Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-02-12
General News Items.

The annual State fair of Florida opens
in Jacksonville on the 18th to-day
when great display of fruits and vege-
tables is expected.
Slade, the American Spiritualist. al
ter being sent away from Vienna, went
to Berlin, where he has likewise been
denied permission to stay.
Governor Mathews has appointed A:
Brooks Fleming, Esq, of Fairmont,
w. Va, Judge of the Second Judicial
Circuit, for the unexpired term. =,
Jacob M. Jacobs, aged one hundred
years and two months, died at Oswego'
N. Y, Monday evening of last week.
He was in the United States Naval SER
vice during the war Of 1872.
A man was found dead near Am
herst Court House Wednesday. Pa
pers found on his person lead to the sup
position that he was R. B. Brown, de-
putty sheriff of Pocahontas county, W..
Virginia.
A telegram dated Shanghai. China,
FEBRUARY 3rd, announces that an asylum
tor women and children at the of Tieut-
sin was bnrned, and over two thousand
persons are stated to have persisted in
the flames.
Rev. Barnas Sears, agent Of the Pea
body E ducation Fund, has written to
Mississippian that men whose character
and position entitle them to the highest
respect have given it as their opinion
that the time has not yet come to give
largely to Mississippi.
Abram G.. Smith, associated with Mr..
| Caleman in the pr0prietorship of the
Metropolitan Hotel OF Washington city
was in his usual good health, attending
to business, Tuesday, but during the
night was seized with sickness and died
several hours thereafter.
| The first annual exhibition of the
Virginia Poultry Association will be
held in Richmond on February ~, Il
and'22 A large number of entries have
already been made, and large number
of letters have been received making
inquiries in regard to the exhibition.
A disastrous freshet has occurred al
Sa cfamento, CAL, and vicinity, over
flowing outlying portions of the city te
the depth of two feet. The principal
damage, however, falls upon the far
mers and orchard owners for distance
Of 80 miles below the city, and is estima
ted at about 81 100000.
A colored man began abusing jailkeep
er Dawson at Memphis, Tenn, las
Tuesday for refusing to permit him t.
see prisoner, when Dawson fired hi
revolver at him. The bullet missed thu
the colored man, ana killed Cornelius
Griffings, grocer, who was standing II
his store two hundred yards distant.
! Last Sunday week at the Southern
M. Z. Church.. in Cambridge, Md
while in the midst Of his sermon, Rev
DIR. Lee, of Virginia, was suddenly at
tackled with Rright's disease of the kid
neys, and had to he conveyed to the re
sidence of Rev. J. ri. f'attes0n, his son
tth-,aW. At last accounts DR.. Lee wa
better.
DIR. w. F. Smith, prominent physi:.
clan of Berkeley county, commlt5ed SUI
Monday week. About s O'Clock, with
out anv intirnation of bis intent, he de
liberately walked into an Hnoccnpiet
room, and his family hearing the repor
of gun rushed In and found him wei
tering in his own blood. No cause TO
the suicide is assigned.
On Last Tuesday evening, while nj
Trepoff, Project of St. Petersburg, Rus
STA, was giving the usual audience TO
the reception of petitions, a woman fire.
upon him twice with a revolver. Tn
project was dangerously wounded b.,
one of the shots. The ball has not beer
extracted. The Emperor and Prime
Gortschakoff have visited him. Th
city is grately excited. The woman
who was Immediately arrested, pre-
serves complete SILENCE in regard to he
motives.
At Memphis, Tenn, sbout ! o'clecl
last Wednesday morning, officer Res
tememeyer, while on duty near tn
Mississippi and Tennessee depot, heart
a shot fired in shanty near by and tn
screams of woman. Running toward
the house the officer met Bob King, 6
notorious negro running out, and or
d dered him to halt. King instantly fire.
the bali striking the officer in tn
jaw. infiicting q fatal wound. # wa
afterwards aseertained that King hal
shot and fatally wounded Laura Burn
shilI, colored, and was fleeing whel
met by the officer.