Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-10-22

been assigned to address the people on that occa
sion. The following speakers have been assign
ed by the State Committee to deliver addresse
on that occasion
Gen. J. L. Kemper, Hon. John Goode, Jr.
Judge W. w. Crump, Hon. John Letcher, Hon
J. B. Baldwin, Hon. J. T. Harris, George j
Hundley.
See adv of Miss A. Martin who advertise
Hair Dressing
The Augusta Female Seminary, Miss Mary j
Baldwin. Principal opened this session with 19'
boarders and 46 day scholars
Mr.. E. G. M. Greiner of mari Rock Mills
in this County left cabbage head at this Office
which weighed II pounds and measured feet
inch in circumference. He left similar one a
the Vindicator Office.
On next Thursday night the oath, the ladies a
Goshen in Rockbridge county, will have Tia
bleaux for the benefit of the Baptist church al
that place. We thank the ladies for the invita-
ton sent to US to be present. We hope the at
tendance will be large.
The question of subscribing the sum of $25, 600
to the stock of the Washington, Cincinnati &
st. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad was submit
ted to the voters of Harrisonburg on Saturday,
the 18th instant, and carried by vote of 90 to
10.
In illustration of the fact that the people OF
the South, more than heretofore, appreciate the
Importance of practical scientific knowledge, we
state that the class in Engineering in Washing
ton & Lee University is larger this session than
it has ever been.
Maj. F. II. Gaines of Clarke county, recently
purchased three thoroughbred Durham COWS
and two-year old bull from James Rennick,
ESQ.,, of Greenbrier county, W. Va. These an
imals will be on exhibition at the Agricultural
Fair held this week in Winchester.
The theatrical performances in this place on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
nights of last week, were not well patronized-
though the acting was very good. 1t had no
gift enterprise connected with it, appealingto the
gambling propensities which seem to hays such
hold upon the human heart. 49,
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Richardson & Bell, wholesale and retail gro.
GERS and produce dealers, on Augusta street.
call the attention of their friends and customers
to their large stock of staple and family groce-
ries, which they. are selling at the lowest cash
rates. Remember the place and call on them If
you wish to save money.
At Armentrouts nice 'Delmonico Saloon"
opposite the Spectator Office, ladies and gentle
men can be supplied with oysters in any style
served in the best manner. Such a saloon has
long been felt to be desideratum, and Armen-
trout is just the man to supply it. We expect
to see it literally patronized by ladies and gen.
tlemen, as it deserves to be.
Col Skinner filed his appointment at Mt.
Scion on Saturday last, and delivered good
speech The audience was not as large as it
should have BEEN He will speak in Monterey,
Highland county, on next Friday. the 25th inst.
He is doing his duty manfully and we'll and de-
serves much credit for devoting his time, talents
and money to the cause of his country.
The Cogbill house at the Depot at Covington
will be kept open all the time for the mmo-
dation of travellers on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad. Good meals are furnished at this
House, and. the delicious corn mullins there OBJ
tanned extort praises from ali who partake OF
them. Cogbill is always at his post to see that
his guests are properly waited upon.
FINE APPLEs.-We are indebted to Mr.. John
Brananan for tho present of box of fine ap-
Piles, among which are the following varieties ::
Fallawater, Northern Spy, Domino, Johnson's
fine Winter N. Y. Pippins and Rambos. He
has sold 1863 bushels in this place. We are
pleased to observe that our farmers are begin
ming to pay more attention than heretofore to the
cultivation of fruits of various kinds.
BARN DEsTRoYED.-The barn of Mr.. David
c. Baylor, near Summerdean, was struck by
lightning on the night of the 18th ultimo, and
burned to the ground, together with about 400
bushels of wheat-part threshed-5O0 bushels OF
oats, 100 bushels of rye, all his straw, wagon,
2buggies, and all his harness. The fire was seen
soon after it started, but all effort to save any
thing proved useless Mr.. Baylor had that day
taken his drill from the barn and sown eight
bushels of wheat, being all he saved of his crop.
His neighbors have furnished him seed wheat.
AN AcCIDENT.-On the 9th inst, Mr.. Edward
@. Kinney of this place, son of Mich. Q. Kinney,
d., was blown up by blast five miles below
New Richmond on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad He was thrown UP about ten feet and
over fence, and had his arms and throat badly
burned. He is now at the residence of his aunt,
Mrs. VIM. Craig Of this place. where he is being
carefully attended to-having arrived here on
Thursday last 1t is wonderful that he was not
more seriously if not fatally injured A man by
the name of Payne, who was with him at the
time, was also injured.
ACCIDENTAL DIsCHARG OF PIsToL.-On Fri
day night last, at Gabriel Hirsh's store in this
place, pistol was accidentally discharged. The
ball, after passing through large glass of one
of his show-windows, passed through the neck
of a colored boy named Andrew Turner, but
fortunately did not infict serious wound. An
other colored boy, VIM. D. S. Thompson, son Of
the well-known Chas Thompson, was standing
by the side of the boy who was shot, and the
parental 'parient' thinks his son made mos
miraculous escape, and trembles like Belshazzal
yet whenever he thinks of the danger his son es
capped.
LARCENY-ARREsT OF THIEVES. -We noticed
recently quite number of larcenies which hac
been committed within the city and in the yicin
ity thereof We now notice the fact that some
ofthe guilty parties have been detected and ar
rested by the efficient Chief of Police-J. T. Par
rent
On Saturday last, two colored men, Thomas
Clayton and Isaac Hyde, who occupy house OF
the creek just outside of the corporation limit