Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-04-22
City Council.

amount, being for excessive taxes on their
property.
Also recommended reducing the tax on BOWL
ing saloons from So to $50, as asked for in the
petition of w. D. Barbour, which was agreed TO-
Also recommended the purchase of safe sui
ficiently large for the use of the Treasurers
Office, at price not exceeding Sll5.
ORDINANCES.
The committee on ordinances presented anu
recommended the adoption of the ordinance
concerning the Fire Department, but 1t was
laid on the table to await the return OF MI
Gooch
An ordinance, creating Board of Health for
the city, was presented and adopted, which
provides LIST, For the annual election OF Two
physicians one from each ward, who, with the
city physician shall constitute the Board 2nd,
For the careful inspection of the city wards
twice month from May 1st to October lst, and
monthly the remainder of the year, visiting all
localities suspected of being unhealthy or ex-
posed to disease; to report such measures as
they think fit TO prevent the Introduction and
spread of contagious or infectious diseases, and
to prevent the pursuit of callings prejudlclal TO
health or comfort. Srd, The members OF the
Board are invested with police authority in the
performance of duty; may require deleterious
matter wherever found to be removed by the
occupant or owner of property, and conveyed
beyond the city limits require yards, premis-
es, and cutters to be cleaned and lined; to re-
port to the Mayor all offences against the health
regulations of the city and to require the abate-
ment OF any nuisance prejudicial to the gener-
al health.
SAFETY.
The petition of II. Wehn to alter the roof of a
frame building was granted; that of ]. S. Gill
liam to erect a wooden house on Augusta street.
rejected; and the petition of J. A. Hamrick &
Co. to erect steam-engine for the purpose of
grinding corn, plaster. &C., IN their new house
in Spring lane was returned by the committee
with report stating that the privilege could
not be granted, as it was in direct conflict with
an ordinance regulating steam engines, where
upon it was referred to the committee on Or
dinances.
PETITIONS
from B. A. Blakemore, Pat. Carroll, Frank
Poindexter, and Mrs. M. A. Conklin for correc-
ton of water tax, were referred to committee
on water; from Mrs Fl. F. Stribling, to erect a
frame building for school purposes on Marx ct
street, was referred to committee on safety
from Jacob Myers, to market committee; from
J. E. Herndon, to committee on finance; from
EtlST MOIdu, lOI IcpidSiLS iohSO VA OASS--
street, to the street committee; and one of G.
NJ. Harrison, to abate nuisance in the shape
of badly arranged sewer, was referred to
street committee, with instructions to repair
the same.
shades in the office of the Commissioner of the
Revenue was referred to the committee on
finance.
CITY HALL
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Evans au-
thorizing the advertising for rent to the high
est bidder, of the City Hall for one year-which
was discussed and referred to the Committee
on public buildings.
Mr.. Evans stated that applications for the
use of the Hall had been received from the Y
West Augusta Guard, and from parties in Lex
ington and Richmond, &c.
CONCERT HALL.
The committee on the preparation of the
concert hall were authorized to contract with
Mr. NJ c. Hodgdon, of Baltimore, for the chairs
required to seat the hall, and to order the chair
heretofore selected by the Council.
Highland County N0Ws.
The Highland Recorder reports two deaths
rom diphtheria at Mcdowell.
The dinner given by the ladies of the Presby-
terrain church at Monterey on Court-day real
lied SIS. Judge Mclaughlin and the lawyers
attending the conrt patrOniZed it.
Mr.. Leonard Propst of Mcdowell is in a crit
zeal condition from Injuries received by fall.
Mr.. VIM. Hiner Of Dry Branch in that coun-
ty was badly hurt by being run over by his
team which became frightened and ran off
whilst Mr.. Hiner was hauling wood down a
steep hill near his residence.
Mr.. J, L. Shumate has withdrawn his candi-
dacy for the Sheriffalty.
NEW SERIAL STORY BY JEAN INGELow.-A
new serial story by Jean Ingelow will begin in
the number of LitteUs Living Age for the week
ending April Goth. It is published firm the
authors advance sheets, and opens in very
interesting way. The progress of a new story
by this popular writer will be eagerly watched.
A new volume of The Lifting Age, by the way.
began with the first number of April, affording
a good time for the beginning of new subscrip-
tions
For fifty-tw numbers of sixty-four large
pages each [or more than 3 900 pages year, the
subscription price s8 is low; while for $40 50 the
publishers offer to send any one of the Ameri-
can 81 monthlies or wseklies with The Living
Age for year, both postpaid. Littell & Co.,
Boston, publishers.
ACCIDENT TO Mr.. NJ. w. WALLACE-We are
sorry to learn from the Charlottes Vile Ctron
icle that Mr.. NJ w. Wallace, who recently re-
moved from Albemarle to take charge of the
Healing Sprngsin Bath county, had the mis-
fortune, week before last to have his arm and
two ribs broken by fall from an ox-cart.-
Though Mr.. Wallace is blind, he is a good and
successful business man. He has been mer-
chant for years and is a good judge of goods
He was educated at the D. d. & B. Institution OF
this place, and, we believe, was pupil at the
frst session after its establishment. He is a
man of intelligence enterprise. and good char
icter, and we hore that he will soon recover
from his injuries, and that he may be success
full in the management of the Healing Springs.
LIABILITY OF NEWSPAPER SUBsCRIB
There seems to be very general misapprehen-
sion as to the liability of subscribers to news
papers.
The following decisions of the courts. which
we find in the Southern Cturctnadn, will clear
up the matter:
l. Any person who takes paper regularly
Or anothers, or whether he has subscribed for
it or not, is responsible for payment.
2. If a person orders his paper discontinued,
he must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
then collect the whole amount, whether the
paper is taken from the Office not.
3. Refusing to take newspapers and periodic
ais from the postoffice, or removing and having
them uncalled for, is prinaa facie evidence of in
territorial fraud.
SrAUNToNIANS IN FLORfDA.-The Grove s re-
ferred to in the following notice in the Sout,
Florida Journal, removed from this city, to
Sanford, Florida, a few years since:-"Mr. S. A.
Grove of J. A. Groves Timing establishment t,
who has been engaged on Mr.. John Bigelow s
fine residence, that is in course of erection, at
Maitland, in putting in the window caps, re-
turned Saturday. He is delighted with that
part of the country, and says it bids fair to be
one of the finest sections ofFiorida. Mr.. Grove
is now engaged in preparing the roof for Mr.
Bigelow's house, and will soon have it ready to
put on.
To Whom it may COncern.-AH per-
sons indebted to me, whose accounts have been
rendered since January lst. 1879, are hereby no.
titled unless paid before April Ist will be
turned to Geo. Hutchinson for collection, as l
have not time to attend to my collections.
Very Respectfully