The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-11-13
NEW s s U M IA R.Y.

waterfall,
That beautiful ':city of the Dead" Green
wood Cemetery, Long Island, N. Y, contains
126,000 graves
The marriage of the mighty evoker of spir
its, Mr.. Hume, and Madame Meet, the cham
payne widow, is announced.
A member of the Swiss Alpine Club has
just accomplished the feat Of walking one
hundred miles in twenty four hours.
A volume OF the Chinese sswise words" OF
Confueius and Mencius, translated In London,
is being republished in this country.
The unfortunate Carlotta has painted por-
trait Of her deceased husband, which is pro-
nounced excellent by component judges.
A young French girl committed suicide in
Paris BY throwing herself from the summit OF
the Place Vendome. Cause-love divine.
The passenger cars on the railway from st.
Petersburg to Moscow are two stories high,
the upper story being used for sleeping at
night.
Mark Twain, the Tribune's special in Tur-
key, don't like Constantinople. He says New
York has fifty wonders where Constantinople
has one.v'
A young Russian prince, aged fourteen, at
school at Neufchatel, ran away with troop
of mountebanks. Love for danseuse was
the cause.
The Fort Smith Herald says the Arkansas
river is so low above that place that last week
drove of cows stopped to drink in it, and
they drank it in two.
Dickens leaves the U. States next spring to
give his farewell readings in England, The
programme of his readings in this country
will soon be announced by his agent.
The Lorillards, tobacco merchants, made
returns for Government tax in September to
the amount of $4,000, supposed to be the
largest sum ever paid by any house in the
United States.
George Wilkins Kendell, of the New Or
leans Picayune, died at his residence at Post
Oak Spring. on Monday week, Of congestive
chills His age was sixty, and he leaves a
wife and four children.
Mr.. Ducreux, Frenchman, residing in
New York, has invented an arrangement to
be attached to carriage Or buggy, which in
a moment releases the animal from the car
rage in case of runaway OF other accident
The Kansas people consider the Indian trea-
ties hollow truces The Indians have with
drawn their opposition to the Railroads. and
agreed to keep peace, but will have general
hunting privileges until the game dissap-
pears before civilization.
One of the most gratifying indications of
the spread of christian fellowship is to be
found in the increasing frequency with which
ministers visit the UNCONVENTIONAL gatherings
of other churches, and are formally recog-
nized by the assembled bodies
Jet and lace will be the principal material
in trimming this season. On evening dress
es bands and bows of velvet form strange
, geometrical figures. There is rumor that
ribbons of immense width vii: be worn this
season, not only as sashes, but also in the
hair. on dresses, and tied around the upper
part Of the sleeve.
, Henry Ward Beecher, in his discourse on
Sunday week, said that ssome men will not
shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the
, week in shaving their fellow men; and many
folks think it very wicked to black their boots
on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate
to black their neighbors' reputation on week
days"
A new style of hoop skirt is shortly to be
introduced, which will enable ladies and gen
tlemen to get into company, and, in fact,
walk together, should it become necessary or
agreeable. A secret spring operated quietly
by the wearer opens section OF the hoops,
and the gentleman can approach the lady. In
ventive age!
George Francis Train said in his recent
great speech on Female suffrage, in Lawrence,
Kansas, that at sixteen a school girl, thinking
of her future husband, indifferently asks, who
is he? At twenty, with much interest," what
is he At twenty-four, somewhat disconso-
lately, which is he? At twenty eight, with
much anxiety, where is he
, The late Soulouque once revised the record
Of court-martia which acquitted several
officers. Soulouque exclaimed ''Mr Minis
ter, commute their sentence-let them be
shot" The Secretary suggested that the men
were acquitted. "What of that sir" asked
this constitutional monarch, s'havn't got the
pardoning power ?" The men were shot.
One of Robesperre's executioners died re-
Gently in Paris. He was an old man Of eigh-
ty-four, and over seventy years ago took part
in the execution Of Rebesperre and St. Just.
He has since presided over many transac-
tons of similar character though the fact
he was still living was comparatively unknown
until he drew public attention to himself by
dying.
The most westerly inhabited point in the
territory Of the United States is in the Is
land Of Alton Zone of the newly acquired
Russian group, in longitude ia degrees 10
minutes east This is nearly sixty-two de-
grees beyond the western cape of Washing
ton Territory, and from our eastern limit On
the New Brunswick border is nearly 12O de-
grees, or one third Of the circumference of
the globe.
In London they have a man who gives ex-
hibitions in huge tank, having glass sides
and filled with water. He sits on the bottom
cross legged and grins at the spectators; opens
his mouth quite wide, eats, drinks bottle Of
milk, laughs audibly, smokes a. pipe without
extinguishing it, all under water. His feats
usually occupy about half a minute, but he
is able to remain more than minute beneath
the surface.
Kossuth is getting more and more out of