Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-10-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

GS- A woman has been elected constable m
Perry county. Illinois.
o. The Martinsburg Gazette announces that
town to be entirely free from cholera.
| o. Andrew ii. CIiendinst has been appointed
postmaster at Long Glade, Augusta CO., vice Isaac
A.: Bushong, resigned.
o. The National lntelligencer is authorized to
contradict n report that the Hon. John NJ. Clay
ION, of Del, had joined the Know Nothings.
ny- The President, it is said, has determined
to send Mr.. Wheeler. of N. c.. to Greytown, to
ascertain all about the bornbardment.
o. The Manassas Gap Road was opened to
Front Royal, Warren county, on Saturday, by
train of cars containing the officers and invited
guests.
EFFECT OF INCREASED PAr.-The enlisiments
IN the Army from Sept. | to Sept. 20, 1854,
have been 33l, against 90 for the same period in
1858.
o. VIM. C. Worthington. ESP. a prominent
lawyer and former member Of the Legislature of
Virginia. died at Cbarlestown, in Jefferson coun-
ty, on Friday week.
e5- They manage things funnily in California
military funerals for instance. After burying
che defunct, the band comes back and serenades
the widow.
o. Flour was selling in San Francisco, on the
30th Of August, when the steamer left, at So a
$I0.50 Dbl. On the same day. the same quail
ty was selling in Albany at $l0.50 a SLIPS.
&C. Tie Convention of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of New York have elected the Rev.
Ioratio Potter, ID. d., of Albany, Bishop of tho
Diocese, in place Of Bishop Wainwright, decd.
A Know NOTHING GoyERHoR-The Demo
cratic papers of Maine state that Morrill,. who is
supposed to be elected Governor of that State, is
member of Know Nothing Lodge.
CoLoRED LOVE AFFArR.-Asbury Conner, a
Youthful negro, committed suicide 10 Philadelphia
last Sunday night, because some other coloret
person had been paying attention to his sweet
heart.
o. On Thursday week the first consignment
reached Norfolk. 1t was from Lexington. Sew
eral Of the merchants of Norfolk propose running
a regular line of barges between that place and
Lexington.
nJ- The Old Line Democrats of Cincinnati
held meeting on the 2Slh inst, and were ad-
dressed by the Hon. George T.. Pugh and others.
The meeting was very dsofderly, and the Know
Nothings seemed in the majority. The excite
ment increases as the election approaches.
FROM UrAH.-At a meeting of the Saints on
the 2Sth of June. missionaries were appointed to
many distant lands, and John Smith, the eldest
son of Hiram Smith, was voted to be ordained the
Patriarch over the whole Church Of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints.
GD- The price of Breadstuffs is now so much
lower in England than in America, that several
cargoes of -four are said to have been shipped from
Liverpool for New York. This has not happen
ed since the initiation of 1887, when flour was
imported into New York from the Mediterranean.
Or A return just issued of the population ofIre-
land shows that the number Of inhabitants has fall
len off two millions in the past five years. In the
year 1905 the population was over five millions
in 1914 six millions; in 1924 seven millions in
1887 eight millions; in 1876 1886, $40; and in
1851 only 6,55l $40.
ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAMRoAD.-The'
Alexandria Gazette learns that at the recent meet
inc of the President and Directors of the Orange
and Alexandra Railroad Company, the whole
route of the line of the Extension to Lynchburg
was put under contract and the construction order
ed TO be commenced.
Texas on the 18th. and ragged with terrible fury
for four days. An immense amount of property was
DESTROYED and several vessels and many lives lost
The town of N1atagOrda was totally destroyed,
with the exception of three houses. The crops
both of the cane and cotton, were nearly ruined.
o. In the second Congressional district Of
Pennsylvania. j. L. Gossler, the Know Nothing
candidate for Congress, has declined, and as the
Democratic nominee, Mr.. Hamilton, has also
withdrawn, the contest will be between the two
Wing candidates, Tyson and Chandler, the for
mer being aided by the know-Nothngs, and the
latter by the Democrats.
&C. At the municipal electionn Louisville, KY
on Saturday last, that mysterious organization. the
Knaw Nolhings, played one OF their mystlccl
tricks on the politicians Tickets with the name
Of William B. Shepherd for Mayor, who was not
before known as a candidate, were put in circula-
ton and at the close of the polls. he WAS found to
be elected Mayor Of the city by $50 majority.
SKELETON OF MANMorH.-The tusk Of a
mastodoh or mammoth, of enormous size, was
found last week near Poughkeepsie, and upon e1-
cavation, the skeleton of the animal was discov-
cred. As far as the exhumaon has extended,
the bones were found partially pe,rifed, which
promises the recovery of the entire skeleton in a
more perfect state than any yet found
CHINESE WARrARE.-A recent letter from Chi
ma, abiding to the engagements between the I'M
perialsis and the rebels, says they commence
fighting about shutdown every evening, and keep
up constant but harmless fire until daylight,
when they cease from their arduous nocturnal ex-
ploits, and remain tranquil (being exhausted) du-
ring the day.
AN AMERICAN IN THE TURKISH ARMY.-Mr.
Burr Porter, young man of high responsibility,
of Newark, New Jersey. Of a romantic mind con-
ceived fancy Of joining the Turkish service at
the opening of the present war. He succeeded in
being made captain Of Artillery and recently, in
preventing town from being sacked, was promo
ted to a colonel.
EPrEcTs OF CoFFEE.-Dr. Mosley observe,
in his ."rreatise on Coffee" that the great use of
the article in France is supposed TO have abated
the prevalence of the gravel. In The French col
onies, where coffee is more used than in the Eng
lish, as well as in Turkey, where it is tho princi
pal beverage, not only the gravel bur the govt are
scarcely known.
0py- The Richmond Enquirer proposes that the
Democratic State Convention meet in Staunton on
Thursday tho 30th ofNovember. II says, "there
is special and most urgent necessity for an ear
Iy nomination, and thorough canvass the Stafe,"
and this necessity grows out of The fact that tho
Know Nothings are getting 10 be, in the express
sive language of the day, ''somc pumpkins"
How TO GET RID OF MosaUiroEs IN THE
NIGHT.-Mosquitoes, says an exchange, lovo
beef blood better than they do any that flows in
the veins of human kind. just put couple Of
generous pieces on plates near your bed at night,
and you will sleep uniroubed by these prsts.--
In the morning you will find them full and stu
pid with beef blood, and the meat sucked as dry