Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-03-07

times as far away.
Governor Flower has signed the bill
submitting to popular vote the PROPOSE
ton to consolidate New York, Brooklyn
and the adjacent territory in the State
of New York.
1t is generallysbelieved in Rio Janeiro
that the Instruction in the South is
virtually over, as the rebels are losing
at all points. The election was quiet
and the government candidates were
elected.
Major r. F. Mason, of Albemarle
county, Va, has been appointed a
postal inspector at an annual salary of
$4,000, and assigned to duty in
Montana.
So far as can be ascertained, the Sen
ate subcommittee in charge of the tar
if has changed materially the Wilson
bill by placing coal, wool and iron on
the dutiable list.
The suit Of Miss Madaline V. Pollard
against Representative W. G. P. Brock
inridge, of Kentucky, for $4,000 fol-
breach of promise to marry is fixed fol
trial in Circuit Court No. 1 in Wash
ington to -morrow-Thurs
DIR. TALMAGE TO REMAIN.-Just be
fore the end of the morning service al
the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday
the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage announc
ed to congregation that crowded the
church to the doors that he had decid
ed to remain their pastor, the financia
embarrassments of the church having
been adjusted. In June he will star
on a tour around the world, to be absen
five months.
A GIFT OF 100000 TO WINCHESTER
AT meeting of the citizens of Win
chester last Wednesday night, Letter
was read from Mr.. Charles Broadway
Rouss, of New York, authorizing ex
Governor Holiday to draw on him TO-
$50, 600 as a donation to the proposed
wafer works in that city.
Mr.. Rouss is true friend of Win
chester and has for years been making
donations for its benefit.
MIR. Tucker has succeeded in having
Lieutenant Paxton of the regula
Army detailed as resident officer at tn
Virginia Military Institute. Lieutenan
Paxton is a son of Col James H. Pax
ton, of Rockbridge, and graduated a
West Point several years ago.
Governor O'Ferrall has signed TIN
bill changing the legal titles of thu
''lunatic asylums" of Virginia to ''Stat
, hospitals" They are now called West
ern, Southwestern, Eastern and Cen
trail State hospitals. During the early
thirties and in the forties the asylum
at Staunton was called 'lunatic hospi
tai"
The fourteen hundred employees o
the rubber works of the United State
: Rubber Company, Millville, Mass.
which has been shut down a month
have been notified that work will b,
resumed in two weeks.
Rust is eating the Statue of Libert,
in New York harbor and it is believed
that even with excellent care it cal
hardly be expected to last more thar
ten or fifteen years longer.
Describing a whipping at the posi-
in New Castle, Delaware, the othel
day, the Philadelphia Press says:
"That the Delaware mode of punish
ment for such crimes is efficacious car
hardly be doubted, as it is very rarely
that man who has been whipped re-
turns for second dose. One of New
Castles bonifaces said: 1t makes
them afraid to steal. You take your
overcoat, and just hang it on thai
! fence, and walk around the next block
and stay there five minutes. When
you come back, your coat will be there
No stealing goes on in this town."
In Virginia it is different. We feed
thieves at the expense of the tax pay
ers, which makes them return to their
Misunderstanding NeaOs.
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