Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1869-12-03

tors makes the following exhibit OF
Receipts and Expenses
The earnings of the road during the
fiscal year eniing September 80,
1869, GA So
The expenses of general administra-
lion for the same period wcre..... Al, 5Sl e3
Net earnings ..........sl85, o92 80
The increase OF receipts over previous
year was. So 800 4c
The excess of expenditures over preri-
Gus year ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1926 IL
Dcducting the amount Of So, 306, for re-
laying with new rail portion Of the road
east Of Stanton, and an excess of 81 600
worth Of wood on hand, would show a dimi-
mutton Of working expenses over the previ-
GUS year
The construction of the road to the White
Sulphur increased the debt of the Company
$685. but owing to this extension, the
revenues for the last quarter of the year was
increased, as compared with last quarter Of
previous year, for passenger fare, Al per
cent and for freights 8 per cent. The Stock
of the Company and the road is reported in
good condition.
The contract with G, P. Huntington and
others, the signing Of which We noticed in
our last, was ratified Without giving the
contract, it is only necessary to say that
Mcssrs Huntington s, Co, whose aggrega
ted wealth is estimated at from SIS, 900, 900
to Sl00, 000, 600, can and will easily raise
the twelve or fifteen millions necessary to
complete and equip The road to the Ohio
river.
That they viii do this speedily THEN past
history as railroad men and capitalists fully
guarantees Mr.. Huntington is the gcutlc,
man who constructed the Central Pacific and
several California railroads. Mr.. Aspinwall
is scarcely second to him in point Of reputa-
ton, while they with the others composing
/ the company are noted business men and men
of extreme wealth.
| On motion Of Col Baldwin the following
persons were elected directors, in accordance
with the report of the committee, on con-
tracts, (yiz: to elect eleven directors and
these directors to elect a President and Vice
President.) 1 3t 7.- a'. I49
G. P. Huntington, A. A. Lowe. William
II. Aspinwall Pliny Fisk, David Stewart,
Jonas G. Clark, William B. Hatch, Fl.
Chester Parsons. John Echols, Williams c.
Eickham, and Joseph R. Anderson
All but the three last named arc citizens
of New York, and are parties to the contract
just ratified ~
On motion Of Mr.. Lyons, the following
resolutions Of respect to the memory Of Col.
Edmund Fontaiac, were unanimously adopt
ed:
Resolved, That i'll the death Of Colonel
Edmund Fontaine, late president Of this
company, the company and the State have
sustained great loss. and We, the stockhol1-
ers. experience the most painful emotions Of
grief He was the president Of this compa-
ny when it was only the Louisa Railroad
Company Under his management ard
presidency it soon grew to be the Virginia
Central Railroad Compan and from that
to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. 20 the qualities Of an cstimablc, in
teligent and plous gentleman he united
those Of an indefatigable, and Of an upright,
faithful and discreet officer.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to his family, with the assurance of
our deep sympathy in their bereavement.
A Long tourney with a Crazy
Father. f5,..eHi
Last summer Samuel Fl. johnson reported
to be insane, but considered harmless, dis
appeared from Cairo, Illinois, with his lit
tie son, aged seven years. Though ignorant
in her husband, Notwithstanding his unset
tied condition of mind, and entertained no
fears either for his safety Or that Of the child.
So time passed on, until short time ago
she received a letter. enclosing a paragraph
clipped from California paper, stating that
a man answering 10 the desert ption Of her
husband accompanied by seven year old
boy, had been arrested as an insane person
near Sacramento, California lie was rag
gcd and trayel-worn, and the little boy was
in condition equally pitiablc The whole
distance from Cairo to California lad been
made by them on foot They had Travelled
steadily, begging food on the way, some
times fasting and thirsting for days, but con-
tinuiDg their journey the while. as if the
route aboundcd in plenty.
Night and day, week after week, the
journey was pursued, until the gap between
them and home had widcncd out to q dis
lance Of more than two thousand miles,
closing the last day with a walk Of over Thirty
miles. Stopping for food and rest at resi-
dence q few miles distant from Sacramento,
| the man betrayed such unmistakablc evil
dences Of insanity that jury of inquest was
impaneled, and upon their verdict was ad-
mitted into the Stockton Insane Asylum,
where he now is '5,' T.
/ The relatives of the unfortunate man
placed themselves in correspondence with
the keeper of the asylum, and by a recent
mail received a photograph of him, which
any one who knows him will recognize at
sig hit. The little boy speaks of afTectionatc
and parental treatment during the long and
laborious journey, and of the fathers fire.
quent and remarkable self-denial for his com
fort.
We question it much if there is another
seven year old boy living, who has made on
foot a continuous journey Of two thousand
miles-no one, certainly, in charge Of
crazy father.
There are about S75, 600, 600 of gold coin,
40, 900, 600 in silver coin, and 81, 500, 900
gold and silver bullion in The vaults of tie