Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-12-03
Editorial Newslets.
The Va. Treasury has $1,000 900 in it.
Pork is 90 ner hundred in Scottsv;lle.


Four spans of the Richmond and Manchester
free bridge are up.
Only 20 miles left to complete the track lay
ing on G. & o. R. r.
The receipts of tobacco at our great marts
continue large despite the horse disease.
Washington County, Va, has not single
prisoner 10 her Jail.
Kings Mountain, near Abingdon has been
sold for So, 100 for IS acres.
''Bi Arp" was Qnartermaster in Gordon S
Georgia Brigade, I'd Corps, A N. Va.
The Scottsville Courier rejoices over the con-
tinued arrival OF Eoglish emigrants these.
Wool is II per pound iu Colorado, and the
Thermometer u degrees below Zero Go w est
California yields SOC, 900 ponds of hops an
nually.
j. George Hest, Of Winchester, broke his
leg in Baltimore, last week.
The interior of Episcopal Church. Winches-
ter. has been handsomely reftted.
A number of new school houses have been
built 10 Shenandoah this year.
VIM. Henry Cook was killed ON ". & P. r.
R.. last week.
On the oath, Grant pardoned Ku-Kluz
prisoner and promises more favor 20 the South.
The Synod of Virginia adjourned in Balti.
more, Saturday week.
The Comptroller Of currency recommends tbs
repeal of all usury laws, as regards National
Bank.
The U. S. collected $40, 100000 taxes from
National Banks in the four years ending Jan
LIST, 1872.
The house Of Mr.. Sam'l Coyle, miles from
Mt. Jackson, Orkney Springs road, was burn
ed On 9th.
The whole amount Of currency allowed TO be
issued, $342, 900. 900 is exhausted, and new
issue recommended.
The Rev. Peyton Harrison is corresponding
with Winchester inns and Central Pre.by
terrain from Europe.
The Winchester Shoe Factory prospers-
orders flow in and one for $50 pair Of shoes wa'
filed in one day last week. Where is ours?
The u. S. War vessels, Yantic and Colorado
and one English man Of war, are on an expedi
ton to break up the slave trade a. Zanzibar.
a bark, with $50 hogshead of Va. leaf
cleared for Trieste, Austria, from Richmond
last week.
Destructive storms On English Coast las
week, and riot ia Hide Park, London, are re
ported.
During the quarter ending Sept Both, so.
SS5 emIgrants left Liverpool for the Unites
States
The Petersburg Appeal says the Governor
will reconstruct the Boards Of the public In
stitutions in Stanton.
The N. Y police are still vainly looking fol
five wealthy gentlemen, who recently disappear
ed mysterously in that city
Queen Victoria has sent two thousand pound
sterling to Italy for the benefit of the sufferers
by the inundations.
The name, cigar, comes from the Spanish
''cigarrai" Or noise Of field cricket that suus
in the gardens where the first tobacco vas cnl
tvated 10 Spain.
The horse disease is abatiug North and Yves
but large numbers are dying for being worked
| toe soon. L has extended as far South as Tex
as.
Winchester ga pers note that heavy freigh
| trains daily pass that town, for Lynchburg
| Stanton Richmond and other cities South
| from the West.
4 party Of hunters from Fncastle, killed L
deer in the Mountains Of Craig last week, ant
report deer more plentiful than ever be}or
known.
Norman Henry Smith, a shoemaker, wht
didn't stick to his last, but went to hammerins
on the Stock board, is now the acknowledged
King Of Wall Street and worth $50 600 900 =
He is aged 36, and onoe, for two days, carried
SIS 600 600 ia his old clothes.
During the last decade the united States has
imported from Paris, for purposes of dress mere
", more than $3.50 GEO 900 worth Of goods in
the form of hombazines, grapes, merlnos
shaws, silks, laces, toilet articles, jewery, hair
leather gloves, trimmings, human hair, and 81
On, through the haberdasher' whole catalogue