Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-07-12
Editorial Notes.

King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Is.
ands is in London.
The comet is divided against itself,
and therefore we may soon look for its
fall.
Father Ryan, the poet priest, is now
in Baltimore, and purposes soon, we
learn, to deliver several lectures in Vir-
ginia.
Ex-senator Plat, of New York, has
selected room, without transom, at
Coney Island, where he will spend the
Summer.
The American Bankers Association
holds its next annual convention at
Falls, N. Y, on the 10th, 18th,
and 18th of next August.
Guiteau congratulates himself that he
is free from duns in Jail and is no longer
forced to skirmish around the free lunch
houses all day for crackers and cheese.
1t took Mr.. Conkling six days to find
out that he had any sympathy for the
President. His sympathy seems of slow
growth and very stinted at that.
The steamship Vandalia, which had
been disabled at sea, has been found and
will be repaired On the Clyde. Her pas
sengers will lie sent thence to New York
on board of one of the Atlantic liners.
The English are not well pleased to
see France carrying the war into Africa.
Johnnie Bull should send for Willie
Cameron to show him how to carry
africa into the war"
LEROY, charged with the murder of
Mr.. Gould in railway carriage on the
Brighton Railroad, has been arrested.
He had shaved off his moustache and
whiskers. He admitted his identity
but denied his guilt.
M. Asselin, who killed his antagonist
in duel in France, has been sentenced
to four months imprisonment and to
pay $40, 900 to the family of the deceased.
This is better way of Furnishing duel
ing than that provided by our laws.
At meeting of the Republican eau
Gus. mostly "half-breeds," at Albany,
on last Friday evening, Mr.. Depew
withdrew from the contest, and after
several ballots Hon. Warner Miller was
nominated to succeed Mr.. Platt and
Hon. E. G. Lapham for the Conkling
vacancy.
The New York Tribune says: "Mr.
Jefferson Davis expressed his sympathy
with the President on the third day af
ter the attempted assassination. He
did not wait five days, and what he said,
though little. was said with feeling"
That brick was evidently intended for
Senator Conkling'
The jury, which last week convicted
VIM. johnson (colored) of murder in
the second degree for killing Pleasant
Simmons (colored), at Danville, on the
9TH Of last month, and sentenced him to
sixteen years in the penitentiary, was
composed of eight negroes and four
whites.
Riddleberger, Jno. s. Wise and Collect.
or Brady were in Harrisburg, Pa, on last
Thursday and called on Senator Came
ron. Riddleberger boosted that the Re-
adjuster ticket would be supported by 80
per cent. of the Republicans, and said
that the only Republicans who opposed
coalition were those holding offices
under the U. s. Government. This state
ment does not tally with what the Re-
publicans opposed to coalition say, in
fact it is just the reverse.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce has subscribed $25O,OO0 to be
presented to Mrs. Garfield in U. S.
bonds, the interest of which she is to
have during life, and at her death the
principal to be divided among her chill
dren. 1t was presented not only as 8
token of esteem and sympathy, but al
SO as a means to relieve the mind of the
President from anxiety with regard to
the future of his family. When noti-
fed of the action of the Chamber Mrs.
Garfield said "there was so much that
was touching and beautiful in the SYM
pathy of the people of the whole coun-
try that she did not dare trust herself to
think of it."
The evidence in the Whitaker case
covers seventy six hundred pages of
fools cap, neatly bound in seventy-two
Volumes" to say nothing of the pho
tographs, autographs, the sheets of
matched paper, the pen-knife, the scis-
sors, the Bible, the note of warning, &c.
Whittaker's ears though not asilong as
a mules, have cost the government a
pretty long sum, and yet they are not
worth much as ears go.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says that Paul and
Fulkerson will vote with the Repabli-
cans in the organization of the House
as Malone did in the Senate. Nothing
strange about that. being elected by re-
publican votes, how could they do other
wise?
DR.. S. D. Gross, of Philadelphia, who,
it is said, went to Washington to con-
suit with the physicians attending the
President and was refused admission by
Private Secretary Brown, has written q
card to the New York Herald in which
he says: 81 have not been requested to
visit President Garfield, and have not
been in Washington for five years.
This rumor is as unjust to Mr.. Brown
as it is unpleasant to me-"
Mrs. Wealthy Hill Wilcox Pritchard,
very devout Methodist, temporarily
residing at Asbury Park, N. j.. on re-
turning from a walk to the sea, chang
ed her clothing and deliberately pre-
pared to take her life. Placing blankets
and shawls beneath pail by the bed
side, she reclined on the bed, and with