Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-24

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE GRAND LODGE
OF VIRGINIA.-The Grand Lodge of the Ma
sonic Order in Virginia will commence its an
nual session in Richmond on the I'd Monday In
next month, and the indications already are
that it will be numerously attended by leading
Masons from all portions of the State. This is
to be expected as a result Of the continued IN
crease of the order since the last annual session
Of the order.
The present members of the Grand Lodge
are: Gen. William Terry, Of Wythevllle,
Grand Master; T. Z. Owens, of Norfolk, De-
putty Grand Master; W. L. Maule, of Rich
mond, Grand Senior Warden Col. Il. Il.
Withers, of Lynchburg, Grand Junior Warden; ;
John Dove, Grand Secretary; Thos. W. Dud-
lev, Grand Treasurer.
Mail advices from Puerto Principe to October
80 state that despite false reports from Havana,
the revolution has overspread the whole East
ern Department, and the Central Department
is almost ready to join in it. The leaders are
men of high social position, great wealth and
talent, and have commenced the revolutionary
movement by freeing their own slaves and
marching to the front with them. The Spanish
troops can barely hold the ground they occupy.
An attack on Puerto Principe was daily expect-
ed, and many families were leaving for Nassau.
They would go to the United States, but are
not allowed by the Government.
Va. and Tennessee r. E.
The 2Ist Annual Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Com
pany convened at Masonic Hall, at II NJ, on
Tuesday last in Lynchburg, and was called to
order by Hon. Fayette McMullen, on whose
motion Hon. Thomas S. Bocock was appointed
chairman.
Gen. Malone was reelected President of the
Company. Jno. T. Slau ghter and E. B. Hurt
were elected Directors.
President Mahone's report was received with
| applause, and, on motion, it was ordered that
1000 copies be printed.
| WINTER FASHIONS FOR THE LADIES.-It
may interest the ladies to know that the prom
inent features of the winter are high colors :
| Tartan dresses and tartan suits are very much
worn, and these are very bright and pretty, eth
er for the house or street High dresses Of
scarlet, cashmere, delaine or French merlno, are
very much worn by young ladies, with little
paniered over dresses of black silk.
| ODD FELLOWS semi centennial an
niversary of the establishment of the order Of
Odd Fellows in the United States, will occur
on the Goth of April next. The event will bt
celebrated by national tete in Philadelphia.
The programme includes an immense process
sion of members of the order in full regalia.
committee of the Grand Lodge is already engag
ed in the work Of making preparations.
On the 10th inst, (Court-da a meeting
was held at Salem, the county seat of Roanoke
county, in which resolution was adopted re
questing the Court of that county to order al
election to be held at an early day to vote upol
the question Of subscribing sum not to ex
coed $780, 900 to the stock Of the Valley r. r
Company.
Barring Bros. drew FL 900 900 from the Banl
of England on Monday for the Russian Govern
ment said to be on American account as par
payment for Alaska
Count Won Bismarck is to resume his seat il
the Prussian Chambers in December.
Mount Vesuvius is in violent state of erup
ton.
The Lynchburg Tlginian enunciates pal
pable truth when it says that, 'it is greatly bet
ter for any community to have one well sustain
ed cnterprsing paper, than two or three Grip
pied concerns lingering out a sickly existence
and doing very little for the owners or the com
munity.'
At a meeting Of the Board of Trustees of An
tietam Cemetery, in Philadelphia on the 1Stl
inst, consideration of the subject of the buria
of the Confederate dead was suspended unit
the annual meeting at Washington on the 9tl
of December.
The work on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road is progressing with as much energy as
possible under the circumstances, and tn
enterprising contractors display commendabl
zeal 10 pushing ahead with the view Of reachn
the White Sulphur next summer.
The Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, at Col
umbus, was totally destroyed by fire on the l9t
inst Six female patients were smoothered t
death. The $50 patients have been removes
to other institutions A fireman was killed an
another injured by the falling walls.
Gen. Francis Smith, Superintendent Of tn
Va Military Institute, says that Gen. Stone
man was not only classmate but that he wa
a room mate of General Stonewall Jackson a
West Point when they were students at tina
Institution.
a late Quarterly Reriew estimates the popu
lation of the world at |, $50, 200, 900. OF thes
1875, 000 600 are Roman Catholics, 90, 900, 900 ar
Protestants, leaving more than ten hundred an
fifty millions of pagans and Mohammedans.
Four distinct shocks of earthquake were fel
in Elizabeth, New jersey, Sunday last, the l5t
inst They continued about twenty seconds
Chairs, tables, beds and other articles Of furni
ture swayed to and fro.