Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-20
Briefs.

DID you ever see uOuso Ay :
Pinafore bonnets are all the rage.
This will be an eventful week-for the candi
dates. a
Harrisonburg will blow big guns on the 4t1
of July. Eg
The school girls are busy preparing their fina
f1neries. ~~.,.
The people begin to seek the shady side o
the street.
Anew design in jewelry is known as the zen
gagement ring
The season for pic-nics and weak lemonad,
approached.
"Let us have nip" is what the city cows say
to the grass.
The prospects for splendid fruit crop THU
year are very 1attering.
A complete unbound copy of Picturesque
America" for sale at this office.
Straw hats are in full bloom. and the youni
man rejoiceth therein.
Don't forget that the 9th ofJunc. is Memorial
Day. Save your flowers.
Promenaders to the beautiful grounds at t..
D. D. & B. Institution are on the Increase.
The Catalpa trees are In full blossom ant
their sweet odor Is waited on the breeze.
All nature seemed to take new lease on lif,
after the refreshing rains of last week.
The handsome display of wall papers at Mr.
Oliviers attracts much attention.
Next Thursday, May end, is election day
Pay your poll-tax and don't you forget it,"
The use Of the white-wash and paint brush
has much improved the appearance of our city
Our agricultural editor wants the subscriber
to the SPECTATOR to pay up SO that he can have
peas. a,
Mr.. Henry Edison, Of Mt. Sidney, lost a val
liable horse on the l4th inst, by congestion O.
the lungs.
There is said to be in this city a man 50 con.
ceited, that whenever he walks westerly he ex-
poets the east to tip up.
The Page Courier says more than a hundred
fine bass were caught In the Shenandoah rive,
near Riverton on last Thursday.
The cucumber has begun its ravages in the
! land; and soon the new potato will be roaming
around seeking whom it may devour.
On next Sunday morning. Rev. DIR. Manly
will preach the first of series OF sermons upon
the distinctive doctrines Of the Baptist Church
Strawberries have made their appearance in
our markets, and they come from Greenwood
just east Of the Blue Ridge and not from Nor
folk.
Mr.. A. M. Alderman, son of Mr.. A. F. Acker-
man, of this city. has gone into partnership In
the lumber business with Mr.. VIM. Boa, at Al
derson, w. Va.
The large number Of flowers brought to our
city is an evidence that our ladies are not only
beautiful themselves, but also have love fol-
the beautiful.
Young ladies who wish to have small mouths
are advised to repeat this at frequent intervals
during the day: Fanny Finch fried Aye tloun.
dering frogs for Francis Fowler"
Bishop Peterkin, (EpiscopaD of West Va,
preached in the Presbyterian church at Alder
500 last Wednesday evening, and in the Epis-
copal church at Union on Sunday.
The school commandments will soon be up
on US, and our city will be crowded with visi-
tors coming to see their sisters and their cou-
sins and their daughters graduate.
John M. Ferguson of the Anderson Enterprise
recently went up the steep "incline' at Can
Melton, when he inclined to believe that he was
going to heaven earlier than he intended.
Mr.. F. E. Crawford, a worthy young man OF
this county, has opened a Grocery store in the
building lately occupied by Hugh Glenn. We
hope that he will be literally patronized.
The impertinent, impudent house-fy has al
ready made his unwelcome appearance and
will soon be the cause of more lncontinsnt
profanity than any other insect in creation.
Pocahontas is a dangerous county to visit
just now. A man out there recently found a
whole bushel of rattlesnakes and only killed
four of them. thus leaving about one apiece for
each inhabitant.
Our thanks are hereby returned to the PAi=
lanthropic Literary Society of Hampden Sid
ney College, for an invitation to attend its an
nuai celebration on Wednesday, June 18th,
1879.
It is about as difficult to find out who is the
ugliest man at party as to find out the pretti-
est girl. The only difference is that every girl
thinks she is the prettiest and each fellow
thinks some other fellow is the ugliest.
1t is notable fact and yet the raiaon detre ia
as yet an impenetrable secret-that whilst no
lady wishes to have hat like any other lady,
man takes it as compliment If another man
buys and wears one like his own.
The newest thing in high art, girls, is to paint
OAA SAO0ACA OAoy PAPe q OOACAtO oAy bluo Will
cluster of lilies Of the valley on the bowl. II
you haven't a brothers clay pipe, some ether
girls brothers clay pipe will do as well, or per-
haps better.
Rev. ]. I. Miller, Principal of the Staunton
Female Seminary. preached in the morning
last Sunday in Mt. Zion (Lutheran) church, OF
which Rev. C. Beard is Pastor, and at o'clock
in the afternoon in the Presbyterian church in
Waynesboro', of which Rev. Frank McCutch-
en- Is Pastor.
One of the greatest desires of children is to
ride. This was forcihly illustrated in this city
last week. sprightly little five year old boy
told his kind and indulgent grandmother, q
venerable and excellent lady, that he wished
she would die SO he could ride with her in the
hearse to the cemetery. The little innocent
thinks it would be '.jolly" to ride to the GENES
terry in the plumed hearse