Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-01-21
The Sioux and Pawnees are at war.

Ci' Cialr county, LII.
The East India cotton crop is one-ffth larger
this year than last.
The gold crop of Virginia last year exceeded
million dollars.
Judge Charles G. Lane, of Hagerstowp, Md,
committed suicide.
A party young men recently travelled $40
miles on skates on the Mississippi River.
Two lashes is the penalty for every pound of
turkey stolen in Georgia.
| When Brigham Young dies, 81 widows will
mourn his loss.
For nearly two months snow fell every day
at Portage Lake, Michigan.
American woodworking machinery is award
ed first premiums in Europe.
A colored woman near Earysville, Albemarle,
produced three boys at one birth last week.
Rev. VIM. Hobart Hare has been made Epis-
copal Bishop to the Indians.
Adam Link, of Union, Jefferson co., aged
| IS, died on 4th
The Cbarlestown w. Va, people are agita-
ting the liquor question.
Beecher's pews rented for $50, 23O. so for this
year.
The old County Court system has gone into
operation 10 W. Va, and everybody rejoices.
1t is now said that Napoleon died from the
chloroform given him to relieve pain.
Reeves S. Scruggs, of Bedford, died there re-
Gently.
The Strasburg brass band recently delight
ed the Moore6eld people, with a visit.
The agitation over the Capital question has
ceased in West Va.
The preliminary survey of the Texas Pacific
Railroad is progressing satisfactorily.
Santa Anna, the Mexican hero, has gone te
Vera Cruz He is nearly rs years of age.
Only one person in sixty-one is comfortable
in England. Comfortable means 5000 year
The confession of Mrs. Sherman, of Connec
ticut admits the poisoning of eight persons.
A bill calling Constitutional Convention il
May has been passed By the Ohio Legislature
A fuel famine is apprehended in portions Of
the Northwest
Mrs Charles Sumner lives 10 Venice, it is
said, because Charles bored her to death, read
ing over his speeches to her.
In his annual message, the Governor of II
liuois says that State is substantially free from
debt
A hundred and seventy-six negroes started
from Atlanta, Ca, on the 1st inst, to settle ir
Arkansas.
Wm. johnson, aged Is, was killed by fall
log tree, near Kerneysvile, Jefferson CO.. or
9th.
The printers everywhere are literally re-
spending to the appeal for Type Metal Statue
to Horace Greeley.
Texan papers say that the establishment Of
cotton factories in that State is getting to bs
general thing.
Over 1900 buildings were erected in St
Louis last year, and 'Gse-proof' is claimed
tor none of them.
The widow Of President Tyler is about to sci
her property ca Staten Island, to repurchase
the Tyler estate il Virginia.
Eighty counties 10 Texas are circulating peti
| tons Tor slgners, to memorlallZe the Leglsla
| ture for liquor law similar to that of Ohio.
DR.. McCcsh says that there are 10000 Pres
byterian congregations in the world embracing
population of 81. 900 600.
Il requires $3S 600 worth Of twine per an
mum to tie up the dead letters which the Post
Office Department fails to deliver
The President is said to have recognized the
Pinchback government, in Louisiana, in order
to bring the muddle before the courts.
The Countless of Skenns, Swedish lady
will lead in person an expedition in search Of
DR.. Livingstone.
The Vienna exhibition will commence on the
lst OF May aud close on the lst Of November
1873
There are l03 convicts in the penitentiary al
MoundsviIle, ia W. Va. 90 men and wo
men.
Dispatches from the west Of Chicago report
2 thaw with a drizzling rain. Many persons
have been frozen to death.
Mr.. J. Seldom Harvie has been elected Farm
Manager Of the State Agricultural and Meohan-
zeal College at Backsburg.
A Leipzig bookseller calculates that 36l, 0O0,-
900 copies Of Luther's translation Of the Bible
have been printed from the beginning to the
present.
| Henry Crawford, Easter Crawford his wife,
and Thomas Stone, brother Of Mrs. Crawford,
were drowned at Owens ferry, on New River,
on 18th inst.
Mr. Garland, living in Greenbrier county, re
Gently killed four bears in one days hunt; and
in Pocahontas county, another man killed three
more.
The West Point Cadet corps is to be at
Grants inauguration. We wcud like cur V. M.
l. boys to be there too, and show them what S
what.
The banks are again after the 800, 900 gold
taken by the Yankees from Jefferson Davis
train 10 1865, and there is some chance Of get
ting it now.
The French Government will permit the final
interment Of Napoleon's remains in France ii
the funeral is made strictly private, and deceas-
ed is buried as ez- Emperor, not as Emperor.
Hon. Wyndham Robertson writes long let
ter to the Lynchburg Virginia, indicating his
preference for Hon. John Letcher, as Conserva-
tive candidate for Governor of Virginia.
i he old liberty bell is removed from INDIE
pendenca Hall to the vestibule, where it is
to stand in future. As an experiment, the clap
per was attached and thirteen strokes given to
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