The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-11-10
Here and There.

| Here and There.
The Haversford, Pa, Electric Ligh
Works were burned. Loss $25, 900.
G. P. Huntington, of New York, cele
DRAFTED his seventy first birthday las
| week.
Moody and Sankey are said to have
received $1,200,OO0 in royalties from
their gospel hymns.
Miss Mamie Wesson, spirited girl OF
twenty, is a mail carrier in Oregon and
traverses dangerous route four or five
times week.
Large quantities of brick being dried
in the open air in Marin county, CAL,
were destroyed by the late rains.
Harvey L. Vannuys has been pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of Go
shen. Ind, for forty years.
The Augusta (Me.) Journal is inform
ed that after this winter Mr.. and Mrs.
Blaine will occupy their residence in
that city as their permanent home.
President Noel, of the Crescent City
Athletic Club, cabled Charles w. Mitch
ell an offer of $4,000 and $4,000 for ex-
penses to meet James j. Corbett.
Lieutenant~ Colonel John T. Pitman,
aged seventy-nine years, Il member of
the Providence, r. l., bar, died at the
Philadelphia arsenal while visiting his
son, Captain John Pitman.
Samuel Teedon, who was schoolmas>
ter at Olney in Cowper's time, kept a
diary that is full of "reminiscences of the
poet and his friends, which will soon be
published.
Pasteur, they say, is so deeply absorb
ed in his professional work that he for~
got his wedding day, and had to be
hunted up in hospital by the BRIDES
relatives ON that festal occasion
Miss Tommasson, an English woman,
has performed notable feat in horses
manship, riding 220 miles in 374 hours,
from Innsbruck, in the Tyrol, through
the Bremen pass and back
Francis Darwin's Forthcoming life of
his father, Charles Darwin, the great
teacher of the evolution of philosophy,
will consist Of an photographed chap
ter and selections from letters.
James J. Corbett says he will not
fight for a year. Next fall he will de-
post money for a match with Charles
w. Mitchell, and if Mitchell does not re
spond he will give Peter Jackson
chance.
That cherished volume of Shakespeare
which Tennyson so often perused during
the last days of his life was buried with
him. The book was encased in metal
and tenderly laid beside its late owner.
Rev. DR.. David Greer, pastor of st.
Bartholomew Episcopal Church, New
York, having sufficient private income
for his own needs, turns over his entire
salary of $4,000 year for the relief of
the poor.
Ex-Governor Merriweather, of Ken
lucky, attained the age of ninety three
last Sunday. Besides serving the Blue
Grass State as it's chief magistrate, he
was also United States Senator, succeed
ing Henry Clay in that office.
In the space between Worth street
and the Battery, New York, where
there are many wholesale houses, it is
stated that IL, 900 women are employed
as typewriters. A single typewriting
machine company finds employment,
through it's various offices, for 10000
women a year.
Guy de Muapassant, the insane French
novelist, grows neither better nor worse.
1t is reported by his medical attendants
that he usually eats with capital appe
tite, has good digestion, sleeps well,
and, apart from periods of nervous dis
turbance, seems to lead the life of hap
py child.
Xavier Mariner, the French acade-
mician, who died recently, was fond of
quiet and solitude, and had simple tastes.
For the last twenty years he was a veg
etarian, or rather a hater of flesh, feed>
ing only ON eggs and salads, washed
down with little wine and water. 1t
was perhaps this sobriety which helped
him to attain to the ripe age of eighty
four, for he was not naturally robust.
When he grew too intirm to walk his
wheel chair used to take him about to
the secondhand book-stalls, which he
was fond of visiting.