National Republican., 1883-07-27
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SUMMER sAuNrER1Nes.
Interesting Letter IL IA the Shenandoah
VnlIey-The VYashingtoniRns Who Arc
There.

Nnlley-The WashtnBtoninns Who Are
There.
Special Letter.
ORKNEY SPRINGS, VA, July 25.-This
charming summer resort is already we'll filed,
and there are among the guests largo num-
ber of Washingtonians, and / understand
moro will arrive later in the season. / have
pitied those who were unable to get way from
the hot aud dusty city, for / have read in
The REPUBLICAN of the intense heat you
have been compelled to endure. Here we
have had nothing but delightful days and
cool, comfortable nights.
The journey here is extremely pleasant
Leaving Washington at $3.50 ~ IN via Metro
politan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, the first note to break the silence is
a tuneful whistle from the engine, which tells
you that you are gliding along toward your
destination. When you reach the river tho
scene is beautiful Trees, royalty proiuse in
foliage, lean lovingly over the waters, as if
wooing them to closer embrace. Oaks and
Gins are pictured more perfectly in the
mirror-liko surface of the river than artists
hands could ever represent
This is an heroic road. At Harper's Ferry
the southern waters of the Shenandoah burst
through the rocky barrier of the Blue Ridge
and gladly minge with the waves of the blue
Potomac. For blue it is, the Potomac from
Point Lookout to the springs that feed the
South Branch-blue as the sea that laves the
| Tyrrhenian coasts or the shelving rocks of
Bar Harbor. And Harper's Ferry-you can
not view it without flood Of misty sugges-
tions overfiowing you. Is there not some
thing about John Brown? And was it not
here that the galows was made glorious as
the cross2
But past the ruined arsenal tho broken
bridges, the frowning hoights-past all sug-
gestions oftoil aud storm and battle--you glide
from Harpers Ferry into the bright val
| ley of the Shenandoah. Daughter of the
Stars! was the tender fancy that passed
through the Indians mind when he named
| this river From its far southern sources it
sweeps up to the Potomac through as beauti-
ful valley rs you can find on the continent,
away from the mountain girdled basin where
I Tezcuco and Tenochtitlan and Xomilco still
speak of the Aztec glory and the Aztec fame.
1t has been said that no river flows north
ward. This is not strictly true, as the Nile,
the Mackenzie, and the Great Siberian
streams attest. But there are few of them,
and in this country the st. Johns, the San
Joaquin, the Red River of the north, and the
| Shenandoah are the most notable examples.
Of these all the most beautiful is the Shenan-
doah. Its valley is u land of romance and
land of solid comfort, whose people are hos-
pitable courteous, and generous. This val
ley was the scene of the brightest exploits of
the greatest military genius of the confed-
eracy, Stonewall Jackson. 1t witnessed the
brilliant deeds of the great union captain
whose glory almost eclipses StOnewalls-Phil
Sheridan, of Winchester fame. And in
the valley was born and lived and
noblest poets, Philip Pendleton Cooke. As
the noontide sunbeams slant lovingly to the
westsyou catch glimpse of the ruin lone
and hoary" where near by Florence Nane's
beautiful clay " lieth the green sod UNDER"
you see blooming around you the musk roses
hat bad nta A, 4,
of young Rosalie Lee; and every breath of
the valleys buoyaht air is resonant with the
ringing melody of the Froissart ballads And
so you dream till the shrill whistle of the en-
gine awakes you at Mt Jackson. Here you
cat one Of the famous dinners that have made
Virginia proverbial for good cheer, but VIII ich
you must come here or on the upper James to
eat, and then you are ready for Orkney
Springs. The springs are twelve miles
from Mt. Jackson, and the road
thereto is as smooth as Washington
concrete pavement. When you reach here you
are met by DIR. Moore, the president of the
company; Mr.. w. n. Woodward, the general
manager, and the clerk, Mr.. Urner, and well
coined with that quiet, delightful genuine
cordiality that makes you feel at home i'm
mediately. After all, there was something
very winning and charming in the old fash
ioned high-bred southern courtesy, which
lent charm to all it said or did They say
it is rarer now than formerly, but come up
here to Orkney and you will find it as mellow
and as delightful as ever it was. There is a
large company here, but such is the homelike
feeling that you scarcely take heed how large
it is.
Among the guests a few are: Mrs. NJ L.
West, Gen. f. I. Dent, Mrs F. II. Dent, j.
NJ. Wilson, p. H. Christm an, Mrs p. II.
Christman, Claude Christman, Howard Christ
man, +. d. Pistoria, John Jo hnson, L. Will
iams. L. Nassau, Henry Nieman, Mrs.
Il. b. Hopkins, Miss Bertha Hopkins,
J. NJ. Naslin, wife, and children, Miss Barnes
Mrs. Lynde, Miss Rieman, Mrs. Ernest Rob-
bins and family, William b. Grove, Oscar
Peyton, j. ID. Moritz, Mrs. j. d. Moritz, j. d.
Moritz, jr., Miss Elise Moritz, Mrs. S. Stuart,
Miss |. Stuart, j. $. l.. Irwin, Mrs. NJ. Lowen-
bach and family, Charles Lowenbach, N. S.
Foard, John Turnbull, jr., Mrs. Turnbull,
Miss Agnes Turnbull, +. r. Jenkins William
M. Busey, Mrs. W. NJ. Busey and children,
Joseph Crane.
1t would be an endless task to give tho
names of all the Virgnians here, but the fol-
lowing are n few DR.. X. S. Payne. Miss Eliza
Payne, Mrs. J. S. Payne, o. S. Engedown,
Lynchburg; Mrs. G. II. Sknker c. r. Skinker,
ir., Miss Mary l.. Skinker, X. A. Dunlop, Mrs.
John Dunlop, Miss Dunlop, Richmond; Robert
Wilson, jr,, Norfolk; Miss Rennolds, Mrs.
Rennolds Fredericksburg; Miss t. Donthal,
Miss r. Donthal Charles City Rev. II. b.
Lee, Louis Marshall, Markham. PHO.