Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-29
Brevities.

Spring "ihgens'' may be young. but they are
strong.
The new building on Main street is progress
Ing rapidly.
The work of leveling up has been begun
around the alley depot.
From present indications. the spring crop of
candidates will be immense.
The Luray dudes don't make good guides
not for Staunton schoolgirls.
The beaver is very becoming. but it looks in
some instances too much like guy.
The law requiring railroads to fence in their
lines does not go into effect until 1885.
The weather on last week was, as a dampener,
on par with skiff Gaylord's Ministries.
During the storm of last Friday, consfdera-
BILE hail fell in various parts of the county.
We learn that the steam tannery at Harri-
sonburg will soon be put in operation again.
"Etherial mildness" will soon be upon us
Hunt up your straw hat, duster, and palm leaf
If Barnum's white elephant had hair. it
would look like red-headed girl with bangs.
Yesterday was County Court day, and there
was a large number of county people in the
city.
Wonder if the candidates inquire of each
other as to the condition of their tow-headed
offspring?
The trees begin to look as verdant as some OF
our dudes. but they are somewhat stouter in
their limbs.
Young ladies generally make bad grammar
rians, because few of them are able to decline
matrimony.
We return thanks to Mrs. ]. L. Hildebrand
for kindly present of nice apples. They were
greatly enjoyed.
The warm weather of Sunday and Monday
has greatley dried up the roads, but they are
still in very bad condition.
An exchange says snails are largely fattened
on the Danube for market. Rather sluggish
business, we would imagine,
1t costs $1,000 per year to keep Augusta (Me.)
girls in chewing gum. Women seem to have
natural propensity for jawing.
Another business change. Hope you will do
well, "Mose" We are candied, but had it
banana body else, we would say, look out Tor
taffy.
For seven days, beginning with May 18th,
| the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway will sell
| tickets from Stanton to Chicago and return
| for S20..
! The question of the constitutionality of the
Electoral Board law. passed by the last Legls-
lature, will be argued before the Supreme
Court on next Wednesday, the 3Oth inst.
Once more the spring makes all things new,
"And domes the red plowed hills with loving
| blue;''
The whitewashers have their little bills.
And women for spring -bonnets have their
wills.
Mrs. g. n. Haines. wife of Mr.. George II.
| Haines, United States Mail Agent on Valley
Branch Railroad, died at her residence in Win.
chester on last Tuesday night after short
| illness of typhoid fever She leaves large
family, some of them quite small children.
| The season is now at hand when the festive
| youth maketh himself less adjacent to his
work, and saileth forth to capture the unwary
minnow, armed with about seven dollars worth
of fishing tackle; but he returneth when "twi-
light dews are falling and seeketh his abode
loaded down with dampness and imaginary
fish,.
Mr.. Pagenhart of Wildwood, has invented
steam carriage, in which he passed through
Winchester on Monday of last week, on his
way to Romney, w. Va. The Winchester
Times says Much curiosity was manifested
by our citizens, and large crowds gathered on
the sidewalks as it passed along the streets.
1t certainly was a novel sight, and seemed to
be under perfect control, and ran along noise
lessly.