Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-04-01

III tno zap VI OprlnS nOSI OisSustuS'y iaS
week. That grounding was fooling around
agains...The Parish Register has been found. :.
At and since Feb. term A deeds, &C., recorded
in county clerks The picture gift man
under the Va hotel, folding his traps and about
$1,000 stole quietly away last week -.....Since
the Coltegian's .hoax'' the Natural Bridge il
called "Pons Assinorum". 49,. When you see an
affected school miss smack her hand on heI
cheek, you may bet she vainly imagines she has
said striking thing. The population of Cos
pei Hill is increasing. and many new buildings
will 60 up this Spring ...-... Last Spectator con
tanned 339 different articles and items-I99 10
cals'' ........The 'Catamount' jumped last Thurs
day morning and ragged around fearfully all day
..... Brooks is alarmed over the rumor that all
the good looking poor boys, in city, are to have
a white patch sewed on the rear of their pants,
so the girls will know whom to avoid.....A new
style of church pew is needed, for people who
are too proud to kneel down, and are too lazy tc
stand up..........T There was robin snow last
"Wednesday night, butt left by noon Thursday
There is rumor that Hon. John T. Harris has
given his increased pay to Confederate widows
and orphans in his district and the Memorial
Association here are thinking about $lOOO.......
The s.droop back" or the fruitless attempt al
young ladies, not out of short dresses, to make
| them trail the pavements is the latest failure
noted ..... lot of hogs from Ohio passed tc
Rockingham last week ....... That dead fall, near
American hotel stables, at the BRIDGE should be
fixed. A gentleman hurt himself seriously there
last week.. ION tails to sermons on outside
isn't the worst tale you ever read Only II
'Greenvillians" registered at the Retreat last
week, though j. 81. Campbell says several miss
ed the way and found another kind of treat in
the same block. $780, 1.-THE Ark or "Buzzard
Roost,' terrible haunt Of unclean black birds,
in old Bell Tavern, was cleaned out and its mis-
celaneous population scattered last week. Mr.
Burke is renovating and repairing it for resi-
dence and lodging house The perfume cir
culated over the city by Mays old lanyard, is
not like unto that of "Araby, the blest''
Large numbers of hands still daily pass to the
Western end OF =. q o. and to Valley Z. R..
Alexandria bellies don't "friz" their hair blu,
Staunton ones do, enough for both cti Pa
wing Will soon commence and some will plant
| shade trees. "... dyspeptic Harrisonburg edl-
tor ate two square meals for supper here last
week and then cried for more 49,. A cigar that
had a small copper cartridge made up in it, exc
ploded while being smoked by John Mallon last
week." w. j. Mitchelps hen laid an egg in
ches long and in circumference last week..
The lively fly begins to flutter, and the gentle
mosquito will soon ''rise to explain why the
might mare cometh after hearty suppers and
the troubled spirit knows no rest If the fool
killer has eye to business he won't fail to Sc
cure an average crop to-day.
A FINE HoRsE.-Mr John a. Snapp, of this
county has purchased very fine blooded stall
lion-"Patrick Henry, Jr." He is fine trot-
inc nd sod 10 I, -; Oh
embraces many of the fastest and best horses in
the United States Patrick Henry, Jr., will be
at the Va. hotel stables the first three days of
each week, and at Mr.. Snaps stable, near ia
cob Baylor's, the last three days of the week.
This horse is from Maryland and is beautiful
animal
VARIoLoID AT W. L. A.-Yesterday DIR. F.
I. Stribling called upon US to state that the mild
case of varioloid, Ia negro who had been to Bal
timore, and was removed from the Asylum be
fore the disease developed) was convalescent and
that there was no danger of it spreading. There
has been no excitement in our city and no cas-
of that disease, and the country people came to
court last week and still come as usual. We
congratulate people on its disappearance,
and none need be alarmed.
OUR CRY ScHooLs.-As the County Superin-
tendents notice to school teachers has created
some alarm, we are pleased to state that our City
free schools will not be effected thereby. and the
Trustees are determined To keep them up as usu-
al. Measures are on foot to greatly promote their
efficiency.
The CIRCUIT CoURT-Judge McLaug him pre-
siding, opened yesterday The American Hotel
case was up and argument commenced and will
be continued to-day. The case of McCues VS..
Zirkle and others, and of CARRIER ys. Hoy and
others, were up and argued in part. The special
term will probably continue ten or twelve days.
Messrs. Trout 81 Young, com rs-J. j. Larew,
auctioneer-sold the Morris Austin farm on last
Friday, to Mr.. ]. 4. McComb (late of Illlnois)
for $le.42 per acre. I'll ere were large number
of land buyers present. This farm has been in
the possession of the Austin family for nearly 100
years.
SUDDEN DEATH.-"Bob'' Taylor, the bright
little colored boy, so often around the Court
house, aged IL, was found on the street in spasms
last Friday night, and died of congestion of the
brain, produced by the violence of the attack, on
Saturday night.
To THE LONE STAR.-George W. Shields and
Frank Wilson, from the neighborhood of Green
ville started yesterday morning for Texas. We
wish them safe journey and hope to see them
back in old Virginia soon.
The Philadelphia heirs of Levi Hollinsworth
(not "Holligshead'') are engaged in the re-sur-
vey of two OF more large tracks of land west OF
US.
Several new specimens of photographic stone
have been left at our office and general interest
ia manifested in finding the article hereabouts.
The grass begins to look igreen. and the trees
begin to bud, and the young ladies ''gusb," as
April steps in with Spring,
The young ladies of Trinity will hold a Fair
Easter to raise funds to enlarge or rebuild Trim
ity Sunday School chapel
Major j. W. Newton broke his wooden leg,
by fall, last week, but Jim Campbell soon
geared it up.
Staunton is pronounced, by travellers the
most quiet and orderly city of its size in the
United States.
Quite number of Pennsy lvanians Ohioans,
West Virginians and strangers from all sections,
registered at our Hotels last week.
Major McCue has left at our office hens egg,
which measures Il by 81 inches in circumference,
and weighs 81 ounces.