Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-15
Personal and General.

Wisconsin.
Emigrants are coming from Iceland tt
Minnesota.
The wheat crop in Western Austris
will fall short this year.
Mr.. Edison has learned that platinum
is abundant in the United States.
Archbishop Purcell has arrived home
in Cincinnati in excellent health.
The peach crop of Delaware this sea.
son will foot up five hundred thousand
of baskets.
A large lot of diseased sheep from the
United States were slaughtered at Liver.
pool last week.
The crops IN Nova Scotia have. been
injuriously affected by the late continue
GUS cold weather.
Princess Louise. accompanied by
Lady McNamara and Hon. r. Morton
has arrived at Quebec.
w, Fl. Russell will be paid by the
London Telegraph 92, 100 for his CAM
paign in Zululand.
The request of Marshal MacMahon to
be permitted to attend the funeral of the
late Prince Imperial has been refused.
During a period of nearly two GEN.
turtles, the first born of the House of
Austria has been girl-a curious fact.
The Philadelphia Times says that on
the 4th not one of 80 English vessels at
that port displayed an American flag.
The once powerful tribe of Seminole
Indians have dwindled away to about
400 persons, located in South Florida.
Over 600 Mormons arrived at New
York last Wednesday, from Europe, be-
ing mainly English, Scotch and Swedes.
A fire last Wednesday night in Hous-
ton, Texas, started by lamp explosion,
consumed nearly whole square of
frame buildings. Loss $45, 900.
At Aspinwall, June "a. in the space of
half an hour the mercury fell ten de-
grees, phenomenon which has never
before been observed on the Isthmus of
Panama. :
Charley Drum killed chicken yester-
day and in the gizzard found lady's
gold ring worth SIS, gold collar button
and five brass pins.-ElkS (Nev.) Znde-
pendent.
The friends of Porter, the murdered
actor, have raised fund of 81, 100 to
prosecute Currie, but Currie's friends
in Texas are said to have subscribed
$23. 900 for his defence.
The Utica IN. w Ministers Assecia-
ton have decided to preach no more ser
mons at funerals, but to deliver them af-
forward in church, if desired by the
friends of the dead.
Capt. Thomas Summer, of the barge
Echo, lying in East river, New York,
died Saturday morning week, suffering
from hydrophobia, the result, it is said,
of cat bite inflicted last March.
Prof. Fowler, of New York, has pub
.lished an account of a chronological ex-
animation of Chastine Cox, the murder
er of Mrs. Hull. His conclusion is that
Cox has not the qualities which would
necessarily make bad man of him, but
that he is capable of carrying his designs
and desires SO far as to render him bad
if not property controlled. So it seems.
A singular and pathetic coincidence is
that of the death of Miss Annie E.
Johnston, assistant editor of the Pitts
burgh Methodist Recorder, few days
ago in Davenport Iowa, and Rev. DIR.
Alexander Clark, editor of the same pa.
per in Atlanta, Ga. Both being con-
nected with the same paper, both breath
ing their last among strangers, and in
the same week, makes the coincidence
particularly sad.
M. de Lesseps related a curious anec-
GOte of his early life in q speech made
recently before scientific association at
Amiens. He said that he came to that
town in 1922 to pass his examination for
the degree of bachelor. The professor
asked him which were the four cardinal
points on map, but he was obliged to
confess that he did not know. He OBJ
tanned good marks in Greek and Latin,
but completely failed in geography.
Lincoln Post, No. 1, Grand Army of
the Republic, San Francisco, has issued
a circulate announcing that it is the OBJ
ject of the post to give Gen. Grant a
united, hearty and non-partisan recep-
tom upon his arrival in that city
Copies of the circular have been sent to
all city governments, military bodies,
temperance and benevolent organiza-
tions, and civic societies on the Atlantic
coast, asking their cooperation.
Prince Victor Napoleon, the l7-year
old son of Prince Jerome, and the new
heir to the B0napartist idea, is rather
tall, handsome and straight as dart /;
dark in hair, cheek and eye; and in
can Italian. His features are regular,
his hair is trained over his brow and
cropped, and he has his mothers mouth,
though not the peculiar nose of the
House of Savoy. He is said't bea tho.
rough Napoleon in looks, In character
and in a certain fiery impetu osity of
temper.
The Paris Gaulois publishes the codi-
Gil to the will of the Prince Imperial
He says: 1.-THE duties which our house
owe to our country will not lapse by my
death the arduous and glorious task of
continuing the work of the first Napole-
on will depend, in the event of my
death, upon the oldest son of Prince
Jerome Napoleon, who, by the laws of
succession of our house, is my heir. I
trust my beloved mother, by seconding
him in the discharge of the responsible
ties and duties which, in the event of
my death, will devolve upon him, will
give to me, when / am no longer upon
of her affection for me and finer love of
FRANCE"
On her visit of condolences to the ex-
Empresr Eugene Queen Victoria was
accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
Prince Leopold, and the Marchioness of
Ely as lady in waiting. Too weak to
descend from her own room, the ex-Em-
press Eugene received the Queen in
her boudoir alone. Princess Beatrice
and Prince Leopold remained in anoth-
er room. Her Majesty remained for up
wards of half an hour. Toward the
close of the visit, and just as the Queen
was leaving, Prince Leopold and Prin-
cess Beatrice were received by the ex-
Empress, with whom they remained for
a few minutes before their DEPARTURE
1T Chiselhurst station the Queen ap-
peared to be in the deepest grief, shed.
ding tears as she entered the saloon car
riage.
A BALL Is YEARS IN A SOLDIERS
BREAsT.-A few days ago Mr.. Thomas
wright OF this town succeeded. in cut
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