Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-02-22

bones will be allowed to remain in the re-
tort until next Monday, in order to thor
oughly reduce them to ashes.
Mrs. Pitman's maiden name was Jane
BrOgg. She " as a native of Birmingham,
England, where n embers of her family
still live.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. Pitman was an extraordinary wo-
man. For twenty-five years she has lived
in this city, and during that time no wo-
man in the city has been more busy than
she or has led a purer and more blameless
life. Having learned photography from
her husband, she became at once his part
ner and his helpmate in his shorthand
labors. and Invaluable was the aid she had
given HIM. To assist him to publish his
works on photography, she learned type
setting and engraving with him, and Of
the more than thirty works he has pub
lished on photography, fully half of the
labor of preparing them fell to her. She
was able to read her husbands phonetic
notes as readily as ordinary print, and by
supervising their transcription she often
enabled him to finish his work in an al
most incredibly short time. An evidence
of this was given during the Congressional
examination of the riots in New Orleans.
Mr. Pitman was the official reporter of the
notes of the examination from New
Orleans to this city, where she had them
trapscribed. So speedily was this done
that the manuscript was put in the hands
of the printer and the report was actually
published before the committee got back
to Washington City. Mrs Pitman was
able to dictate from her husbands notes
to seven scrbes at one time, and so could
have hundred words or more written out
each minute, This faculty enabled him
TO prepare very lengthy reports of meetings
and speeches for the press with extreme
rapidity. Her fatal malady was cancer
of the stomach that had been sapping and
undermining her health for four years
past.
Though not sectarian in the strict
sense of the term, Mrs. Pitman believed
thoroughly in the main points of Sweden
borgianiSm, and lived in accordance with
it's tenets All her life she was opposed to
shams of all kind, and she had horror of
ordinary funerals. When Dr. LIE Moyne
cremated Baron de Palm she became very
much interested in the process, and had
an Interesting correspondence with him
on the subject. The result of her investi-
cations on the subject led her to express
the wish in her will that her remains
should be cremated instead of buried in the
usual way.
A reporter visited MI Pitman at his re-
sidence, Hillside, above Eastern avenue
last night. ''This has always been cheer
full house." said MI. Pitman, ''and moth
ing dolorous OF mourntul has ever had a
place in it. Consequently there is no Grape
on the doors now, nor will there be.
"Was your wife resigned to die ?" was
the next question. s'Perfectly,' respon-
ded MI. Pitman; dying to her was mere
1y the ending of sweet, sunny life, and,
having perfect confidence in the love and
justice of her Maker, she looked forward
to her advent into the other world with as
little apprehension as you look forward to
tomorrow. She had no faults or follies
70 regret and perfect confidence in her
Creator"
"What will you do with the ashes !?
bring them home, | presume, and keep
them in the house?" II have not given
the subject thought as YETI said MI.
Pitman, ''but don't think [ will keep
them in the house. I will most probably
bury them under wild rose tree. Mrs.
Pitman was passionately fond of flowers,
and don't know that [ could do better
than to plant her near the roses she loved
so WE'LL