Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS.


county, California.
The cars on the Washington and Alexandria
railroad are now running with regularity be-
tween the two cities.
David KILLER, living on Mill Rum. Page
county, has colt eighteen months old w1len Is
fifteen and half hands high, active ana wen
proportioned.
Two German girls, with hurdy-gurdy ana
tanlbourine, have, it is said, netted two thousand
pounds sterling in the short space ten months
in Australia
Macaulay, the English historian, Is to have
81 900 for writing the epitaph on the city OF
London monument to the late Duke of Yelling
ton.
On the day of the presidential election in the
State of Iowa, Fremont county gave majority
for Buchanan, and Buchanan county gave q ma
jority for Fremont
The Tenth Legion says Col Albert, of Shen-
andoah county, few days since killed hog
weighing 543 pounds net, and his neighbor, Jos.
Sheetz, Killed one weighing 563 pounds.
Hon. z. KidweI, of this State, declines being
o candidate for reelection to the House of Rep
resentatives. The Democratic" rule in his
Hon. Andrew Stevenson, who has been con-
fined by i'll health ut his Benheim estate for sew
eral months now lies very dangerously Ill, ana
but little hope is entertained for his recovery
Va. Adr0cate.
The Washington Star says, that Judge W.
Brockenbrough, at present Judge of the United
States Court for the Western District of Virgin
ia, is talked of in Washington, for the post OF
Attorney General.
The Odd Fellows in the United States num-
Der S,397 lodges, with 1913, GA members. They
expended in the year ending with June last,
nearly half million of dollars for relief of or
phans their total receipts being $l,lTo,S25
A writer in the Ohio Statesman says that the
direct descendants of Oliver Cromwell, OF Eng
lsh fame, are now residing in Clay county, In
diana, and are farmers OF Intelligence, who care
fully keep up the name of Oliver among them.
A Democratic Convention, to nominate a can
didate for the Board of Public Works for the
Northern District, will be held, it is announced
in Martinsburg, on the 18th of March. Mr..
Armstrong; term of office will expire in a few
months.
1t is said there exists iG this country secret
order called 'The Sons of Freedom" whose OBJ
iect is to wrest Cuba from the mother country
The headquarters are at New York, and the or
ganization embraces the principal seaboarC
towns from that city to New Orleans.
The new book of John R. Thompson, of Rich
mond, entitled Across the Atlantic" was en-
tirely lost in the late destruction by fire of the
publishing house of Derby u Jackson, New York
As Mr.. I. preserved no manuscript copy of thu
work, the loss is irremediable.
The editor of the Alexandria Gazette has beer
presented with candle made otCanne coal Il
was manufactured at the new establishment tol
the purpose in Kanawha county, Virginia. The
candle is nearly transparent, resembling way, ant
burns with a beautiful clear light.
writer in the Richmond Enquirer earnestly
recommends the reorganization OF the militia
and the encouragement of volunteer companies
He recommends that each county court levy {
tax of $500 or more, for the equipment and sup
port of volunteer companies.
The American Colonization Society held it;
anniversary on the 18th, in Washington during
the past year about 900 emiSrants have beer
sent to Liberia. superior has been granted tC
the Society. the materials for new college sem
out, and movements made to open up the int
rior to settlement.
The Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser says
'
Virginia as his future home. He is large iron
manufacturer, and having discovered rich bed
of ore in Loudoun county, of excellent quality,
he has established iron works there, and Will
reside near them when he leaves Kansas.
Hon Willoughby Newton is said to be pre-
pairing an article in which he will undertake to
refute the charge of ignorance and want OF edu'
cation in Virginia. He says the returns in the
census table giving the number of those who
cannot read or write in the State are grossly in'
accurate. and he repeats the opinion formerly
EXPRESSED that there is not on the face of the
globe any community of equal numbers, as in
teligent, and as well educated, in the proper
sense OF the word, as the people of Virginia
APPREHENpED TROUBLE IN CHINA.-M. De
Concy, French Consul General in China, (Says
the Courier de LyonS) has received orders tt
demand reparatiOn from the Emperor OF Chlns
for the death by violence of the Able Chapde-
lane, who fell martyr to his religion. This
demand will be supported by the French squad
ron. charged to compel the Emperor of Chins
10 allow u representative of France to reside a
Pekin-a privilege which Russia alone has hith
erto enjoyed.
FATAL RESULT OF A JoHE.--In the county o
DerbyShire, England on the 22d Of December
two of the servants of q farmer, named Perciva
anu IiUuSVN, ISSdISu Au w
" fifteen years of aye, who had come in tho
evening for his milk, with some ghost storie:
until he was thoroughly frightened. After h'
left one of them clothed himself in a table clotf
and met the young lad in field. He arrived a
his home in terrified state and, although h'
went to work the next day, was obliged to be
put to bed, where he was seized with violen
vomiting and died raving wildly. The medca
men were of opinion that he died from the eff
feet of the shock to the nervous system. Per-
cival, who put on the table cloth, has been ar
rested on charge of rhanslaughter.
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