Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-12
SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
A Miss Gubbins is the reigning beauty
in London.
"Saphir." the new French tint, is
very much like peacock green.
There will be only one negro in the
next Georgia Legislature.
There are 5000 Catholics in Wheeling
and 1S. 900 in that diocese.
An exchange remarks that Solomon,
IN all his glory, was not raid like one
of these Mexican raids.n
DIR. Schliemann has obtained permits
sion from the Greek government to be-
gin excavating at Ithaca.
Paul De Cassagnac has been decorated
at last, not by pistol shot or sword
thurst. but by the King of Spain.
Harvard accepts Yale's challenge to
row an eight.oared four-mlle race. Yale
was defeated by Harvard last year.
Mrs. Governor Vance, of North Caro-
to remove her to Raleigh.
Mr.. Macalister, of the Philadelphia
Gun Club has made the best amateur
score on record forty-one birds out of
forty-two.
James Gordon Bennett supports two
poor families at Newport, and is educat-
ing the children of an old employee at
Narragansett.
Richard Realf who obtained notoriety
as member of the John Brown gang,
committed suicide in San Francisco re-
Gently.
i The Sultan of Zanzibar has his earth
I ly fortune in growing things. He owns
cocoanut plantation of 80, 600 trees, all
yielding.
Madame Won Stamwitz, the German
tragedienne, is described as Janauschek
and Mary Anderson rolled into one. 1t
must be hefty combination.
1t is prophesied that Emperor Will
liam and Prince Bismarck, if they sur
vive two years longer, will be fugitives
from Germany.
The report that Mile. Margaret Roths-
child has applied for admission to the
Catholic Church preliminary to her
marriage is now denied.
A crazy girl in North Carolina was
discovered the other day playing with q
rattlesnake, from which she had remov-
ed the rattles without any harm from
the reptile.
Carlyle has promulgated his distin-
guished approval of the Lords Pray
er." He announces that he considers 1t
"a literary composition of marvellous
beauty"
Peter Cooper is So, and as fresh as if
only turning the quarter pole. He has
been halter, coachmaker, grocer, glue
maker, philanthropist and Presidential
candidate.
Mr.. J. HI. Williams, who writes the
funny paragraphs in the Norristown
Herald, is said to have fallen heir to
$3O, 600, left to him by good old uncle
in Holland.
All political difficulties In the way of
the marriage of the Duke of Cumberland
with the Princess Thyra have been re
moved, and their betr0thal is now an
accomplished fact.
New York Herald: The grand cham
berlain of the king of Holland is Count
Schimmelpennich. Lightning could
never strike him twice in the same place,
specially if the lightning was tired.
DR.. Erasmus Wilson has bestowed UP.
on Mr.. John Dixon a check Of $50, 900 in
redemption of the pledge to pay him that
sum on the erection of Cleopatra's Nee
die on the banks of old Thames
|
THE TERRIBLE SCREW WoRM.-Mr.
Samuel Myers is now lying bed-f fast at
his home in this place, afflicted with
that terrible malady, the screw worm.-
Mr.. Myers has been sick of late with
fever, and on Monday last, while rest
ing in bed, one of the flies sighted near
his nostrils. 1t requires but few mo-
ments for one of these flies to deposit
hundreds ofeggs, which are batched and
are grown inside of an hour, many of
them as much as one half inch in length.
Mr.. Myers, upon awakening, felt
slight tickling in the nose, and it was
not until his eyes and face had become
fearfully swollen that the physician dis
covered the presence of the worms. The
only known remedy was applied
calOmel and carbolic acid-by Injection
into the nostrils. At first few would
drop their hold and force themselves
out. Application after application was
made with like results up to last night,
at which time 152 was the number pass
ed. The patient is in a critical cOnGi-
ton, with but slight hopes Of his recov-
cry. The fly is much dreaded by our
stockmen, and is represented as dark
cOlored and fuzzy insect, which general
ly attacks cattle or any other anim,l
that is unfortunate enough to have blood
upon which they can alight.-Dazas
Iecds) InteUigencer.
The RADICALS AND THE NEGRO
The Alexandria Gazett referring to the
proposition on the part Of the radicals to
disfranchise the negro. SO as to reduce
the southern delegation in Congress,
has the following pertinent remarks:
Mr.. James Parton, in an article in the