Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-03-05

| TIE AUGUSTA NEWS VS.. WAYNEsBoRo'.-
Some months since, hebdomadal, entitled
| "The Auousta Meas was established at Waynes-
boro'. in this county. 1t is not only queer but
a ouerulous, little journal, and it is doubtful
whether it will add to the good name and fame
of that place. The last number is so complain
ina that we do not wonder that it is in articuto
morris, and that the Editor announces his pur-
pose to suspend publication 'for several weeks,
and if no better prospect presents itself at the
end of that time, to suspend the publication of
the paper entirely" He says, "Waynesboro'
can't support paper at the expense of five dol
lars week." To how much expense does he
| wish to put that town? That paper does not
| have a single good word for Waynesboro' or its
| inhabitants, male or female. 1t says, ''Waynes-
boro' has its full share of loggerheads," who
| meddle themselves in the business of other per-
sons, including that of the Editor himself 1t
says that there is capital in Waynesboro,' and
that if there were, there is no one there who
knows how to use it-that the place is destitute
of such person." 1t says that, "there are too
many old fogies and thick-skuiled wretches in
the community to do any good. Look at the
| great natural resources that surround us We
call that capital All [that] is wanted is an eff
abundant" What pity it is that in the opin-
ion of that paper, Waynesboro', like poor Mrs.
| Dombey, is unable to make an effort. Cannot
she be prevailed upon to make an effort, that the
golden visions of that journal may be realized
It complains, too, that Waynesboro' has ''too
many loafers, who like to sit around the stove
and read the newspapers"
AS though these editorial assaults upon the
ofor of ffainn yai1I,1 c1aco
contributed article assailing members of the
gentler sex, who Five, move and have their
being in that place. This artice-headed,
"The Gossips''-is signed with that letter of the
alphabet, of which Byron, in his enigma says
'pTis whispered in Heaven, tits muttered in
He'll"
Whilst denouncing gossips, it says that, their
sex, strange to say, is what is commonly called
the fair sex'' It continues:
"Yes, reader, they are almost universally of
that sex which ought to be the receptacle and
shrine of all that IS pure, chaste and beautiful,
and yet when they have the faintest traces
of any scandal they gather together like unclean
birds over carcass and indulge in some foul
PURE minded woman. This scandal-monger is
ofthe most inquisitive, prying, and exaggerating
order, and their very souls feed upon and delight
in defamatory gossip and vile SANDER which
neighbors. They almost grow sick, if there is
no fresh gossip, and rather than suffer stagna-
ton of news, they fabricate some, and in q short
time the mole-hill has become mountain
The ladies of that place, in speaking of him,
doubtless temper their resentment with charity
and express it mildly thus
His hopes if hopes he hath, must surely die;
Still would we nip their blossoms tenderly,
With slight, airy frost-bite of contempt"
We would not have persons abroad to judge of
Waynesboro' by the complainings of 1.-THE Aa-
gusta Neaos." It bears the reputation of being
live place. having active and intelligent bust
ness men, and of being moral and religious, with
cultivated and refined society.
ALARM OF FIRE.-On Monday of last week.
the roof of Mr.. r. W. Pares saddlery shop, in
Lewisbnrg, Greenbrier county, w. Va, was
discovered to be on fire. It was first discovered
by the female pupils occupying the second story
of the Lewisburg Academy then the male pu-
pills in the lower story gave the alarm by run
ming down the street loudly crying, fire FIRE Il
The timely alarm thus given served, by arous
ing the active exertions of some of the citizensl
to save the building from destruction.
It must have been alarming time, for the
Greenbrier Independent says that the cry of irel
fire was made by youths who had burst
forth from their cerenaents." The presumption,
under such circumstances, would be, that the
fire was of quenchless character, and was loca-
ted below. This was a lively proceeding for
grave youths.
What the girls said when they saw the youths
'burst forth from their ceren,ents,'' the depo-
nent-the Iaadependent-saith not.
Did they ''the fringed curtains of their eyes
advance" and, like the unsophisticated Miranda,
when she first beheld Fernando, with mingled
emotions of surprise and admiration. excla1m
Nv hat is it spirit 2
Lord, how it looks about Believe me- sir.
It carries brave form But It's spirit"
When informed that it was not spirit, but "a
goodly person." she said =
81 might call him
A thing divine; for nothing natural
I ever saw so nobe.'f