Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-12-17

| ALS OdOSS HIS l5IS!y LtiASi q
new start all over this State and n. c..
The Melbourne Argus is said to make $780,
600 year profit.
The taxable property Of New Jersey is valu-
cd at $603. 665, 497.
Wisconsin has a fourishing town known as
"Cream City"
At Detroit, church is held on Sunday at the
railway station.
New England establishments make about
200, 600 metallic cartridges daily
The usury laws are abolished in Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
The trials Of twenty thousand Communists
cost the French Government $2,917,S04
The Peruvian Government proposes to throw
open its mines to any one who will work them.
TIE people Of Cincinnati demand vote on
subscription to G. & O. Z. r.
7 Cholera is still raging in Russia and Austria,
and is spreading vest.
Sweden produces 303. $50 tons Of pig-iron
annually.
California Wooden blankets are the lates;
Importation for the land of gold.
Next year the United States will produce g..
| 900, 600 tons of iron.
The Shiloh Baptists, colored, numbers 236
churches and At ,597 members, in Va.
Seventy per cent Of the signal service wealth
| er prophecies came true last year.
Rumor says Andy johnson has chance to
be U. S. Senator for Tennessee.
President Garrett, of B & O. r. R., lost
$3.50, 600 by recent failures in Baltimore.
Col. Barbour is laying out a new town at
Arlington Depot on o. & A r. R.
A grand National Bank, capital 800, OO0,-
600, is the last scheme for swindling out.
The value Of real and personal property il
Washington CO., Va, is SIS 0lO, 92326
The new President Of Mexico has been quiet
ly installed and there ia peace there for once.
River, Canal and Lake navigation has per
nanenily closed North.
4 fne, fresh, green watermelon was On azhi-
bitioa in ScottsviIle last week.
& non-ezplos;ve lamp powder-1nill has been
started in Winchester.
.The residence Of Joseph Kennerly, of Clarke
CO., vas destroyed by fire on 10Th. Loss So. 600.
Baker Bros, are building a Steam Flour
Mil il Winchester, 30 cost $4,000.
The "A National cemeteries contain 3l7962
bodies of U. S. Soldiers, all fenced in but Is.
In November 4.l54 scholars we're on the
schooI rolls in Richmond, With aa average at
tendance OF so per cent.
Oat Of $2,275, 900 claimed for cotton destroy
ed By the u. s. during the var, $l,4lS, 900 have
been allowed.
Fifty furnaces now building viii increase the
iron producing power in the =. s.. 500 900 IONS
annually.
There are said to be couple Of active farm
laboraEs at Para, aged respectively 100 and l2l
years.
Z process for utilizing waste Goa! dust is be-
ing successfully worked in the Peansylv ania
mines.
The Richmond and Danville z. r. is in fine
condition, as reported at its last meeting on the
18th inst.
The Baltimore Sun 'compendiously aud ae-
curatcly describes Harpers Weekly, as the
Pictorial Polecat"
L,ar-keepers are having rough time il Iowa.
Another has just paid 50, soc to the widow Of
a. man he made drunk
The irrepTessible darkey casts shadow over
the brilliant preparations for Inauguration Ball,
ia Washington, ID. q.
The Grayson Ensign, to be edited, we sup
pose, By Dare Devil, is soon to be issued
in Independence, Grayson CO., Va
There is a row among the white workmen
over the introduction of cheap Chinese labor,
in Pittsburg, Pa.
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs stock
sold recently for 1920 per share at public auc-
tion.
Fl. G. Douthat, Sheriff of Botetonrt has re-
signed and Mr.. Rufus p. Kyle appointed in
his place,
The receipts Of Bait and O. r. r., for this
year were $l3. GA S72 .26, an increase of ST.
o57 1866 "a ever last year.
Eighty lives we're lost in the storm off Eng
land On l2.b, and great damage done in France
and rest of Europe.
Over 80 persons have Joined the Methodist
Church, EcGaheysville, Rockingham CO., dur
ing the recent revival there.
4 Bedford, Va, man mas invented machine,
which nlelts the snow from railroad tracks in
stantly. Let hin "Go West.
| GLr. Greeley attended church regularly, rain
OF shine, for Is years, yet, some there be, who
call him 'aa irreliglous man.
Eight persona, white and black, enjoyed the
festive whipping post and pillory IN Rev Jas
tie, Dslaware, for theft, last month.
Grant has sustained the negro PinohbaoS and
he Radicals in Louisiana against the Ia" and
| order party. and there is great distress there
In England, aanlteratiOn is prevented by re-
ouir;pg every article to be labeled eractiy sohat
# is. OF penalty Of fna and imprisonment, if
the label is pronounced fraud. By the public
chemical inspector
Tsis said that more rules have been passed
to govern the e5 members of the W. Va. Leg
islatuye than Moses required to govern the
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