Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-09-21
STANTON SPECTAT0R>AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Reports continue to come from the East Of
conspiracies by the Anssulmen against the Chris
tians. i
The general impression seems to be that fur
ther trouble may be expected with the Mormons
and that the difficulty is only postponed not set.
tied.
A fellow named Merrill, last week married
two girls, in Ohio, within the short space of "a
hours, and when found out eloped for parts IN
known.
| The returns from the election in Maine. indi-
cate the reelection of Gov. Morrill, Republican
by from 5000 to 5000 maj ority and the choice
of all six Republicans to Congress.
The next State elections will be held in Octo
Der, when Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, In
diana, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania
all choose members Of Congress, and nearly all
elect general State ticket.
Slave Fanny, owned by John W. Jones, was
convicted at Fincastle, Va, on Monday, for at
tempting to poison her master, by placing cor
rosive su5limate in his coffee cup, and was SEN
fenced to be hung on the first Friday in October
The accounts from the gold dggings at Pixies
Peak, Kansas, have been corroborated. Com.
panies are forming in all the Kansas towns, and
q stage line is about to be established from Fort
Riley to the diggings.
Preston S. Turley, formerly minister Of the
Gospel, was executed at Charleston, Kanawha
county, Va, on Friday last, for the murder of
his wife. The Sunday before his execution,
prayers were offered in the village church in his
behalf. ...
An English paper states that laborer, en-.
gagged in cutting wheat field at Highfeld, in
Derbyshise, was smoking his pipe, when some
troyed in few minutes between five and six
acres of wheat
CoUNTERFEITs.-Oounter on the North
western Bank of Va, at Wheeling, made paya-
bic at Jacksonville, are numerous in Baltimore.
At the same place on Thursday the brokers de.
tected several counterfeits on the Merchants
Bank of Lynchburg.
Judge Breese, the administration candidate
for Senator, in Illinois, publishes card, in
which he denies that he has resigned in favor OF
Judge Douglas. He denounces the friends of
the latter as disorganizels against the honor and
integrity of the democratic party.
PoLlrIoAL.-Hon. Vim. o. Goode, is to have
opposition at the next election. Samuel 81.
Gordon, Esq, of Powhatan county, Va, was
nominated at meeting of the citizens of that
county, on the 9th inst, as q suitable person to
represent the district. Mr.. Gordon advocates
distribution"
ADVERTISEMENT. I'VE would caution all who
buy Pain Killer, to be careful and call for Perry
Davis Pain Killer, and to take none not put up
in square bottles, with Perry Davis & Sons note
of hand on one side of the bottle, and "Davis'
Vegetable Pain Killer" blown in the glass. All
others are spurious.
Fayette McMullin, Governor of Washington
Territory, was recently married in Olympia to
Mary Wood 1t may be mentioned as remark l
able coincidence that Governor McMulin's first
wife, to whom he was married some years since
in Virginia, and who was afterward divorced
from him, was named Mary Wood.
A RAPID FLIGHT.-A German paper says the
quickest rate of locomotion, after the electric
spark, light, sound and cannon balls, is ascer-
tanned to be the flight of the swallow. One of
these birds, liberated at Client, made its way
to its nest at Antwerp in 10 1-2 minutes, 60
ing at the rate of 4 10 miles per hour.
Morrissey, the pugilst, is now in training in
the. ancient town of Lansingburg, N. T., where
his presence produces an unprecedented degree
of excitement. The Albany Argus gives Nor
rissey precedence Of Gerrit Smith, and even of
the Free Love 'artists" at Utica, as the "Man of
the Hour" who has so long fitted through their
dreams and etherialized their fancies.
LAST FAsH1oN.-The Milwaukee Wisconsin of
the 10th instant, says:-To give some idea as to
how the croppy style of hair cutting is spread
ing amongst the ladies in the city, one of our
BARRIERS says he has cropped three hundred and
thirty ladies within the past three months. There
seems to be perfect rage on the subject with |
our young ladies.
From the Merchants Magazine, we learn that
there are in operation 107, $50 miles of telegraph
ic lines, of which America has nearly as much
as the rest of the whole world combined, viz:-I
$4,000 miles. 1t is estimated that 100000
messages pass over the American lines annually, |
yielding, probably, net revenue of Sc, 900.
There are $50 miles of sumarine telegraph cable
now in use, exclusive of the Atlantic cable.
IMMENSE HERD OF BUFFALo.-A gentleman
direct from Fort Kearney, Nebraska says that
a large herd of buffalo, numbering several hun
dred thousand, was in that neighborhood, COW
ering the prairie for miles. The officers and SOL
diers of the fort were having fine time hunting
and slaughtering the lordly bison. This is the
first time for many years that buffalo in large
numbers have approached SO near the haunts of
civilization. 1t is supposed that they have been
driven in by large hunting parties Of Indians.
OUR DEMAND AGAINST PARAaUAY.-It is sta
ted that Judge Bowlin, our new minister to Pa
raguay, will be instructed to demand--frst, an
explanation and ample APOLOGY for the indigni-
ty offered to our flag. Second, full indemnity
to the South American Navigation Company for
all losses sustained by them; and third, a rati-
fcation of the treaty formerly negotiated by
Messrs. Schenck and Pendleton. Upon the re-
fusal of either one of these demands Commodore
Shubriek will be called upon to enforce them.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE by virtue of a deed of trust executed
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