Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-04-08
Briefs.
Briefs.
Next Sunday will be Easter Sunday.

Next Sunday will be Easter Sunday. :
The chairs selected for the Opera Hall ar,
very comfortable. ~ q 80 ~
the boys seem to think.
Printers are good sort of fellows for they al.
ways "set 'em up.'
The ,Overseer of the poor for the city ex.
pended $l9S Sc last month. tFaas
Thelate Waynesboro Tribune ironically hopes
its successor may be a daily. f
In Harrisonburg the fronts of the ready made
clothing stores are painted red.
The pupils of the Augusta Female Seminary
are rejoicing in q holiday this week.
The City Treasury in his last report to the
Council puts the floating debt of the City al
$lO.6S7.91. 1888 Hi
The Council has ordered that the lamp on the
corner of Kalorama and Market streets be kept
burning all night.
roped in good many nickels from an admir-.
ing crowd of spectators. e-
The frescoing of the Opera Hall Is fast ap.
preaching completion, and will present a very
attractive appearance when finished.
The weeping month of April shed her first
tears on yesterday, grieving doubtless over the
rough manner in which March left.
sThe SPECTATOR" was sent out this year as
and April Fool" Way7esboro Tribune And the
Tribune fooled everybody by playing out.
We are glad to learn that arrangements have
been perfected by which the Baldwin Augusta
Fair is placed in healthy financial condition.
Messrs. John Paul and H. II. Riddlebarger
passed through here lastSaturday on their wav
to Charlottesville, where public meeting was
held on yesterday.
1t is unlawful to kill robins after this date.
Persons violating the law are liable to a fine OF
ten dollars, and imprisonment until paid, not
exceeding thirty days.
Rev. A. Poe Boude passed through Staunton
last week ON his way from Lewisburg to his ap-
pointment at Shenandoah Iron Works. He
was looking well and is in fine spirits.
We are gratified to learn that Judge John II.
McCue, who has for the past fortnight been con-
fined to his bed with bronchitis, is rapidly i'm
proving, and will in a day or two be in his Of
flee.
An Act has been lately passed by the Gene
raj Assembly of Virginia appropriating 900
LOT tIAS VI ILLUS duO cy
Confederate soldiers, or communication in money
in lieu Of the same.
The foolish man foldeth his hands and saith !:
'sThere is no trade; why should advertise?
But the wise man whoopeth it up in the news
paper, and verify he draweth customers from
afar off.
The Circuit Court adjourned last Wednesday
A large amount of civil business was transact
ed and the docket pretty well cleared Off
Judge Mclaughlin willopen the spring session
in Monterey, Highland County, on the 18th inst.
Rebecca Finley, q colored woman, aged about
eighty years, who formerly belonged to Samuel
Clarke, Esq, was buried last week. She had
lived here all her life. and had been a charge to
the corporation since the war.
The widow Oliver .ho lost her suit against
Cameron for an alleged breach of contract Of
marriage asks for a new trial. She should hush
up. She has been weighed in the balances
and found wanting"-in everything that an
honest and virtuous woman possesses.
The black birds arc very numerous around
Staunton. This spring they are attempting to
take possession of the grove on Sears Hill and
are driving away all other birds. In conse-
quence the council has granted DIR. Sears per-
mission to shoot them, SO as to frighten them off.
He can now have "four and twenty black birds
baked in q pie.''