Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-01-07
NUMBER IA.
All Sorts.

I1
Scotland.
Germany has less murders than any other
country.
| The Tennessee press wants all usury laws
abolished.
"Camp-lneetiDg John Allen" has attended
234 of EN-.
A floating hotel is being built on the ALE
ghany river.
Tharo are / 377 .OO0 900 Of US on this ter
restrial globe.
Dying buffalo skins cover acres ofground at
| Wichita Kan.
The Texas ladies are getting fund: for Ma
gEuder moncmon!.
The hog crop of Iowa is 1925 10, against
I.O08, ,67l last year
The income Of Virginia from convict hire
last year was $3l, coo
New York and PHILADELPHIA have begun their
inter urban cook-fghts
The aichborne claiInao. has had to pay out
$500, 600 costs already.
The dopositioDs in Marshal Bazaina'a trial
numbsr 8 900 documents
Hsus Christian Anderson is almost through
stoiy TIitLES Ii tnIS WOTlu.
Knoxville invested $4,000 il the Louisville
lottery, and drew back $75.
Cora is used for fuel in Ohio, aad is cheaper
aud better ,haa wood or coal.
Ihurlow Weed dlaws pension because he
blew = file iD the war of 1919
Two wives we're killed by their drunken hus-
band IN indianapolis, Saturday
la the city Of Landou. there are III Catholic
Churches AID chapels and 2l4 priests.
La Crosse, Wis, will build $l00 600 hotel.
Hen dcilaTs OF the stock has been paid.
4 pyeoocious eight-ycaT old sigl Intentionally
shot herself IN Savannah the other day.
General John 4. DIX vas inanguraied Gov
ernor Of New York, at Albany, Jau Iat.
An English paper attributes s5rao Of the hor-
ribe murders here to political excitement
Ar 81 900 broozs group is placed over the
grave OF fortunate infant at Carlisle, Pc.
4 Philadelphia telegram announces the burn-
ing Of the Standard Carpet Mils-ioss $4,000.
The loss By disasters on the great lakes and
st. Lawrence the past seasou has been s., $685.
GOO.
At Portland, Me-, three blocks Of buildings
have been burned-loss thrae-eigd,hs OF a mil
lion.
St. Louis consumes each year ever | ,000, 900
bushels of barley in the manufacture OF lager
beer.
Ooe oi the hest plantations in Sorth Caro-
liza, containing 1000 acres, was sold 70: 81 900
recaaly
The value Of tue estate Of the late Dir. For
th. ~ Nnu- Vo-t.
$1,000. GOO.
Ebeuezeg Chi!ds, Of Pennington, Me-, was
wounded by bayones in 1914, and has since
drawn SIS $50 in pension money.
John Shoule, Wisconsin German, in au at
tempt at suicide, cut himself into fifty pieces,
but they will all get well again.
The Iron Market owiog to the holidays and
the severe weather, has been excessively quiet
ia all kinds cf;roa. Quotasious remain unchang-
ed.
The meanest mar has been found at last Ee
lives il Ostswa. and cat to pieces nine shirts
ieft bus to 6ry by poor Washerwoman Who had
offended him
Four girls il Augusta, Me-, we're parrisd a.
bout eig hteou months ago, at the same hour.
Two have since separated from their husbands,
and the other two want divorces.
Roland" the charger on which the Earl Of
Cardigan leo the charge Of the Light Brigade,
Noble Six Hundred" has just died, as the
age Of 30-fons years after his master.
AWestetn paper wants q real printers m3n-
un.ent to Horace Greeley, to be cast from worr-
ont type, TO which newspaper Offices from all
over the country Can contribute, and be mount
ed On granite base.
Diplomatic realafio0s have been broken off
between the Smiss Government and the Vati-
can. aud the Papal legation a. L1osrne will
probably be abolished, the Charge d d'Afaires
and attaches having been recalled.
Nine thousand Khivese are besieging the
Russian forts Ga the Enba River, anothsr forcs
If 2 600 men is dopredating o0 tae Russian
fisheries al the mouth of the sane river. The
British Ambassador at St. Petersburg has ir-
formed Prince G0rtsohakoif tina: Eugand will
not Interfere with Russia's progress 10 Csntrsl
Asia SO iong SIS II does not threaten A9silanistan.
On THE RUN-The Lexington Gazeae goes
Tor our city, thus!y 'S5aunt9n is willy and
energetic Il moves heaven and earth in its
behalf Il got the r. Z. workshops and ia
Dragging Of the biggest Revival ever held 10 the
State. 1t plaTed il On Us in the Valley Rsil-
road and is now trying 10 euchre ajusi claimant
cut CT his dues, with signs OF success, as the
last bulletin announces the Old Boy On the
run
4 DAY oF DISASTERS. Tuesday, December
"a terribly cold from the Atlantic to bevoud
the Mississppi-opeaeda and closed in New York
with conaagratlons, the measure on whose joint
destruction IS hard on a million dollars. The
Ohio. long damned up with ice, broke through
its barrier and sent the fragments rolling along
the food and making havoc among the vessels.
Sadder than any destruction Of property was
the perishing of three men in the wreck of
freight train in Indiana and this disaster a.
gain seems almost trifle in comparison with
| the horEid scene of the afternoon on the Buff
falo, Cory and Plttsbarg railroad, where, be-
sides the wounding CT thirty five persons, nine
teen cOrpses, may of them burnt beyond reco-
gnition, were taken from the charred ruins ofa
| train which broken rail had thrown iat0
stream at the bottom Of gorge. 1t Is rare
that one day is so heavy burdened with disast-
ers, and they continued during the week.
| WHERE ARE THEY.-Where is the railway
passenger vi ho, when he leages the train, is SO
| ;1ncomJnonly polite as to shut the door after
him 2?
Where is the public orator who can ever keep
his promise 10 ''say few words only"
Where is the builder who never lets his bill
exceed his given estimate?
Where are shey born, the people who say
cowcumber, hospitsble, nayther, and advertise
| meOt!
| Where is the organ-isnd who will move off
from your door without your fetching police