Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-07-16
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n, Mt from Wisconsin >thata jury of her
peers has not only discovered what 1t is,
but extended it's inquiries SO far as to |
asset tain the money value ola piece of it. |
The discovery was made in the case of
Miss Abigail Perkins We. Mrs.. Evelyn
Wyden, in which the latter lady, in a dis
cussion about. church matters, had not
only given Miss Perkins piece of her
mind, but so large piece that she nearly
destroyed her prospects for this world and
the next. 1t appears from the evidence
of several other members Of the same
house, of worship that this mother in Isreal4
had, among other things, charged the
plaintiff with talking too much, a most un-
heard of charge against lady; that she had
been 'stoo officious' at fairs, rs if any right
minded Christian lady could be that, and
finally, to crown all, had made u con-
temptuous allusion to her age, coupled
with tile fact that she WAS ''not married.
and that at this Miss Perkins 'broke
down. and chad a cry" We SHOULD
think 50. Ii anything would draw tears
| from the tender heart of a woman, we
should think such a piece of mind dis
charged at her all at once would be likely.
| to do it. 1t must have struck Miss Per
kins that if this was only piece of Miss
| Wyden's mental machine, the whole of it
would have been fearful to behold. Tie
jury fixed the damages for the plaintiff at
$50, which, if we might be allowed an
opinion in such a matter, was entirely too
little The idea that a young lady should
be so put upon as to be forced to "have n
cry,' which is accepted with all mankind
as her main signal of distress, and IL sign
| that the craft has stopped fighting and is
sinking, and should only receive the pal
try sum of fifty dollars, is not to be toler-
ated in chiyalric community, and Miss
Perkins has our sympathy. We do not
think this penalty will put an end to the
custom of ladies making each other pres
ents of small pieces of their mind. 1t is IL
custom from time immemoriai. Women
have been grieved at it, and men have
been surprised and routed by it from the
DAYS Of Eden. We have seen grown men
utterly demoralzed by il piece of Il wo-
mans mind no larger than the end of your
finger Married men have lived Whole liv S
of terror furtively watching for IA ''piece of
her mind, which is always on hand and
ready to explode. Affairs of State haye
been bent into an opposite direction by the
wife of one statesman presenting the wife
of another with a piece of her mind. Ma
| tions have gone to war about it, and
churches been blown up it. The Kelley
motor and electricity and steam are small
| concerns compared with this inexplicable
power when it is set in motion. No living
man has ever been known to ask for it. Men
have asked women for their love, for them
selves, for kisses. rings and flowers, but
no man has ever in his senses asked IL NO
man to give him "a piece of her mind, y
and the man has yet to be found who ever
felt happier for getting it. The Wiscon.
sin jury say small piece of it is worth
$50, which perhaps was us much us they
knew about it. AS an explosive, no money
can purchase it.
TIE TRADE OF THE STATE INsTrru-
TIoNs.-At u meeting of the Richmond
Chamber of Commerce last week, the fol-
| lowing proceedings occurred:
MI. III. l.. Blair, from the Committee on
| Commerce, reported, III reference to the
resolution of inquiry as to where the sup
| plies for the State institutions are pun
chased. that as a. general thing the institn-
tiOnS do not buy their supplies in this
State. The institution at Williamsburg
receives its goods from New York. The
Institution at Lexington buys in Balti-
more The asylum at Staunton buys its
goods in Baltimore.
Mr.. Potts said that, so far as he knew
the Virginia Military Institute buys It's
goods in Richmond.
! General Anderson said there was SOue
feeling in the last General Assembly be-
cause the Williamsburg institution buys
it's goods ont of the State, and he believed
that the failur,. of the bill to make an APP
preparation to this asylum was owing TO
this fact He believed that II the commit
tee would Il ct cautiously that it would do
good.
Mr.. Capers said he believed that the u-
stitution at Lexington buys its goods
mostly in the cities in the State; and that
at Staunton in Richmond and other cities
! in Virginia, but the asylum atsWiliaMs-
burg almost invariably purchases in the
cities beyond Virginia. f
1 A correspondent in the Richmond "Dis-
patch" complains that: . r.
\ The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution,
1 at Stauntop, has just awarded to Balti-
more firm q large contract for steam-lit-
ting, &c., though any first-class firm in
Richmond would have done the work
equally as well and at q AQwer figure rather
| than see ii go to Baltimore. Though
| there were twelve bids in for this work,
| only two firms in Richmond were asked to
bid. and only one of those was informed
that the quality Of the material to he used
! was vastly inferior to that mentioned in
their specifications. Nf
This contract was awarded by the exc
cutive committee of the d.. ID. d B. Insti-
tuition, but on very different facts. There
were three bids from Baltimore, two from
Richm0rG, and one from Staunton. The
work was awarded at 81 200, or Is per
cent. lower than any ct the other bids,
and the material was required to be of the
first quality. At this Institution for four
years there hasn't been 900 spent for
supplies out of Virginia. These facts are
given in letter to the "DiSpatch' by
Capt. Mccoy. 1t the Lunatic Asylum all
its purchases are made in Virginia that
can be made in the State.
BAD MANNERS. Everything seems to
have gone little out of the way at the
University this time. Speaking of Hon,
r. NJ. I. Hunters speech. letter says;
During the delivery of the speech some
persons of both sexes engaged in carrying
on an idle and boisterous conversation, i
and when b. Johnson Barbour appealed to
the chivalryof Old Virginia to keep silence