The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-01-03
N ews In Brief.

The Emperor Francis Joseph speaks
seven of the languages and dialects spoken
in his empire.
MIR. W. II. IaxalI, one of the Oldest cit
zens of Richmond, died Thursday night,
aged eighty years.
OF the 81 300 head of cattle carried this
fear by Baltimore TRANSATLANTIC steamer
ines but 1873 were lost.
The pope never drinks any wine but
,laret and has plate of light soup served
10 him four times day.
Emperor Williams s ear is again tiCub
ling him. Probably he has been listening
TO one of Wagner's operas.
Captain Sidney O'Danne, the famous
'pretender to the throne of Ireland" is
on trial in Berlin for swinoIing.
Upon the menu of the lord mayors din
ner. which the premier always speaks.
there was printed After Salisbury, dane
ing. :"
The palace built by King Louis, of Ba
varia. was very expensive, but the receipts
for admission there last summer were
$50 600.
M. Martin, French Siberian explorer.
will soon start on an expedition to Central
China and the unexplOred regions OF Eas
tern Thibet.
1t is reported that several of the offices
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Co..
will shortly te removed from Rlchm Ond
to Cincinnati.
Mile. Popein, who lately passed an ex-
animation for admission to the Belgian
bar. has been finally adjudged ineligible,
being a woman.
oe ci, off
eral is Ct ,000 with e5, C00perquisites. The
solicitor general s stipend is 5000, with
60 900 perquisites.
There are rumors OF deal whereby the
Norfolk and Southern railroad, now run
ming from Norfolk. Va. to Edenton. n
c.. will be extended.
Mr.. Williamson. who has given S ,000,-
900 to found a mechanical training school
in Philadelphia, has carried the same um-
brella for Is years.
Frederick Hubbard, of West End, Conn.
was attacked in the street Thursday by a
large eagle, which he succeeded in captur-
ing after desperate fight
Count Taafe, prime minister of Austria
will be made prince by the Emperor of
Austria. He is also peer of Ireland un
der the title of Viscount Ia fe.
1t is said that the sultan of Turkey
aspires to a literary career. and has order
ed the poet laureate of the empire to aflix
the royal signature to his poems GREATER
H. Rider Haggard now wears his hair
in flowing locks. which reach almost to
his shoulders. He has shaved off his blonde
mustache and smokes cigarettes contin-
ually
The freedom of the city of London has
been conferred upon Prince George of
Wales. If he does not differ greatly from
his ancestors, he will take advantage of
the privilege.
The shipments of coal by the Pocahon
tas Coal Company for the week ending
Saturday, December % were 30. 324 tons, a
total for the month including December
%, of $4,000 tons.
A citizen of Winneconne county, Wis
consln, has sccceeded in tempering brass.
and has exhibited brass knives and axes
that will cut seasoned hemlock knots with.
out turning the edge.
Because her husband danced with anoth
er woman Sunday night at a ball. in Du-
luth. MINI. Mrs. Dicas, aged twenty, took
strychnine Monday morning, and died be-
fore assistance arrived.
Count Won Moltke, while making pur-
chases for Christmas. was surrounded by
a wild and enthusiastic mob of friends and
admirers in Berlin and cbeered until he
was obliged to retreat into cab.
George W. Williams, the negro listor
ian, has recently returned from Europe
laden with the fruits of long search
through the libraries of the Old World for
matter pertaining TO Toussaint IOuyer'
ture.
John Keith Robertson. journalist. and
author of several successful novels. of
Dundee. fell down stair leading to his
fathers house some few days ago and sur.
yived he accident only an hour, lie was
only 30.
1t is thought that the burning of the
steamer Left Erickson, near Seattle, w.
r., was caused 10y a demijohn in the pilot
house bursting, and the whiskey running
through to the boiler and igniting. Six
lives were lost.
1t is said that Oscar Wilde hiss received
valuable points on lecturipg since his mar
riage. He is a much more forcible speaker
than he used to be when he travelled
through this country as the apostle oil
esthetcism and sunflowers.
Lillian. Duchess Of Marlborough, form
ely Widow Iammersley. is getting more
and more into the folds OF the aristocracy.
She must now put on black and recall her
tea" cards owing to the death of the
duke s aunt, Lady Alan Spencer Churchill.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Shower died on Dec. %,
1888 at the residence of her son in law.
John w. Staples. near Laurel Hill, Au-
gusta county. at 1880 a. M, from cancer,
aged sc years, months and 3 days. She
was a member of the Mennonite church.
Lord Sherbrooke, better known as Ro-
bert Lowe, the English stateman, is now
worth something like $l0,000,000 although
he began life as college tutor, with no
other capital than brains. He made all
his money by judicious investment in Aus
tralian lands.
The opinion that Count Herbert Bis
marck is one of the rising men in Euro
pean staiecraft is severely criticised. The
real man In European politics is said to be
Count Waldersee. and some say that on
the retirement of Prince Bismark Count
Herbert will be shelved.
The population of Illinois is decreasing
outside of the cities. The school census
of 1883 shows th2t while there was in The
State in 1880 7S9. 6T6 males nJder 81, July
of this year there were S43976. This is a
gain of 81 800, but the gain in Cook coun-
ty was 10 Il I, SDOWlDg t1ldI Iue loss III Tue
rest of the State was 2S,9l7.
Mai ,!nhn W. Johnston has resigned
the presidency Of the Georgia Pacific rail
road Company. and has accepted the Posi-
ton of fourth Vice President and general
southern manager of the Richmond and
Danville system. The appointment will
go into effect on January ].
Johnson Hatfield, the worst Of the whole
Hattild gang died last week in Lawrence
Co., Ky. He ruined a daughter of old man
Mccoy. and was one of the leaders in the
affair when the three Mccoy boys were
tied to bushes and shot to death, and also
in the attack on Randolph McCoy's house
year ago, when bis daughter and another
of the boys were murdered.
Virginia Taylor has been committed to
Accomac county Jail to await trial on the
charge of poisoning her husband, Wm. j,
Taylor who died more than one week ago.
The coroner's jury, after sitting four days,
rendered verdict that Tay lor died from
poison supposed to have been administered
by his wife. Mrs. Taylor protests her in
nocence. and takes her arrest very coolly.
Much excitement prevails.
1t has been stated that the enormous
use of postal cards in the United States
has had a seriously detrimental effect upon
the mannfacture of letter paper and envel-
Opes. The paper iEau9try. it is said losses
from $l2, 600. 900 to SIS 600 ,0OD year from
~ 30 IL,