Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-08-13
John Morrissy ut Saratoga.

Jonn Morrissy has no other weak ness than
getting drunk about twice a year, and then
he is as amiable as a Pontiac OF Goliath
uring, gain-seeking business man, with the
soul of a merchant. He owns nearly two
acres of ground here in Saratoga on which
are built a large hotel, a pool house for bet
ting on horses, four cottages q mineral
spring, a rock spring, and a trout pond.
He has nearly one thousand trout, and he
took us to see them fed. Many of them
weigh two pounds. His hotel is a substan-
tial brick edifice. built on pile and planks
twenty-four feet under the surface. He
took swamp. piled it, filled it and made
paradise of it.. asked him how much
he had spent here. He said II have laid
out S340, 900. The first piece of ground I
bought, fifty feet front, paid 5000 a foot
for. never bought anything in Saratoga
at second price, If you reflect on any
proposition over night they'll raise on you
next morning. I keep a hotel in connec-
ton with my club house to be allowed to
gamble. I aim with that hotel to pay my
servants and to support the table. There
are seventy people in my employment here.
The cook is paid $500 for the season, and
| generally present him with 5000 when he
goes away. The good servants l re-engage
for the next year"
The hotel part of Morrissy's establish
ment bears no relation whatever to his
gaming, and the games are neither visible
nor the players audible from the dining
room, His sale de .j,ter is a sort of tram
sept to his hotel, one immense room light
ed from the sky, carpeted richly, with q
narrow rim Of gaming tables around the
sides. No citizen of Saratoga is allowed
to play, no Intoxicated person, no verdant
young men, Gambling has it's own class.
There are some men who game as natural
ly and as cody as they do business. Nor
rissy himself never plays, except with great
experts, and men Of equal purse and nerve,
like Ben. Wood OF Price McGrath.
KILLED BY THE BITE OF A HORSE
! The Rondout New York; " Freeman"
says that Conrad Elemdorf, Of Oliver, u
ster county, who was bitten by a stallion,
died on Wednesday. The patient was at
tended by Drs. Hull and Hasbrouck. We
understand that the family blame the doc
tors because they did not Immediately am
putate the arm but we do not think that
the doctors should be blamed. They did
all in their power to save the mans life,
and DR.. Loughran himself says that if the
arm had been taken off the man would
have died all the sooner, because the mus
Giles were torn, not only the whole length
of the arm. but also on the breast and
shoulders. The powerful animal had ac-
tually stretched these muscles and sinews
so that they were entirely dead. There
was no cure for such wound. Of course
the warm weather did not help it, and the
saliva of the horse besides has no doubt
acted as poison. The horse was a pow
erful animal. and, nearly like all stations,
was full of brute force and fire. When he
became unruly, Elmendorf took him by
the head with one hand and whipped him
on his fore legs until he partly lay down on
the grouud He continued to whip, and
then the horse, becoming Infatuated, sprang
upon him, inflicting the wound. the sad
affair should be a lesson to horsemen to
exercise more care in the government of
their animals of this class.