Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-01-26

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Monday morning the snow was falling
heavily, and our reporter dropped into the
in time to have a talk with Officer Kurtz.
THE POOR.
"You don't know" said the officer, look
ing out of the window at the snow, "what
the poor are suffering in S%taunton. l know
Of cases that would make your heart bleed"
s'Are they people that would work if they
had it?" asked the reporter.
'Work if they had it exclaimed the
officer, ''they are men that have never been
idle q minute when they could get any
thing to do. l know a man that has fixed
up half the residences in Staunton ole
way or another, and worked day and night
to do it whep he had a job, and last Satur-
day, with a wife and four children to feed,
there hadn't been a morsel of food in the
house for twenty -four hours. I can tell
you such men as there the officer called the
names of many Woodworking mechanics,
who LAY been employed in Staunton by
everybody are now starving with
families to support. They tell me, you
know, but they don't tell everybody. If 1
was rich,'' added the officer, ~thoughtfully
punching the little stove, II could do some-
thing. But what Cal l do? There was a
colored man came to me yesterday. and told
me of his wife and three children that
hadn't had o mouthful to eat in the house
for two days, and l just put my hand in
my pocket and gave him a quarter. 1t was
all / had, you know, and somebody's got to
rive something, Or they'll die"
The officer is not a handsome man, but
it struck the reporter Just then that it
oesn't take a handsome person and face
20 make q p~resenta BILE a
A WRETCHED LOT.
The officer had hardly finished his talk
before apart of it was Illustrated by the
ringing in, before His Honor Mayor
5althis, who HAD taken his seat, of thr e
| negroes, caught by Messrs. kenton Doom
and Huntley, stealing coal from the Chesa
paake & Ohio cars, in the morning a
little after dawn. One of them. John
PoindeXter, was bare,footed, with hardly
clothing enough on his person for summer.
! Another, James Cooper, was little better
off, except that he had shoes, and the third
| was Andy Baylor. The Mayor gave them
all light sentences Of imprisonment. from
one to four days, in response to All appeal
for mercy from their counsel, Mr.. Harry
| Tucker. A piteous sight was the wife of
Cooper, who appealed to the Mayor not to
imprison him, saying that he had had no
| work since Christmas, though he had been
out and begged for it. while she and three
children were at home. "They could not"
said the weeping woman, ''get any money
TO buy wood"
A BLEEDING NOSE.
John Cox, aged about 2S, with a hand
some face and quiet look stood IN the cor
ner of the room figuring up or the back
of a programme of the Jackson Literary
Society. He was called to the front and
stood nervously picking the lint off a black
felt hat. His c~ountenance did not change
until ne stood before the witnesses to be
identified when it flushed deeply. He was
we'll dressed and had a heavy overcoat
with a comfortable scarf in the pocket.
! "He is the first man" said Mr.. VIM. B.
Hyde, keeper Ola boarding house on Au-
gusta street, "that ever jumped over my
fence to keep from paying me. [ sat in the
hall waiting for him to finish his supper
and come out of the dining room and pay
me. [ kept waiting and when I went in
to look he had gone out the back way and
jumped She !ence.
The Prisoner got two meals didn't I
and didn't l pay you for one
sIts the first time in twenty years, " said
Mrs. Catherine Yeager, a German widow
who keeps a bakery on West Beverly street,
that I have been cheated like that man
cheated me. Wednesday night about s
O'Clock he came in and asked the price of
bread. ooh you have cakes he said give
me a dimes worth of them. l wrapped
them up for him and then went to get the
bread. He said his nose was bleeding and
went off with the cakes and did not come
back"
"He asked if 1 had any green apples,"
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Gerry, ''and I told him I had. Never mind.
says he, wrap me up 20 cents worth of
candy and then you can cut me off two
pounds of bacon.' He had his handker-
chief to his nose, saying it was bleeding
and stepped out with the candy and never
came back. It was Wednesday night be-
tween s and 9 O'Clock,
HE was doubtful whether he would take
breakfast bacon or country bacon," said
Mr.. Asher Ayres "After he had been sit
ting down awhile and gotten me to wrap
up ten cents worth of kiss candy, he de-
was ~bleedlng-and stepped out with the
candy I wrapped the bacon up, thinking
he would cone back-it was on the counter
still next morning. It WAS Wednesday
night about s O'clock"
II was cutting some bacon off for him."
said Mr.. John Bryan, salesman for J. A.
Hamrick, ''when he said his nose was
bleeding and stepped out with fifteen cents
worth of candy I had put up for him. He
never came back. 1t was Wednesday night
about s OF 9 O'clock"
81 met the prisoner between s. and 6
Wednesday afternoon at the Amer
lean Hotel, ~ swore MI. Samuel Cox, look.
the Mayor steadily in the face; ''he
went to my room, and didn't leave it till
next morning"
sHe came into my bar~room one night
since new year, and took a pull" said
Uncle John Schecer, "and Said he was 60
ing to a ball at Miss Collins, and wanted
his bottle filed. He put his bottle On the
and lodged behind the screen, and