Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-08-27
The strathmoer Sheep Sale.

DAY, OF VA, PREsENT-NEARLY 200
SHEEP sOLD-GOOD PRICES REALIZED
LARGE GATHERING OF VISITORS.
&C., &C., &C.
Reported for the Staunton VINDTCAToR.l
'sSTRATHMOOR," SHENANDOAH,
August Is.
The third annual sale of sheep and stock
by Gen. G. s. Meem took place to-day and
was attended by about eight hundred per-
sons, representing West Virginia, Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and our
own State. Among the visitors were Gov.
Hamilton, of Md, Gov. Holiday, of Va.
ex-senator John F. Lewis, A. K. SISTER,
Attorney General of Maryland, A. Mad
olson, Secretary of the. Valley R. r. Co.,
Col. Ed. Lloyd of Easton Maryland, o.
F. Bresee of Baltimore, the Wood broth
ers, welI-known stock breeders OF West
Virginia, A. M. Bowman, the owner of
the s'Bellevue" stock farm; Slaughter w.
Ficklin. Of Albemarle; J. W. Scarborough,
of La; VIM. Sinton, Of Richmond, and
Col. Harry Gilmore, of Baltimore. Among
the Augusta county men who attended the
sale were Jno. H. Crawford. Asher W.
Hartman, Samuel n. McCue, Lewis Har-
man, Crawford Miller, Archer Hartman,
Jas. w. Crawford, John H. Parkins, Geo.
B. Crawford, e. E. Crawford, W.
D. Crawford, Andrew Bourland,
]. Warwick, DR.. A. M. Henkel, Il ".
Koinsr, G. II. Killian, James Kemper, j.
McP. Crawford, Davis A. Kays-r, James
Cochran, A. G.. Henkle, B. F. Smith. G.
Marsh Crawford, Col. w. A. Anderson
and Col. David s. Bell. The Rockingham
ssRegister," Charlestown Esprit of Jeffer-
son." Newmarket s'Vslley," Woodstock
Herald" and Harrlsonburg esprit of the
Valley'' were all we'll represented at the
sale.
THE SALE.
The delightful cold buttermilk and ba-
con lunch in the barn which Gen. Meem
used to give with such profuse hand was
omitted this year; the presence Of persons
who had no interest whatever in the sale
except as free frolic, had become SO nu-
merous as to impede the work Of the day,
and the proprietor had cut off their main
attraction as way to abate them. AS
substitute the ladies OF the neighboring
church had dinner at a reasonable price.
which will be better when they have more
experience in such public matters and get
more used to feeding crowd.
The first lot of sheep put up by Col.
Muir, the auctioneer, was lot Of twenty
SouthdSwn and Cotswold rams. The first
was started at $25, run up to $40 in hur
~ and sold ut that figure to D. F. Keagy,
of New Market, another was bought by A.
J. Singleton, of Delaplaine, Va, at $35,
Gov. Holiday bought Cotswod ram at
$17, purchase that the audience was pre-
pared for as Gen. Meem had said in his
opening speech that the Governor on re-
firing from office intended to go to farm
ing. Gov. Hamilton of Md, bought one
at $14, which was the least figure at which
any of them were sold. These rams were
from the Bedford and Ferguson 1ocks of
Kentucky.
Next were sold twenty-five ewes from
the Jonathan Smith and Shropshire focks
of Kentucky. The first was bought by j.
W. Woods, of Hardy county, W. Va, at
s16. Gov. Hamilton bought one az sl9.
and the lowest price paid was $l4. Then
followed q lot of twenty whine rams from
celebrated Kentucky focks. The first
was sold to A. J. Singleton, of Fanquier,
at $21. R. NJ. Mayo. of Westmoreland,
bought Cotswold of this lot at $40. The
highest prices paid were $S6 by Lewis
Hartman, Of Augusta, for SouthdoWn OF
the Bedford flock; $28 by Hugh s. Ham
ilton, of Augusta. for Southdown of tile
same flock, aud $26 by John II. Par
kins. of Augusta for Southdown OF the
Gano Hill flock. G.. NJ. Crawford, OF Au-
pusta, purchased Sout hdown ram OF the
Allen Kiser flock
A lot of ewes, Cotswold and Southdown,
from the Jonathan Smith and Kiser and
Mems flocks were put up Dext and start
ing at $21 paid for one by J. W. Driver, OF
Rockingham, and run up TO $4 paid by T.
Mccormick, $50 paid by S. w. Singleton
and $42 paid by D. Heflebower. A lot OF
cams bred by G. S. Meem brought good
prices, one being bought by Hugh s. Ham
ilton, of Augusta, at $22. A. M. Bow
man. of Augusta, bought another at $27.
r, H. Dularey, of Loudon, bought one at
s27. A. w. Hartman, of Augusta, bought
one at $14. The next was lot of ewes OF
the Bowles flock of Kentucky. The first
two. Cotswolds, were bought by A. W.
Harman at $50 for the pair. The highest
mrice paid was by G. A. T. Snoffer,, of Md.
$40 for pair. A lot Of rams bred by G
s. Meem was next put up and e. K. Zlr-
kle. of Augusta. bought one, Southdown'
at sls. and John H. Parkins bought an
other at $14. A lot of Southdown ewes
bred by G. s. Meem were next put up. and
s.H. McCue. of Augusta, bought one al
SIS: l., Williamson, Of New Market
bought another at S2S. A flock OF Cots
void ewes Patterson 3 of Ky.) ten il
number were bought by o. F. Bresee a.
:s12, each. Two Southdown ewes Dreo
by Ofutt, of KY. were bought by ). J.
Best, of Va, at $33 each.
The sale included about 100 sheep, ano
rallied an aggregate of near $4,000, the
average being little oveE $50. 1t was al
excellent sale and far better than that Of
last year, while the stock sold was, in the
opinion of an old sheep breeder, the bes'
as a whole ever offered in this State.
SALE OF sHORTHoRN CATTLE.
The sale Of cattle was. like those of 1871
and 1879, pecuniary loss to Gen. Meem
"Miss Sangamon 3D." a red roam OF pur
blood, bred by Vanmeter, of KY. wa
knocked down at $1s5 to the Wood Bros.
of W. Va; "2d Miss Renick, OF Fla
Creekn was sold with her calf to A. N