Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-08-13

The special treasury agent at Chicago
writes to the Treasury Department that
large invoices of kid gloves are coming
through the mails without the payment
OF duty. To make the packages value
less II selected by the revenue agents
right hand gloves are sent in one pack
age and left hand gloves in another.
The German revenue for the last fiscal
year Is fifteen million marks below the
estimates, the excise having suffered
from the depression of the trade. The
deficit is covered by savings from the
French indemnity. The Russian Min
lister OF Finance is said to have devised
plan for q rapid increase of indirect
taxation.
A heavy thunder storm visited Sche-
nectady, August 9th. The German
Odd Fellows were holding q picnic in
Tivoli Park at the time. They sought
refuge in q building on the grounds,
which was struck by lightning, stun
ming Is person, of whom were seri-
ously, though not fatally injured.
The ambuscades OF the Austrian
troops in Bosnia have caused much in
dignation in Vienna, and the opinion
is gaining ground that the Turkish au-
thorities are promoting the instruction
or that the Porte has lost all power OF
controlling either the Inhabitants or the
troops. Some of the soldiers have
joined the insurgents.
DR.. Carver, the glass rifle.shot,
spent thrilling and thoroughly dime
novel youth. His father, mother,
brothers, and sister, were massacred
by the Sioux in Minnesota, and he taken
captive, to be brought up in the tribe
| A life of nineteen years as q nomad with
the rifle, his most loved companion,
gave him the wonderful skill recently
exhibited.-Philadelphia Times.
Six hundred Journeyman shoemakers
of Chicago have struck for an advance
of wages from 50 to $12. They have re.
fused an offer of the employees to com.
promise for $1O.5 so per week. The EN-.
pl0yers declare that it is liberal price
the best they can offer, and that if it i.
not accepted they can and will get theil
work done in the East and at less prices
There are one thousand shoemakerG
of this class in Chicago, and those whl
have not already struck threaten to de
SO. The strike includes all the leading
wholesale houses.
One of the incidents of the recent So
lar eclipse expedition will be to famil-
iarize the newspaper reading public
of this country with the names o
our own learned and skilled astr0no-
mers and scientists, and with the fac
that we have Americans that rank il
those fields of researchswith the grea
men Of Europe. Draper, Newc0mb
Rutherford, Barker, Morton, Watson
and their companions are worthy com
peers of Alfrey, Higgins, Proctor, Lock
yer and others Of the distinguished as
tronomers ard physicists of Europe
whose names we hear with such fire.
quency, and whom the learned worlt
bold In such high respect.
Friday afternoon week terrific tor
nado, surprising in fury any blow
known for years. passed over the Ply
mouth section of North Carolina, accom-
panied by an extraordinary fall of hail
causing great destruction to various de-
scriptions of valuable property. M
merous frame houses and all sorts o
fencing were Frustrated, the larges
trees were uprooted, valuable live stool
killed aud great damage done to tn
growing corn and other crops. Ii
Plymouth Baptist church was blown
down and other houses damaged. On tn
large plantation of Col. Asa johnson
just outside Of the town, all the negr,
quarters, barns, stables and every vari
ETY. of outbuilding was swept away, ant
only the strongest and heaviest portion
J of the stately mansion were left stand
ing. All that section of country in tn
path of the tornado suffered similarly