Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-07-22
Stauntun Spettatur.
Tuesday, july 20, 1878.
THE LATEST NEWS,

THE LATEST NEWS.
There were nine fatal sun-strokes in ST. Louis
on 18th.
The Carlists have been repnlsed before the town
of Estella.
Weather in New York cold and rainy, with
wind from the east
The news from Fort Klamath is that all the
Modoc prisoners are secure.
A person figuring at Cape May as an English
lord has proved counterfeit and fed.
The imports of dry goods into New York for
the week ending on 18TH amounted to So, 236, 1853.
sIA fire in Natick on 18th destroyed Rice's block
involving loss of $22, coo; nearly covered by in
surance.
The contract for the bridge across the Shenan-
doah river for the Shenandoah Valley railroad
has been let.
The losses of the Brooklyn Trust Company
through the defalcation of its late president,
Mills, will exceed 100000.
The government is said to have commenced
suit to recover $780, 600 for alleged Irregularities
in connection with importations.
Senator J. F. Lewis writes to Mr.. j. B. Sener
that he will support ''any Republican that may
be nominated at Lynchburg,
Dr. Thomas Dudley first assistant physician
at the Eastern Luratic Asylum, has committed
suicide by taking thirty grains of morphine.
Deaths in n Y. for the week, 1876. The NOR
tality report shows an increase of deaths this
week of % per cent as compared with last week.
There is project under consideration to build
railroad to connect the Lehigh and Delaware
valleys and open a through route from Boston to
Philadelphia.
A Vienna special states that Hiram Garrettson,
of Cleveland, Ohio. has been appointed chief
American commissioner, in place of Jacks on
Schultz, resigned.
The lightweight prize fighters, Chambers and
Seddons, have agrerd to fight within hundred
miles of New York city for a purse of ST. 600
within fourteen days.
Arrangements are being made for holding at
Washington conference of the representatives
from all the South American republics to pro-
mote Cuban independence.
A San Francisco dispatch says that the recent
attack by Lieut. Babcock on Tonic Apaches has
produced a good effect. Two hundred savages
have surrendered at the reservation.
The value of the -four and wheat exports from
California to Atlantic and foreign ports for the
year ending June 30th is $19, 252, 900. The value
of the entire wheat crop last year was $25, OOO,-
600.
A San Francisco telegram says: A running
race at the Agricultural Park-single dash of one
and Observation-Disclosures Nell Flatherty Queen,
and Thornhill, was won by Nell Flatherty in
2:449
A Catholic daily paper is to be started soon in
New York. 100000 has been raised to start
with, and more will be forthcoming when neces-
sary It will be under the supervision of the
archbishop.
Troubles continue to thicken around Spain.
and the difficulties that threaten the existence of
the young Republic are daily becoming mere
portentous. The Carlists are undoubtedly gath
ering strength.
The Shenandoah Democrat says that though
Shenandoah was the banner county at the late
Presidential election, and was deeply grieved at
the result in Virginia, lit is not disafected and
never will be by defeat"
The Charlottesville Jeffersonian complains
much of the freight charges on the G. s. o. Rail-
road. It says :-"Goods are sent at less charges
from Cincinnati to Richmond than from the same
place to Staunton, 1876 miles less"
1t is stated that the personal accounts of e. S..
Mills, late president of the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany, who was drowned at Coney island, on 18th,
are overdrawn $500 600, and that he allowed the
loaning of over $500 900 of the funds of that in
stitution upon securities.
Private dispatches from Vienna dated the 18th
state that up to that time there had been sixty
one cases of cholera reported, forty of which had
proved fatal. In single hotel there were forty
two persons attacked with symptoms of cholera
haH cd Tho hot al hoe III
A special agent of the Treasury Department,
n. Y, made raid on 10Th, on a number of i'm
porters offoreign watches and seized large num-
Der bearing American trademarks. The forging
of American trademarks on foreign watches was
made penal offence by law of the last Congress.
The centennial celebration of the First Metho-
dist Annual Conference in this country, which
took place in Philadelphia On 18th, showed that
Methodism had made strides during the past
hundred years. The report submitted indicated
that the additions to the church had been more
numerous than those Of any other religious de-
nomination during that period.
The suspension Of the BROOKLYN Trust Com
pany on 10Th, surprised Wall street and depress-
ed the Stock Exchange. d. Chauncey is appoint
ed receiver Depositor may be paid in full. Re-
ported assets $500 0O0 surplus, $lO0 600; deposits
So 100000. Mills, late president on the discovery
some time since of default on his part of $146-
900, suicided. He eftassets of the nominal value
of $15OOOO
There were, on the 10Th, 2 death from cholera
in Cincinnati IA in st. Louis, in Columbus and
6 in Carthage. 1t has almost depopulated Evans
vile. Banks and business houses are closed
Everybody in the place had cholera symptoms
and some large families have only two left. No
cause is assigned. The city is clean and occupies
one of the highest points between Evansville and
Cairo.
The coiner ofthe mint at Philadelphia, Colonel
Snowden, delivered on Wednesday to the super
intendent for issue $40 600 of the new trade dol
lar. This is the first delivery in bulk of this new
commercial coin. Its executi on will be carried
on simultaneously at the minis in Philadelphia,
San Francisco and Carson City. four set of the
dies having been sent to the latter place, and six
sets to San Francisco.
The Erie railroad company are making survey
from Port Jervs to New York for trunk line
By tunneling the Shawamunk mountains they
can shorten the route to New York twenty EIGHT
miles, making it sixty instead of lightweight
miles as by the present route. It will lessen the
time between this place and New York one hour
and fifteen minutes. 1t is proposed to use the new
route for freight and passengers retaining the
old line for way-passengers, coal, &c.
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