Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-05-04
New Advertisements.

surrender IN '65, amounting with interest in
1868 to So, 900, and charged against the es
tate as so much gold, refusing to scsle it, tho
in the same report ne acknowledged that the
estate had more Confederate money than it
could use, the surplus being invested in Con.
federate bonds and consequently lost. This
report I should call little biased.
Sixth-The gentleman seems a little miffed
that his name should have been men toned in
connection with this suit at all, for he writes,
'My character has been pretty fully discussed
before the courts, and perhaps beyond their
walls." Probably it has, the facts in the case
certainly warrant it. If others have carried
| it beyond the walls of the court where has be
now carried it? Before the ink is dry recording
| his honor's decree. thera appears in print et-
ter, most uncaled for, especially since still.
small voice. must whisper to TIE writer that it
is his unnatural neglect which has lily pre-
| pared me to do him battle with my pen. Dur
| ing the recent trial of this he appealed to
my counsel, Gen. Jno Echols, and with my
! appreciation, as small personal alluslon as pos>
| sible was made to him.
| 1 now touch subject that W. F. studious
" avoided, and q subject of equal interest, l
| surmise, to all viz: The manner in which he
| has man aged mis- own affairs since leaving the
Rock Alum Springs. Surely he must have
| been o far more capable business man after l6
| yea-s of experience. Yet has he proven to be
as clear headed, as farsighted, and evinced the
sagacity of J. W. F. or as his letter would de-
ceive you into believing h. has shown !? Does
| not Capon and the Virginia Hotel answer clear
| IL in tie negative? Did he succeed in pushing
I the waters of Capon and drawing large crowds
rs he claims to have done at the Rock Alum?
| Financially was he success? ssIn the opin-
ion of all men he nj ght have been regarded as
capable of governing if he had never governed"
(his own affairs) Now Mr.. Editor may | be
61roo 1Iposn to Of
1 state, and will prove it by the proper papers
if desired, that FROM the time | came in possess
sio n of the property in so, up to the panic of
'73, for every dollar W F. declared as a divi-
dend for the owners (from So to 69l, 1 de-
clared three, and during my first season, with~
out any experience never having kept an &C.
countn my life, ran the profits So, COO beyond
those of any year during W. F's administration.
Tho he had the advantage of me in holding
the Bath ,lum, and $40, 900 worth Of negroes,
or properly speaking. the profits OF the K. A.
S., the first four seasons n my hands reached
the sum OF seventy Eve thousand dollars exclu-
sive of improvements. ! was quite astonished
10 see that he claims to have pushed the sale of
alum water with such assduity | found only
twelve agencies established, he having entirely
overlooked that vast and wealthy field, the
great West. South west and North West. Look.
ing You'd Il presume) to that more distant
ami less feasible field, "England and Cuba"
|
| (formerl, neglected sphere. so the water is now
sold by more than hundred druggists, the
dema nd having carried the water to England,
| and the mass to China. That may not seem
to rob the water of its we'll merited fame will
state that many,very many my agents sought
| the position, the writer receiving no less than
| three letters last week representing sew large
establish uents in the State of New York asking
for the agency. Ny Improvements beginning
| in SO and ending in '73, consisted, first, the
| handsomest ball room in the mountains s0x40,
in lieu of one 4sx23. the finest finished parloT
atany of the Virginia sprin es, 94x25, in lieu OF
| room 24x25, e greater number of lodging
rooms, (nearly all brick J, than W. did in
| sixteen years, all furnished with very neat
walnut chamber sets; 6. laundry l00x25 there
| being none here, y kitchen and bake house con
nected and some dimensions as laundry, in lieu
of two small and very inadequate rooms, plac
| ing in my kitchen one o. BramhalPs most ap>
proved ranges and gracing my paror with one
of Steiff grand coocart pianos fine saw
| grist and planning mill
l might enumerate many other equally as
needful Improvement but these are sufficen,
| to show that no ma: Ter into whose hands this
| place may have fa'en it would have made and
| kept ITSELF Notwithstanding W IS reiterated
| assertions an contrasre In conclusion, will
allude to the last and most absurd proposition
of all. This lordls gentleman evidently labors
under the delusion, ard would delude Others
into the belief, that he established the Rock
| Alum Springs, when it is we'll known that the
Rock. Alum Springs established VIM. Frazier;
| for when he was thrown upon his own re
sources and the fuger Of his brother failed to
point the way, ard the estate of his brother
ceased to replenish his CO ffers, he sank and
| with barely q struggle.
1 have already made my letter much longe,
than l intended, but the subject is in"xheus
tible dating, in painful interest to me- from
the unfortunate and deeply lamented death q
my father (without q willy when I was only
seven years Of age, am quite content to stop
here, having endeavored as simply as possible
to state the truth of the case las far as nav
gone into this unfortunate affair leaving TIL
gentleman to enjoy all the comfort be can de
duce from the subject, and to the pangs of
outraged conscience, that must in time assai
him, anil if shall have succeeded in removing
the glamour from his eyes shall have done
hlm great service; for Death must pres
heavily on that man who, being but too wei
known to Others, dies at last in ignorance o.
| himself' Yours truly,
JAMES A. FRAZIER.
R. ALUM SPRINGS. may41t*