Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-28
VIRGINIA News.

Among the degrees conferred at the COM
mencement of Washington Lee University We're
the following: Bachelor of Law, L.. B. Cox,
Walter L. McCorkle and T. S. Tutwiler; B loh,
elor of Arts. S. F. Campbell, A. R. Cooke, L..
H. Cooke and j. H. Hamilton; Scholarships,
Harry Keller aud Il. Akers; Prize Medals. R.
F. Campbell; Honorary Degrees, D. D., Rev.
j. 8. Bowman, Harrisonburg; Rev. I. T. Eaton,
Petersburg; Rev. Kinloch Nelson, Episcopal
Theological Seminary; Right Rev. George w.
Peterkin, Bishop of West Virgins; Rev. G.B.
Stricken, Augusta county; LII. d., Richard s.
McCuooh, Louisiana State University; Hon.
Beresford Hope, NJ. P, England.
J. D. Clay, ex.clerk of the Halifax County
Court, indicted for forging pension claims, was
tried at the present term of the court. The
Jury after retiring few minutes returaed o
verdict of not guilty. MIR. Clay was warmly
congratulated by his numerous friends.
The State Treasurer reports that for the
eight months ending May 3Ist $l,Sl0, 7S9 06
in currency and $3.50, 6SG5 SO in coupons have
been received into the treasury. This makes
the receipts $2G5l, 476 Is for these eight
months.
The Leesburg Mirror says: The trustees of
the Presbyterian church of Leesburg, have sold
tuo pdISUuhSo olIuatoo 81 tuC nCotCiu
end of the town, with five acres OF ground at
taohed, to Ma.C. Fl. Lee, for $4,000.
The Congressional Convention Of The 7th
district, is to be held in Staunton Oh Thursday,
the first day of August, the delegates to be
chosen on tho 9th proximo.
General William Mahon had painful surgi.
cal operation performed on him at Richmond
yesterday.
THE GIRLS OF VIENNA.-At ten or eleven
O'Clock, writes correspondent from Vienna,
supper is announced, aud supper it is in good
earnest. People do little else 10 Vienna ex-
cept to eat aud drink old wine and beer. The
ladies n general dress very riohy wearing soft
silks aud exquisite laces at dinuer parties.
Jewels, too, are never lacking, and are always
worn with good taste. The young girls or la.
dies I should say, from fifteen to twenty, have
the most perfect forms imaginable Their
waists are round and slender, the shoulders
slope with Venus like accuracy but the bust
is the browning beauty. | never saw anything
to equal the Vicnneoise dccoctc.
1t il the form development of woman with
the face Of young girl; but what perfection !
have a weakness for beauty myself, and new
er see slender waist and shapoly hand, but
think what git is comcliness y ADD when,
as in Vienna, the band is only half the beauty
of the neck and arms, think that the fashion
Of dressing the young maideus 10 the Austrian
capital something quite perfect. Usually they
wear white and Asccy folds of soft .ue adorn
ing every corsapc" (waist.) Tho arms are
always bare from the elbows aud sometimes en-
lircly 80 from the shoulder.
Up to the present | have never seen but the
most perfectly shaped hand and arms and the
slender wrists thai look 81 white ADD beautiful
are Ike carved marble Or the picture III the
gallery at The Hague 10 Holland. We can see
that the Flemish and German ariss have not
far to ook for thrir models At present all tho
ladi, Wear black shoes like those known by the
pane IF "Oxtord Tics. and il not always ap
propriate they are much more convenient and
cheaper. although the general richness OF the
toilet hardly suggests the idea of economy.