Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-05-02
THE TRARE or RICHMOND.

THE TRADE OF RICHMOND. |
Nothing strikes stranger visiting Rich
mond more Sreibly, as one of the results of
the opening of new trade for that city,
through he completion of the Chesapeake q
Ohio B. r., than the tremendous prepare
tions, the merchants there have made to
accommodate it. The splendid business
houses, which for size and adap tation, are
not surpassed in this country. with their
five floors appointed to the purposes Of the
different branches of the business, filled with
busy clerks and buyers, the ceaseless hum
Of the voices of clerks calling out and enter
ing goods sold, the never firing dummi
transferring merchandise from floor to floor.
and the endless rolling Of wagon wheels car
rying off the purchases for shipment, i'm
press the visitor with the fact, that he is in
big city and in the midst of big trade
These men have business with the custom
house, too, and are no longer the tags to
New York, their importations being far
greater than ever before. There is business
in the very air in Richmond, and every
body seems to be on the run, and altogether
it is a reprint of New York life. 1t is and
should be matter Of sincere pride to all Of
US in Virginia this great prosperity, and it
is something nore-it is matter Of inter-
est. Of all her success with her North Car
olina, Tennessee, Georgia and West Vir-
GINA trade, which is becoming monopoly,
we have share The more business she
does, the more she will buy from us, and the
more she will give US for it. The larger
our metropolis grows the better prices we,
who are on railroad lines reaching there,
will get for our produce. Her merchants
are reaching out for new trade on all sides
and they have taken the means to deserve it.
The WATER TERMINATION OF THE CHEsA-
pEAKE & ONO R. R.-In reply to the let
ter of the Norfolk Committee, making in
uuiries about connection between the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and tho At
lantic, Mississippi & Ohio R. R., President
Huntington writes that he would like to
have surveys on which to base fuller an.
swer, but, in the mean time, he would say,
in "a general way" that the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad Company will as coon
as thoy get some interests closed up, make
thorough survey from Clifton Forge out
to the Chesapeake Bay. and as soon there
after as circumstances will permit. they will
build road from Clifton Forge to Lynch
burg, there to connect with other roads, or
else build line of their own to deep water.
sin whatever we do we shall, of course, be
governed by the bes, interests of the south
eastern portion of Virginia. rs we'll as #
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Compa-
ny" The engineer corps in charge Of
Major Temple, have comp leted survey of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to York.
town, and returned to point above VII
liamsburg to complete. some unfinished
work. They will not survey lower down
the Peninsula than Yorktown at present.
A PROMINENT V1RGINIAN. Tho suicide
Of Jos. G Bowman, formerly Of Harrison.
sSs Va, in Indiana has been noticed
was about so years of age and went to
INDIANA in 1884, but afterwards moved to
Illinois where he became circuit Judge and
member of the Legislature He returned
TO Indiana before the war and was appoint
ed by President Lincoln, assessor of the LIST
Internal Revenue District, which position
he held for many years. He was an old
line whig, became republican in Illinois,
and afterwards voted with the Democracy
for Greeley. He was man of strict integ-
rity, bitter partizan and had strong in
tellect, which was only deranged, to the
point of suicide, by long continued and ago
nizlng physical suffering.
DEATH OF NAVAL OFFICER. --Commo.
dore John HI. Aulick, U. s. N, native
of Winchester, Va, died at Washington
Monday. He was one of the oldest officers
OF the navy, and was on the retired list at
the time Of his death. Entering the service
as midshipman, in 1909, he served in tho
''Enterprise" in all her actions, and carried
her prizes, the Boxer" and the privateers
Fly and Mars, into port He served
through that war on the Sarapac, Brandy.
wine, Constitution and Ontario, aud was in
command of the Washington Navy Yard
from '4s to Is. He was eighty four years
Of age.
SALE OF VALUABLE ESTATE That val.
liable estate known as "Jerico," situated
near the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs,
and lying on the waters of Towards Creek,
containing $40 acres, has been sold by Jas.
A. Cowardin, of the Richmond Dispatch,
3 its late owner, to Mr.. George G.. Peterkin,
late Of Scotland, for the sum of $22, 1000
equivalent to cash.
4 The "OLD LINE CANDIDATE The