Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-08-06
Personal and General.

AorSOnal ana General.
Inc Democracy of South Carolins
~. lave re.nominated Gov. Hampton and
tne entire State ticket.
Inc once famous Mormon Temple al
Nauvoo has entirely disappeared, not a
s'one remaining on the site.
LORD Beaconsfield will receive from
Tue British residents of California q
Sl,oO0 silver brick.
~. Miss Mary Mosby, daughter of Col
yoAa .. Mosby, was crowned queen of
iove and beauty at Orkney last week.
The first bale of cotton, new crop, was
received at Savannah on the 30th OF
july, and was classed as low middling.
Bishop E. R. Ames, of the Methodist
episcopal Church, who has been seri-
ously sick for some weeks past, is now
coDvalescent.
A Western lunatic wears the silver
comnplates of his three wives as deco
lions. and declares he belongs to the
Legion of Honor.
Count de Bodisco, the Russian consul
general at New York, died on the night
OF August 1st at the Greenbrier White
sulphur Springs, w. Va.
IT is said that Hon. S. s. Cox, of New
| YORK, introduced and got through more
impprtant measures at the last session
bers.
Gen. Thomas drimke Rhett died at q
O'CLOCK Sunday afternoon, in the 57th
year Of his age, at the residence of his
brother, Major Roland Rhett, Baltimore
c0unty.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says the
saddest thing about the woman suffrage
fm0vement Is that the largest amount of
Hrldlcale It has met has come from the
women.
| A SIC, 600 diamond necklace is on eX-
hibition in the windoY Of q Chicago
Jewelley, which, it is said, an enamored
resident of that city is about to present
to an American prima donna.
| Cardinal Franchi, Pontiflcal Secreta-
ry Of State and Archbishop of Thessa-
lonica, died at Rome on the 1st day of
August. He was q native of Italy,
born in 1919, and made Cardinal in 1879,
Memphis, according to 2 letter from
iAs Ie Il p itss commissioner, has been
cotton at the Paris Exposition, New
Orleans coming In for the second hon.
OrS.
The Marquis of Lorne, son of the
Duke of Argyle, and sonin-law of the
| queen, has been appointed Governor
General Of Canada, to succeed Lord Duff
Iefin, the most popular ruler Canada
has ever had.
| To the announcement that an Indiana
woman has given birth to five children,
the Albany Journal remarks by the
card: We thought that nothing would
beat four of a Kind, but it seems we
were mistaken.
David Garrick was once in the liquor
business. He sold wines and liquors in
London, but he was not q successful
merchant. He failed, and then went
on the stage, and became the greatest
manager of his day.
A somnamhulist in Mechanicsville
n. y, left her husbands bed last Sun
day morning, crept out of the house,
walked to the cemetery and lay down
beside her m0ther's grave, where she
was found after daylight sleeping like a
by.
| In Munich beer is absolutely the only
beverage, water being used only for Gu
linary and bathing purposes. For two
and half cents one can purchase as
much of the sparkling, cool and deli
elous lager as will last a steady drinker
half a day,
It is stated that ex-C Congressman Chas.
Hays, Of Alabama, has challeged w.
| W. Screws, editor of the Montgomery
ADVERTISER, for articles denouncing
Hays for presiding over the Republican
State Convention and calling him the
great American Ananias." 1t is not
| ppofnd that fh oro will bo duol hon,
lever.
A man went in bathing at Old Orch
afd Beach, the other morning, wearing
the same sort of suit that Adam wore
when he took his regular morning
plunge in Snake brook, Garden of Eden,
and policeman scooped him in and
took him before justice, who chalked
his back for $40 or thirty days in jail
And yet this is the land of liberty.
A London letter to New York Jour
nal tells us that Mrs. Victoria Wood
hull is now living in the former city,
having abandoned. seemingly, all hope
of ever becoming President Of the Uni
ted States. It is hardly probable that
she has ever thought of the Presidency
since she was advised that if she ran for
it, 1t would be necessary to strip for the
race,
Chen Len Pin, the new Chinese am
bassador, lived in Hartford awhile some
years ago, and made most favorable
impression by his fine appearance, his
pleasing manners and scholarly attain
ments. DIR. Yung-Wing, of the educa-
with Chen Len-Pin in his mission, is q
respected citizen of Hartford now. Both
are mandarins of the second degree =
| When the Southern soldiers were
marching through part of Pennsylva-
MIA, lady appeared at the gate of a
farm house with miniature Union flag
pinned on her bosom. 4 witty, dirty,
sore footed rebel, touched his hat and
sald:-"My good lady you are running
q great risk in wearing that flag where
1t is, for We rebels are hi on breast
works. "-Blue Ridge Summe,. Times.
Captain BOgardus won a pigeon shoot
| ing match last Wednesday, defeating
Captain skelley, OF the Nottinghill Gun
Club, England. They were to shoot at
one hundred birds each, at thirty yards
rise, for one hundred pounds stirling
Captain Shelley gave up the contest at
the eighty.ninth bird, having only kill
ed sixty four, while his opponent had
killed seventy-seven. Captain Bogardus
| continued shooting, and killed eighty
four out of the hundred birds. This is
the highest scoEe ever made in England.
Sitting Bull wants to come back to
this country, and overtures in his behalf
have been made to the government, but
consideration of them has been declined.
At the saE,le tine that Ae has been en-
deavoring to obtain permission to re-
turn his runners have been attempting
to arouse the Sioux in the United States
to hostilities,. sending to all the agencies
the sneepfng message that "the bucks
have become squaws." The Indian
authorities will give HIM no encourage
antnt whatever to return
| bishop Whitaker, of Virginia CITY.
has been giving the nevada i ewspa pers
| some queer stories of his experiences in
recent tour through the towns of Typo
and Ward, Nevada. Al Typo he could
get no building to preach in but a gam
bling house, and in response to the Lit
any, instead of "Amen," an excited
his bootd1 dried Hkeno," At war ward "a a
horse race had been announced for the
afternoon, but at the Bishops earnest
rp0ypSf the raoinr woo x:Iv