Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-09-02
Valley News Items

500 persons have visited the Luray
Cave during the last two weeks.
There is call in the Page Courier for
Judge H. G. Allen to deliver an address
on the State debt question at the next
County Court.
Dr. Brown, of Bridgewater, has re
moved his soda apparatus to Rawley
Springs, and will make the experiment
of carbonizing and bottling the water,
The Shenandoah Herald says:-"We
have an abundance of all kinds of fruit.
Peaches, apples, pears, plums, &C., have
not been so abundant for a number of
years."
From the Shenandoah Herald we
learn that Mr.. F. A. Grove, of Edin-
burg, caught blue sucker last week,
which measured 204 inches and weighed
pounds and ounces.
VIM. Fl. Maddux, of Warren county,
has sold 10 fat steers, upon which his
profit in less than twelve months was
500 to each steer. This is better than
raising grain.
Eddie Ailstock, son of Mr.. Simon
Ailstock, at Millboro, shot himself in
the hand while playing with a loaded
pistol. The wound is a painful one,
though not serious.
The Botetourt Neaus says boats will
be able to make through trip from
Lynchburg to Indian Rock this week.
Navigation will be commenced by the
first of September to Buchanan.
We learn that force of convicts will
be put to work on the B. & G. f. Rail
road about the 1st of September. Maj.
johnson is now in New York in the
interest of this road.-BoietOurt Nea0S.
Squire VIM. A. Quick died at his res
idence, near Quicksburg, Shenandoah
county, last Sunday week, in his 54th
year. The Shenandoah Herald says -
HE was kind and accommodating
His death is lamented by many. He was
the founder of the village which now
bears his name"
From the Old Commonwealth we Learn
that Geo. Worder Chrisman, son of DR.
Burke Chrisman, of Rockingham eoun
l'ty, died at Taylor Springs, on Sunday
morning last, of typhoid fever, and was
buried at New Erection on Monday
The affiicticn is heavy one for thu
family, as he was an only child, ane
possessed to an unusual degree the ten
derest affections of his parents anC
friends.
The Rockingham Register says =
"Gypsie Nicelet. the former mail car
rier on the Valley Pike, who stole
about two weeks ago, S21 from Mr.. Din
kle, who lives near Mt. Crawford, and
who was confined in the Jail in Harri'
sonburg for some days, was taken be-
fore Mayor Harnsberger last week ano
tried, and ordered to be given 20 lashes
found in the neighborhood in week
from that time. We presume the 'Gyp
skipped"
The Rockingham Register says
"Harrisonburg will be one hundred
years old in May, 1880. An old History
of Virginia compiled about the year 1910
speaks of the town as thriving village
surrounded by fertile and beautiful
country. There were about 200 houses
in the town and LOO inhabitants a
that time. Mt. Crawford had 80 houses
and Port Republic had 30 houses
'Deaton' and Eden Mills are the only
other places spoken of. The population
of the county was about II, 0G0."
| THE TURNING OF THE TIDE.-The
export of gold from England ano
| France to the United States is exciting
discussion in the English papers. The
Times does not expect an immediate
advance IN the rate of dlscount-whicl
is now as low in London as from one t.
one and a-quarter ger cent.-but con-
cedes that there may be contingencies
| which will stiEen the market. Apart
| from the probability of larger exports OF
bullion from London, it is admitted by
the Times that the organization in Par
is of multitude of speculative compa-
MES, more or less unreal, creates in
London great uneasiness, where any
reaction from an initiation movement
in France would be severely felt. The
London Financier, while showing
that the present export Of bullion to the
United States can be met by the bullion
imports, is of opinion that the ship
ments of bonds and of other commodi-
ties Twill be quite inadequate to settle
for the time, the enormous balance
which must be accommodating in res
pect to American food" When the
bills for the late supplies, which are
drawn at sixty days, fall due, the extent
of the demand for bullion will be better
known. In some quarters it is claimed
that demand from the United States fol
gold in payment for breadstuffs will
reach two millions of pounds sterling
(ten millions of dollars.) How much
more will be drawn for, it is impossible
to say for the English harvest reports,
in view of the heavy losses sustained by
the recent rains, continue to grow more
and more discouraging.
DEATH OF GEN'L. JOHN B. HOOD
General John B. Hood, distinguished az
hard fighter on the Confederate side
during the war, died in New Orleans
on last Saturday of yellow fever. His
wife died on August the Oath of puerpe.
raj fever. He leaves II children, the
eldest 10 years and the youngest twins
three weeks old. He leaves manu-
script history Of the War, which he III
tended to have published this fall.
His burial took place Saturday after
noon, ONLY a few friends Of the family