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

In view of recent attested court proceed
ings aud of the statements of leading New
York newspapers, how President Harrison
could have nominated Cpl. Fred. Grant for
the Austrian mission, or for any ether pub
lie plaes, ia passing strange The Austrians
must think the President shows very little
respect for them by sending to their coun
try man with such record as that of
Col. Grant. Having nominated Col. Grant,
refusal to recompense Gel. Dudley will be
transparent hypocrisy, as the charges
against the latter are by no means so dam
aging as those against the former.-Atee
GQzette
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

The National Association of the Alum ri
of the University of Virginia will meet this
year in Washington on April 20. A large
atteoda1cs is expected, audsit is thought
that-alumni from at least half of the States
of the Union will be present. The pro-
gramme will include banquet speeches by
Senator Daniel, j. Randolph Tucker and g
number of others. Two subjects will be
discussed: First, Reasons why We should
meet at the national capital. Second, The
interests of higher education in the South
and the mission of the University of Vir-
ginia. The alumni association of Wash
ington and vicinity, of which Senator Dan'I
is president, will have preliminary meet
ing and dinner on April 10, Jefferscn's
birthday. The alumni association of New
York will meet in that city on April 20.
Prof. William D. Cabsll is president of the
association.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

The cellar of an unoccupied house III
Wilkesbarre, Pa. was being cleaned Sat
uraay, when there was found buried in the
ground, first silver teapot, then sugar
bowls, pitchers, &C., the whole making a
load FIR two men to carry. The property
vas turned over to the police, and after
wards Identified as having been stolen from
the residence of E. Troxell, wealthy
oisiken, last Decemberr
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

A STOLEN MAIL POUCH. - Piedmont, "
Ho., March 22.-It is believed that stolen
mail pouch which was found ripped open
and seereted in culvert near here vesfer-
day contained a large amount of money and
valuable letters. 1t has been known here
for some days that the mail had gone
astray, as checks for large amounts had
been sent, and were not heard from. Among
the missing mali was note for $40, 600 SEM
from the Piedmont Bank. How much
money the robbers secured cannot be ascer-
tanned at this time. Detectives from Wash
ington are here looking up the case.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27
New YoRK's SrARrIINe Exp1os1o

New YoRK's STARTLING ExPLosIoN.--
Ne0 York, March 25.--Shortly before noon
to-day loud report STARTLED the crowds of
passers-by at the junction of Fifth avenue,
Broadway and Twenty Third streets. A
terrible explosion had taken place. A large
portion CT the Sidewalk on Twenty Third
street just off the junction and on the side
of the street next TO tia Fifth avenue hotel
was blown high iuto the air. Showers of
stones and fragments of the tagging fell on
the passengers. At least six persons were
thrown down and injured. The windows
of the stores on the corner under the Fifth
avenue hotel were shattered. There is a
huge hole Do the sidsw Nix next to the hotel
on Twenty third street. It was found that
the explosion was due to the electric sub
way.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

A leading Mugwniup paper in New York
is snlempIy engaged in the grave task OF
reading to the Republican Administration
the civil service plank in the Republican
PLATFORM The influence of Platt, Quay,
Clarkson and other spollsmen has aroused
its Indignation, and it pow hopelessly pleads
with Harrison to mend his party's broken
promises. But the s'boys'' keep up q
mighty clatter about the White House, and
dioSn the Mqgwump's mournful lamsnta-
State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

An engine attached to passenger train
on the Georgia Midland Road jumped the
track forty miles from Columbus, Ca,
Saturday afternoon, and was overturned.
Engineer T. q. Redfed was instantly kill
ed and Fireman W. K. Malone painfully
bruised. None of the passengets were in
iured, and little damage was done to the
train
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

ID. n. Cfeas was shot and instantly killed
by Dr.. J. 81 Watson, near Eulogy, Miss,
Saturday. Cress had openly threatened to
kill DIR. Watson on sight. They met 10 a
road, when DR.. Watson fired the fatal shot
Cress was desperate mau, who was is-
ported to have killed three men. He was
arrced.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Col. Fred Grant does not rank as a man
OF preeminent ability. His talent certainly
DOES not lie in the dir c,nu Of State dipIo
macy. But President Harrison thinks we'll
enough of him to send him as Minister
Plenipotsntiary to Vienna. As Mr.. Har.
rison was made the standard bearer of his
party simeg because be was the grandson
CT bis grandfather, Mr. Harrison consis-
tsntlY carries out the same principle in be-
SLOWING this high honor upon Col. Grant.
who is known only as the sou of his father.
If tho Republicans can stand it We CAN
Rich. State,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

ENGLAND AND SAMoA.-Prince Bismarck
was not using accurate language, it now
appears, when he said in the German Reich
stag that England was going hand in
hand with Germany in the Samoan matter.
A Bloc Book just published, shows that
Lord Salisbury protested at once against
such representations as incorrect. His lord.
ship agrees with Germany as to the future
government of Samoa, but cannot approve
OF GermaDy's past course In the islands.
The dispatches show that since 1888 Eng
land has been disposed to favor the Ameri-
san view.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

The colored people held mass meeting
at Raleigh, N. c., Friday night, and or
ganized the North Carolina Emigration As
ISOLATION, the proposed Object OF which is
to colon;ge all colored people of that State
in Arkansas A call was issued for State
convention to be held at Raleigh on April
% to fully organize the State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

CoLoREp SERVANTS HAVE GIVEN PLAcE
TO WHITE SERVANTS an TaE WHITE
House. "A special dispatch flom WASH
ington to the Baltimore Sun says:
HMrs. Harrison is replacing the ser wants
10 the White Hnuse. substituting white
help for the negro servants vino have had
coatrol of the domestic machinery there for
many years. The colored women in the
Laundry have been SIP rssded by white
women, and the cooks 10 The k'tchsn are
white men, A white butler and waters
will be the next move, which will complete
" revolution 70 the household corps"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

CANNERY AT LEwIsBURe, WEST Va
The Greeubrier Independent says ''ths Cam
merry building Is now in course of erection.
Mr.. P. q. Goheen has the foundation about
completed. Messrs. Law & Handley have
the contract for the carpenter work. The
Cappery Company have secured muoa
lind for tomstoes. Mr.. NJ. D. Peyton has
t re contract for maxi the boxes to trans
.aart the tomatoss +, market"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Mr.. Cleveland and party arrived at ST.
Augustine, Fla, March goth, and were met
at the Union Station by over 500 people. the
Ponce de Leon full band and long line of
carr ages. They were escorted to the Ponce
de Leon HOTEL Mr.. Cleveland was assign
ed the pi, k bridal chamber, the same room
occupied BY him lastye ?.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Lonis Levin, of Chicago, who has lived ia
San Diego, Cal, during the last year, has
returned home, after brief and decidedly
unsatisfactory trip to the Lower California
mines. He says fur costs dollar a
pound, and everything else in proportion,
and there is not enough gold to pay.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

The Richmond Dispatch Of the 20th in.
slant, says that ''the brotherly feeling
which as a rule the various religious de-
nominations at the South entertain for one
another was never more strikingly illustrat-
ed than in the tributes paid the memory of
Captain Frank W. Dawson from the Pr
testant pulpits Of Charleston Sunday. The
tribute of DR.. Brackett, of the Second Pres
byterian church, was especially beautiful.
His text was:
"Verily say unto you, whatsoever shall
not receive The hingoom of God as a little
child shall in no wise enter therein"
And be closed his remarks as follows:
"But let him who shall write his epitaph
not forget to write him as one who loved
his fellow-me Others have paid merit
ed tribute to the gallant soldier, the bril-
liant journalist, the ripe scholar, the wise
statesman, the kuigbtly gentleman, the
faithful, warm hearted friend; let me lay
my humble wreath upon his grave, and
bear testimony TO those qualities of heart
which drew little children to him aud made
him the guardian and protector OF the weak
and defeqceless. These are the qualities
that will be honored in the Kingdom of
Heaven, when marble and brass have
crum5led to DUST"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

CHURCH NOTES Reverend Charles D..
Waller, of Uoion Springs, Alabama, where
he is the pastor of the Presby terrain CT uroh,
preached last Sabbath at ut. Carmel. s5r.
Walter married, 10 the fail of 1885. the ,aly
daughter Of this late Captain James H. Cal
liaoa,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

"a arty success taat is achieved by IN
fair tthods or by pfactiees that psrtake
of revolution ia hurtful and evaneseent even
from party standpoint" -B. Harrison.
4his is proph ic Of the f,te of the pres
ent Republican administration. Nor folk
LeWdmar&.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

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

Jesse H. Ssubbs, of Spottsylvauia county.
Thomas Comfort, struck him ON the head
with stick, from which Comfort died in a
few hours.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

At Appomattox Court House, Mednes-
day evening, Miss Matte W Ragland, one
of the bellies of that village, and Mr.. Mat.
thew Troy, of Texas, were united in mar.
riage. The ceremony took place in the
room made historic by General Lees sur
render
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27
Do Not Hamper the only Issue.

We believe that the sentiment of d vast
majority of the Democrats IF this State de-
mands that every difference be laid aside
and the contest this fall be waged for the
single great object of honest and intelli-
CERT local government. The Democrats of
Virginia are thinking and caring for moth
ing else. Of course, when the convention
meets, there will be fond on the Cum
mittee on Resolutions some few individuals
who are afflicted with that dread disease,
cscoethes scribendi, and who will have
their pockets full of planks, folded like
grocer's bills.
Now we maintain that the tariff, like the
currency, ON both of which Democrats diff
fer, has no more part in the campaign this
year, and, therefore, no more place in the
party platform than the annexation of
Canada or our foreign policy in Samoa
These issues, outside aud irrelevant as they
are at this time, should not be thrust upon
tbs party now merely in order to give some
crossroads dip)omatist an opportunity to
exercise his fancied talent for political
legerdemain.
The tariff cannot be real issue now
For the members of the Congress which as
sembles next December have already been
O'SStCO, dAOs OObu 11OubO duu DCudbO DOinS
Republican, tariff reform is impossible. If
any measure were passed it would be high
protective and the Democrats would be
powerless to prevent it. There is no ne.
cessity, there is no sentiment for tariff
agitation till it shall promise practical re-
suits. That will not be till the elections of
1889 have passed.
The only great. single, overwhelming
issue upon which all eyes are firmly fixed,
from which no side issue, no minor
question, no deferrable difference should
be suffered to draw away single glance, is
the supremacy in this State of the elements
of honesty, intelligence, and industry
These elements are found far more largely
IN the ranks of the Democratic party than
in the ranks CT its opponents. Wherever
any part of these elements has been dis
satisfied and inactive heretofore, so soon as
it sees that its best Interests are being
menaced. it will quickly cast off its slug
gishness, rise up from its lapguor, and,
aroused to the danger that threatens it,
give all its efforts in hearty and vigorous
cooperation with that party which repre-
sents in its character and aims all it holds
earest.-Richmond State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

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

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

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

POSTMASTER APPoINTMENTs.-T de-
capitation of Fostmasters in this State has
commenced. The following occurred on
last Thursday
sLuther H. Potterfield at Lovettsvilies
Loudoun county, to succeed Sam'l j. Beck;
Zachariah NJ. Taylor at Toano, James City
county, to succeed D. W. Marston; Samuel
A Cover al Waterford, LoudauD county,
to succeed William T. Bennett; Thomas B.
Malone at Williamsburg, James City coun-
ty. to succeed a. D. Cole"
The Washington correspondent of the
Alex. Gagette says that. "Mr. Clarkson,
the First Assistant Postmaster General, to
whom the disposition of such ofSces belongs,
has definitely determined that the fact that
a 4th class postmaster is democrat is
sufficient reason for his removal"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

King Alexander |, the boy sovereign of
Servia, although only 10 years old, speaks
French, German and Russian, and shows
great capacity for study.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

A mail pouch which disappeared from
Piedmont, West Va, February 9Th, was
found in culvert in that town. The mail
was nearly intact.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Horace Palmer, 30 years old, and q
farmer, working for a Mr.. Lear, at Sutton,
N. H., stopped a passenger train Sunday
by waving bis hands, aud then shot him
self dead. No cause is assigned.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

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
I, 900 miles.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

The Pope of Rome has presented to
Bishop Keane for the Washington Univer-
sity the magnificent portrait of himself,
which was prominent feature at the jubi-
lee exhibition.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

ATLANTIC City, n. J., was visited by a
terrible food tide and furious waves We'd
nesday, March Goth, which demolished
dwellings, bath houses, paviliors and 9th
err small structures near the beach, and en-
dangered number of lives.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Mr. George L. Rlves, Ex-Assistant Secre-
tasy of the Treasnry, and grandson of the
late William c. Rives, of Virginia, was mar
ried in New York Wednesday, March 2Qtb,
to Mrs. Oliver Hsgzitd Belmont, the
divorced wife of the third son of August
Belmont, the millionaire.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

The Rev. Samuel W. Boardmau, of STAN
hope, N. j., has accepted the presidency of
Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

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, 600 tons, or the largest in the
history of the islands.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Postmaster General Wanamaker carries
life insurance 60 the amount of 81 750, 900,
the largest amount placed by any single in
dividual in the United States. The annual
premiums aggregate $50, 900.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

A party of armed and mounted vigilantes
from Vniontown, 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.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

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

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 dynamite, which he PLACED in the
etove to dry preparatory TO using it to blast
stumps.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

IRONMAKING IN THE SO1TH.-A CORE
spondent of the Manufacturers Record,
writing from Atlanta, Ga, states as re-
suit of his observations in the South that
there are many furnaces in that section
which are to-day making pig-iron at cost
of only $3.50 ton. None, he adds, are
making it at cost exceeding 81 ton.
All that have adequate capital and fairly
good management have been making a
greatdeal of money even at present
prices; more, in fact, than they like to
admit. The writer says the Southern
furnace men are averse to pig going up over
50 or So a ton. They can make plenty of
money at that advance, or without an ad
vance. At present prices ironmaking is not
paying Northern furnace owners, and if the
situation continues many of them will have
to suspend operations. Much of the new
furnace building in the South is with the
money made out of Southern iron. OF
course, if the South makes pig at from So so
to $11 per ton, it has no need for tariff on
iron as a means of protection against for
eign iron. The industry there can stand
on its own bottom. Whether it is desirable
or humane TO keep the tariff on iron high
merely to enable the Southern Iron men to
bleed the consumers of iron, who are chiefly
in the North, is a question for Southern
protectionists TO ponder. The Southern PEG
pie voted last November against so selfish
a policy. As Southern pig is now going
North in increasing quantities to dispace
the costly Pennsylvania and Ohio pig,
Northern protectlonists may be expected to
look with favor on Senator Hoar's plan to
Africani7e the Southern States again.
Baltimore Sun, March 22nd.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

My Lunch Counter consists of POT Il lam,
BEEF. Turkey, Chicken, Sardines, (Spiced
and in Mustard,) Imported with key) and
American Sardinet. Brook Trout. Broiled
Mackerel.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

Lately Mrs. Cleveland has abjured the
bang as well as the hustle, and brushes her
hair straight up from her forehead.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27
The Earnal EGuinOX.

The sun entered the sign Aries on the
Goth inst, at 4h, som. a. m. The vernal
equinox then took place, the astronomical
spring began and the days and nights are
nearly equal all over the globe. The
equinoctial crosses the ecliptic every year
when the sun enters the sign Aries, but not
at the same point. The equinoctial falls
back or retrogrades about so" Of arc in
year, and this complicated movement is
called the procession of the equinox. The
result of it is to change the position Of the
stars and to make it necessary to have the
charts renewed that mark the position of
the stars. The retrograde motion of the
equinox is only 50n year, but it amounts
to 10 in about seventy two years. The
years before Christ, and the vernal equinox
has fallen back since that time ESQ, SO that
the sign Aries row corresponds with the
constellation Pisces, and SO on. The signs
do not change. Wherever the equinoctial
crosses the ecliptic each year at the vernal
equinox, the sign Aries commences, and
longitude is reckoned from that point. TIL
back ward movement continues for about
$4,000 years when the equinoctial points
have receded around The ecliptic and new
cycle commences. If the earth were a
perfect sphere there would be 30 procession
of the equinoXes. There is, however, q
protuberance of matter at the equator, and
the powerful influence Of the sun and moon
acting upon this protuberauce of equatorial
matter forces the earth TO respond to the at
traction, and causes a rolling or wsbblipg
motion of tie pole of the earth around the
pole of the eciiptio il q small circle, and
with so slow a motion that resolution is
completed in about 90 coo years. The
change in the polar star is another result of
this movement. The present polar star
1000 years hence will no longer hold that
distinction. and those who dwell upon the
earth $4,000 years hence will find that it's
northern pole points to place in the heav-
ems where Vega is the nearest bright star,
and will be the cynosure of all eyes. No
perceptible change will however, take
place in our day and generation. The
moon-llt and star-lit skies Of March are
beautiful, but no gift the month holds in its
hand is more acceptable to mankind than
the advent of the vernal equinox, when the
gates Of spring are thrown open and the
resurrection of nature takes form iE burst
ing buds, springing grass blades and the
few hardy flowers that arc the tarst to open
their eyes to the sunshine.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

My Fish Department. has Smoked and Spiced
Salmon. Salmon Steak, Canned Salmon, Lob
sters. Msckerel in Kits. Barrels, and by the
dozen.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

In fact it will be rather tedious to mention
all, but if you wan: a nice dinner with q nice
dessert. nice lunch patataole break fast, q
superb supper, call and secure the goods which
will assure you ola delightful repast.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27

My Cereal Department is just what You want.
Alb C Oat Mea, and wheat, Oat Flakes.
Wheaflef. Grainlea. Cracked Wheat.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-03-27
SENTENCE OF zen. sIeEL's soN.-A Nes
York despatch of March 21st SAYS

"Robert Sigel. son Of Gen. Franz Sigel,
who pleaded guilty to forging pension
ebecks, vas senteeced By Judge Benedict
in the United States Court to-day to SIX
years. imprisonment at hard labor in Erie
ccuHty penitentiary."