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

Destructive fire at Enfield, North Carolina.
There is no resuscitation for a dead opportu-
nifty.
The Pope is better, but still confined to his
bed
Baltimore now operates one thousand steam
boilers.
Texas contains over eight hundred Sunday
schools.
Ex-Gov. A. B. Moore, of Alabama, is dead,
aged IS.
The N. Y. Gas men struck on 5th, and riot
is expected.
Mad dogs have already put in an appearance
in Baltimore.
Destructive fires in Walhalla and WindsbOro
s. O., on 5th
Full dress for an Apache bride is an oyster
shell necklace.
Col. Tom Scott, is said to control $77O, 00O,-
oOOsworth Of railway.
Ex-Congressman Porter has gone into the
saw-mill business.
The Rocky Mountain Turkey sings by night
and hides by day.
Germany published 5,4s3 books during the
latter half of 1872
Sassafras tea is becoming fashionable bev-
erage in Pittsburg.
Trained skirts for the streets have gone en-
tlrely out offashion.
Bull-frog hams deck the sho w-windows of
Chicago restaurants.
Tennessee girls adorn their hair with dahlias
bespaugled with dew.
Billings says "All snakes travel on the under
side of themselves"
An Illinois schoolmistress lately died, leaving
fortune Of $4,000.
The Conservatives of Richmond arc crgani-
zing, and 80 should We.
Philadelphia Public Begsars form small
army Of 1000 persons.
Georgia releases stray pigs from ponds on
Writs of hahess corpus.
The nobest question in the world is, "What
good may do in it2''
The oldest record now in the archives of N.
c., dates back to 1894.
The California working people have $5l, OoO,.
900 in the savings banks.
--latest reports say 500 passengers on Atlantic
were killed IN 10 minutes.
Fans Of elephantine dimensions will be car
ried by our bellies this spring.
The negro exodus from Georgia is beginning
to produce scarcity Of labor
Capt. Jack and his Modocs still refuse terms
and dare the troops to fight.
A girl 10 Utica, N. Y, fourteen years Of age
is the mother Of two children.
R.W. Coleman killed John Newell, his broth
er in-law, in Memphis, on 5th.
Amber, as a choice article of jewelry, well
retain its ancient popularity.
Embroidery will be the rage for spring and
summer promenade costumes.
The woods were on Ere, near Soottsvlle, last
week. Much fencing destroyed.
There have been manufactured in the United
States $500, 900 sewing machine.
Richmond has one policeman and half to
every ooe thousand of her people.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has appropri-
ated 81 100000 to Centennial Fuod.
1t is stated that there are over three thou
sand building associations in Baltimore.
The bark Lark, from San Diego for Eosinedas.
has been wrecked, and all her crew lost.
During the month of March 1859 persons
lodged in the Baltimore station houses
The New York Legislature has reported In
favor OF woman suffrage on property basis.
Gov. Smith, of Ca, has called convention
OF Southern Governors for the 10th of May.
The Colored Radicals of New Orleans threat
en- to secede FROM the party, if not granted
moro Offices.
The area of the coal fields in Illinois is said
to be four times larger than that Of Great Bri-
tain.
L. L. Armistead & Co., Tobacco Manufac.
turers, Lynchhurg, have failed. Liabilities &c.
o00-assets $4,000.
Capt. Henry B. Bixler, of the Sth Va. Regi-
ment, died, near Drapesvile, Fairfax county, a
few days ago.
The English fashion of wearing CATERS is
gaining footing among some young gentle
men.
In China wives are legal tender for debts
and bankrupts, as rule. do not conceal their
effects.
1t is a matter Of common occurrence for an
uncle to marry ais niece, nor does public opin-
ION froWn upon il, in Germany.
Eggs are leaving southwestern Virginia for
the North at the rate one huQdred barrels
day.
The workingmen of the United States have
on deposit 100000. 900 in the savings banks
OF the country.
1t is said that a son Of Brigham Young ia
going to marry newly established female Sem.
mary.
The increase of population in Great Britain
In the last ten years, exceeds 100000
Two historians of Virginia, Chas Campbell
and Robert Il. Howison, are insane.
There is now Democrat 90 the Supreme
Bench of Massachusetts, for the first time in
nine years.
An Irish lecturer Of note solemny said one
evening: Parents, you may have children. or
hyoa have not, your daughters may have
Friends of Dr.. Livingstone in London, ex-
pect that be will certainly be at home by this
time next year.
DR.: Carr, Of California, says that every dol.
lar OF gold mined in California costs from dol.
lar to dollar and a half WV
Iowa has discovered another natural .o,, A.
posit which it is proposed to use wholly for e es
portation.