Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-19
Valley News Items.

Dora mines
Tho big cave, near Luray, is still at
much attention.
Ayoung man named Walter Norris,
is now in Jail at Harrisonburg on the
charge of horse-stealing. 4 Sf.
The residence of John II. Fry, Of
county, was destroyed by
fire on last Friday week.
The citizens of New Market are tax
ing steps looking to the organization Of
an effective fire company.
An engineer of the Shen andoah VAL
ley railroad is now engaged in survey
of the road through Clarke county.
DR.. R. T. Barton, of Lexington, was
painfully, though not seriously, injured
last week, by his horse rearing up and
falling back upon him.
The Lexington Gazette publishes q
sketch Of J. Ran. Tucker, written by
Col. VIM. Preston Johnston and pub
lished recently in the New York World.
On the 18th inst, the fortieth ami
versary of the Virginia Military Insti-
tute was observed by a suspension OF
exercises and the firing of cannon.
The barn of Thomas J. Nichols, in
Loudeun county, together with 200
bushels of wheat, 40 bushels of corn, etc.,
was destroyed by fire Saturday night
week. -sls
We learn from the Winchester Times
that Miss Belle Jordan, of Jordan
Springs, was not so seriously burned as
was reported last week. Her injuries
were very slight. 5as8i ANa
Conway Bros, of Frederick county,
have lost "a head of fine fattening hogs
by cholera recently, and they are still
dying. The Times says every supposed
remedy has been tried without avail.
On last Thursday morning, between
4 and o'clock, the livery stable and
sheds of Mr.. John P. Windle, of New
Market, were destroyed by fire. Loss
about $500. It was the work Of an in
cendiary. ,..sg.' .,.s.
The young lady, who disappeared SO
mysteriously from Lexington recently,
and of which we published an account
last week, has turned up at her home in
Fincastle, whittier she had walked in
two days and alone.
The Lexington Gazette says :-R. A.
Kyle, J. II. Kelly, and E. McCulloch,
of Fincastle, passed. through that place
last Tuesday evening with a young man
about IS years of age, adjudged luna
tic, bound for the Western Lunatic
Asylu at Staunton.
The Board of Supervisors of Freder-
lex county have ordered that levy Of
IL cents on the 500 be made On tbs
taxable property, real, personal and mix
ed, in Frederick county, for the yeal
1879, to be applied for county purposes
and also levy of so cents on each male
citizen of the county, unless exempt by
law, for coznty school purposes.
. We learn from the Gazette that about
fifty colored men of Lexington had the
manliness to walk up to the polls and
vote an open ballot for Ran. Tucker
And when the result was announced
the late Gen. Johnston's h0stler mount
ed store-box and made speech, in
which he said that he would vote fol
Mr.. Tucker to be made King Of ths
world.o
The Lee Memorial Association have
made arrangements to lay the corner
stone of the building now in course OF
construction and designed to receive ths
recumbent figure Of Gen. B. E. Lee
the work of Mr.. e. V. Valentine
The ceremonies will be held in Licking
ton, on the 2Sth inst, at the Lee Chapel
The Elk. Committee of the Associa'
ton cordially invite all the citizens Of
the community and of the State and
country at large to participate in this
: interesting ceremony. Senator With
ers viii! deliver the address.
The Gazette gives ncae Of the partic-
ulars as to the recent killing Of negro
man by student of w. & L. Universi-
ty. 1t merely says :-On Tuesday, the
10Th inst. about 9;45 P. NJ, Preston
Montgomery, negro man, was shot ia
this place, from the effect OF which be
died during the night. At the Ceroner'a
: inquest held on Wednesday morning,
the following verdict was rendered =
"That Preston Montgomery came to
his death by a pistol shot fired by tbs
hands of E. G. Nelson" Up to this
time the police have been unable to find
Mr.. Nelson.
A ROYAL FAMILY STRICKEN WITH
: DIPHTHERIA.-A royal family in Ger
| many has been stricken with Diphthe-
, ria. A despatch from Darmstadt states
> that Princess Mary, daughter and
, youngest child of the Grand Duke OF
Hesse, died last Saturday. ofdiphtheria.
The Grand Duke himself and four more
Of his children have the disease.
= PAY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.
AS there has been some intimation
that the pay of the teachers of our Pub
, lie Schools is too much and should be
cut down, We quote the following sensi-
, BILE words of Mr.. Eliot. the Superinten-
dent of the Pnblic Schools of Boston =
"Let me add something in favor of
wise expenditures, more economical in
many circumstances than any retrench-
ments. Such, think, are the salaries
; of our teachers, which, instead of being
the first expenses to be cut down, ought
to be the very last. We can get on with
out vast buildings or materials; we can
wait for better times to fill our libraries
or our collections; we can part forever
: with drills, exhibitions, aud festivals,