Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-03

Packet boat from Lynchburg to Jordan's
Landing, and from Lexington
to Rope Ferry on the End of September
This will necessitate q transfer of only
24 miles from Rope Ferry to Jordan's
Furnace Landing. The contractors ex-
pect to have the water on for passage of
boats from Lynohburg through to Lex
ington about September 15th.-Lynch-
burg Nes0s.
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Personal and General.
Senior Galvez, the Peruvian Minister
to England is dead.
Marshal Bazaine has written a book
concerning his escape from Fort Mar
guerite.
In 1878 we exported only 10000, 900
yards of cotton goods last year we ex.
ported Ill, OOO, 900 yards.
At San Francisco a Chinaman sued
the county sheriff for cutting off his
queue the other day and won his suit.
Miss Jeanette Rennett's marriage,
which will take place early in Septem-
Der, is to be a gorgeous affair.
Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise are visiting their German cousins
prior to their departure for Canada.
Theodore Thomas is to receive salary
of sl0, 400 year for five yearsas director
of the Cincinnati College Of Music.
The Congressman who sent home the
most seeds will reap the richest harvest
in October.-NeaO York Express.
The steamer China, arrived at San
Francisco, brings news OF the death of
the infant prince imperial of Japan.
Lord Beaconsfield eagerly reads every
thing pertaining to the life and times of
Canning, the statesman of George Tvs
reign.
Anna Dickinson is about to settle
down IN Philadelphia, and her brother
~ lovers don't know whether to feel
hon red or not.
A Rome dispatch says: The religious
enthusiast LaZarette, was seriously
wounded but not dead. His disciples are
preparing to announce his resurrection.
Ex-Empress Eugene is living at vi
emma under the title of Countess de Pier
refonds, and there is a rumor that she is
to marry, some favored individual not
indicated.
Prof. Chas. e. Dwight, of Wheeling,
w. a., Aao "SVoAuPlASucu tue lctat VI
making thlrty-nine consecutive bulls
eyes at eight hundred yards with the
rife.
A wealthy Ohio farmer has been ar
rested for whipping his daughter with a
cowhide. The Ohio ideal seems to be
that young women must be made to
obey, - ~ " '.'-'
Samuel Harper, a heavy reel estate
owner and prominent citizen Of Ann
vile, Pa, has been sentenced to one
year and eight months imprisonment in
the penitentiary for arson.
1t is reported in court circles at Berlin
that the King OF the Netherlands is a.
bout TO Pa married to his niece, the
Duchess Elizabeth Of Saxony, daughter
of the Grand Duke Of SAKE WeimaT.
DR.. Cuyler says it is not wise for a
clergyman to spend too much time at
tions the fact that the Morrissey club
house is still In FIJI! blast.
It is authoratively stated that the En-
glish Radicals of Southwark intend to
nominate Miss Helen Taylor, q niece o.
the late John Stuart Mill, for member
of Parliament.
Grant told the King of Norway that
he thought the Norwegian women were
the prettiest he'd seen, but the old man
tod the General that he wasn't using
soft soap this yr rcr
A match for $500 side, to be rowed
on or about October |, has bsel made
between Courtney and Hanlon. Sheriff
Harding, of st. John, N. B. will be the
referee, and the distance five miles, with
turn; locality yet to be fixed.
German immigration is setting in
with stronger current than ever. The
July arrivals at New York numbered
1850, $3.50 more than in the same
month last year, most of them peasants
bringing money to buy farms in the
AS soon as the neighborleda Of San
Stefano is evacuated, the British feet
will probably leave the Princess Islands,
but will nGt 60 beyond Gallipoli until
the Russians shall have retired within
the boundaries Of eastern Roumeiia.
Fbe match between the Princess
Thyra AND the PRINCE Imperial is said
to be off, but as the yppng princess is
reported as being desperately ip love
with the young Napoleon, it is quite
probable that the marriage may yet 0c-
cur.
Thomas Mast is said to be in London
getting up ideas for bis Harper cartoon.
Mast, however, is rapidly going TO the
rear. Keppler, the Puck man, q genius
with a muci better and clearer psrcep
ton of real humor, is rapidly sHpplant-
ing him.
The New Orleans school directors dis
themselves by resolving that
the female teachers who marry during
shall lose their places. Their
theory is that married women have a
and should giye way to their
Sisters who have none.
The Austrian police have surrendered
to the Rernsse s1thorities, Swiss lady
who under the name OF a Russian couh-
tess, CajewRsks, has sold false jewelry
to the amount of one million francs
during the past three years at Paris,
Nice, MoEaco and other fashionable re-
sorts.
Bismarck had himself weighed in
scale chair as Kissengen recently, and
found that his weight was something
,yer two hundred and forty.tl1ree
pounds, gain of thirteen pounds since
asst year. "Tao much, too much ~ he
yrowled, as he gave the man thaleF.
Since the death Of the late Queen of
spain King Alfonso has corresponded
with his mother, the ex
queen Isabella. At the same time the
1isit of his three sisters at Madrid is said
o have been brought about by him in
rides to remove them from their moth
RS influence,
The real reason for the somewhat pre-
nature retirement Of the Grand Duke
Nicholas has just transpired in st. Pc
ersbufg. be 10 accused of fraudulent
in connection with the com.
aissary contractors by which he'll
nqasseq 2 large sum of money: Several
enerals and other inferior officers con-
ected with the proceeding are to be