Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-04-05
E'ightv Years Ago.

handkerchief and the color of a very dirty
enc, this little ''Virginia Gazette and
Staunton Advertiser of March 2, 1898.
which we have before US. 1t was published
by Mr.. John Wise, who up to that date
had, at the rate of So per annum. gotten
out copy for thirty-two weeks, not we
suspect. without some of the tr1bulatlons
| of the profession, for he advertises for
''journeyman printer who can come well
recommended for osbriety,' promising that
| such desirable person shall be 'paid, II
required, every Saturday evening"" How
| ever saint-llke our ancestors may have
| been, and let US hope that they paid the
| strictest attention to the Ten Command
ments, for it would be very notifying for
any of us in the good society of the present
time to think that any Of our forefa theirs
were to-day in-the very worst company
you can think of and not fit to associate
with the worst of us-however salnt-like
they may have been, we say, they We're
not superior to the weakness of the dance.
And knowing this Mr.. James Watson who
adver Lises that he could be found at ''Mr.
James Edmundson's Tavern flat
tiers himself that his experience in instruct
ing young ladies and gentlemen in this
necessary accomplishment, together with
his assiduity, will not fail to merit the
appreciation of those who may please to
patronise his undertaking." You may not
know about Mr.. James EdmundsOn's Jav-
ern, but it was well known to our forefath
ers, for Mr.. James Edmundson advertises
that he has taken THAT noted house in
Staunton at the sign OF General Washing
ton on Horseback, formerly occupied by
Mr.. Peter Heiskell," where he will accom-
modate ''gentlemen travellers and Others
who will please to favor him with their
custom.' Gentlemen travellers is happy
word. What times our healty, rose-colored
forefatheIs must have had with the gen.
tlemen travellers over the little bar of a
tavern over which George Washington
himself stood sentinel: what punch, what
hot brandy and water, what pure Jamaica
and all for the gentleman traveller to pay
for, in compensation for light and anus
ing conversation For while a traveller
was boon to a country village gentleman
traveller was gift direct from Heaven.
And to think that this very VINDICAToR
building where we write Was the house in
which those things came to pass, and may
hap to this very upper room were brou 5ht
those jolly old roisterers of other days after
making night of it with the gentleman
travellers, it not being exactly safe to re-
turn to the bosoms Of their families. Ye
gods! How it distracts man to think
that he was not alive in the days when
these men walked the earth, and that his
advent should have taken place in a gene
ration wherein the gentleman traveller has
degenerated into the drummer, where the
mercenary bar keeper scoWlS at his custo-
mer and the MoffeGt Punch looks warn
ingly at the bar keeper EIteu, tugaces
Ldbuntur-but what's the use?
Mr.. Jno. Wise gives four of his sixteen
little columns to advertising. Mr.. Jno.
Mcdowell advertises "Wet and dry goods
the wet goods mean in part those am
brosial corrections we have mentioned
above. His goods come from Baltimore,
but Mr.. Robt. Mcdowell advertlses ''Win-
ter goods by the latest arrivals from Eng
land" Mr.. Thomas Barry advertises wet |
and dry goods; Robert Gamble and Robert
Grattan advertise that they have dissolved |
co-partnership, and if their debtors don't |
settle ''coercive measures will be resorted |
to-" Robert Stuart aGvertlses a choice |
stock of goods, and earnestly requests |
those indebted to him to make payment, |
urging that mere necessity alone compels |
HIM TO make the above request (They |
we're awful polite in those days.; Robert |
Douthat advertises that he has started a
mill near Staunton, and he ''intends in a
week or two, for the accommodation of
the town people, to send a small wagon to
town three days in the W eek to carry their
grain to mill, and return it when ground"
Warner & Points announce that they have |
dissolved partnership and Jos. Points is to
settle up the business. The stallion, |
'Bloomsberry," is the great horse in that
UdJ dilU oOi.H UWu PublioHco lilo PCol-
gree and certificates to the extent of a half
column. Andrew Cutler adverti-es
to his debtors to settle at once, or they
may 'depend upon having suits brought
Immediately, without distinction" He
adds that money paid to Archibald
Stuart, Esq, will be as satisfactory as if
paid to myself VIM. Crawford and VIM.
Robertson, as executors of James Craw-
ford, decd, advertise a sale of his per-
sonal property, and Robt Cooper and Ma
thaniel Steele advertise as executors Of
Nathaniel. The currency of the courts
was still in sterling, and we find that an
estray horse Was appraised at &15.
AS sample. Of tue marriage notices we
take the following one:
MARRIED. evening, by the Rev. McCue.
NJ. ebert Mcdowell Merchant, OF this town. to the
amiable Miss Pats y Dold daughter Of Mr.. Philip
Dold. of this county.
The Debating Society.