Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-06-17
Staunto1t Spettatur.
Tuesday, June II, 1873.
THELATEST NEWS

1dE hAlGSl NEWS.
Rochefort is to be banished to New Caledonia
A $40, 600 fire occurred in Cincinnati on 18th.
Ranmer, the eminent German historian, is
dead.
The specie shipments, on 18th, amounted to
$3e4s59
Ninethousand emigrants, arrived in New York
last week.
Fishing for bass has commenced in the Shen-
andoah river.
Nicholson's death warrant has been received.
He and Holahan will be hanged Aug. 1st.
There were SO deaths from cholera. in Men,
phis, Tenn for the week ending on 18th.
Frank Pinckney, deputy states attorney for
forty years. died in Washington on the 18th.
Archie johnson, colored, was hung at Leban-
on, Russell county, on the 18th inst, for the
murder Mr. Jno. Hart some time in 1872
A negro was hanged in Paris, KY, on 14th, for
killing another negro last year. At the first drop
the rope proved too long, but second attempt
was successful.
AS to the killing of the Modoc prisoners, Gen.
Sherman says that those who committed the deed
are low blackguards and murderers, who had
nothing to do with the army.
A raised" certificate of the Pennsylvania rail-
road. from one to one hundred shares. was dis
covered on the 18th, having been sold by J. II.
Harlan at Jay Cooks bank, in Philadelphia, sew
eral weeks since.
An insane man, while attending circus in
Hendren, Kentucky, killed child with club,
and injured number of persons He was FINAL
" arrested after receiving three shots from the
police.
A Boston letter says the new secret anti-liquor
bocr re 1O6o
all over the State, having nineteen branches and
one thousand active members, and controlling
fifty thousand votes throughout the State.
The funeral services of Ex-Mnister Orr took
place, in New York, on 18th. The escort con-
sisted of about 60 lodges of Masons, command
cries of K. T., several chapters of r. A. Masons,
a company of Cavalry and the 7th Regiment.
A Vienna dispatch says the number of visitors
to the exhibition is far less than anticipated.
The trades-people and inhabitants generally are
greatly discouraged at the absence of strangers
and prices of living. which have hitherto deterr-
ed persons from visiting the city, have been re-
duced.
Henry Jewett, aged 25 years, living at Hend-
son. N. e., attempted to kill his sweetheart, Miss
Ella Wood, on 18th. He had been rejected for
which he fired at her with six-shooter, the ball
entering her forehead. It is hoped that she is
not fatally wounded. He attempted to shoot Mr..
Wood, the father of the young lady, bat was
prevented from doing so. He then shot himself
in the ear, causing a wound which must prove
fatal.
A masked party broke into the house of John
Jennings. the chief of gang of robbers in Wetzel
county, w. Va, in this State, on 18th. Mrs.
Jennings seized an axe to defend her husband,
when the party fred killing Jennings and fatal
ly wounded Mrs. Jennings. The lynchers left
written notice to the other members of the gang
to leave the county.
Isham B. o. Neal was executed at Atlanta, Ga,
in the yard of the Fulton county Jail at half-past
2 O. clock, on 18TH for the murder of James Lit
tie. He died protesting his innocence and with
out struggle. Life was extinct in eight minutes.
The execution was private and witnessed only
by few.
THE MARKETS.
STAUNToN-Reported by Richardson & Bell,
Grocers and Flour Merchants Augusta St.-We
quote -four this week as follows: Family So. 10,
extra 81. 60, Super $40. The market dull at
these prices Butter 20a22cts, Eggs 14cts. Other
produce bringing good prices.
RICHMoND.-There Is no quotations of -four in
latest Richmond papers, but private reports say
the market is dull. White wheat $1.7O, very
good red S1.80 Corn, very good white 80 cts,
yellow prime, Il cts. Wool. washed 41c--un-
washed 20 cts. Cattle in demand and advancing.
Tobacco ditto.
BALTIMoRE-City Mills superfne BASS. Is;
extra $7a8; family $9.25a1l.OO. Wheat-choice
white ST. S5al SO; fair to prime 81 S5a1 so; Corn
white southern 7Octs; yellow do. 81; Southern
Oats, 47a50 Pork $174a18; Bulk-meats, should
ers 73a7s; rib sides 10c; clear rib sides 1O4...
Observation-Disclosures 10c; rib sides 7z; clear rib
sides 10a104 Sugar-cured Hams 153a16. Lard
10c. Whisky 934. Best Beef Cattle $625a7.25
Medium $54a58 Average So. g. Sheep 5a6c
per ID, gross.
1t is stated that about ten thousand copies of
the New York daily papers are circulated in
Philadelphia, reaching there at IL o'clock each
morning. It is now proposed to charter loco
motive and one car to leave New York at 8
O'Clock in the morning, and thus deliver the
New York daiies in Philadelphia by half after
five to the subscribers of that city. This would
be as early as the Philadelphia papers could be
distributed in their own city, while the New
York daiies would contain all the news the
Philadelphia papers do. 1t is proposed that
carriers accompany the train and fold the pa
pers while en- route-the unfolded sheets being
taken direct from the presses to the train. This
would certainly be a novel feature in journal
ism.
For some time it has been quite apparent
that things were not working altogether har-
moniously with the radical party in Virginia
The ms and the outs-the Hughes men and
the anti Hughes men, the latter led by Lewis,
Amber Smith and others-are evidently in a