Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-04-15

the public debt, also the embezzlement bill and
an act known as the warehouse bill. they have
failed to become laws.
The railroad war RACES out West. The mob
amuse themselves by throwing stones at the
passing trains.
Young married ladies wear neat little lace
cap, tied with gay-colored ribbon.
In imitation of the gentlemen, certain ladies'
are wearing colored linen collars and cuffs.
Nearly So 600 900 has already been subscrib-
ed in Philadelph ia for the centennial ceIebra-
ton.
The Potomsc fisheries will be failure this
season, and that the catch of fish is annually
decreasing.
Mr.. A. j. Stoffer, editor of the Culpeper OBJ
server, was recently spilled out of sulky and
badly bruised.
The J. R. & K. Canal scheme is to be push
ed in the West this Summer, with every pro-
spect of success.
A special edict orders religious federation
throughout Japan, and Christians rejoice ex-
ceedingly over the fact.
The Council of Atlanta, Ca, has passed an
ordinance eZempting cotton, wooden, and iron
factories from taxation for fifteen years.
The award of $26S, 200 to the Farragut feet
for forcing the fleets way to New Orleans is
confirmed. The Government resisted the claim
The Vienna exhibition will cost nearly So
100000 To make it pay it will be necessary
10000, 900 Of visitors to patronizs the exhibi-
ton.
The Liberty Ne,Us states that full corps of
engineers are now engaged in making the sur
vey Of the Rocky Mount and Liberty Narrow
Guage railroad.
Miss Faithful is panied to see that many
American girls protesting to be highly educa-
ted are merely dipped into weak solution Of
accomplishments
Said very old man some folks are ALWAYS
complaining about the weather, but l am always
| thankful when wake up in the morning and
find weather at all. "
The New Orleans R;cayune reports the con-
diton of the crops in that section to be UNUSUAL
" processing: Peaches and figs give promise of
being very abundant.
The Emperor Of Brazil rules ten million souls.
two millions being slaves and quarter of a
million Indians, scattered over territory fifteen
times the SIZE OF france.
The poodle" and banged styles of front
| hair have gone out The modish arrangement
is the old way of it in the middle, and wearing
it smooth over the forehead.
The Cambridge Boat crew won the annual
race at London, March 29th. The Oxford
crew rowed from 80 to 40 strokes per minute.
and the Cambridge 80 to AZ.
In the new game of Modoc, SO popular or
the Pacific slope. the principal trick is to catch
the Jack. The United States troops do not ap-
| pear to have mastered the art.
| A Danbury family has disbanded. The cause
Of the trouble was simply that the woman had
not much of anything to burn but barrel hoops,
and had to break them herself
An English cotton dyer and printer claims tc
have made the discovery, that apple juice
the valuable property of perfectly fixing The
colors Of printed cotton fabrics.
Silence 10 the court. there Numbered 9
| police magistrate the other morning: the Court
has already committed four prisoners withou,
being able to hear word of testimony"
Next to the boyish delight of surreptitiously
sucking the mouth of a moasses jug, says q
! pbllosophlc correspondent, is the pleasure OF
breaking an engagement with the dentist.
The Virginia Conference, African Methodist
| Episcopal Church, will meet in the North.
| Street church, Portsmouth, April 9th Bisbor
j. P. Campbell, D. d., LII. d., will preside.
The office of dog killer pays better than apv
other office 10 St. Louis. Last year the dog
killer soutfed out the light of 5000 CANNES,
| and pocketed thereof the snug competence OF
$24 900.
The 4Inaerican Journal of Pharmacy saws
| that $50, 600 infants are killed every year BY
| the opium contained in the various kinds Of
soothing syrups which they are allowed, or rath-
| er forced, to drink.
A shrewd cat in Vicksburg, Miss, has been
| occupied in sitting upon nest of hens eggs.
At last accounts she had succeeded in getting
three chickens safely from the shell and has
| hopes of a large brood.
Captain j. Il. Rives has appointed Mr..
Lewis i. Custer, of Roanoke, a deputy colDec.
tor the Fifth district, with headquarters at Big
Lick Mr Clusters territory embraces Roam
oke, franklin. Patrick and Henry.
A Chicago murderer blesses the good quality
of the whiskey of that city. The two police
men who had him in charge stopped to test it,
aud he quietly walked away, and has not vet
sent his card to police headquarters.
Mrs. Michael Regan, of Albany, is paying
particular attention to the scriptural command,
BE ye faithful and multiply" First she null.
tiplied one by two, next by three, and on the
7th inst, by tonr-nine babes in two years!
One Of the most eventful epochs in BOYS
history is when he first addresses his father as
the 'old man." 1t is patriarchal term, and
if the boy is rightly treated afterward by the
family physician he lives great many years to
enjoy it.
An inventor has attached to pair of BARRIERS
shears an elastic hollow ball. which is compress
Ell by the operation of cutting, and a current
of air, forced out from the hall, is directed along
the edges Of the blades, and blows away the
fragments Of hair as fast as they are cut.
The sharpest so far this month is the TROY
girl, who makes her unsuspectipg father the
daily bearer of sweet missives to a clerk in his
Office who has been forbidden to visit his en-
ployer's house. She pins the letter in the old
man cloak. and when he reaches the office and
throwns off the garment the clerk gets it and
responds by the same carrier.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
~ We, the undersigned, having entered into
an srrangem ent, are ready, at all times, to exc
cute with neatness and despatch