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

We are under obligations to Hon. r. E. With
ers for valuable public documents.
The officers of Augusta Council, No. 49O, OF
the Royal Arcanum, elected recently. were In
stalled on last Tuesday night.
A daily mail from Stanton to Mt. Scion was
put on the first of July and will run via strlb-
ling Springs.
Read the advertisement of Loeb Bros. and
avail yourself of their offer of bargains ere 1t 1s
too late.
There are about sixty visitors at the Red Sui
phur Springs. and about two hundred at the
Old Sweet Springs.
Kramer's Band of Wheeling Will furnish the
music at the White Sulphur Springs this Sum-
mer.
The first -four from new wheat was brought
to Staunton on last Wednesday from Bowltng's
Augusta mills. 1t was purchased by J. w.
Todd, commission merchant, ut $525 per bar
rel.
president Garfield had arranged to spend
portion OF the Summer at the White Sulphur.
It is probable that should he recover suf1cient-
ly he will yet be among the guests at the White
before the season is over.
Mr. Robert Brannan, one of the most popular
Engineers on the c. & O. Railway was married,
in Boston, on June 2Srd, to Miss Kate Walsh,
of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The happy couple
have returned to Staunton and have received
the congratulations Of their numerous friends.
At the invitation Of the Richmond & Allie
ghany Railroad Co., q party, composed Of the
teachers and pupils of the Chicago Art School.
are making sketching tour over the line OF
that road and points of interest nearit. Tne
party numbered between twenty and thirty
persons. mostly ladies.
We have received ithe first number OF The
Journal of the american Agricultural Assocfo-
ton, It is handsomely printed and filled with
interesting and valuable articles by some Of
the most distinguished agriculturists in the
country, and are marked by brevity that Is
as commendable as 1t is rare.
The weather during the past week has been
very uncomfortably hot This we know by our
respiratory condition and not by the varia-
BILE indications of the unfeeling thermometer
But we will say no more about the weather, II
is hot enough to make itself felt.
The City Council at its meeting on last Tues
day night increased the salaries of the Super
intendent of the Water Works and his Assis-
tant. All of the former officers of the city were
reelected. The City Treasurer was directed te
call for the first half of the city taxes for 1881
on or before the 30th day of August.
Two persons named VIM. Aspen and Joseph
Nullet belonging to the Latter Day Saints
better known as Mormonism, are travelling in
this county, for the purpose Of gaining prose
lytes to their Church. They have not, we be-
liev,, met with much encouragement SO far
It Is about as much as man can do, In these
times, to take care of one wife.
Our thanks are due and are hereby rendered
to Mr.. J. W. Crews, manager Of the Western
Union Telegraph Office at this place. for his
courteous and prompt attention IN delivering
kilograms during the recent excitement and
amidst the NJ ultitudinous business of his Office
In this connection we are also pleased to state
that Mr.. w. W. Gibbs, an experienced and eff
Client telegraph operator. has been appointed as
sistant to Mr.. Crews. No better appointment
could have been made or one that better meets
the wishes Of our citizens.