Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-01
LOUDOUN COUNTY.

andria, and regular and temporary boarding
houses we're crowded for some months. We
hope that they were SO much pleased with their
soiourn with us last season that they will re-
turn, bringing more with them, to spend the
hot months Of the coming summer, among our
grand old mountains, breathing the health CIV
ing atmosphere which surrounds them.
As many as choose to come can, no doubt;b
accommodated The good old town of Lees
burg can give room to a number who can en-
Joy good hotels and very pleasant society, and
our own beautiful village can accommodate
good many who can spend as pleasanta time as
any one should desire, amid the grand scenery
by which we are surrounded and among peo-
ple devoted to innocent country pastimes; and
there is Springdale, and Yatton, aud Pickett's,
and Snickersvile, all ready to welcome the old
and the young, the gay and the grave--the ro-
bust and the health seeker, to hospltable quar-
ters.
There is no country in the world better suit
ed to summer leisuring than Loudoun. 1t is
as healthy as any in the world, and it affords
as many of the uxuries which city people par
tcularly affect-tresh butter, pure, rich milk,
mountain mutton, etc.
A great part of it is now easily accessible;
but when our railroad reaches Snickersville, its
whole extent will be opened to visitors and
travellers, who will, no doubt, crowd where 30
much woos to come, and see and enjoy.
Health and pleasure and economy all dictate
the policy which is rapidly obtaining adherents
among the dwellers in the cities, of living.
great part of the year in the country whilst do
ing business in the cities. The swift travel on
the railroads renders this matter of easy and
pleasant accomplishment. The Hudson for
hundreds of miles has its shores dotted with
the residences of the merchants and professional
men of New York
All the counties around Baltimore city are
filled up with the homes Of business men Of
Baltimore, because railroads traverse them in
every direction.
And why should it not be SO with Washing
ton and Alexandria The w. e. O. r. X.
then live upon the top of the Blue Ridge and
soend as many hours as necessary in his Office
or counting house, in either Of the above nam
ed cities. Clerks and Merchants and Lawyers
can build their cottages all along the line OF this
road, where they can live at half the money it
costs them in town, and live great deal better
and more comfortably, and be at their places
of business just as long as they ought to be.
Land can be bought cheap now, along this
line, but the time is coming when it will not be
SO cheap-when three times the amount now ask
ed will not buy it.
Come up. into Loudoun this summer and
look around, and we believe you will fall 80
much in love with it, that you can be easily
persuaded to make it your home. !.
We have plenty of room tor about tour times
as many people as live here now.-Loudoun
Enterprise.
A QUESTION OF KIssINa.-The following
little episode has just occurred at the Imperial
Opera House in Vienna: In Lortzing's "Wat-
fenschmied' there is scene where Count LIE
benau, Herr Neumann, has to kiss lrmentraut,
Mdle Gindele. The kissing cannot be omit
ted, because in the two following scenes the
conversation is continually turning upon 1T.
After Irmeptraut has commanded the Count
to kiss first her right and then her left hand,
she winds up by saying, "And now the lips: -
Full, probably, of his part, Herr Neumann, in
reply to this challenge, gave Mdlle. Gindele, at
the first performance, the kiss specified IN the
stage directions The lady was 80 incensed that
she complained to the management. Every
thing like argument to the effect that the per-
son on the stage was Irmentraut, and not Mdlle.
Gindele, proved perfectly unavailing. She de-
clared she felt insulted in her honor as wo
man, and that, if she could not obtain repara-
ton from the management, she would seek it
from the law. Several days elapsed, and the
affair was fruitful topic of conversation. At
length the "Wafenschmied" was again put
up. All the initiated were very curious to
know how the kiss scene would 60 of. After
and left hand, the lady said: There; ! will
not trouble you for the kiss on the hps.' Herr
Neumann hereupon quickly replied: 'Thank
heaven that l have not to kiss that fright.
Mile Gindele became so excited that she had
to be carried in fainting state to her ROOM
She has again complained to the management.
Stage jurists are deeply interested, tor they
want to know whether kiss given In charac
ter to a lady on the stage can be regarded as
an insult to the recipient
WITNESSES SWORN ON CRocKERY.- In New
York, on Monday, Chinaman charged
brother with stealing, and appealed to Justice
Bowling, at the Tombs, for redress: The COM
psalnant being Pagan desired to be sworn at,
ter the fashion of bis country, and to this end
aqueensware plate was produced which the
witness waved thrice in the air and then
brought it down with crash that sent pieces
OF the ware in every direction. The witness
then told his story, after which another witness
was called for the defence, and was sworn as
soon as another plate could be procured. he
made two unsuccessful efforts to break the
crockery, and then with mighty effort crushed
1t down on the table in style that caused con,
siderable hurryiug of hands to faces to ward on
the flying fragments.
ST JOINS CHURCH, RICHMoND. There Is
more primitive simplicity about this old edlhce
and its surroundings, than about any other
church in Virginia, save Blandford, in Peters
burg The interest in the ministration OF Rev.
Henry Wall, the present pastor, is well main
tanned, judging from the large congregations
present every Sabbath. Yesterday there was
large number present in the church, and the
yard surrounding it was filled with visitors
reading over the names of the quiet sleepers,
who once were part and parcel Of the busy
world Of Richmond. We trust that this old
CHURCH may long remain unscathed as now by
nme for truly, to Virginians at least it is So
eled relic of q past, to them, redolent OF many
glorious recollectons. Rich. Neaos.