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

The telephone wires are nearly all up.
Crushed strawberry is the new fashionable
shade.
EHarrisonburg luxuriated in new tomatoes
last week.
A timely maxim-one must get up early to
beat carpet.
Our thanks are due Maj. N. H. Hotchkiss for
recent Chicago papers.
Blank check-books can be had ready-printed
at the SPECTATOR office.
Only few spring bonnets and hats have
made their appearance on the streets.
Newtown will present quite a new appear
ance when the buildings now in progress there
have been completed.
When is the City Council going to move In
the matter of moving the Treasurer's office TO
q more convenient place?
There was heavy white frost on yesterday
(Monday) morning. 1t is not thought to have
done much damage to the fruit.
All kinds of Magistrates and Constables'
blanks, for county and city. to be had ready
printed at the SPECTATOR office.
Track-laying on the Valley Railroad is now
progressing finely. The track has been laid
beyond the crossing on the Greenville road.
Our pavements on Main street now
very appropriately be called sidewalks; you
have to walk sideways TO get by the telephone
posts.
The young men of Harrisonburg have or
ganized a fire company to be called "Rescue
Fire Company No - 1t already numbers 3S
members.
Two rival gas companies in Baltimore have
reduced the price of gas to 81 per thousand Gu
bic feet. Oh! for another gas company in
Staunton.
Cucumber green is the new shade for ties;
80 says fashion journal For the safety of
the travelling public, we hope the railroads will
not follow the fashion.
Those subscribers to the SPECTATOR who
wish to have their papers sent TO Lyndhurst
postoffice will please let US know, and we will
send them accordingly.
Some wicked newspaper man says that
woman does not marry because she wants
husband, but so that she may have chance to
do spring housekeeping.
MrJ D. Ludwig formerly of the Daily Her
aid and Franklin County Democrat. of Cham
bersburg Pa is said to be negotiating for the
purchase of the Old Commonwealth of Harri-
sonburg.
If"A Constant Reader will inform us when
we published the article which we are request
ed to re- publish. we will endeavor to find it
and to comply with the request. We have no
recollection OF it.
"The spring crop of railroad maps shows
such network of branching and intersecting
lines that there does not seem to be any room
In the country for agricultural operations ex-
cept between the ties"
The specimens of ore from the property Of
Mr.. Isaac Newton near Greenville, have been
analysed and proved very rich in metallic
iron. 1t is reported that MIR. Newton has been
offered $4,000 for his ere-bearing property.
The Rockingham Register asks: "What has
become of our Branch Railroad?" We did not
know you ever had one. That road was only
an airy fiction of the brain on which you might
ride in Imagination, but not in oropriG persona.
We have been assured that the staunton Life
Association would be more than glad to have
the City Treasurers office in the rooms of the
Opera House they now occupy, since Mr.. Car
roll is Treasurer of that Association as well as
of the City. Therefore, move the office at once.
The contract for erecting the Masonic Hall at
Covington. Allegheny county, has been given to
Mr. Jacob B. Long of that place. The building
is to front 80 feet on depot avenue and have a
depth of so feet. The first story will be rented
for business purposes, and the second story,
suitably arranged, will be used for lodge
room.
give admired an unknown woman all the
winter" remarked man the other day; "she
was stylish and well dressed, carried herself
well, but heard her speak to-day and the
charm vanished" what did she say?" some
one asked. Only two words. A companion in
a store asked her a question. to which she re-
piled in the affirmative: "You betr "-Bostos
Transcript
Our neighbor, the SPECTATOR, has the follow
ing:
"Our neighbor of the Vindicdtor has lost an
umbrella, and is SO unsophisticated as to ad-
vertise for Its return. 1t is really refreshing
to find such righteousness in these times"
Wrong this time anyhow. The Vindicator
had not been distributed an hour before a gen.
tleman reading the advertisements saw that
one, recolected that an ownerless umbrella
was in his office, looked inside of it found the
name and returned 1t to the VildicG-
tor.
This is almost as strangea as wondrous snake
story. However, we by no means intended to
question the efficacy of advertising, but only
doubted It's restorative powers in the case of a
lost umbrella.