Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-07
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FRIDAY MORNING, JAN.7. 1915.
Local.


SUDDEN DEATns.-On last Wednesday
morning, Capt. n. Fountain, of Wood |
stock, formerly agent of the Piedmont U
Arlington Life Insurance Company here,
who was OH visit to his old friends IN
Staunton. died suddenly at the residence
Of Mr. 3. NJ. Clinedinst. He had taken a
bad cold and been unwell one or two days,
and OIL Tuesday night was so much w.fse
that DR.. Fauntleroy was sent for. Ihe
doctor found him suffering from conges-
tion of the brain, from which he expired
about 6 O'Clock We'd esday morning.
Capt. Fountain was about SO years of age
and was IL native Of Benton. Caroline
county, Md. AT the commencement OF
the war he was teaching school at Wood
stock, and went into the 10th Va. regiment
| as Captain Of company from that town.
He was gallant officer and after being
| wounded in an engagement was captured
at Gettysburg and held prisoner the re-
| mainder Of the war at Johnson's Island.
| After the war he became one of the agents
of the Piedmont & Arlington Company,
and just before he lett Staunton some
mouths since was the agent of the Union
4 Mutual Company of Boston. Latterly he
had resided at Woodstock, the residence
of his wfe's father, Mr.. Chas. Welsh. He
| leaves widow ard five children. lie was
| a member of Woodstock L )dge A. F. NJ.
| Few men were more generally known aud
! liked in the Valley than Capt. F., while
4 his high sense of honor in all his transac-
| tons commanded the respect of all. His
! remains were sent to Woodstock for inter-
4 ,nent, accompanied by Messrs. Carter
| Berkeley and W. Ii. II. Lynn of Union roy
4 al Arch Chapter No. =, OF Staunton.
| Capt. +. bad Il 5000 policy on his life in
i the Union Mutual, Of Boston. Among
| the pail-bearers on the arrival of the re-
4 mains at Woodstock, were Messrs. Mark
Byrd, D. FL. Walton, VIM. Williams, J. II.
4 GIaybill DR.. J. L. Campbell, S. w. Ma
/ grutler, S. J. Fravel, and B. Smith. The
deceased was g near relative of Senator
Salisbury, Of Delaware.
4 On Tuesday morning last, Mr.. Jno. D.
\ Brown, son of the late Jno. D. Brown:
| who has been living in Richmond and W S
at home for the holidays on 9. visit to his
mother, Mrs. Eliza Brown, died at her res
idence on Frederick 81, aged % years.
His brother, Mr.. Charles Bl'cw n, was just
recovering from typhoid fever, which he
had contracted in Kentucky, when the
younger brother died of the same disease.
He was a most estimable young man and
lis Iii h spirit and frank manner had won
for him many friends outside of his family
circle-a circle that has borne much OF
sickness and death Of late. 1t is hardly a
year since d daughter of most lovely char
acter was taken out of it by death, now a
4 favorite son by the same relentless hand,
and there is still a son in Southampton
county, whom the telegraph announces as
very i'll, while in the stricken household
there is another sou who has just escaped
from the very enti ance to the grave. MI.
Brown was member of Company 3. of
the LIST Regiment of Richmond, and the
West Augusta Guard here, paraded on
Wednesday Under Capt. w. l.. Bumgard-
ner, and paid him the last military honors,
two Of the Company-Sergeant June Sum-
| mers0n and private Frank LareW acting
{ as pail-bearers. TIE other pall-beareIs
7 were Messrs. Jos. B. Woodward, L. D.
h Young, Frank Leftwch and Guy Cochran
1 The Guard paraded, not only in token OF
I their respect for the deceased, but in re-
i membrance of the kindness shown them
I 10y his Company on their visit to Rich
/ nnond. The religious portion OF the cere-
monies were conducted at the Presbyterian
| Church by Rev. VIM. E. Baker and Rev.
DR.. Chas. Manly, and the military portion
] closed with three voliies at the grave.
/ A RARE TREAT FOR LOVERS OF Mus
aC.-On Monday night next, at the d.
ID. Il B. Institute, the eminent organ
list, Leo Wheat. Il is his farewell
! appearance mere rs he goes to Baltimore Q
perform at the Peabody Institute concerts
and from there to New York where he
lucat s. His programme on Mon lay mig it
is the same he gave i'll Richmond last week,
/ aud of which the competent musical critic
/ ST the Wing says:
Aesthetically speaking, we cannot i'm
| sag5ue Il IN ", Slnpt,lous feast than the
| one thus offered Mr.. Wheat adhel rs on
5y to the urer forms of art, and his genius
/ is as varied as it, is inimitable. Whether
We listen to his almost divine iuterpreta-
/ tioii on the piano of some classic MUD, OF
/ whether we find HIM managing the stops
/ and pedals and manipulating the keys "f a
[ rand organ, Mr.. Wheat shines with equal
I lastre. In all of these capacities he has
! labered for nearly every religious denoml-
/ nation in Richmond, as well as for the re-
{ lief of the poor and distressed. And for
/ the reason Of his unselliShneSS alone, to say
/ nothing of higher reasons. this ccmmuni
+ ty owes HIM debt OF gratitude it Can new
er fully pay. MI. Wheat will remove from
| Richmond i'll few days, so let such an
| audience greet his eff,rtS tonight as will
! do honor to the occasion.
[ Tie programme for Monday night is
something besides popular, and contains
such delicious works as the Grand Offer
tory i'm G mayor of Lefebure- Wely, Schu-
herJ's Adante aud variations as played by
Theodore Thomas orchestra, and selec-
tons from Wagnar's ''Tannhauser'' and
4 ''Lohengrin - The overtures to La Dame
4 Blanche'' and william Tell" are quite
| familiar to the Stsunton people, but not SO
| with the rest CT the programme, which
l Will be quite new
4
! LEAP YEAR BALL.-The ball Of the sea-
| son was given by a number of Young Ia
dies Of Staunton or Tuesday night last at
; the American Hotel, at which there was a
very large Attendance the ladies' being