Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-06-04
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K Capt. John p. Porter, of Highland
Y county, recently sheared five hundred
sheep, yielding him two thousand
n pounds of wool.
Il A looking glass has been in Con-
's necticut family one hundred and fifty
j. two years. 1t is either peaceable fam
lily or very thick glass.
- That the South has deadly designs
9 against the North is shown by the fact
. that seven car loads of cucumbers were
7 recently shipped from Jacksonville,
Florida.
!, Mrs. Margaret Wilson has obtained a
judgment for SO, ,666 against the city of
Y Wheeling for injuries received by falling
s into an unfinished sewer, which had
l., been left uncovered.
A number of colored men in Alabama
2 have successfully laid the foundation of
: : what promises to be an important South
: ern ndustry-namely, the cultivation
= of raw silk. This is better than Com
: munism or office-seeking.
Among the curious exhibits at the
: Paris Exposition are those of Norway.
4 She presents various tanned fish skins
j for gloves; that of the eel prepared for
e harness, and machinery bands sixty
. feet long from that of the whale.
Bob, the veritable sorre1 war-herse
! which St0newall Jackson was riding
; when he received his fatal wound, is
: still living, at the age of twenty-three,
, on the farm of brOther-in-law of the
. General, in Lincoln county, North Car
olina.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
Overruled Solicitor RaynOr's opinion.
and the suits against the Virginia Off
cials who were paid from State funds
drawn from the bank after the capture
of Richmond will, it is said, be prose-
cuted.
Rev. Father Keane will be consecrated
Bishop of Richmond. by Archbishop
Gibbons, in Baltimore Cathedral, about
the 9th of this month, it is thought
Cardinal McClosky, who sailed for New
York Saturday week, brings the bulls of
appointment. ga-
A fire in the vicinity of the burned
mills at Minneapolis, on Thursday, de-
stroy9d the Globe Planning Mill, the
largest in the State, with q capacity of
1OO, 900 feet daily. The owner is A. M.
Woodward, whose loss is $4,000, with
1000 insurance.
The grand jury of New York has Or
dered an indictment against the board
of aldermen-against the former for
willful neglect in issuing permits for
offensive manufactures and against the
latter for neglect of duty in issuing per,
mits for street distractions.
Fifty thousand children took part in
the parade OF the Brooklyn IN. W Sum
day School Union May 22nd. The city
was in holiday garb, all public build
ings:being elaborately decorated with
flags and streamers, and nearly every
being heavy with flags.
Mrs. Freedmen, of Gasconade county,
Mo-, while planting corn, placed bas-
ket containing $40 in greenbaeks by the
side of the field. A calf swallowed the
greenbaeks. TWAS Immediately butch
cred, and the fragments recovered from
the stomach were on May 22nd received
at the Treasury. Being found all right,
check was returned for the full amount.
Professor Conrad, of the Agricultural
speech stated that there was a student
now in the college who had walked
from Patrick county Ia distance of sixty
miles, with his shoemaker's tools upon
| his back, and who was attending regu.
larly all of his classes, and paying his
way by cobbling for his fellow.students
at leisure times.
On the Goth of July next will occur
an astronomical event of great interest
"a total eclipse of the sun-which will
be visible generally in the United States.
The eclipse will be visible from to 6
o'clock in the afternoon. The path of
totality in this eclipse runs diagonally
across the centre of the United States
from Montana to Texas, and is between
120 and $50 miles wide.
The latest suggestion, and it comes
from Blaine's home organ. is that the
republican party shall "ignore' the
greenback movement, along with the
other live issues of the day. Upon
which the Springfield Republican re-
marks that there really seems to be only
one plank that nobody proposes to leave
out and that is: Resolved, That we
want to keep the offices, and it is very
wicked in the other fellows to ask for
them."
The earthquake in Venezuela, men
ton of which has been made before, oc-
CURED on April 18th. The etown of Qua,
eight leagues from Caracas, was entirely
destroyed, as were all the surrounding
farms. The river Tuy became heated to
such degree that the fishes sought ref
uge outside of the water. The shocks
were felt in Caracas, and were the heav-
lest known since 1872. Property in
Caracas was destroyed to the amount of
100000.
Grace P. e. church, New York, has
been enlarged and a third organ of NAM
moth dimensions added; at the same
time an electric attachment has been
provided whereby the organist can op-
lnro 70 I'll II
ments together from the same key board,
notwithstanding they are at least $50
feet from each other. There are twenty
miles of wire in the various circuits.
The bellows and steam engine are both
placed in a building outside of the
church.
The following is from the schedule of
the premium list of the Virginia State
Agricultural Society: Horseback riding
by ladies being a wholesome exercise
and desirable accomplishment, the
sum of $3.50 is appropriated for first and
second premiums to the best lady riders
1.-The first premium being lady's sad
die, bride and whip; and the second
riding hablt-the articles to be selected
by winners. The testssswill be the usual
gaits of horseback riding, and the grace
IN sitting and controlling the animal.
Inc company appointed for the revis-
ION OF the Old Testament met at West
minister, London, England, on Satur-
day, April 18th, and continued their
work to the end of the first chapter of
Esther: The company have now re-
vlsed the accepted English version of
the historical books from Genesis to Ne
hemlah, inclusive; the Psalms, Isaiah,
jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Ho-
sea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah and jonah
The New Testament Company of Re-
visers held their seventy-ninth session
in the Jerusalem Chamber, London.
on Tuesday, April 9th, and proceeded
to the second revision of the Epistle to
the Corinthians.
1t is curious and exhilarating Spec
tacle in the cathedral of Seville, during
3 the celebration of mass, to see a number
. of hOVS in cooked hats knaa.hrooaLos os