Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-10-25

bies is as tinkling symbal and sounding brass.
There is no device nor wisdom that they are not
up to, and they have worldly air about them
that is painful to behold. They have the art of
multiplying themselves to most alarming ex-
tent The waiter on our floor when we first went
there, said there were three on that floor, but
some nights they make out that they are thirty,
and sometimes when we wake up suddenly in the
depths of the night we think there are three thou
sand. But this must be an exaggeration. 1t
was but the other night that an old gentleman
stopping there heard the freight train arrive.
and thinking it was the passenger train, dressed
hastily and came down and commenced STUN
! bling about in the dark with his valise trying
| to find his way out when one of our babies
| sighted him through the key-hole and gave a
| squall which made his hair stand on end. The
old gentleman tipped softly to the other end of
| the passage and sat down on bis valise hopping
his forehead thoughtfully, and wondering how
steam whistle got into hotel.
1t is very hard matter to get acquainted
with these babies. They travel under SO many
aliases, There is one of them who goes under
dozen. Chiefly he is designated as 'Tum to
mudder," "Mudder's peshous pet" and other
inexplicabe names. We say he because we
think it is gentleman, but really they ought
to be numbered or ticketed so that the people
| will know who they are, and not have the intel
ligent nurses say, as they often do say in con-
temptuous manner to unoffending but mistaken
gentlemen-"a he faint he it's she Pr The
present obscure mode of dress also makes crime
easy. Any wicked baby may commit the most
outrageous crime and then go off and swear he
is girl aud nobody be the wiser. There can't
possibly be anything more tickle than these ba-
bies. They are regular pitfalls to afectionate
men. 1t was only the other day that having
triumpantly kissed Mr.. Tum to Mddder without
row on Monday, we essayed the same on Tues
day. TWAS once toooften. He planted his little
fat foot in our eye, giving US q boost with his
little head and simultaneously clawing us with
great energy with his little fingers, feat that
the late Thomas Savers in his best days, would
have fallen short of The performance was &C
companied with series of screams and oaths
that were appalling, for we shall always believe
that babies do curse when they make those aw-
full yells, only we don't understand it. II IS but
just to say that Mr.. Tum to Mudder explained
his conduct afterwards. As we were passing
down the passage he stopped his little amuse-
ment of swallowing broom-stick, which he had
nearly popped his little eyes out trying, and
laying aside the broom said he wanted to speak
to us. After satisfying himself with an anxious
glance that the nurse wasn't around, be made
the following address, which as matter of JUS
tice we feel bound to print:
"You mustn't mind US when we do that way j
we can't help it. We have pains here, Quitting
his little hand his little STOMACH, and we have
to take gallons of this quilting ont vial ofpar-
agoric, and wish that Mr.. Trout and Mr. Strib-
ling, and Mr.. Howard Wayt and his brother
were dead, and all their worm syrups and catnip
and paragoric were buried with them, lido And
we are treated shamefuly. Girls that amt got
any babies of their own, come and borrow us
and hug and squeeze us till our lungs wont
work, and kiss us till we couldn't catch our
breath, if they did work. And very often they
hold US with our heels up and our heads down
till we are nearly dead. They don't seem to
think baby life..is worth anything at all. And
yet Mayor Trout lets it all go on without arrest
ing anybody. Look here, with frown Mr.. Tum
took US by the bu ton hole,) don't you ever be
baby ifyou can help tits a miserable life"
We said we wouldn't, and left this wretched
young gentleman reaching out for his broom
handle with suicide in his eye. We have only
seen him once since and that was very sudden
ly. He has been practicing to walk in the pas
sage and makes our door resting place on his
way. The other morning just as he was about
to rest, we opened our door and he came in by a
trapeze movement. We have ever seen baby
so utterly dismayed and demoraized as this
baby was. He seemed to have lost faith in every
thing. He will never understand it in this life
1t is necessity that hotel life must be of the
world worldly, and it is redeeming point to
find anything SO fresh and human in it as
baby. There is no getting away from loving
them, and through love they get to be the COM
mon property of the inmates. Wherever they may
go to, andthere are some doubts about that there
can be no doubt that they come from Heaven,
and in coming they all manage to trail after
them enough of its glory to make them beautiful.
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RELIGIOUS 1NTELL1GEECE.-A series of revival
meetings commenced in the Baptist Church here
ron of Lexington arrived to assist Geo. B. Tay-
lor the pastor.
Bishop Johns, Of the Episcopal Church of Va,
administered the rite of confirmation at Eman-
uel Church, in Harrisonburg last evening.
The Winchester Methodist Conference met at
Charlestown, Wednesday last. Rev. DR.. Dun
can, President of Randolph Macon College is to
be present during its deliberations
The 'Life of the Rev j. B. Taylor" by Rev.
Geo. B. Taylor, of Staunton, his son, is for sale
at Hunters book store. 5s
PERsoNAL.-Among the arrivals in town in
the last few days Mr.. Jno. G. Bowyer, of the
U. S. Treasury Department, Washington, and
Maj. Peter H. Woodward, Superintendent of the
Fountain Hotel, Baltimore.
Gen. Kemper was in the city yesterday ready
to address the political meeting set for that day,
but inclemency of the weather forced him to
leave without doing SO.
Cry MARKET PR1cEs.-The following were the
retail prices at the City Market yesterday morn
ing Beef, 74@12c. per pound Pork lo@l2ac
Veal, 1o@124c; Sausage 129c; Mutton, ll@
l25c; Butter, 2o@95 !. Potatoes Irish, GOO
ST. 90 per bushe; Sweet, so@Sl. 90; Apples
4o@6oc; Cabbage, 7@loc. head Chickens,
2o@25c. each Eggs, 15@2oc per dozen Tur-
nips, per quart. '
UNITED STATES CoURrs.-Judge Hugh L. Bond,
will hold special term of the United States Cir
cult Court, in Lynchburg, on the 18th of Novem-
Der, for the purpose of hearing appeals in bank
ruptcy.
Judge Alex. Rives will also hold a special term
of the District Court. on the 9th of November
for the Transaction of general hankrunt huo