Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-11-28
NUMBER 81.
News Items.

AMERICAN TOURISTS Shopping.
A London paper recently published
,, an estimate of the money spent by
t American tourists in Europe every
season. One of them, it states, or
dered $4,000 worth of jewelry in a
West End store at one of his yisits.
and the manager of a firm Of Regent
street tailors asserted that its GUS
toners from the other side of the
Atlantic rarely gave an order for less
than f1OO. "Some, of course, would
not spend more than half that sum-"
said he, but, on the other hand, in
stances are known of customers
spending $1,000 and more on cos.
TUNES to take back to the States
AS all these clothes had to present
some appearance of being worn in
order to pass the United States Gus.
toms duty free, the purchaser would
have lively time for few weeks
getting the things in trim to face the
inquisitive revenue officers" Cloth
ing, hats, umbrellas, perfumes, jew
elry and rare laces are the chief ar
ticles that the Americans purchase
to take home with them.
FOOD CONsUMPTION.-T cost of
nourishment for various nations 10
presented in the following figures by
German statistician The average
Englishman consumes $3.50 worth of
food year Germans and Austrians.
$2l6 worth; Frenchmen, $212; Ital-
ians, $11O, and the Russians only S96
worth of eatables per year. In the
consumption of meat the English
speaking nations are also in the lead,
with l2S pounds of meat year per
capita of the population, the French
inen using 80 pounds; Austrians,
79; Germans, 70; Italians, SO, and
Russians, so pounds of meat per
year. The consumption of bread,
however, is reversed being compared
to that of meat. The English use
41O pounds year the Frenchmen,
595 the Austrians, 605; Germans,
go; Spanish, $40; Italians, 66O, and
Russians, IT'S pounds of bread per
year.
ATLANTA, with it's great Cotton
States and international Exposition,
seems to be the Mecca of the North
ern people just now. The Cover
nors of Massachusetts, Pennsylva-
MIA, Michigan, Illinois, and other
States north of Mason and Dixon's
line, have visited the Exposition re-
Gently and all have been most COR
daily received by Gov. Atkinson,
who has been kept busy showing
them attentions. All the speeches
made have abounded in patriotic ut
terances, and the hearty handshakes
and friendly greetings exchanged
between Northern and Southern men
indicate the complete obliteration of
the prejudices engendered by the
war.
DR.. M. H. DYER, who has been
engaged since 1898 in copying the
Virginia land grants on file in the
land office at Richmond, has Just
completed the work and turned the
books over to the Auditor. The
work comprises $4,000 grants and
covers 49,S00 pages, divided in SO
substantially bound: books. The,
include not only all the grants issued
by the State Of Virginia since thr
land Office was established, July 2,
1775, including the territory now
comprised in the State of West Vir-
ginia, but also those issued by Lord
Fairfax and the regal government
on the land in the same territory,
dating back as far as 1854.
To PREVENT LYNCHING.-It Is
said that the Georgia Legislature will
probably enact law to prevent
lynching based on the suggestions Of
Gov. Atkinson, as follows: First,
giving the Governor power to relieve
at once any sheriff or similar officer
who fails to protect prisoner In his
charge; and second, making the
county where lynching occurs re-
sponsible for the life and responsible
In money damages to the next Of
kin. There is no doubt, 1t Is said,
that many lynchings have occurred
through the direct collusions of the
sherifYs.
GEN. CRAIGHILL, chief Of Gov
ernment Engineers, who has general
charge Of river and harbor improve
ments, has submitted his report to
the Secretary Of War. The fnan-
cial statement shows that there was
expended on rivers and harbors dur
Ing the past fiscal year (exclusive Of
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers)
the sum Of $15, ,44O, ,994, making the
total for the past two years $50, ,904,-
O84. The estimate submitted for
the next two years is $21 ,O18,19
THE trustees Of the Augusta Fe-
male Seminary at Staunton. Va,