Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-03-09
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BUSY MILLBoRo'-THE sPRINGs-NEw
BALTIMORE-TEE LAND OF
| NEW CHAPEL-NovEL FINANCIAL EN-
TERPKIsE-BELL's vALLEY-NEW PAR
sONAGE-BUsINEsS MEN ALONG THE c.
O.-swooPE's DEPcT-GRANGE HALL
AND GRANGERs-sTRIKE IN KANAWHA
VALLEY AMONG THE MINERs-THE
GARDEN SPOT OF VIRGINIA.,
&C., &C., &C.
[Correspondence of the Staunton VINDICATOR.l
March 9Th, 1877.
Returning eastward along the G. u Q.
r. r. from Lewisburg, the place from
which l last wrote you, I made a halt at
BUSY LITTLE MILLBORO'.
1t is the principal point to which the 20
cahontas and Bath trade comes, and Messrs
Warren & Co. and Gooch Il Mann. the
merchants here, get the full benefit OF 1t.
The comfortable and well-kept hotel has
for its proprietor Mr.. F. w. Warren. 1t
is we'll filed in the summer season, there
being two fine springs Of sulphur and
| chalybeate water attached to the property,
which analysis, as well as experience,
has ,roven to possess peculiar medicinal
proper les.
Some years ago Millboro' was a most dis
orderly place, run i'll the interest Of a bar
room and orderly folk made short stays
here, but under the re-modelling hand OF
| Mr.. P. T.. Yarbrough, who was the pio-
neer of it's respectfully, well seconded by
an, XJ.,,o,, ,vln p,raboccI tho ,,rnrnr4
from him, it has become IA quiet, busy, at
tractive little village. A trot Of two miles
0. er the ridge, OF the Warm Springs road,
takes YOU to Millboio' Springs, All old wa
tering-place not unknown to ~spring-goers.
Mr.. Henry Hopkins, the proprietor, is just
completing Il large and important addition
to the hotel there. and the accommodations
will be very much improved for the COM
ing season. The 2rangers are aggressive
in this neighborh0od and have just erected
a new hall at this place. baltimore has d
namesake, a mile further west, on the
Cowpasture. 1t is il thrifty little settle
ment Of mighty good people, and IN Il lirst-
rate country. II is a source OF regret to
the writer that his time was too limited to
allow a better acquaintance with the people
and country; but my train Was coming and
[ had to get back to The depot and push
along to
LAND OF GOSHEN,
where your travel-worn correspondent
found something very much like a home
welcome from some Staunton people-Mrs.
M. S. Hartman and family. Mrs. H. is She
p;oprietress OF the popular Goshen Hotel
and the pleasant family have the knack OF
making a lonely fellow feel at home, which
may account, iii part, for SO many StauntOn
chaps overstaying their time there.
This would seem to be a good point for
business, but there is only one full stock OF
goods kept, and that is Gooch & Co. again,
with a good trade too. Nj. Henry autch-
eSon is the Co.
The Presbyterians in this vicinity have
in the last year built a neat house of wor-
ship, and now have frequent services and a
growing congregation. Miss Hattie B..
well known in Staunton, has been a ruling
spirit, Il did not say elder and without
her energy and business tact it is doubtful
whether the chapel would now be ready
fer use.
The young lady in question has fallen
upon
NOVEL FINANCIAL EXPEDIENT
for raising money with which to furnish
the pulpit. She applied in sober earnest
ness to her representative in the Legisla-
ture from Rockbridge, and he jestingly sent
her a three-cent piece, which she received
while in Stanton two or three weeks ago.
and considering it a sacred fund, after ma
ture deliberation invested in a cigar, fol-
which d young gentleman. approaching the
object as well as the ~financier, paid her fiji
teen cents. Presenting her money and her
scheme at HaineS' cigar store, she purclaS
ed with the money five nice cigars, which
she sold shortly afterwards at the Valley
Bank for ten cents each which money Was
rapidly invested and re-invested until the
fair SPECTATOR has quite 70 handsome stock
i'll trade, with a snug amount to the credit
Of her sinking fund, which with the finan-
cial ability and enterprise already display
ed there is NC doubt will soon equal the de
mands to be made upon it-and the pulpit
be 10 long I f~urnitureless.
So much has ben SAID by correspondents
about the fitness of the name "GoShen,'
that this one will not stop to speak of the
excellent country, around, the milk and
honey, &C., but take your readers on four
miles eastward to anotEer good locality
This sblowing place. for the iron horse is
Bell S Valley, and the only business house
here hangs cut the same sign of Go0ch 4
Co with Mr.. A. d. Bell for the Co, that
we have already seen at Millboro' and
Goshen. This
G.. G. GOOCH
seems to be q sort Of mercantile monop-
olist Or dry goods king along this road.
From his headquarters at Stanton ne dl-
reefs and m%aHipula;es the business of sew
en- flouri hing establishments, having be
sides the stores we have named, also houses
at the Rockbridge Baths, LoWmocr. Cow
ington, and the Sweet Springs. The en-
terprise and success Of MI. Gooch has been
veiy marked, and few commencing
f,,ot,orc nEtn tbn yun 90 la did uIth nnf
a dollar of capital, have been able to wo' k
their way to competence and the business
position and prominence that this popular
gentleman. has attained.
Mr.. G.. is IL native Of Louisa county, and
seems to have enjoyed the cOntidt nee OF the
people among whom he grew up, as he was
sheriff of that county before he removed
to this section of the 81 ate.
The Presbyterian congregation OF Leb-
amor church are just finishing a large and
convenient parsonage near the depot,
worth from ST 500 to $4,000. The ladies
as usual have been active in raising the
money, having just closed when | passed
a successful entertainment by which they
cleared $50 for their parsonage fund. The
managers were Mrs. John d. Youel, Miss
Fannie Brown, Mrs. A. D. Bell and Mrs.
Lizzie LareW.
On the train from the Vest I gathered
in conversation with a Richmond gentle
man who was interested in and mad just
come from the Kanawha coal fields that
there had been
A STRIKE AMONG THE MINERS,
who had been working at 2 cents per
bushel; they demanded 3 cents and in
several of the mines they had carried their
point. A good hand can get out $50 bush
els a day and earn his 81, 50-good wages
when there is no capital invested, and this
kind of labor is in demand. Perhaps some
of the bone and sinew of Stanton who
are out CT work will be giadIo hear Of this
good opening for honest labor. Stopping
off of