Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-08
General News Items.

1ue TeUeFlck hOllluay ArClllefy
Company, recently organized at Win
chester, has disbanded.
By direction Of the President, First
Lieut.. James M. ingalls,. First Artille-
ry, is detailed as professor of military
science and tactics at the West Virginia
University, Morgantown. w. Va.
Philip Martz, of Monroeville, Allen
county. Indiana. was married on Thurs
day and gave wedding reception on
Friday night. A number of unlimited
guests gave the couple ''belling," or
'calithumpian serenade," whereupon
the friends of Martz fired into the crowd
wouuding nine persons, the most seri-
ously hurt being Chas. Scar, c. N. Co.
verdale and John Heller. Two of the
firing party, John Moses and N. B.
Krause, were arrested.
Mrs. Mary Adams, who died in Pitts
burg last week, left George P. Burdett,
anewsboy on the Pennsylvania railroad,
$1,000 in money and farm of l25 acres
in Ohio.
A frightened team backed wagon
containing Mrs. Morris Goodloe and
four children off bridge over Obion
river, near Nashville, Tenn, Tuesday.
The four children were drowned.
| At Bethlehem, Pa, on Wednesday
last, John Handbook, aged q, stabbed
and instantly killed Lizzie Davis, aged
10, at her home. Returning to his own
home, he shot himself through the
heart. Cause, jealousy.
The exertions of the Good Templars,
at Drainsville, Fairfax county, have
been so successful, that the last one OF
the places where liquor was sold in the
village bas been closed, and the lovers
of the ardent now have to keep demi-
john on hand.
Governor Holidays inaugural ad-
dress had the effect of putting Virginia
bonds in the markets up about . per ct.
If the Legislature sustains him they
will go higher-much.
The Baltimore Bulletin says: aThe
inaugural address Of Governor f. w.
M. Holiday, of Virginia, rings like a
trumpet. 1t is so frank, so manly, so
clear, so earnest, so convincing, that it
cannot fail to rally to the cause of hon
or and honesty every surviving element
of the true and indomitable Old Virgin
ia spirit"
Rev. r. H. Ingle, Rector in charge of
the Episcopal churches at Salem and
Big Lick, has accepted call to Eman-
ual Church, Athens, Georgia.
Whilst Rev. E. V. White, Of Lou
doun county, va, was riding out a few
days since his horse trod upon round
stone and fell, catching Mr.. Whites
leg under him and MASKING it badly.
Sta nley, the explorer, has reached
Cairo, Egypt, and been entertained at
grand banquet. All the notabilities,
foreign and domestic, were present.
A New York millionaire, aged S.
Thomas Lord-creates a great sensa-
ton by marrying dashing lady of so
ciety, aged 25-Mrs. Annette Hicks.
The six children of the bridegroom, four
sons and two daughters, are greatly dis
satisfied, and will take legal steps to
keep the property of the old man out of
Che possession of the newly married la
dy.
tits stated that official information
has been received at st. Petersburg that
the Chinese have massacred Is 900 men,
women and children at the Kashgar
town Of Manas, This, if true. eclipses
the horrors of Turkish despotism and
rivals the barbarities OF the dark ages.
Rev. DR.. William Newton, rector of
the Church of the Nativity, Philadel
phia, has severed his connection with
the Protestant Episcopal ministry, and
has united with that of the Reformed
Episcopal.
The standing committee Of the die
cese of New York have given their
canonical consent to the. conservation of
tue Rev. DIR. Eccleston, bishope-lect of
West Virginia, and the Rev. DR..
Seymour, bishop elect of Springfield,
Illinois.