Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-05-01

Ground was broken Tuesday for the
wooden mills to be erected in Richmond.
Calvin O. Staples, OF the firm of Cor.
don, Staples & Co., Richmond, died
Tuesday.
The corner stone of new Episcopal
church to be built at KeysviIle was laid
Oh "wednesday.
Rev John S. Grasty, formerly pastor
of the Presbyterian church al Fincastle,
died recently in Kansas.
Richmond merchants, wholesale and
retail, report an encouraging briskness
in all departments of trade.
The Catholics of Amhert Courthouse
have determined on the erection OF a
church at that fiourishing town.
The Methodis!s Of Wytheyille have
purchased q lot on which to erect par
sonage and a handsome church edifice
A colored woman named Lucy Hal
sey has been committed to jail at Nor
folk, charged with whipping her adopt
ed child to death.
Thirty Italian laborers on the railroad
at CiaremGnt struck for higher wage
they pulled up stakes and left for New
York
An old colored woman, name un
known, WAS found dead near Upperville
Thursday, with indications of violent
death. Her bead was crushed on one
side As yet, there is no clue to the
murderer,
A Cuipeper farmer three years ago
bought a flock OF sheep, for which ne
paid three hundred dollars. From that
flock he has since realized two thousand
one hundred dollars, and has on one
farm two hundred lambs.
Number Of fish planted in Virginia
waters since 1874: Shad, 5,434, $50
California salmon. I,025, 100; Land
locked salmon, 146, 1907 Brook trout,
IA 450; Black bass, 1922; Red-eye,
400; Red horse, 6 besides thousands Of
German carp
Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, as
sisted recently in the dedication of 8
colored Baptist church at the Natural
Bridge. The colored people of Licking
ton were attracted thither in large num-
Der to see the great philosopher, his
fauie having preceded him.
J. r. Hodges, wife and son, of Hall
fax county, were accidentally poisoned
BlOh4df AiS Nv WA NY JOi5OI
placed in the hoIse, g portion of which
Hodges and his wife, at last accounts,
were in q critical condition.
A friendly suit is still talked of to
equitably define the amount that the
two Virginias shall assume of the orig
inal West Virginia debt, Parties inter.
ested in the adjustment of the debt
have thus far received only $4,000 00C
certificates out of SIS, 900 600.
Messrs. Thos. Graham, J. D. Sergeant,
Richard Wood and others, of Phila-
delphia, have purchased lbs acres of land
at Graham Depot, in Tazewell county.
On it they expect TO erect an iron fur
mace. They have purchased about Is
900 acres OF iron lands, north of Spri1g-
field, and about half way between Ora
ham and Tazewell Court-houses.
Mr.. Lucien W. Powell, of Loudoun
county, who studied abroad, and whose
pictures were so celebrated for their
beauty and harmony of color, is at this
time an exhibitor at the Corcoran Art
Gallery in Washington. PowelI's land
scapes were particularly popular in
London, several of them having been
purchased by His Highness, the Lord
Chancellor. He has received lately
quite number of orders for portraits
Virginia has just cause to be proud OF
so distinguished SON
In the northern part of Pittsylvania
county last week a colored woman
named Ella Anderson beat to death her
step daughter. q child about four years oil
age. The woman began by whipping
her child to make her run. Failing In
this, she bllndfolded her and beat hel
with stick over the head She after
wards laid the little girl on the floor
and struck her with a piece of iron
When the woman found that the child
was dead she ran off, and was arrested
IS miles from her home. 1t is thought
that hereditary tendencies Influenced
in this case, and it is now believed that
she killed child of her husband by 8
former wife last wear.