Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-20
The painters in Baltimore have struck for So

Inc painters In Baltimore nave struck Tor $3
per day.
The Church of the Ascension, Baltimore. was
burned on 18th. Loss, $4,000.
Rev. Thomas Robinson, canon of Rochester,
England, is dead aged 50 years.
A fire in Calvert. Texas, on 18th, destroyed
half a block of houses. Loss, $4,000.
The editor-in-chief of the Des Moines Qnd. J
Republican wears back hair and hustle.
A New Haven man has invented machine
to run on wheels inside sewers, to clear out the
accumulations of mud.
A Michigan man says he has discovered how
TO SO temper steel, and even iron, that it will
cut glass like a diamond.
The Pope is very feeble, having had an
hours fainting fit. His condition is rather
worse, and he is excessively feeble. The 18th
was his eighty-irst birth day.
aJUsT So.-The Philadelphia, Press claims
Louisiana as Republican State for the very
GOOD reason thatlt contains more negroes than
whites Comment is unnecessary. - Dispatch.
The internal revenue assessors who 60 out of
Office on the 10th instant, under the late law,
die hard. Many are claiming right of exis-
tence tor.one month and ten days longer, as the
operation of the act Is not compulsory till the
end OF June, and think it unfair in Commis-
sloner Douglass to hasten their official demise.
The Nashville women, little while ago, an
nounced an Intention of being economical and
wearing calico to church. At last accounts they
had only succeeded in making dress cost $l9-
50, but they are now going 10 trim them with
ValeDclennes, and do not despair.
The teeth Of children are badly neglected in
nine cases out of ten. 1t is astonishing that
mothers are 50 careless in this particular, when
the beauty, health and comfort of their chill
dren are SO closely allied to the sound condition
to their teeth. The latest theory of dentists is
to ill the first teeth and preserve them as long
as possible. The second set are more likely to
come IN straight than when the milk teeth are
removed early
SURRENDER OF COL DE BLANC - Dispatch
es from New Orleans indicate that the Metro
polltans have Withdrawn from St. Martinsville
| somewhat dlsordered, and are on their way
home. Dispatches report them as yelling like
SO many Indians, but so drunk as to be harm
less. Two Federal companies are at st. Mar
tinsvllle to support an officer and ten men, who
constitute the posse Of Marshal Packard, to
| whose deputy Colonel De Blanc and several
OF bis officers surrendered. They are on parole.
Packard has warrants for eleven men. Colonel
DE Blanc claims that he has shown that Ke-
| logg Is powerless without aid of Il. s. troops.
The SERVANT QUESTION The Philadel-
phla Press has an editorial article en- The
Servant Question" and publishes communi-
cation upon the subject, fer whieh it asks care
| tul reading, and says thar III deals With the
question with much common sense The cor
| respondent referred TO confirms substantially
the views We have repeatedly advanced that
| practical acquaintance with the method of pre-
parlDg food for the family and with housekeep-
Ing should form part of the education of We
men. The correspondent, however, advocates
an Industrial domestic college, where all the
most important branches of good English
education, together with practical knowledge
OF all departments OF housekeeping, may be ob-
tanned, and where lectures upon ali branches OF
| home labor, chemistry, &c., can be obtained u
This may all be very well, but the source of the
evil viii never be reached till girls of all ranks
and stations are taught cooking and housekeep-
lng as uniformly as they are taught French and
music, neither of which, in nine cases cat Of
ten. are they called upon to turn TO any prac-
teal advantage When instruction 10 domestic
economy becomes the custom and the fashion.
American women generally will lay aside their
prejudices against domestic service, and will nc
longer think it beneath themselves to wait up-
on others. The Press truly enough says that
it is 8 natural order of things that some should
serve and others be served and it might have
added that In the majority of instances those
who are served in the household way are them
| selves serving others in some other form, and
that all foru1s Of honest service adopted from a
sense of duty are equally dignifed aud honor
able.