Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-24
Personal and General.

The Duchess of EdinbCrgh's girl baby
is Queen Victoria's twenty-sixth grand
child.
Prince Arthur will, after his marriage,
settle in Ireland, and either purchase or
build residence in the neighborhood of
the Hill of Tara.
Philadelphia has rival of Alexander
H. Stephens in Mrs. Lucretla Mott,
who is eighty-five years of age and
weighs eighty.five pounds.
The damage to railroad property in
Ohio by the recent stOFE is estimated at
$500, 900. Thirty bridges in Mahaning
county alone were carried away.
An editor, out West, with nine un-
married daughters, recently wrote an
editorial leader on "The Demand for
Men," Several unmarried persons call
ed to ask what he men't.
The Secretary of tho Georgia State
Agricultural Society announces that
Hon. Allen G.. Thurman, of Ohio. has
accepted an invitation to attend the
Georgia State Fair. in Macon, on the
2Sth of next month.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Constan-
tinovitch, the Cars nephew, has been
dismissed from the army, and the Eigh-
ty-fourth Regiment of Infantry, of
which he was the honorary chief, and
has been forbidden to bear his name.
Theirs was sc small as baby that he
could have been put into wooden shoe.
He was baptized in cellar, for the reign
Of terror had only just come to close,
and the priests were still afraid to per-
form any ceremony in the churches.
A monastery is to be built in Pennsyl-
vania for the accommodation of two
hundred and fifty Trappist monks, who
are to migrate thither from France and
Ireland. Land has been purchased, and
the monks will erect the buildings.
The Princess Royal of England and
| Crown Princess of Germany is a model
of thrift. She blows out superfuOus wax
| candles with her royal lips, has her chill
dren's dresses turned and dyed and locks
up delicacies where the servants cannot
get at them.
Major Samuel A. Wainwright. 10th
| infantry, U. s. A., was tried by a court
| martial at Fort Riley, Kansas, for
drunkenness and sentence to be dismiss
ed the service. The President has con-
firmed the sentence, and Major Vain
wright's dismissal will date from Au-
gust 23d. q.
James Broadbeit, of Indianapolis,
Ind, states that he has been robbed OF
fifteen thousand dollars while asleep in
the cars going to Chicago. The money
had been received more than year be-
fore from the settlement fan estate, and
he carried it upon his person, being
afraid to trust it to the banks.
Two years ago Eugene Hale had Mr..
T. H. Murch discharged from the Rock
land stone quarry for voting the Demo
cratic ticket. This year Mr.. Murch has
had Eugene Hale discharged from Con
gress for running on the Republican
ticket. If anything, Mr.. Murch seems
to be leetle ahead.
Mary Anderson appeared at the Fifth
avenue theatre Monday night in the
tragedy of "Evadne" for the first time
Her strong dramatic powers were called
into play more powerfully in this char
acter than in any which she has hither-
to presented and she achieved striking
success, being warmly applauded and
several times called before the curtain.
In 1873 the yellow fever broke out in
Memphis, Tenn, September IA, and
lasted until November 0, during which
period there we're 1,2O3 deaths. This
wear the first fatal case Of fever occurred
August 1. and up to September }e there
were / 1852 deaths. The total number Of
deaths BY yellow fever in the South, up
to September Is, this year, was $500.