Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-11-05
Personal and General.


A Maryland farmer has sold $500
worth Of chestnuts.
Thesoft money man always has hard
money pocket.-N. O. Pic.
A Georgia negro killed his father be-
cause he would not lend him mule.
On the 10Th ult., snow fell to the depth
OF twelve inches at Manister, Michigan.
In Germany they have trichina in
surahce company, and the hogs are hap
py.
The Germans grind their finest flour
with glass mill stones and eat it with
paper teeth.
"A Western woman has lost two hus-
bands by lightning. She ought to mar
ry conductor.-Er.
An English agricultural paper reports
q farmer as having planted 600 varieties
OF potatoes the past season.
The President will soon issue q pro-
c!amation recommending Thursday,
November %, as day of thanksgiving.
The funeral procession of Cardinal
Cullen at Dublin, Sunday, embraced ten
thousand persons, and it was witnessed
by sixty Thousand.
The loss by the yellow fever through
the destruction of crops by neglect, stop
page OF trade, and minor causes, is esti-
mated at 5000, OOO,O 900.
The ratio of taxation in New York
city for the current year has been fixed
by the board of aldermen at 81 IS on the
500 of valuation.
The California grape crop this season
Is the largest ever gathered, and prepare
tons have been made to cure million
pounds of raisins.
A Sandman mare has lately made five
hundred and eighty miles in ten days,
on wager. We regret to learn that the
rider still lives.
An elephant butted the end out of q
car on Kentucky railroad, fell with his
forelegs astride the couplings, broke his
tusks and had foot cut of.
A Western editor thus kindly alludes
to contemporary HE is young yet,
but he can sit at his desk and brush
cobwebs from the ceiling with his ears"
Corn is selling for % cents per bushel
in Kansas City, Mo-; wheat 70 cents per
bushel; oats, IS cents. The farmers
make sad complaints of these prices.
Nellie Keller, of Logansport, Ind, is
IL years of age, weighs only twelve
pounds. and is twenty-six inches in
height. She is well proportioned and
interesting.
A negro seventy years old and weigh
ing over three hundred pounds started
last summer to walk from Louisiana to
Oregon. He has reached his destina-
ton.
They have found tree in the Yose-
mite Valley that measures over one hum
dred feet around the butt, and it Is pro-
posed to make chair bottom of the butt
and present it to David Davis.
United States Minister Bayard TayloS,
has been recently ill with dropsy, affec-
ting his kidneys ana liver. An opera
ton had been performed and late ac-
counts represent him as convalecent.
During the entertainment Monday
evening 2sth, at Booths Theatre, New
York, General Beauregard entered one
of the boxes and the band called atten-
ton to the fact by playing Dixie" and
Way down upon the Swanee River"
Bailiffs at Preston, England, lately
interrupted a funeral with 4 distress for
rent, and attempted to seize the corpse
| of the widows late husband, but they
were finally driven off by the afflicted
friends and relatives.
Prince Bismarck Is said to take much
| better care of his life since it was at
tempted by Kullmann. When in Berlin
| he confines himself almost absolutely to
| his house and garden, which are care
fully watched at all times by policemen
in plain clothes.
Gen. w. w. Averill, the famous cav
alrynan Of the Virginia campaigns, is
the anti-Tammany candidate in the
eighth congressional district of New
York against Lawrence r. Jerome.