Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1877-11-27
Personal and Political.

Acn AeAG year, ana that he would haye |
returned to New York first, but that the
lady to whom he was betrothed tired of |
for him, and has lately married.
He Congo on now without any fears of
matrimonial infelicity.
The AthenCeXn1 asserts that romance. |
hitherto unknown, by Edgar A. Poe,
has recently come into the possession of
Mr.. John H. Ingram. 1t is entitled
"The Journal of Julius Rodman," and
is description of an imaginary "First
Passage across the Rocky Mountains of
North America ever Achieved by Civil
lied Man."
The wedding dress of Maria de las
Mercedes, future Queen of Spain, has al
ready been ordered, and the feminine
portion of the world will doubtless call
it beautiful. 1t is to be of white satin,
entirely covered with Alencon point
lace, on which will be worked the arms
of all the realms into which Spain was
formerly divided. This recalls the dress
of Queen Adelaide, Of England, which
was pretty piece of lmagination-it
was embroidered with flowers, the ini-
tials of which formed her name.
The Alexandria Gazette says that it is
reported that Judge Henry w. Thomas,
of Fairfax county, and State Senator J.
V. Brooke, of Fauquier, will be support
ed for the position of judge of this judi
cial circuit in the election to be held by
the Legislature. Judge Keith, who fills
the position SO acceptably at present,
will be candidate for reelection.
Colonel c. T. Crittenden is sending
around circular announcing himself a
candidate for reelection as doorkeeper
of the House of Delegates.
DR.. Hunter Mcclure few days since
performed most wonderful surgical
operation on little girl in Richmond.
Chester" in letter to the Iaader-Ap-
peal, says she had received an injury
which resulted in the breaking of her
jawbone and her mouth was closed SO
that she could not open it. She was
taken to New York but the surgeons
there were afraid to undertake any
operation. She was then brought to
DIR. Mcclure, who slit RAW open, and
by most remarkable operation succeed
ed in mending it.
Hon. George S. Bangs, of Chicago,
died on Saturday the 18th instant. Cen
eral Bangs has been in ill health for
nearly year. A post-office in Virgin
la was named for him. He was superin-
tendent of the United States mails few
years ago.
Mr.. VIM. Meade Nelson, formerly of
Culpeper, passed through that place on
Monday night 10Th inst, on his way to
New Castle, Delaware, where he goes to
teach in the family of Mr.. John Johns,
a nephew of the late Bishop Johns.
Professor Richard s. Mccullough of
Washington & Lee University, Virgin
ia, has accepted the chair of chemistry
and natural history in the Louisiana
State University at Baton Rouge. He
was connected with Princeton College
before the war.
Herbert Barbee, the sculptor, will sail
for Europe on the 18th of December
He will go to Florence for the purpose
of filing commissions for several life
sized statues, one being reproduction
of his fathers renowned "Fisher Girl, "
ordered by Mr.. S. B. French, of New
York.
w. D. Coleman, lately released from
the Virginia penitentiary, has settled in
Richmond, and is engaged in CORES
ponding for Northern papers.
|. The Directors of the Lee Monumental
Association of New Orleans have adopt
ed the design of Mr.. John Ray, OF that
city, for the monument to be erected to
the memory of the late Robert e. Lee.
The monument is to cost $50, 900, and
will be erected at once.
The Executors ofth late Henry Meiggs
have determined TO complete the public
works in which he was engaged at the
time of his death.
THE UNvARNIsHED TRUTH-Dr.
Redfield, the well known correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial, Repub.
iican himself, gives us, says the Lynch.
burg Wrgi,aidn, the following pen-and-
ink sketch of the South Carolina carpet.
baggers, and notifies those members OF
his party at the North, and in Congress,
who affect to believe that the aforesaid
''salt of the earth" have been maligned
and prosecuted in the South, that theil
sympathies are expended on very worth.
less objects. The truth is, South Caro-.
! lima proposes to do good part by these
fellows in providing homes for the most
of them, at the States expense, for a
term of years, where they will be well
cared for, and kept from wrong.doing,
and out of the reach of all harm. But
DR.. Redfield says:
fright here let me say that sympathy
for the South Carolina Republican lead
ers is pretty much wasted. They were
rascals and plunderers from top TO bot
: tom, with now and then an exception
that made the surrounding darkness on
ly more dark. That fellow Patterson
| has no business in the Senate, and should
be kicked out, no matter if bis vote is
necessary to Republican supremacy, as
believe 1t is. Don't sympathize with
the prosecuted South Carolina Repub-
: licans' more than you would with an
ordinary gang of convicts, or mourn that
the So called Democrats are in power
there. That State must belong either to
! i.hieves or the Democrats; there is nc
/ half way ground, and it is better to let
the Democrats haye it. We can almost
cry out, Anything, but what has been
for the past ten years
A cheerful view of Washington is
given jig story once told by Mrs. Madi-
son to little girl, who now repeats it in
Lippincctt. Zone day in Philadelphia, u
said Mistress Dolly Madison, II was sit
ting in my parlor with a very dear