Court, but the Gazette
says it is still standing,
o. A meeting of the citizens of Powhatan, at
their last court, set forth the great advantages
likely to arise foih railroad from some point in
that county, through Cumberland and Bucking-
ham to Lynchburg,
| o. Hon. ]. NJ H. Beale, add resses card to
the voters Of the third district in Virginia, through
the columns Of the Washington Union, annotnc-
ing himself candidate for Commissioner of the
Board of Public Works.
! The vALUG OF NosE-Judge Paine render
ed decision in the Court of Common Pleas of
New York, last week, against man for biting off
the nose of his antagonist in fight, and put the
damages at $4,000.
o. A portion of the baggage shipped by GeH.
Pierce to the White House via Boston, consists Of
twenty-five Genesee -four barrels full of the let
tiers and petitions already received from oicesesk
efs-and still they come
eo- Bugs are an important article in the trade
of Rio Janeiro. Their wings are made into arti-
fetal flowers, and some of the more brilliant varie
ties are Worn as ornaments in ladies' hair
o. It's stated that there are now twenty-eight
persons in the Ohio Hospital for the Insane, Who
have lost thef reason from the influence of spirit
ual rappings. and eighteen similarly affected in
the indiana Insane Hospital:
&C. Cen James n Bethune has just commenc-
ed at Columbus, Ca, weekly paper styled the
"Corner Stone" In his salutatory the editor We
~ coOlly announces that this print shall be devo-
ted to the dissolution Of The Federal Union.
Or The proposition to supersede Mr.. Benjamin
as Senator frorn Louisiana, by new election, was
lost in the Legislature, in the lower House by
vote of ayes 81, nays so; andin the Senate by
ayes 10, nays II.
Or The purpose, as heretofore announced, not
to have an Inauguration Ball on the 9TH of March,
in consequence Of the domestic affection of the
Presidents famiIy, it appears has been changed,
and the Bail will come off
l5- Mr.. Toombs' proposition to repeal the nav
igation laws and throw open the ooasting trade to
all the world is exciting attention down East Il
is supposed to be blow aimed at the shipping
interests of that region-and very severe one it
would prove.
Oo- Rev. Elezear Williams, the supposed Bour-
bon delivered sermon On Sunday morning at Rev.
Dr.. Hawks church. in New York. There being
2 universal curiosity to see him, ever since the
publication of the Putnam article, there was, Of
course, not single pew empty.
BACHELORS IN ENDIxNi.-A'bi is pending III
the Indiana Legislature to compel old bachelors Of
thirty years of age to marry, or pay fifty dollars
year into the county treasury, to 90 to the first la
DIV who shall marry after the LIST of January.
The provisions ofthe bill apply towidowers of onsS
years standing.
OJ- The State of Virginia has claim upon the
Government for the sum of $40 900, which was
advanced by her in 1890, towards erecting public
buildings in Washington City, which claim she
assigned to the Orange and Alexandra Railroad.
bill for the payment passed the Senate at the
last session of Congress. but FOR want of time, was
not acted upon by the House. It is now under
consideration.
THE New SILVER CoikA6E.-The bill amen
datory of the existing laws regulating the coinage
has passed both Houses of Congress, and is by this
time law. It provides that the weight of the
half dollar shall be 1872 grains, and the quarter,
dime, and half dime, in the same proportion.
There is also to be coined gold So piece, the
devices and shspe to be fixed by the Secretary of
the Treasury. The law to take effect on the LIST
of June.
nc The late census report of the United States
shows that the yield of all the Tobacco crops in
this country for the last decade has diminished
ls. $780, i6 lbs. compared with the previous
There is at the same time large and progressive
Increase in the consumption of Tobacco grown in
the United States In tine State Of Virginia it ap
pears that the establishments for manufacturing
Tobacco have greatly increased and absorb very
large portion Of the crop of the State.
NJ The New York National Democrat says
Several of the relations Of the new Empress Of
France are residents of this city, and bear the name
of Kirkpatrick. They ATE very poor and employ
| ed in the manufacturing OF brushes They will
hail the good fortune Of their relative with salts
faction and look for some smiles of favor from her
GOOD luck. One of them will leave for France as
soon IS he can raise money sufficient to pay his
passage.
nc 1t is reported that the city ofParis has voted
tn the Empress diamond neck lace of the value
of 600. 600 francs But that the Empress has
written to the corporation Of Paris, declining to ac
cent their present of iewelry, and suggesting that
thew had better lay out their money in works Of
charity If this be so, it is pretty good indication
that Louis Napoleon has selected d sensible wo-
man for the Empress Of France.
THE New YORK ExHIBIrIoY.-A correspon-
dent of the Newark Advertiser dated at Genoa.
18th January, states that the genius and art Of
modern Italy, will be we'll represented at the
exposition Of the industry of all nations in New
York An effort is now making to secure full
n a Al L.. L.