Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-06-17
ON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
General News.
The cholera is in Memphis.

General News.
The cholera is in Memphis.
Col. JAS. E. Owens, of Lynchburg, is dead.
Mckenzie IS course Is approved by the Presi-
dent.
St. Adams, VT, people are taking their last
skate.
Liquor is sold in New York city in SO43
places.
Vermont COWS yield an annual income of &c.
100000.
Gordonsville is to have weekly to be called
the Gazette.
Kansas has had some haiIstones nine inches
in circumference.
The farm Products of Kansas in 1870 were
worth 1927 ,650,95O.
Shack Nasty" hats are the latest style for
women's head gear
The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs have
already some 100 visitors
The Tennessee papers contain very favorable
accounts OF the growing CROP
A Mobile beggar has recently died in Oregon,
leaving fortune of 5000
twenty men are to be hanged in Georgia
within the next two months.
During Wednesday and Thursday, 5000 i'm
migrants arrived at New York.
Postal cards command premium of 100 per
cent. IN some of the country towns.
The Texas Legislature has repealed all OBJ
noxlous Radical laws and adjourned.
The bust of George d. Prentice is to be plac-
ed IN the new City Hall at Louisville.
The Huntington Argus reports the progress
OF that city as never go great before.
The first case of sunstroke this season was re-
ported in New York last week.
Judge Clifford acts as Chief Justice until q
successor Of Chief Justice Chase is appointed.
The old Libby Prison, in Richmond. is now
used as Sunday school-room for colored chill
dren.
Taxation 10 Mississippi is two and half per
cent. In Louisiana it reaches nearly three
times that amount.
1t is now thought that the Manchester and
Richmond Free Bridge will be opened to the
public before the first of October next.
Phe Typographical Union. which met in
Montreal, on I'd, was the largest convention of
the craft since the organization of the Union.
The Baltimore Sun does not consider Capt.
credltable thing to them or very meritorious to
our 'boys in blue
There was great trades union demonstra-
ton in Hyde Park, London, on I'd, to protest
against the law which harshly and unjustly af-
fects the interest and rights of labor. Thirty
thousand people were present, and the meeting
was most successful.
The COMING SECTIONAL ISSUES. Wash
ington telegram to the Baltimore Sun says:
The sparse attendance of Eastern Congress
men at the recent st. Louis convention is to be
ascribed to the growing fear and jealousy Of the
influence and power of the West by the repre-
sentatives from the East. Several New Eng
land members who have been here within the
last few days have, In speaking of the objects
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domain of the federal government which they
have not heretofore shown much evidence OF
possessing. For some time past tendency to
sectionaism between the East and West has
been developed in Congress which promises to
result in division as to material interests more
bitter and uncompromisIng than the political is
issues which have so long been antagonizing the
north and the south. Great stress was laid by the
projectors Of the St. Louis convention on the
announcement that there was no intention by
it to seek to influence the action Of Congress.
Yet there is positive knowledge that the con-
vention is the initial of a concerted movement
to be made 10 Congress to commit the general
government to certain gigantic schemes are not
looked upon by members from the East as like
ly to rebound to the advantages of their action,
and this feeling accounts for their indisposition
to take part in any proceeding calculated to
further them. In view of what is known to be
the plans of Western members, and the fact
that they have very large support from the
South, it is probable that before the next meet
ing of. Congress there will be consultation
among the Eastern members to determine up
on their line of action in the premises.
DRAWING IT FINE reporter for West
ern paper, speaking of certain fair creature,
remarked that ''the profusion and color of her
hair would lead one to look upon it as though
it was spun by the nimble fingers of the easy
hours, as they glided through the bright June
days, whose many sunny rays Of light had been
caught in the meshes, and were contented to 60
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