Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27


Jon nominated ex-mayor Thomas J. ste-
phens for mayor.
Lately Mrs. Cleveland has abjured the
bang as well as the hustle, and brushes her
hair straight up from her forehead.
The Rev. Samuel W. Boardmau, of STAN
hope, N. j., has accepted the presidency of
Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
A mail pouch which disappeared from
Piedmont, West Va, February 9Th, was
found in culvert in that town. The mail
was nearly intact.
King Alexander /, the boy sovereign of
Servia, although only 10 years old, speaks
French, German and Russian, and shows
great capacity for study.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has two
daughters who are now studying in Paris.
One of them will be just old enough to ap.
pear in society next winter.
III the case of Isham Mullen, on trial at
Charleston, W. Va, for killing J. Henry
Moore, in Nicholas county. the jury return
ed verdict of involuntary manslaughter.
Jesse H. Stubbs, of Spottsylvauia county.
in an alteration with colored man named
Thomas Comfort, struck him on the head
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few hours.
Charles Crawford, well-known business
man of Roanoke, went to Big Springs,
Montgomery county. Friday. and was shot
in the left side and leg by colored man
named Hutchinson with whom he had a
difficulty.
OUR TOTAL MILEAaE.-The total railroad
mileage of the United States at the close of
1888 is estimated at 1856. s13, the construc
ton during the year being estimated at
1000 miles.
The Pope of Rome has presented to
Bishop Keane for the Washington Univer-
sity the magnificent portrait of himself,
which was a prominent feature at the jubi-
lee exhibition.
Claus Spreckles, who has returned from
an extended visit to his sugar plantations
in Hawaii, says the crop of the island will
be about 1875, 900 tons, or the largest in the
history of the islands.
Horace Palmer, 30 years old, and a
farmer, working for Mr.. Lear, at Sutton,
N. H., stopped passenger train Sunday
by waving bis hands, aud then shot him
self dead. No cause is assigned.
Postmaster General Wanamaker carries
life insurance 60 the amount of 81 $50, 900,
the largest amount placed by any single in
dividual in the United States. The annual
premiums aggregate 100000.
Five persons were arrested at York, Pa,
March Gosh, charged with burning barns in
the southern part of that county during the
past few months. Two Of the accused were
women, two are boys and one is girl still
in her teens.
A party of armed and mounted vigilantes
from Uniontown, Pa, and vicinity have
gone to the mountains to capture the Nc
Cieliandtown robbers. The vigilantes pro-
pose to carry the headquarters of the band
by assault or starve them out.
ATLANTIC City, N. J., was visited by
terrible food tide and furious waves Wed
nesday, March Goth, which demolished
dwellings, lighthouses, paviliors and 9th
er small structures near the beach, and en-
dangered number of lives.
An explosion occurred in the MIXING
room of the United States Dynamite Co.'S.
works, eight miles from Lakewood, N. j.,
March 2lst. killing Thomas Haggerty and
William Nicholas and shaking towns and
villages within fifteen or twenty miles.
At Appomattox Court House, Wednes-
day evening, Miss Matte W RagIaud, one
of the bellies of that village, and Mr. Mat
thew Troy, of Texas, were united in mar
rage. The ceremony took place in the
room made historic by General Lees sur
render.
The wife and oldest daughter Of Aaron
York, wealthy farmer at Peru, Ind, we're
killed and other members of the family in
jured Saturday by the explosion of several
sticks of dy mantle, which be placed in the
etove to dry preparatory TO using it to blast
stumps.
Mr.. George L. Rlves, Ex-Assistant Secre-
tasy of the Treasnry, and a grandson of the
late William G. Rves, of Virginia, was mar
ried in New York Wednesday, March goth,
to Mrs. Oliver HsEzitd Belmont, the
divorced wife of the third son Of August
Belmont, the millionaire.
Lonis Levin, of Chicago, who has lived in
San Diego, Cal, during the last year, has
returned home, after brief and decidedly
unsatisfactory trip to the Lower California
mines. He says flaur costs dollar a
pound, and everything else in proportion,
and there is not enough gold to pay.