Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-02-07
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FRIDAY MORNING. FEB. Z. 1879.
Local

Augusta and Staunton in the Blue b ok.
The annual report Of the State Audi
tor contains some items Of interest with
reference to our county and town, which
one may pick up in perusal OF it, and
having picked them out we proceed to
spread them on record. The year is the
fiscal one, Ell ding Sep. 3Oth rs.
stanton contributed in the way of
fines $3.50 to the Literary Fund, being one
fourth as much as Richmond contributed
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad paid
its tax of 500 4S7.
The payments to the Western Lunatic
Asylum, including the transportation Of
patients, amounted in the year to $50, $3.50,
and to the D. D. Il B. Asylum, $4,000.
The pay and mileage of Augustus dele
gates in the legislature was, Senator
Kolner, 1858; Delegates Hanger s564.2O,
Echols 1854 20, and Van Lear 1857 go.
Judge McLaughlin's pay was 81, 1856, and
his mileage slS4 20, and for special term
$40.
The salary of J. A. Waddell, Clerk Of
the Court of Appeals at Staunton, was
$500.
The fees of constables, coroners, clerks
and for guarding jails in Augusta was
$18S.10, and for Staunton. $145.63: the
jailors's fees, expenses and subsistence OF
prisoners in Augusta were 81, 1910, and
for Staunton, $3S4.85; the allowance to
iuries in Augusta was 1927. and pay of
witnesses $25274, and in Staunton the
allowance was $92, and the pay of wit
nesses $12 so; medical attendance in the
county jail was Sal and in the city
$3.50.
The Augusta lunatics in Jail cost $40 20.
In paying her taxes for the year Au-
gusta sent in $21.336 in coupons and Staun-
ton s11.1N.
Augusta county reported 4,577 whites
over 81 years of age, and ,235 blacks, and
Staunton 1913 whites and 497 blacks.
Augusta reports the following property
and values-9,643 horses and mules at
$452.262; 1885 cattle at 1928 1852: 11,2S7
sheep at $27 $40; %, 143 hogs at $50, 1891;
4,O55 vehicles at $13S, 267; books and pic
lures worth $9,O85; mechanics tools
worth $10,018; farmers implements worth
$S3 .747; felled timber worth ST. ,595; I'LL
watches worth $22,664; 2,e2s clocks at
$10.928; 924 sewing machines at 800 35;
pianos and other musical instruments to
the value of SIG, 2SO; household and kitch-
en- furniture to the value of $317 ,241;
jewelry and plate to the value of $5,561;
ST 1000 worth of agricultural products in
the possession Of purchaser; firearms
worth 81, 761; miscellaneous personal prop
erty worth $55,37S; solvent bonds to the
amount of $685. 46; CAPITAL invested in
trade or business to the amount OF $780,
1872; money in the hands of court re-
ceiyers and commissioners, 81, 065; money,
&c., deposited to the credit of any suit
and not in the hands of a receiver, SAL
$780, The total value of the land and
buildings in the county is s6,9l0,915.
In the county the tax paid by merchants
is $1,255 and by book agents 81 cents; by
retailers of tobacco, 1854; for private en-
tertainment, $147; theatres and panoramas
$22 %; shows, circuses and menageries,
$4,000; physicians, $40; stations. $50.
The county during the year provided for
81 white and % colored poor persons, and
the superintendent Of the poor expended
So, 800 40 for their support Of which 81 500,
As was received from sources other than
levy.
Augusta has two lunatics confined al
etier places than the Asylum, they beng
aged women kept at home with their hus-
bands by.contract with the County Court.
The character of the insanity Of both is
suicidal.
Staunton has 1O8 horses worth ST., 055
1T COWS worth 81, 229; 313 hogs valued a;
1892; 143 vehicles of all kinds worth So
3s2; So. 1858 worth of books and pictures:
S2,139 worth of mechanics tools; 4S9 watch
es worth S16,731; 432 clocks worth $2,157
29S sewing machines worth $5,s23; SIS, l12
worth of pianos; 500 ,226 worth of house
hold and kitchen furniture; STOPS worth
of jewelry, plate &C.; 1888 worth of fire
arms; solvent bonds to the amount vi
1913 1884, Total value of all real estate
81 .ss2 41S. She pays a total license tax o.
:s5,430,77 Her city levy is SAC ,9l5,79. She
aided S5 white and 81 colored poor at d
cost of 81 1000 to the city and $2O2,97 from
other sources. Her bonded debt is 1921,
034, 4S.