Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-19
Personal and General.

Personal and General.
. Swinburne is heir to a baronetcy.
The latest Paris travelling dress is of
sand color.
Watterson gets $500 for editing the
Courier Journal.
Mrs. Daisy Mats, of Mexico, NO.. is
admitted to the bar.
"Idiot fringe" a vigorous Western edi-
tor calls banged hair.
X An Indiana State prisoner of 2 years.
standing has never told his name.
r. III. Stoddard, the poet, writes with
his left hand the other is paFalyzed.
Miss Jessie Randolph, of Virginia, is
rising theatrical star in New York.
The Emperor of Japan has commits
stoned an italian artist to paint Presi-
dent Hayes's portrait. if
The county of Decatur, Indiana, has
elected young blind man, Mr.. John @.
Donnell, to the State Legislature.
Business is rapidly improving at
Memphis and the general aspect in COM
mercial circles is most encouraging.
An old woman in North Carolina
ASAA sSuS q low Ony . 0SOS at IAO org Au VA q
railroad train, the first she had ever
seen. efHs ssttos bGe afH n9
Lord Justice Christian, Of the Court
of Appeal, in ireland, has resigned on
account of increasing dizziness Of his
hearing. = haHot ~ oi
According to salesman of experience
in one of the largest houses in that city,
the average New York woman wears q
81 shoe.
Colonel T. Scott Stewart, nephew of
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, died in Lon
don, Friday. ~ a.as
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the
novelist, whose home is at Mobile, is
visiting Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt in
New York. ve..r p9y ~ Boz
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has thus far
received the highest number of votes for
gold-mounted sword at the Cathedral
fair in New York. Ttqrla = '9*'i.
A niece of Thomas Carlyle, Miss E..
A, Hanning, has just been married at
Hamilton, Ont, to an English gentle
man, Mr.. J. M. Franklin.
The steamship, Gallia, constructed at
Glasgow, Scotland, for the Curnard line,
between Liverpool and New York was
launched on the 18th inst.
The subscriptions in Glasgow to the
fund for the relief of the City of Glas-
gov Bank shareholders have reached
e93, 900 and in Edinburg e27, 900.
A communion service was celebrated
in Bridgeport with brandy instead of
wine, the druggist having made blum
der In filling the order for sherry.
Miss Maggie Mitchell has adopted the
two orphan children of her brother,
John Mitchell, who with his wife and
two children, died recently at Memphis.
There are enough spindles within
twenty miles of Atlanta, Ga, to consume
ten thousand bales of cotton annually,
the city proper having one factory alone
employing six hundred hands.
A fire at the State Lunatic Asylum at
Milledgeville, Ga, destroyed several out
buildings and store houses. No accident
occurred to the inmates, but there was
much excitement. Loss about $4,000.
It is stated that the Pope will make a
direct appeal to the Gar on behalf Of
the Polish Catholics, and if the appeal
be fruitless, will issue an encyclical let
ter denouncing the conduct of Russia.
Mr.. William M. Evarts has twelve
children. When. asked the number
however, he replied: "Well, there are
five or six here, and eight or nine up in
Vermont, as near as l can remember
r In the United States Court at New
York the action of the Government a.
gainst Samuel j. Tilden, to recover al.
legged unpaid revenue tax, was again
gone over for the term by agreement Of
counsel.
The Marchioness De Montholan, for
merly well known in Richmond, where
her husband was French Consul, has
lust died In Rome. 1t is believed, she
was daughter of Gen. Gratlot, of the
United States Army.
John Bright's daughter has just been
married to son of the late Admiral Cur.
~. The ceremony was that used by the
Society of Friends. The bride, being
still in mourning for her mother, wore
g dress and Bonnet of gray satin.
Lyman Lowell of Brighton, Mich u he
9th inst, young man of twenty foul
instant death. He had just returned
from trip to Virginia. Disappoint-
ment in love affairs is said to have caus
ed him to take his own life.
During the recent engineering opera.
lions for the prevention of foundations
in the Jura, the lake of Neuchatel has
become so shallow that the steam navi-
cation is conducted with great difficulty.
Meanwhile the shrinkage of the lake is
bringing to light some interesting anti.
quarian relics. A splendid canoe, in a
perfect state of preservation and up.
wards of twenty-five feet long, has been
found near Estavayarle Lac. Other
equally iEpartant discoveries are look
ed for. m a ~ fia7
An investigation by the authorities OF
the Central Lunatlc Asylum, at Column
bus, O., has shown that fer some months
| certain attendants have been in the
habit of dpeking patients for violation
of rules, and, as this is in violation OF
the course Of treatment, ten female at
PENDANTS, residents of Columbus, have
been discharge, and the investigation
still continues. The superintendent de-
clares that he has only known of this
practice of ducking for few days, and
intends to discharge all attendants who
have engaged in the cruel procedure.
|
IMPORTANT ACTION OF THE New
November 12.-The clearing. house to-
day decided upon the following plan of
| action;
| First, They decline receiving. gold
coins as special deposit, but to accept and
treat them as lawful money.
| Second. To abolish the special ex-
change of gold-checks at the clearing
| house. .r..- ..,.,5..
Third. To pay and receive the bal
ance between banks at the clearing
house either in gold or in United States
legal tender.
Fourth. To receive silver dollars up
on deposit only under special contract
| to withdraw the same in kind.
Fifth To nrOhibit navmenfs Of hall