Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-17
Personal and General.

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, Personal and General.
/ Gov: Mcclellan, of New Jersey, is in
the White Mountains.
!; A London curate in fashionable SUI
: burb has eloped with an elderly married
lady.
Madame Ristori will visitsthe United
States next year with first-class dra-
matte company.
Edison can't be genius according to
/ all established rules. He neither wears
long hair, lives in garnet nor fgets
drunk.
They sell milk in Glens Falls for two
cents quart. The water-power in that
village is not used for manufacturing
purposes.
David Davis refused to accompany
Mr.. Hayes, and exhibit himself among
the prize pumpkins at the Minnesota
State fair.
Mrs. Brides favorite COW walked into
the st. Johns river at Picolata last week
to cool herself, and an alligator had a
fine breakfast.
| Tom Swami declines to run for Con-
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election of Robert McLane, Joe John
ston's brOther-in-law.
Secretary McCrary thinks that the
Republicans will carry Iowa this fall,
but intends to 90 out and help the ma
chine along Notwithstanding.
| A woman can't put on any sidesaddle
style when she goes in a swimming. She
has either got to kick out like man or
get drowned Wheeling Ledger.
| Judge East, who has been nominated
by the gEeenbackers fer Governor of
Tennessee, was Andrew Johnson's pri-
vate secretary while the latter was Presi-
dent.
Judge Portland. of Vermont, dressed
in his traditional old style blue coat,
was mistaken for policeman and ac-
costed as such by lady at Saratoga re-
Gently.
The Boston Post says: "If Gen. Joe
Johnston is elected to Congress he will
at least go with the fresh endorsement
of Grant, that he is the ablest man in the
South.
A leopardess in circus at Davenport,
Iowa, gave birth last week to cub that
was pretty enough to eat, and ate it ere
1t had arrived at the early age of five
minutes.
Three young ladies, named Maggie
and Lizzie Lee and Ada Edwards were
drowned while bathing in the river Otta-
way, at Pembroke, on Saturday evening
week ago.
Doubtless speaking ca cdthedra, the
Harrisburg Patriot announces the final
retirement from public life of the Dick
Turpin OF American politics, Hon. ST.
mon Cameron.
The Rev. Mr.. Griffith, of the Fond du
Lac (Wisconsin) Methodist Episcopal
church, has prayed that chicken thieves
all over the land may be turned from the
error of their ways.
1t is said that Murat Halstesd has
cabled his deadly opposition to the ice
water treatment for yellow fever. He
says it is better to let the patients die
than to use ice water.
1t was just throwing Theodore Thorn
as away to let Cincinnati have him.
People who were broaght up on pig
squeals can't appreciate Thomas, how
ever much they may brag about him.
According to the weather-wise, cold
weather will set in unusually early this
autumn. The flight of birds southwark,
which has already commenced in some
of the northern states, is the main foun-
dation for the prediction.
| A Bedford, man who was bitten by spltz
dog four months ago, died at Hadding-
ton, suburb of Philadelphia. His death
was marked by all the symptoms of
hydrophobia. Two ofhis children, who
were bitten at the same time, appear to
be still in good health.
VIM. Taylor, the eolored man who is
supposed to have murdered the white
girl, Alice Mcdonnell, was taken from
the sheriff at Sandusky, Ohio, and hung
by mob to a lamp-post. The body of
the murdered girl was found in field
few miles from the city.
Judge Thurman has been incorrectly
reported as saying: II do not intend to
be understood as sounding the keynote
of this campaign" What he did say, as
he informs us in a private letter, was:
II do not wish to be misunderstood. I
said: Keno order up the champagne.
| A New York genius has invented
sheet-iron boy, which ia sustained by q
life.preserver and provided with pound
can of nitrO-glycerine. This "boy' is
now floating around on the East river as
q bait for sharks, and the fish that swal-
lows him will never smile again.-Eee
| Press.
The idiotic attempt of the Republican
Congressional committee to attribute the
scarcity of small change to the economy
OF the Democratic House is as ridiculous
as it is untrue. The scarcity and distress
entailed by it upon commercial COM
munities is chargeable to the policy of
John Sherman, who holds all the small
bills that come into his hands.
The rapid rise in quinine is due, ac-
cording to the New York Times, not to
heavy Russian purchases, but to the fall
ing off in the supply of bark, owing to
wars between the South American tribes
of Indians, who are the principal gath
ers of what we employ. They have
shipped no bark for eight or nine
months.
just before the President left for the
West on Friday, he received complaint
from the postmaster at Laurens vile,
Va, that his resignation had been re-
quested by the Postmaster General, for
no other cause, as he truly believed, than
that, being q Democrat, he had declined
to contribute to the Republican CAM
Ipaign fund.
Alexander H. Stephens, in accepting
his nomination to Congress, promises to
maintain the interests of ali committed
to his charge upon those immutable
principles Of justice on which our entire
, system of free institutions rests, as that
no one, in whatever condition of life,
can justly say, at the expiration of the
term, that he or she suffered any injury
or wrong from any act of commission or
omission OF my part in tbs discharge of