Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-08
Personal and General.

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"The sacrament of adultery Sophie
Arnould called divorce.
Queen Victoria asked the King of
Siam if he would like to be decorated,
and the old fellow said: Eyes, if you'll
take me as SIAM" ESQ
Grand Duke Michael is SO tall that
] when he kneels in prayer on the battle
field his head appears two feet above
the heads of his staff s,-,ls-
A wooden canal is to be run through
the Pittsburg Exposition building, in
order that the various models for i'm
proving the Ohio river may be advan-
tageously displayed.
A laborer in Naples, N. Y, recently
raked up a rattlesnake in bundle of
grain, when it protruded its head close
to his face. He seized it by the neck
and held it until fellow laborer killed
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The old Court House in Plymouth,
Mass, in which Daniel Webster made
his first plea, has been repaired by Hon.
II. w. Blair, and presented by him to
the Young Ladies' Library Association,
of Plymouth.
| The appraisers of the estate of the
late William s. O'Brien, of San Fran
CISCO, filed their report Thursday. The
estate is valued at over nine million six
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ex-
elusive of mining stocks.
James Russell (colored) charged with
an attempt to commit rape upon Mrs.
Jackson. was taken from Jail at Muir
freesboro' at an early hour Thursday
morning and hanged By mob one mile
from the town. There was some doubt
of his guilt. ..-
A Mr.. Benton is travelling through
California taking contracts to destroy
the squirrels which have hitherto been
so formidable plague to the farmers
The Los Angeles Herald says that sat
the rancho of r. T. Buell. he killed 49,
47O-7.4O 400 in one day; at J. S. Bell's'
10000; at the Sturgis Brothers, 1000; at
s. P. Stoves, 5000; at w. w. Hollis
ter's, 2,700. t.fIaf b.ltl..r
A Cincinnati dispatch states that
James Mullen, a wealthy farmer and
bachelor, near Cover, Mo-, was found
Saturday morning lying near his barn
dead. The body was frightfully man
eaten off the bones by hogs. The sup
position is that he fell from the barn
loft, breaking his neck. His horses and
cattle were tied in the barn and nearly
starved when discovered.
The New York papers all gave long
obituaries of James A. Hamilton, only
ton, who died early on Tuesday morn
ing at his country house, Irvington- on
the Hudson, of old age. He was born
in New York city the 18th of April,
1888. He had a remarkable memory,
and recollected all the circumstances of
the duel between his father and Aaron
Burr.
Ex- Secretary Boutwell, has written a
letter declining to be candidate for
Congress in Massachusetts "My for
tune, never but moderate, has been di-
minished rather than increased during
the last fifteen years of my public life.
AS the shadows of age begin to fall up
on me feel more than ever before the
duty of making some further provision
for my family if, honorably, it can be
done"
At Johnstown, N. Y, Solomon f.
Hubbs, forty five years old, CONNER
cial traveller and a member of highly
respected family of Montgomery county,
n. Y, was arrested on charge of hav-
ing obtained goods in Oneida county
under false pretenses. He was impris-
oned in the Montgomery county Jail
Thursday night, and committed sui
eide about three O'Clock Friday morn
ing by opening the arteries of both
arms with razor. Family pride
prompted this act.
A dispatch from Rome, Michigan,
states that on Saturday week large
To- l. I'll L.
coming enraged at MoltZman's daugh-
ter Ebna, seized her, threw her down,
and began chewing her thigh. Ethel
Hodges, young lady, who was in the
house, ran out and endeavored to make
the brute release his hold, but instead
he ran into his kennel, carrying the
child with him. Ethel picked up a
large stone. rushed into the kennel and
succeeded in extricating the child from
the animals jaws. Large pieces of the
child's thigh had aready been torn off,
| and the surgeon gives little hope of her
| life being saved. M
The Baltimore Gazette: Congressman
Acklen, who is not only the handsomest
member of the House, but the finest
pistol shot in the South, is in trouble
again. H. l.. Smith, of New Orleans,
charges that Acklen seduced a daugh-
ter of Elk Governor Baker, who gave
birth to child, and then compelled her
to marry one of his political strikers,
who received $500 for his share in the
tragedy. Smith claims that the woman
was an inmate of his house until few
weeks ago, when she died of yellow fe-
yer. Smith is now down with the dis
ease himself and further Investigation
is postponed pending his illness. This
exceeds the Welcker restaurant scandal
even as the calcium light exceeds the
tallow dip.