Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-12-24
For the Spectator.

IIT. GUsLOT
The remains Of Christian Staubus
were ommitted to mother-earth, In the church
yard Of Bethlehem, on South River, On Tues
day, the 10Th ult. As he was very remarka-
bic man, whose young life opened in one Of the
small kingdoms Of Germany, Hesse-Darmstadt,
whence he came with his handsome young wife
quite generations ago, and IS there was much
in his character that ought to serve as an iucen-
tive to the young men Of the present genera
ton, to imltatate his virtues, you will pardon
the humble effort Of friend 10 portray some
of them:
When he first saw the light the elder Napo-
leon was in the zenith Of his fame, and Ger
many, through every portion, Of it, from the
hamlet to the throne, felt his power. It was a
treat to listen to this venerable man relating
incidents, some of which he remembered to
have seen, most Of which were detailed to him
by those Of his own family, who figured in
those eventful and exciting scenes With two
other young families be managed to make a
successful exodus from Germany, which the
them the Crum family, the descendants of
whom live near him reached the city Of Bal
timore, about the period at which Cumberland
Williams, a name yet familiar to many Of our
old people, operated a furnace On South river,
at what is now known as the Gray property
He purchased the service of MIR. Staubus, and
the two families referred to, in Baltimore, for
e year, or perhaps more, to pay their passage,
and brought them to his furnace. MIR. Stau-
bus saved carefully the little means he had
brought from the paternal home, faithfully dis
charged his obligations to MIR. Williams, and
rented for time some land in the vicinity, but
the late Col Alex. r. Givens being greatly i'm
pressed with the exceedingly pleasant and
- IL oP oil
the trials incident to their beginning life among
strangers, proposed to him to move to tract
of his land on the Blue Ride, in Browns Cove,
in Albemarle. There he lived number OF
years. and there are, doubtless, among the old
people in that vicinity and Charlottesville,
many who will remember his always pleasant
face and the engaging manners Of his pretty
wife, Of whom the writer has heard the re-
mark, "She was born lady," when they to-
gether would visit the town to dispose OF the
proceeds of their Industry. Il was here on the
side OF the Blue Ridge, he laid the foundation
Of comfortable competence, and among the
many products Of his industry, he cultivated
''hops,' to an extent that for that early day
was subject Of admiration and remark. His
children being small could render much aid in
thirty years ago he had saved enough to ena-
BILE him to purchase s large tract OF land on
North River, near the village Of Mt. Scion,
from John Michael. Sr., who, advanced in life,
and the father Of ts0enty-tsgo living children,
removed to Indiana. Mr.. Staubus raised a
family of fourteen children on this farm Mr..
Michael had for generations sent his sons out
to cut his winter supply OF hay On the share
system, not believing his land adapted to its
growth. In few years old father Staubus had
some Of it in timothy, and turned portion oi
his mil-race upon it, and could boast of excel
lent meadows, and taught his neighbors a les
son of what intelligent industry could do, that
ought yet to bear its fruit in that and other
neighhorhoods Several years before the war
having lost his wife, he left some Of his family
in charge of this home, and sought small one
in the neighborhood where ne died. There
too, his skill and intelligence as farmer excl
ted the admiration Of his neighbors In the
small tract he purchased was an old mill-dam
This he drained carefully, and raised fabulou!
crops of hay and grain.
In all the relations of life Christian Staubu
was model man. His descendants are nov
scattered over half-dozen States and can re-
vert to his memory as one whose virtues any
might emulate. He was connected early in lift
with the Lutheran church (old school), and al
his life demeaned himself as consistent Chris
tian. May the sod Of the Valley rest light!
on his BOSOM A FRIEND.
| TFrom the Virginia Sentinel, of the 4th.]
| Good for the Ladies-Relief from Socia
Evil.
The writer was interested in an address
delivered, or article written, year OR two agt
by Commodore Maury, in which he gave som,
account of the superior domestic arrangement
and economy of the Germans; and one poin
which has bearing upon the subject in hand
was that the baking of an entire village wa
usually done with one fire. Something of thi
system applied to another department would
I'VE believe, effect change with us, which W,
can now scarcely realize. We ailude to tn
housekeeper's weekly worry-washing.
There seems to be in every county, city an,
village of our State scarcity Of good cooks
and the reason for this is that most of the col
ored population, who have been trained to an
are best adapted to this duty, are now foun
crowded together in the suburbs of our towns
generally in novels, many of them destitute
and some suffering, which they accept and pre-
Ter to the comforts of good kitchen and kind
ly oversight in sickness, if these are couple
i with the avocation Of cook. Nearly all of thes