Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15
Personal and General.

1
A letter from Hon. Alex. Fl. Stephens
says his hemorrhages are subsldlng, anu
there is consequent Improvement III
his health.
The operators in the Lehigh coal re-
pion have agreed to advance ten Genus
on the line, and fifteen cents on Ine
city trade.
Two of the Mexicans who recently
murdered ex.Sheriff Adams and ex-
county clerk Finley, of Santa clara coun,
tv near Tucson. Arizona, were captured
in Sonora, and shot by order OF Govern
or Mariscal.
Edwin Hoyt, convicted of the murder
Of his father in Sherman, Conn.,, June
%. has been sentenced to be hanged
October "a, 1879. This is the first time
death sentence has passed in Fairfield
county, Conn.,, for nearly sixty years.
The Governor of North Carolina said
to the Governor of South Carolina:
"Sir, there's a long intermission between
drinks in your State" but that wasn't
what the Governor Of South Carolina
said to the Governor of Massachusetts,.
It is said that New England Senators
express great dissatisfaction, and even
anger, at the delay of the Secretary OF
State in communicating to the British
Government, the action of Congress re
gRrding the fishery award, which was
had more than three months ago.
Professor Peters, of Clinton, New
York, announces to the Smithsonian
Institute the discovery, by himself, OF q
planet of the eleventh magnitude IN one
hour and six minutes right ascension
and four degrees and eighteen minutes
north declination, with daily motion O.
five minutes south.
Col. Nicholas Smith, the son-in-law
OF Horace Greeley, has been nominated
by the Greenbackers to represent The
Yonkers district-now represented by
Mr.. Potter. The enthusiasm at the con
vention was stupendous, and victory
deemed certain. It is reported that Mr.
Potter will not oppose Col. Smith.
In the course of his sermon the othe
night, the Rev. De Witt Talmage turn
ed to politics in general way, and ex
pressed his qualification that 'some G
the old rascals who made politics a dis
grace and a libel upon the honesty an
intelligence of the nation, seem to hav
taken back seats"
Representative Acklin, against whor
serious charges are pending in New o.
leans, has placed himself in the hands
his friends, so to speak that is to say
Replaces his case in the hands of til
Democratic State committee of Louis
ana, and will retire from the Congre
sional ticket if they advise him to do 81
Col. Mosby, of Virginia, recently al
pointed consul at Hong Kong. Chin
drew his first quarters salary day I
two ago. He remarked to the paylr
teller: 'This is the second time hay
drawn on the United States for money
the first time was when I pulled up
couple of army paymasters during tt
war;"
Gilmore's Band, which has just mat
concert tour through the leading citi
OF Europe, has arrived at New York Q
the steamship Mosel. Mr.. Gilmore r
presents the tour to have been fair
successful, even in pecuniary point
view, for after paying all expenses eaC
man received nearly four times as mut
money as the best musicians in Euro]
would have received.
The Washin gton Capitol, in its mott
of the Marc Antony of Frank Bang
says: "The magnificent Grafton over Il
dead Caesar is enough to make famol
the actor who can do it so thoroughly
The suppressed passion beneath I'll
insinuation, the shadowy innuent
thrown out for the imagination to seiz
the subtle knowledge of the popul,
heart, are all given with magic powe
and the burst of indignation which mar
the peroration delivered with the gran,
est effect.o