Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-06
ALL SORTS.


They've captured one Indian, two squsws and
Niger"
ALL SORTS.
Il is better to be enyied than to be pitied.
Further outrag2s apd murders by Indians are
reported.
New York will send twenty journalists to the
exposition.
Postal cards will be splendid to dun delinquent
debtors with.
There is quite an excitement in Grayson Co.,
now about silver.
About 800 hands are employed in the Ports
mouth navy yard.
Many cattle are dying in Pittsylvania of a
mysterious disease.
Savannah, Ca, is proud of the first coup de
soleil of the season.
Illinois proposes public castigation as pen
atty for wiie-beating
The next worst thing to raining pitch forks
-Hailing omnibusses.
A pannier-A "waist basket for back num-
beers of old newspapers.
The St. Louis Republican reports one Nor
mon church in Florida.
They are smotheriDg strawberries to death in
cream in San Francisco,
a Spanish veil pinned to the sconce by a
flaming red rose is the style.
The best farmer is certain to see "a new
earth" for he will pillow deep.
A new gas company has been founded in Nor
folk, and $25, 600 subscribed.
The horse disease has finally reached the In
dian ponies Of British America.
DR.. ]. M. Smith has been chosen Mayor OF
Martinsyille, the county seat of Henry.
Kansas ethnologists are discussing whether
the Ka9 Indians are related to the Crow tribe.
Gen. JEFF. G.. Davis has gone to the Lava
Beds All the Indians in Oregon are reported
suien and insolent.
Three gentlemen from Ohio are prospecting
the country around Danville, with the view OF
buying farms.
Among the vestrymen ofSt Lazarus church.
Memphis, elected. were Jefferson Davis and
Gideon j. Pillow.
A dispatch from Fort Scott, Arkansas, says
that town il 10 flames, and the destruction of
the business part Of the city seems inevitable.
A CO operative company has been organized
in Springfield, Vt, for the manufacture of dolls,
which it is hoped to convert into dollars
The announcement that truth is stranger
than fiction" is said 10 depend chiefly upon who
tells it.
Mrs. Jones says her husband is three-hand-
ed man-right hand. left hand and little be-
hind hand.
Greek is getting unpopular in Harvard Col
leee and the movement to substitute German
is gsirlng ground
The priDters Of the country press in North
Alabama, have resolved not TO work for papers
using patent outsides.
A woman 10 New York, crazed by sickness,
and religious excitement, strapgled aod roasted
two OF her children.
Sixteen valuable horses were allowed to starve
to death in their stables, in New York, while
the owner was away and sick.
It is suggested that The Modocs be consigned
to Cakes AInes, that be may put them where
they will do most coed.
The Galveston Netos believes that city to be
the first 10 the South which has adopted oumu
lative voting,
A taiiess calf was born ia Warren county, In
diana, last wesk which is enjoying life ncw--but
wait until ay time.
Maine farmers anticipate large hay crop
this season, as the result of the great fall of
snow.
The friends of Nixon, sentenced to be hung
in New York, have given him complimentary
ball.
An Ingenious individual, with a turn for
mathematics, has found that there is one pig
to every one and four- tenths men in the United
States
Sunday schools have been running 10 Indiana
polls for fifty years, and yet eight out of ten of
the male citizens wink when they cell for soda
water. 4
Indiana iEabibers are annoyed by the predic-
tion that it will take two years to get decision
from the Supreme court On the new temperance
law of the State.
The Graphic says that the American citizen
has passion for travelling dead-head. Not
hopeless passion Losses by railway accidents
last week, ffty-three lives. !.
The friends of temperance in England are
going to start comic illustrated paper, intend
ing to ridicule topers and their weakness, and
sc laugh them oct Of the vice.
IL So"'n AiLtc3 the OEOutu is very severe,
and sheep are dying by hundreds and thou
sands; One farmer lost 500 sheep, and his
neighbors count their losses by hundreds.
The Wing says: In the miller will case, we
are Informed BY one we'll advised as to the facts,
that upwards of one hundred thousands dollars
ofthefrnds OF the estate have already been dis
tnbuted among the lawyers.
The Republican thinks it strange that an old
woman OF Ohio should have requested to be
buried With her spectacles. The desire to see
through futuuty is very common one.
A Phoebe man asked noble red man 70 t,,rn
q grindstone for hiul The Piute replied: aNo:
Injun DO tikee work. y We'll" said the other
81 can get white man. - 'Ugh!" grunted The
gentle savage, 1twhitee man iikum work, um