Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-07
IN THE MOUNTAINS:
Correspondence OF the Staunton Vindicator.1
STRIBLING SPRINGS, August 8.

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for this place, and think I've got it at
last, OF rather I've gotten up two of them.
One is that the hotel was built here and
then these mountains and streams were
brought up and arranged by the proprietor
around it Iconfess this seems almost i'm
probable. The other is that the whole
neighborhood was created expressly for
watering place. 1t is true that there is
no mention OF this in Genesis, but then it
might have been overlooked in the hurry
of the moment. At any rate [ give the
reader the privilege of taking either theory
he pleases, which is more than most scien-
tiic writers do. Seriously the situation is
the most beautiful for the purpose in the
State. Ending fifteen mile ride from
Staunton, through beautiful country,
you see glinting through a pass in the
mountain, SO narrow that it looks rather
like narrow rift through the deep blue
wall than a roadway, a white cottage
This you are told is ''the springs" and, i'll
= few minutes, going through the pass
which is just wide enough for u roadway
and little rivulet, and skirting close to
the ruins of an old mill, you come upon
just the prettiest scene in the world
Nesting among the trees at the foot OF the
mountain just passed, is the hotel and the
long rows of shining white cottages, run
ming not far from which is a brawling
mountain brook, all made delightful by a
| never ceasing breeze. which keeps the
J,,ry f,,fr
| mountains run down to the very edge of
the little plain occupied by the hotel
grounds, and give the visitor such a feel
| ing of being shut in from the busy world,
| such delicious sense of perfect rest, as |
remember nowhere else to have expert
| enced.
You enjoy rest after staging. An old
gentleman came part of the way with us
from StauntOn. He spent good deal of
his time between the seat and the roof. 1t
interfered a good deal with his converse
ton. He would commence and then we
would have to wait for him to come down
| to finish it, One time we heard. him jerk
out something about the Teecher-Bilton
-Slammer. He was telling it when he
went up and we didn't know what he was
driving at. When he came down, i'll about
a minute. he glared around at the pas
sengers, closing with eff she had been my
wife I'd have - and here he went up
again. But we knew what he was talking
about. 1t made us all feel very uncom-
| Portable. We had never seen his wife and
| couldn't possibly have anything to do with
| it, but you know how the average married
man is; when he gets that sort Of thing in
his head, he generally shoots the first man
he comes across, and that makes it all so
disagreeablt I've no doubt there will be
dozen innocent men shot in the United
States in the next six months, who might
have lived to green old age but for this
miserable piece Of business in Brooklyn.
1 would like to give you an analysis of
the waters at this place, if it didn't look SC
deuced like business. There are three
springs heEe-the Sulphur, stronger than
the White Sulphur; the Alum, stronger
than the Rockbridge Alum, and the Cha
lybeate. / don't know what diseases they
are good for and [ don't care, not having
any myself, but these are facts from the
analyses, one of them from the late DR.. F.
T. Stribling, a NAH that could be relied Oh
to the very letter of what he said. But |
do take deep and abiding interest in the
nice way things are kept here-the capital
cooking, and ohservant and. as it were
friendly attention which a visitor receives.
When man sleeps in a nice, tidy, cool
room in August, and wakes up to a break
fast of delicious bread fresh butter, strong
coffee, chicken and the other fixings, he
lights his cigar with such a satisfied feel
ing with himself, and such a don 't-care-
a - feeling for the rest OF the world.
| that he is apt to lose that sense of graft
tude that he ought to feel to the manager,
| E. NJ. Cushing, who has had so much to
do with it. But, indeed we all do remem-
Der hi II for surely we all have cause.
We have regular religious service here
| Sunday, though we have no minister
Captain W. r. Lyman, of New Orleans.
! who commanded a battery Of Confederate
| artillery during the war, conducted the
| service today, reading a sermon from
print. The services were very interesting
and exctll-ntly conducted. The other
| nights in the week the ballroom is Open
and we are able to show as much styl;
| among the ladies as there is in any ball
room Of the Virginia springs. Our COM
pany comes from all parts of the country,
as the Sc names on the register will show
9pod cl, md NIrc mr.
Eccert, indianapolis; w. r. Lyman and
family, New Orleans. Captain Lyman is
brother of Mrs. Townsend, the dstin-
guiShed poetess 'iXarifa," whose descrip-
tive tour through the Valley of Virginia,
is still remembered by our people w. D.
Stevens, Memphis; Judge A. B. Guigon
and family, Richmond; J. Mccormick,
Baltimore; Z. II. Starke, wife and da Ugh
ter, Richmond; G. N. Wheeler, New
York; General John =. Roller. Virginia
Rev. j. R. Waggoner, Judge John O.
Reynolds and w. II. Holman, Cumber-
land, Va; Gnstave A. Jahm and lady, and
II. Jahm, New Y DIRK F. T. Glasgow and
family, Richmond; Mrs. DR.. Woodbridge,
Miss Mary Woodbridge, Miss Mary Mich
olas and Miss Roberta Edumnds, Rich
mond Mrs. T. G. Elder and children,
Staunton, and R. S. Taylor, Stanton.
Nh. Chesley Kinney, the proprietor,
seems determined to make this season the
opening of a new era in the history of
Stribling Springs and does not spare ex-
pense to keep it abreast Of any watering
place in Virginia, in its accommodations
A 5000 stage coach to run between Staun-
ton and here is one of the evidences of this.
One is apt to forget the sick. and l had