Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-05-28
Briefs.
Sunshine and shower.
Dncin occ L. roxrixriran

SuuSuIue anu SuOWeI.
! Business is reviving.
| County Court began yesterday.
| Memorial Day-Friday, 18th June
| Circuit Court will begin next Saturday.
Side whiskers are no longer fashionable.
The farmers are again hopeful of good crops.
A large number of farmers were in the city
yesterday.
The travel to the Springs is beginning earlier
than usual this year.
Tobacco has an upward tendency in price,
So it has in smoke.
The day of commandments is at hand and
the song Of the schoolgirl is heard in the land
Seminary Lutheran) will take place on the 9Th
| of June.
| There were some excellent voices among the
colored jubilee singers at the Town Hall on last
Wednesday and Thursday nights
The pupils of Mr.. Hoover's School will give 9
dance at the Grange Hall, on next Friday night
| in connection with the closing exercises of the
school,
The sum of SIS was realized from the supper
given by the young ladies of the First Presby-
| terianchurch on last Tuesday night, and will
be devoted to the June offering.
The Institution grounds are much resorted tc
as affording beautiful promenade The re.
moval of the hedge along the carriage drive has
added much to the beauty of the grounds.
A California paper advises young ladies, that
if they must wear pins in the back of their
dresses at a dance. to put them in with the
points toward the left. Good advice, that.
The school commencements will commence
to commence next week. We make this an
nouncement for the benefit ofthe jeal,,esse doree
who, we are afraid, might otherwise forget it.
The editor of the Scottsville Courier laments
"Black-eye peas are scarce. We hope some OF
our delinquent subscribers will send US a few
| bushels" u, we delinquent subscribers send
them to him. Let him have peas.
| We return thanks for an invitation to the
banquet at Richmond on the 9th inst, given
| by the "Guard of the Commonwealth in cele-
bration of the seventh anniversary of their Or
| ganization.
"a philosopher being ask ed what was the first
thing necessary towards winning the love af a
| woman. answered-'An opportunity" The
next thing, doubtless, would be to embrace the
opportunity and then
| The lecturing tour of John Jasper was a COM
plete failure. However popular his astronom-
| ical observations were in Richmond he finds
| that starring at the north doesn't pay. He has
| returned to Richmond, much exjasperated
| man.
| A French fancy in rings is plain band with
a movable mouse that slides around the entire
circle. And now the modern Romeo will sigh
would 1 were mouse upon that finger, that 1
| might mouse around thee.
| The Commencement exercises at the Augusta
Female Seminary come off on the 3rd and 4th
of June. The annual commencement sermon
will be preached by Rev. DIR. T. D. Witherspoon
| of Petersburg, on next Sunday morning. He
will also deliver the address to the graduates.
| The closing exercises of the Valley Female
School at Willow Spout will take place on the
Goth and 30th inst. They will consist of vocal
and instrumental music, tableaux, charades,
| Rotations, pantominles, &c. The depot near
est Willow Spout is Fort Defiance.
| The Juvenile Terpsichorean club had anoth-
er very pleasant dance at the residence of Mai.
Kinney on last Friday night. Though the wing
ed foot of Time swiftly chased the fast fleeting
hours, and all went merry as marriage bell,
yet they did not stay, this time, to see the 'dap-
pied grey coursers of moon beat up the light
with their silver hOofs.''