Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-05-28
Personal and General.

Mrs. Leon Lewis, the novelist, is dead.
Georgia peaches are being shipped to
New York.
Cardinal McCloskey has returned to
New York.
bio Lewis is suffering from congestion
OF the brain and paralysis, at Oakland
California.
Thomas J. Clay, grandson of Henry
Clay, is soldier in the regular army in
Texas.
Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, has
large Interests in the ice business at Gal
weston, Texas.
The first bar of steel ever manufacture
ed in the south was rolled last week at
mill in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Schuyler Colfax will go to San Fran
cisco in June, and Henry Ward Beecher
Wilt go in August.
Murat Halstead and G. G. Fulton of
the Baltimore american, have been
doing" the Paris Exhibition together.
It is said that Gen. Longstreet has
| made sugg estion to Senator Kellogg
looking toward the placing of himself
and Jefferson Davis on the pension rolls.
Prof Spencer Fulleston Baird has been
| elected by the Board of Regents Secre-
| tary of the Smithsonian Institute made
vacant by the recent death of Prof. Hen
| ry.
The personal estate of the late William
| Orion, president of the Western Tele-
graph Company, does not exceed $780,
600.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg was born
in Sumter, s. G. Her mother is a native
of that State. Her father is a NORTHERN
man. The home of her parents is in
| Connecticut.
The receipts of the music festival in
Cincinnati which closed Saturday after
noon, footed up about $4,000. The to-
tai expenses were about $4,000.
Bishop Bowman, of st. Louis, who is
on tour around the world to inspect
the missions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, sailed for Europe on Wednes.
day by the steamer Nederland, from
Philadelphia,
Governor Hampton, of South Caro-
lima, has restored to the widow of Gen
eral Custer field glass belonging to the
deceased soldier, which was captured by
some of Hsmpton's men at the battle OF
Brandy Station during the late war;
Mary Anderson slipped white step
ping from carriage at Hartford the 9th
er day and sustainad a slight but painful
sprain. The young tragedienne ex-
claimed with tragic intensity: "On, my
prophetic soul, my ankle!"
Official figures show the grand total OF
the Presbyterian Church force OF the
United States to be 9,02S ministers, H.
102 congregations, with l 1852 $3.50 men,
bers, making in one year contributions
in money for religious purposes to the
sum of $14 1872, 198-nearly SIS to each
cemmunicant in whole country.
Miss Mary Anderson's father was a
captain in the Confederate army, and
fell, CALAMITY fighting for the cause of
the South. Exchange.
And the daughter has been just as gal
lantly and bravely engaged in paying
off his debts by the first earnings of her
professional career, while supporting "a
large maternal establishment" Rich.
State.
| We gould spread this on the record OF
every Southern State, and perpetuate it
in printers ink while she lives, and in
marble when she dies. Country and
blood will tell.-Lyaach. Ne,0s.
A granite shaft for the Confederate
monument at Memphis, Tenn, has been
shipped from Richmond, Va, where it
was prepared by the Richmond Granite
Company from stone obtained near that
city. The column is divided into thir-
teen pieces and weighs SO, 700 pounds
One section of the shaft measures fifteen
feet. When put up the whole column
will be unveiled with appropriate cere-
monies on Sunday, June 2, at which
time General Humes will deliver an ora
ton.