Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-07-02
Personal and General.

Charles Read has written a new play
For Clara Morris, which she is now
studying.
Christian X. Ross, the father of Char
lie Ross. has been appointed Postwar
den of Philadelphia.
Alex. Burns attempted suicide in At
lanta by cutting his throat because his
sweetheart rejected him.
Gen. Grant will spend the coming
winter in Europe, and return to the
United States by way of India in the
spring.
The President of the French Geo.
Society has presented the
cross of the Legion of Honor to Henry
NJ. Stanley.
Bryant never liked Beecher. He
thought he was vain, vacillating, selfish,
and in the Tilton business guilty. Hence
Beecher's slurs about the pagan poem.
Flags were ordered at half mast on all
government buildings in the Dominion
of Canada, in consequence of the death
of the Queen of Spain.
Lord Russell was very careless about
his business affairs, 1t is said that he
did not know whether his yearly ex-
penses were 81 500 or SIS, 900, but thought
lit was fifteen something"
Miss Eliza G. Ball, daughter of Thos.
Ball, the eminent American sculptor,
has been married at Florence, Italy, to
William Cowper, of Norfolk, Va,
promising young sculptor.
Out of one hundred and seven arpli-
cants for admission to the United States
Military Academy, at West Point, N.
Y, only twenty-seven were rejected,
which is unusual.
In view of the testimony of the Lou
isiana witnesses-Anderson and the
Jenks'-Ananias and Sapphire will GER
| tainly have 10 step down and out as the
champion liars of history.
J A daughter of Brigham Young has
lately married man who, during her
fathers life time, had the care of his
horses. She is young, pretty. and has
SIC, 900.
| Rev. John Bowling, a well-known
Baptist divine, of New York, and au-
thor of the 'Histnry of Romanism,"
has been sent to an insane asylum. His
malady was caused by fall similar to
that which caused the death of William
Cullen Bryant.
Henry A. Parr has been arrested In
Boston by United States officers on a
warrant for murder committed on board
the steamer Chesapeake, while on the
passage FROM New York to Portland,
December 5th, 1858. Farr was one OF
the seventeen passengers who took pos.
session of the vessel in the name Of the
\ Confederate States of America, shooting
the second engineer and throwing his
body overheard.
The mother of Winnie Ream, now
Mrs. Lieutenant Hoxie, says that Vim
ME, the youngest of her children, was
bonn ct Madison, Wisconsin. At that
time there were many Iuaians in the
vicinity, and the baby, with its straight
hair, coal-black eyes, and sallow skin
looked so much like veritable papoose
that la mere was positively ashamed Of
it ct first, and unwilling to show it 10
her friends.
: The New York police commissioners
have very sensibly issued an order pro.
, hibiting the usual display of pyrotech-
parks of that city. In accordance with
this the aldermen will forego the GUS
tomary appropriations for that purpose
thus saving good many thousands Of
dollars to the taxpayers, and at the
same time diminishing the perils to life
and property.
A single hair from a boy eight years
: OF age, says Robinson, in his Essays on
Natural Economy, supported q weight
of 1872 grains; one from man aged
! twenty-five, IA, 2S5 grains, and the hail
, of man of fiftyseven, 1922 Musch
erhroeck found that's human hair, fifty.
seven tiiles thicker than a siik-worm's
: thread, would supposi veIsht of ZOOS
grains. A part of this eXtraOrdinay5
strength is undoubtedly due to the higt
degree of elasticity it possesses.
| The wedding ceremony of Mr.. Geo
Nicholson, one Of the proprietors of thu
widow Of the late Col. x <. II. Hoibpoos
2 came off at st. Pauls church. New Or
, leans, last Thursday evening. Mrs
Hqlbrook is, perhaps better known by
the non. Rs plume of Pearl Rivers,
: and is regarded Gy nAny as one of the
| favorite poets OF the South. She is 6
Mississippian, as Is also Mr.. Nicholson
and both are now associated in the join
publication of the Picayuste.
Ex-senator Alcorn is made defendan
in a curious law suit A former private
e secretary las sued him for breach o
. contract, laying the damage at sS,849 ae
The plaintiff claims that, previous t.
being elected Governor of Mississippi
Mr.. Alcorn engaged him to perform va
riovs services, promising him half biz
salary as Governor. if elected, and ate
that half his salary As United States
/ Senator, in case that desirc Of his hear
, were realized. He claims that b.
served him in both Offices, that he wrot'
the Governors address and the Sena
tors speeches, and that in payment h
received only quarter instead of hal
: of the statesnsaG's salaries.
> Queen Mercedes of Spain died at Mad
, rid on Wednesday, The 26th of June
The announcement Of the death o
+, the Queen of Spain was received will
profound sorrow and sympathy through
out Europe. The feeling in Spain al
most approached CONSERVATION. Foi
several days the palace in which thu
Queen lay dying was the centre of Wig
liant and incessant inquiries. Hopes
were raised at the crisis of the Queens
, disease that her vigorous constitution
might triumph over the complication
1 ed, but her condition was made doubly
, perilous by the fact that she was expect
ed to become mother before the end o
the year, and finally became hopeless. :
She died about noon, in the arms of th'
t King and surrounded by the royal fam
lily. The president Of the medical fac
ulty of the royal palace, in his bulletin
!, announcing to the president of thu
council! of ministers the death of Queer
Mercedes, attributes the painful even
J to nervous gastric fever, accompanied
by severe intestinal hemorrhaEe.
The wheat crop is already being har
vested in many parts of the country
and it 10 estimated that the yield will
reach 400, 000,0 bushels, or ten bushels
f for every man, woman and child in the
country, if the population be forty mil
lions. All the grain crops look prom
ising. The potato crop in most of the
States will be of immense magnitude,
though 1t has been damaged in some
parts of the country by excessive ruins.
The grass crop is tho heaviest we have
had for many years, the days of storm
in the early spring having favored its
growth. The yield of apples and pears
| will be less than was expected. The
severe frosts that occurred during the
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