Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-13
News Items.

Onlo mas new jury lawi emitting W0ro
"white'
The Pope has suffered relapse, and is again
confined to his bed.
The Arkansas Insurance Company, of Little
Rock, has suspended.
There were forty-eight deaths in Lynchburg
during the month of April.
Expert women in Jacksonville, Fla, get SIS
week for braiding palmetto.
The ship; joiners OF the New York city are a.
bout to strike for higher wages.
-Four persons were killed in Chicago, on 9Th,
by the explosion of lard tank.
Five car loads of infantry passed St. Louis
On 7th en- route for the lava beds.
All quiet at the Lava Beds. Not shot has
been fired since the 26th of April.
The widow of the late Major General John
E. Wool died on.7th, aged Sc years.
The entire business portion of Paris, Tenn,
was burned on 9th. Loss 100000
Farrell, the man accused OF starving sixteen
horses in Brooklyn, is to be arrested.
The dry goods firm of Fowler & Siocum, New
York, failed on 7th. Liabilities 100000.
Fielding Lucas, native OF Fredericksburg,
Va, died in Charlotte, n G., last week.
A number of recruits and volunteers lett New
York on 4th for the scene of the Modoc war.
A fire at Como, Miss, destroyed several
stores. Loss $35 900; covered by insurance.
The ladies of Ironton, Mo-, have united to
discourage the practice of smoking 10 church
Stokes has been denied new trial, by the
Superior Court of New Y ork and will be hung.
The annual Council of the Episcopal Church
Of Virginia meets in Winchester On the 20h.
A local prohibition bill, not excepting older
or lager beer, has passed the Senate Of New
York.
Hoo. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the
United States, died on 7th instant OF para
lysis.
Official advices from St. Petersburg state that
the Russian demands in khva have been &C
ceded to.
The strike of the coopers in New York has
ended by the concession OF some OF the largest
factories.
Admiral Regault de Genonelly is dead He
was Minister of Marine and Colonies under
Louis Napoleon.
The Associated Press Of The City Of Mexico
proposes to establish 40 asylum Tor aged aud in
digent Journalists
Hon. James L. Orr, of South Carolina, Uni
ted States Minister to Russia, died suddenly on
9th at St. Petersburg
Forty bodies In all have been recovered from
the wreck of the bridge at Dixon, LII. Others
are still in the water.
The eighty fourth anniversary of the Rich
mtnd Light Infantry Blues occurred On Satur
day, the lUgn instant.
The steamship Atlantic has been completely
blown up. Fourteen bodies were recovered
Few valuables were found.
Newcastle, in Craig Co., is becoming quite
handsome little city, with paved streets and 9TH
er modern Improvements.
The trial trip of the steamer sylvania,
the pioneer ship Of The Philadelphia and Eu-
ropean line, was successful.
Col. J. 81. Chafin, the celebrated Virginia
dwarf, died the 23rd day Of April, in his 4Sth
year, at his home in Bedford Go.
The building of five fine and costly stores on
the site of the Spotswood Hotel, Richmond,
will be commeucad on the list OF June.
Under ths superstition Of Voudouism negro
woman at Hampstead, Long Island, is charged
with numbering three iliegitimate children.
The ship Tennyson, OF Ncwburyport, from
Calcutta for Boston, is reported foundered at
sea- The total loss by the disaster is about
$435, 600.
The twenty fourth annual meeting of the
American Medical Association was held In ST.
Louis on 9th Some $50 delegates were in at
tendance.
The Charlottesville Grape Company recently
sent a specimen OF dinner wine to Baltimore,
and have received an order for 400 gallons from
dealer in that city.
More serious troubles are reported 10 Louisi-
ana Fighting has occurred between Kellogg s
force and body of tax-reslsters, near st Mar
tinsvilIe, and the former were worsted
The bronze equestrian statue of Stonewal
jackson. designed and cast by Frederick Volck,
of Munich, will be erected at the Virginia Mill
tary Institute. 1t is now in Nuremberg, Ger
many.