Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-08-20
Personal and General.

queen lsaOella Jewels brought SSN,-
COG.
Cardinal McCloskey will officiate at
Miss Jeanette Benefits marriage.
Cough will make his first temperance
lecture in England in Surgeons big
tabernacle.
John S. Hoyt, of Michigan, has been
appointed Governor of the Territory Of
Idaho.
President Hayes has accepted an invi-
tation to visit Orange G. II. and Mont
pelier some time during October.
The poems and prose works of the late
Sarah Helen Whitman will be collected
and published in separate volumes.
Mrs. Prentiss, the wife of Rev. DR..
Prentiss, and author of Stepping Heav-
enward," died Tuesday morning at Dor
set, VT
Prince Bismarck signed the treaty of
Her.in with an eagles quill, ornament
ed with a silver figure of an angel of
peace.
The New Haven Register oommends
kearney's eloquenCe if the plain work
led by bloated astronomer,
Senator Beck, who weighs 232 pounds
and has never taken dose of medicine
in his life. has gone out to the nlains on
hunting expedition.
Raleigh Observer: Punk Johnson, a
first cousin of the late Andrew, Presi-
dent of the United States, died on re-
Gently in hhamkatte. He died in state
of utter restitution.
Lieutenant Greene, the American
Military Attache at the Russian head
quarters has received the Order of ST.
Nladilit toI being with turkO at the
massage of the Balkan.
Haeaei, tia would be assassia CT tue
Empe.of WILLIAM, allowed the limit OF
time during which he can avail himself
of a writ OF error to pass without taking
any proceedings.
Capt. i. ii. Magkhaul'a "Great Frozen
Sea" being 4 personal narrative of the
voyage Of the Alert during the Arctic
expedition of 1879 Is, is on the eve of is
sue in London.
The fate Of a recent religious neWs%a-
per enterprise u. Ci,iLag0 INDUCES its
protector &c rvnafk with SOME aceFbity :
CHOW let the devil forecl0se on this town
rs soon as he wants to-
General Butler denies he has deserted
the Republican party, but no take5
aiGn20tGia onnGgitiC.a il the parry OIL the
financial question. lie says l[earncy IS
not endorsed by him.
It Is said that President Hayes has
scandaliZed fashionable Washington by
going to church in an alapaca coat,
though the public must admit that he
was thus enabled to think more of the
ORD and ieas IL. ting tl,er.nolnuter.
4 vote Was taken in Cincinnati last
week Oil the question Of issuing s., 00O, =
Gee bonds for completing the Cincinnati
Southern railroad and for confirming
the contract to complete the road. The
total vote 1;.at Was y, el4; majority il
favor Of the measure $50.
notwithstanding various contraiic-
tons of the intended marriage of the
French Prince Imperial with Princess
Thyra, the Constitutional reiterates the
statement that the marriage has been ar
ranged with the consent OF tie Hing OF
Denmark, and Insists UpOn the au-
theniicity of its information.
Captain James b. EaG5, who is now
stopping at Saratoga, on Monday receiv-
ed from the hand of the Brazilian
minister, Carvallo Borges, an autograph
letter from Emperor Dom Pedro, con-
gratGiat;n;. him on hi2 engineering ex-
PLOTS, especially the Mississippi lefty,
and inviting him to visit Brazil.
On last Tuesday Ella Chase, woman
of extraordinary physique, known as the
Indian doctress. was killed in bed. at
the side OF her husband, W. II. Chase,
at savannah, Ga, by the discharge of
his pistol, which be states at her inquest
he gave her to examine. The bail enter
Ell her left ear, producing instant death
The verdict Of the coroner's Jury was
accidental snoatinn.
The delegates elect OF the working
mems party 10 the California State con
stitutiOnal convention have drawn I'D
and forwarded to the President and See
rotary of State Mt Washington a mem
oria! setting forth the evils of Chinese
emigration, and requesting the Presi-
dent and Secretary to take inlmediete
steps to obtain tie ahrogation OF The
Burlingame treaty.
Some forty years since the most pop
ular song of the day was "Old Rosin the
Bow" 1t was written by Col. w. H.
Sparks, formerly of NatcheZ, and was
called "Old Rossum, the Beau Old
Rossum was particular friend of the
Colonel, is now about eighty-threey years
of aye, and it is said, lives on his plan-
tatiOn in Louisiana. His cid song is d
gain becoming popular.
General Grant arrived at St. Peters,
burg on the morning July 80. Minis
ter StoughtOn met him and the two had
a smoke. GOrtschakof called i'll the
evening. Next day Grant sailed over
e. - "nof - -hr is,11,arini 1-n"ht aud
cfatted with the Gar. 1t is said that
the General will swing around tc Hin
d0atEn, in November. Most oil men
have the vulgar ambition of either con-
quering Or going round the world, and
that's probably what's the matter with
Ulysses.
The Chinese Six Companies at San
Francisco pronounce 1.-THE dispatches
froj.l Chicago in reteranoe 10 the employ
ment Of Chinese shoemakers as untrue
in every particular. They declare that
they have never rs yet contracted for or
let the labor of one of their c0untrymen :;
that they neither have the power or de
sire to do &c, and that they have had no
communication with Chicago, nor is
any one authorized to act for them in
the procurement OF laborers. They de
clare further that their countrymen carr,
from twenty-five to forty dollars per
month ct shoemaking in San Francisco,
anu that thirty dollars would not induce
one of them to so to Chicago.
Lord Beaconstield, when departing
from Berlin. left $3.50 to be distributed
among the servants Of the Kaiserhof,
the hotel where ne stopped. This hotel
reaped cutie q harvest fram the congress.
The stall OF the English embassy, who
inhabited nearly all the front rooms OH
the first floor, had to pay altogether a
bout $40 900, or about $3.50 per day. In
Guiding the officials and servants attach
ed to Lords Heaconsfield and Salisbury,
numbering ahpu. fifty, sixty three
rooms had been taken by the British
delegates at the Kaiserhof. The premier,
occupying some really magnificent
apartments, was charged $1,000 His
l0rdship, whose table was always fur
nished with the delicacies of the season,
wee ve"y well satisfied with the catering
of the 1uanager, whom he specially
thanked on leaving the hotel