Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-03-04

Two cases of smallpox have appeared in
Salem, Va.
The recent STRIKES" in Wheeling and Pitts
burg have ended in failures
An election riot occurred ia Quebec on the
23d ut.
The Swiss government has formally recog-
nized the Republic of Spain.
Vice President Colfax was robbed of 81, 900
in coupon bond on the night of23d ult
The late Jesse George, of Philadelphia, worth
100000, bequeathed $9l 900 to public insti-
tutions
Five hundred and thirty women in the Uni
ted States are doctors, twenty four are dentists,
FIVE lawyers and neutrality-suspicious.
A company has been organized to lay SUBJ
marine telegraph cable from San Francisco to
China and via Japan, the Sandwich islands.
Counterfeit $40 bills on the Farmers and
Manufacturer $ Bank Of Pcughkeepse, N. Y,
are liz circulation. Look out for them.
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Lynchburg are try
ing to get the authorities of the G. & o. r Z
to complete the connection between Clifton
Forge and Lynchburg.
A dispatch from Augusta, Ca, says that
Hon. Alex. Fl Stephens is elected to Congress
from the 9Th District. There was no opposing
candidate.
The "Marshall. House. in Alexandria, where
Ellsworth was killed-the first blood of The war
was burned on the night of the oath ult Ii
was the work OF an incendiary.
The committee of conference have agreed to
extend the time of the Southern Claims Com
mission four years. They have 20, 900 unheard
claims before them
Mr.. B. E. Kinoaid, we'll known and prom
inent CITIZEN of Lee county, committed suicide
on the 18th instant by hanging himself Cause
not known.
The Richmond Baptists have assumed the
paymen. of 100000 of their church memorial
fund and will certainly not contribute less is
probable that they will do considerably more.
VIM Ell. Beck, Of Indianapolis, Ind, a blind
man, and notorious character, has made a
confession of the murder of two children, nam
ed Mary Hennerly aud Catharioe Guinter, aged
respectively Ii aud years,
The attorney general has decided that letters
not fully prepaid at the time of mailing should
not be charged with double the deficient pos
tage, but only with the actual balance not pre-
paid.
A dispatch from Washington conveys the
gratifying information that the Committee of
Commerce favors the proposed appropriation
Kanawha Canal. The report will not be made
until the next Congress
AT special election in Sumter county, Ala
bama, for Senator to G the vacancy caused
By the death OF Gilner, (Radical,) Little,
Democrat was elected BY $40 majority. This
makes the Senate again Democratic.
The stockholders of the London and Liver
pool aud Globe Insurance Company held a
stormy meeting in the city of London on the
Goth ut. The trouble grew out Of the fac. that
no dividends had been declared owing to the
losses Of the companies by the CONGREGATIONS 10
Chicago and Boston.
The last new thing in medicine is substitute
for vaccinations description of which is con-
tanned 10 the last number of the American
Practitioner The propagation of the new doc
rine, Western physician, says that for thirty
four years he has held to the plan of pustulation
by tartar emetic as fully as good preventive
of smallpox as vaccination.