Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-05-08
Briefs.

I Briefs.
| The flzz of tho soda fountain is heard in the
l land.
4 is telephone stock considered q sound invest
! ment?
| Typhoid fever has made its appearance in
Harrisonburg.
The planking over the creek in front OF Bick-
les furniture store needs liking.
| Several convicts escaped last week from the
Allegheny Mountain Iron Company.
There are twenty-seven reported cases of
smallpox in Mercer county, W. Va.
| We learn that Col. Eubank, of the Warm
Springs, has sold the Little Healing" Springs.
The County Court for May OF Allegheny
| county-grand jury term-begins to-day Cues
| day.
The money market appears to be tight.-Old
| Commonwealth. Then you soon expect to see it
| tumble.
The Baltimore Conference of the NJ e Church
South raised during the past year 81 900 for
missions.
The summer heat has come on SO suddenly
that the spring fever has scarcely had time to
get in its work.
The Virginia Pharmaceutical Association
will hold its regular annual meeting in Nor
folk on May 18th.
new postoffice has been established at Fur
mace No. 2, near Milnes's Iron Werks, with v.
Bishop, Postmaster.
The Rockingham Circuit Court begins May
18th, but jurors and witnesses will not be sum-
moned until the 2Sth,
Mr.. D. M. Vowel, formerly of Page county,
has sold his farm on Naked Creek, in Rocking
ham county, for 5000.
There will be meeting of the Board of Su-
pervisors of the county at the Courthouse on
Monday next, l4th inst.
Last Thursday being Ascension Day, it was
observed by services at Trinity (EpiscopaD
church and ct the Catholic church
The next annual meeting of the Supreme
Council of the Royal Arcanum will be held in
Chicago on the fourth Tuesday in April, 1884.
Mabel Morrison is a baby. but her fame is
full-grown. A baby carriage containing the
sweet little cherub was the first vehicle to cross
the Brooklyn bridge.
In Summers county, W. Va George Harris
has been arrested on the charge of passing
counterfeit money, and is held to answer an
Indictment of the Federal Court.
1t is said that new schedule will soon go into
effect on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
We have not yet learned how it will effect the
arrival and departure of the mails here
The Southern Conference of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Virginia will meet at
Pleasant View church in this county next
Monday night. May 18th. and continue In SEES
sion Tuesday and Wednesday following.
We are informed that one of Mr.. ]. c. Nc
Cutchen' s:railroad eattle-gates will be erected
on the Valley Road, and. if successful, will be
oil e.
All who ride or drive up and down Main
street will be glad to learn that the City Coun-
Gil have resolved to level up the street in front
of Olfvier's by laying large iron pipe and
paving it over.
The legal conflict as to receivership of the
celebrated White Sulphur Springs property
has been settled. and the fve-year lessee, Col
onel Harrison Phobus, will open the season as
early as June !.
Our Little Ones for May, with even more in
teresting table of contents for children than
the previous numbers-which is saying great
deai-has been received from the Russell Pub
fishing Co., of Boston.
The Register says the Jewellers of Harrison
burg have received circulars from New York
informing them that band OF burglars have
gone out from that city on tour through the
South, and advise all persons to keep sharp
lookout.
On last Wednesday Capt. John c. Smith died
at the Western Lunatic Asylum OF which he
had been an inmate for several years. He was
well and favorably known In this community,
and at one time was Conductor on the Valley
Railroad.
A lady In Louisville sued O reporter for pub
fishing that she hailed him and asked after the
welfare of his soul. And the Cincinnati Jour
nal asks: Does it injure lady's character to
be supposed to take an interest in newspaper
mans soul
The annual celebration of the JefTersoniap
Literary Society OF the Augusta Male Acade-
my" at Fort Defiance will be held on the 18th
inst, on which occasion the address will be de-
livered by Col. Charles T, O'Ferrall, The stu.
dents ball will take place on the night OF the
18th.
The Council have not yet decided to move
the Treasureris Office down town. We are still
in hopes, however, that they will soon do so,
and thus crafty the wishes and meet the con-
veniences OF large majority of our citizens.
Think about it, gentlemen, but don't fail to act
promptly.
The Wheel'ndn, Boston magazine, may give
all the "byclcle" news of the country but that
is no reason we should give $40 worth of adver-
using for an exchange. This bycice business
l. getting TO be just little too tony-possiby
impudent.-O Old Commonwealth.
You are right. They tried the same thing on
rs. but we could not be wheedled into accept
ing sucn a proposition. We think We cal
manage to still run along without tho aid 81
the WheetraaF.
On last Friday, We had midsummer weather.
the temperature being IS degrees in the shade
On Saturday we had rain storm attended
with sharp lightning. loud peals of thunder,
and slight sprinkling of hail. The lightning
struck tree on Stuart's Hill just outside of
the southern limits of the corporation and
broke it off about twenty feet from the ground
and stripped the bark from the trunk. We
learn that about eight miles from here, in the
direction of Parnassus, the haistorm was very
heavy-covering the ground with haiIstones.