Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-09-27

the granite business houses. the queer
crooked old fashioned streets, the perfect
order and the politeness of the people, all
impress you. New York does not mean
to be rough but she is in too great hurry
to be civil. Boston takes time and is pre-
else about it. We of the South have a
tradition that the blue blood of the North
is chiefly found i'll New England, an that
of New England is but skim milk COM
pared with the cream Ut boston. Boley-
ing this was mortified to find an extraor-
binary per centage of the population bow
legged. l find now leio III The peerage, or
the city directory which is equal authori-
ty, where blue blood and bow legs go, to
strain d metaphor, hand in hand. After
giving the matter deep thought 1 have
come to the conclusion that the Boston
legs were acquired by threading the crook
ed streets. No man who goes out into
these narrow lanes daily for his beer eau
long retain straight understanding.
visi ed the Mechanics Institute Fair.
which found interesting and entertain
ing. Among the relics l saw exhibited
were the old flag used on the Enterprise,
when she fought the Boxer, and the sword
of Gen. Banks, used in the late war! The
pianos on exhibition we're played by
young colored man-an admirable per-
former.
POLITICS.
We were in Boston the night the news
Of the Republican disaster in Maine came.
1t was like a bombshell, and seemed to be
the first lntimation to the Bostonians that
Butler might be Governor of Massachu-
sets. 1t is impossible to give you an idea
of how the ''better Glass;" the blue bloods,
of Boston, loath Butler. The prominent
Democrats seened to think it a good joke
on the Republican party, but whether the
next week, when Butler garotted their
own organization, they thought the joke
was so good, cannot say. My sympathies
are decidedly on the side Of Massachusetts,,
as against the crew that Butler will bring
into the State government with him, but
l can see exactly what other States have
| to do with her affairs. If in the past her
responsibility has been a mere shell, and
the majority of her people want Butler as
a representative man, don't see why they
shouldn't have him. Nnowhere read that
when Virginia was threatened with FL. H.
Wells for Governor and a negro for 1t.
Govern or, to preside over our Senate,
Ma. sachussetts went into commissions over
the threatened disaster to our Virginia
responsibility" The fact is States
gentility is in its own hands, and it will,
if left free, generally take care of it.
Aside from the Generalization of public
sentiment that follows the elevation of
such reputation as Buffers to the
| highest Office in Massachusetts,, Butler
| will make practical and excellent Cover
| nor for that State.
TURNING HOMEWARD.
| Next to four mules, four men are more
| admirably fitted to travel together, than
any animals know OF. Ii one of the three
is of a conservative disposition, as the wri-
ter is, his chances for being torn into three
| pieces and divided up among his compan-
ions are great. In our party Of pilgrims
don't recollect any day OF the fourteen that
we all wanted to see the same thing at the
same time, if may except beer, and even
Oh that some divided on Milwaukee and
Cincinnati. In Boston the excursion par
! ty blew all to pieces and each couple pulled
for home by different route. So much
for men as travelling companions.
Ny division returned from New York to
Richmond by the SPLENDID steamship Old
Dominion with Sea as smooth as glass.
! This line-the ''Old Dominion steamship
line'' affords the best "trip North 1 know.
1t has been run for twenty years and never
lost a vessel nor passenger. The accom-
modations on it's steamers are splendid
and the fare equal to the best Of Northern
tables. The run is made along shore and
in sight of its beautiful scenery, and the
voyage is simply charming. The new ar
rangement Of the schedule will land you
in New York in thirty hours from Rich
| mOnd. III. q. T.