Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-04-22
News Items

A heavy snow between Omaha and CHEYENNE.
interrupts the telegraph
Ayoupg pigeon with four legs is on exhibition
in Charlotte. N c.
Over one hundred Valley horses have been
sold in Warren CO.. N. c., since Christmas
The President and family have gone to ST.
Louis for three weeks.
Gov. Walker has returned to Richmond.
from visit North, looking we'll
A high military officer saws that il will take
three weeks to finish the Modocs.
The Trunk lines TO the West have adopted
tariff. averaging reduction Of 10 per cent. on
freights
The Democrats elected their Mayor. ia Tren-
ton. New Jersey, Monday, aud have the Coun-
Gil by Ii TO s
The Supreme Court confirms the decision of
the Supreme Court Of Illinois that women are
Ineligible to that bar.
-Four negroes were recently lyuched and
burned IN Arkansas for the cruel rape and
murder of lady.
After the murder of Gen. Candy. the Modocs
attacked the picket line, but were repulsed.-
Ooe Modoc was killed
The farmers OF the West era organizing new
party. 1t is to be called the Democratic party
and is to leave out old dead issues
Tns Supreme Court of Virginia has decided
the tax on sample merchants constitutional.
and 1t Will hereafter be enforced
Thousands OF acres Of most valuable timber.
houses, &c, have been destroyed by the fire
10 Dismal swamp, and it still RACES
CoIfax, With bis virtuous hands folded before
his heart is asking the people Of the Eleventh
Indiana District to send him back to Congress
The Modoc war has already cost $75 600 for
every one killed, and it will take 81 500 900 to
exermlGate the race-numheriag exactly So
1t ls stated that the Howe Sewing Machine
Company is in trouble Half of the employees
IL New York have quit unpaid Wages for six
weeks are due.
The Democracy swept the Western States
in the recent local elections. The party has
been asleep for long time, but they now hear
the sweet bells ofmorning.
An Ohio farmer passed through Soottsvlle
the other day, for Halifax CO., t. settle, and
FIVE or sig others are to toIloy. There was great
excitement in Scottsvie
Wood & Bros boot aud shoe warehouse, in
St Louis, was burned out last week. Loss
$4,000. The printing Office Of Edwards and
Gage was damaged By water
The reports OF tho supreme officers cf Knights
of Pithiss show the order to embrace about L.
800 lodges and over 100000 members inclu-
ding Australia and the Sandwich Islands.
w. w. Coaoran, Esq, Of W ashingtan. D. c..
| gives 1915 600 more to the Louise Home"
tor support or iudlgent ladies'. Oar w u
Asylum here is indebted to this great benefac-
tor for its FIRE organ.
Two hundred aud thirty~seven parties In
Richmond, Va, have obtsioed licenses to keep
bar-rooms and ordparies, and forsy-iour mer-
| chants have obtained licenses to sell liquor
Commodore Maury's will has been anthem
cated 10 Richmond and sealed 20 send to
| England where much of the property is lie
leaves his wife and family we'll off 10 this world
| good.
A man named Vaughn with six aliases has
| been arrested 10 Memphis, on charge nf assas
si9ating Gen. Thos G. Hndmau, of Arkansas,
| some four years ago, to avenge the ruin of a
yonuc lady By Hindmau.
Gen. Malone is in favor of Clifton Forge and
| LYuchbnrg r. r.. connection, AMI passes all
goods &c, to Backsburg Agricultural Col
eee free over his lines. He is getting liberal
in his old age and we are glad to see it.
| Mills Nos | and g of the Dwight Mauufac
turing company at Springfield Mass. were
| burned April l4th Four hundred and fifty
| bales of cotton were lost. The loss is $3.50 900
and 500 workmen were ;hroWn out Of employ
| nent
A dispatch from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
| says a hard rain has been falling there for two
| days. Spring is unusually backward In the
/ Northwest. Less than half of the wheat is now
in the ground, and there is little prospect of the
| balance being sown before the first of May