Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-07-29


Chas. Landseer, the English painter,
brother of the late Sir Edwin Landseer,
is dead.
The Porte refuses to allow the U. s.
steamer Quinnebaug to enter the Black
Sea because her tonnage exceeds 800.
Richard II. Chamberlain, president
of the Citizens Bank of Norfolk, died
suddenly July 23rd, at his residence in
that city, aged seventy-two.
The prevailing opinion both in France
and Germany is that the wheat crop will
be short, both countries, like ourselves,
having suffered from heavy rains.
The widow of Charles II, ex.Grand
Duke of Parma, is dead, at the age of
seventy-six. She was the daughter of
the late Victor Emmanuel I, King of
Sardinia.
A report from Fort Ellice says there
are 400 Indians there starving, and their
number is being daily added to. A band
of 300 are reported within q few days.
march of Fort Ellice unable to proceed
further on account of weakness.
AS precaution against any possible
Treasury in New York, where $500, OOO,-
600 or $500, 600, 600 are constantly stored,
is being loop holed for musketry and
strongly fortified fin other ways.
There is probability that ship canal
will be constructed across the peninsula
of Florida within the next few years.
Such canal would shorten the distance
between North Atlantic ports and points
on the Gulf of Mexico by ABOUT thou
sand miles.
Samuel &. Grasty, commercial
traveller, of Atlanta, Ga, Monday night
shot Mr.. Read and his son (Sam Read
at Opelika, Ala. They attack him in
his hotel room for alleged improper in
timacy with Miss Read. Grasty was
badly cut on the head and hands. He shot
the elder Read in the eye and abdomen,
and the younger under the right Jaw
The elder Read will die. Grasty is un.
der arrest.
M. De Lesseps has issued the pros.
pectus of the Darien Canal Co. The
capital is fixed at 400,0OO,000 francs
Only 125 francs per share will be called
up in the first instance. Interest at the
rate of 5 per cent. will be paid on the
actual money received during the course
Of construction. He estimates az in
come OF 80, 000, 600 francs from the canal,
and reckons that the shareholders will
receive III per cent. per annum.
London Truth. "Lord Chelmsford
has now within two thousand of the
number of English soldiers the Duke Of
Wellington had when he crossed the
Douro and won the battle of Talavera.
y Notwithstanding this, it is rumored, /
know not with what truth, that Lord
Chelmsford has requested that blood
hounds be sent out 10. him. Dynamite
aud bloodhounds! War, indeed. Is
losing all its chivalry."
The Washington Republican saws =
cage is nothing in Sitka; it is blood
that tells. 1t is stated that among the
passengers FROM Sitka, Alaska, byy the
steamer California, on her last trip to
Portland, Oregon, was Miss SaIIie Ball.
who is probably the youngest Govern
ment official holding a commission in
the United States. The little miss.
though but twelve years of age, is the
duly appointed postmistress of Sitks.
and very efficient public aervant, too"
Mr.. Punch, in the preface to his sew
enty-sixth volume, has an imaginary
colloquy with Cetywayo, in which the
sable monarch gets the best of the argu-
ment. "If you have" says he, mis-
sionaries left at home, why dc they not
teach you the same things they teach
mes They tell me must not invade
Englishman's country. Englisman in
wade mine. They forbid ma to wash
my spears in Roera' blood. They teach
me ! must not keep up my army of
young men. Englishman keep up his
army of younger men than mine. They
say l must not kill Zulu. Englishman
kill Zulu. must not take your CATTLE
You take mine. must not settle on Eng
lishman's or Beers land. Englishmen
and Beers settle on my young men's.n
n