Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-08-02

by visitors, of beautiful little animal
that was bigger than So uirrel, so tame
that it passed around among the feet Of
visitors, all attracted by its beauty and
gentieness, and perfect strangers as to
its genus. Presently its character be.
came known, but in no offensive wav.
as it is most singular in its peculiarity
of making its acquaintance through It's
narrative or cauGsi-appendage, if its
usually kind and pleasing disposition
finds aught to rutfie it. He congratu-
lated himself that he had not been in
troduced to it In this way. Speaking of
the circumstance, q lady friend, in
whose family, when living near the AL
| by the way, in the beneficial effects of
its water upon her system, was the first
person to introduce its curative proper
ties to the world, she mentioned that
the Rev. DIR. Witherspeon, with his
family boarded with her. Residing at
some distance from the Springs, the
DR.. was in the habit of going for the
mails. On one occasion tie saw what
he supposed to be a set of mOtherless
kittens in some brush by the way side,
and made strenuous efforts to capture
them to take them home, where thew
could be properly cared for. Imagine
his surprise and sense of relief when in.
formed what they were, that they had
not only escaped him, but had not in.
troduced themselves to him through his
olfactories, saying, had they done 80, he
would have had to submit his clerical
garb to an untimely sepulture. The
writer we'll remembers his first intro
duction to this seducEve 'nokin- ami
NAL and pretty specimeh o. .a .snro.
Whom q hGy Of tan nprhan-
little eolored playmate Tom OF near his
age, finding the dogs trying to roust
what he thought a rabbit from under a
stump, armed ourselves with a mattock
about sundOwn, and went industriously
to work. 1t was not long until we made.
the discovery of lot of very pretty
little animals that caused us to rennem-
Der them, and since we have seen some
bipeds so like them, it is bost to 90 round
them.
Passing what was the very extensive
farm of the late Capt. Pascal Buford,
near the Blue Ridge, the clump of black
thOrns, little west of Zion church on
the west bank of Goose creek, brought
to mind that it marked the last resting
place of Gen. Andrew Lewis, whose
monument is one of the six constituting
the group of the Washington monu-
ginia Historical Society at Richmond
get up sufficient interest in the subject
to have a slab put over his grave to
mark the spot? A foot stood near this
spot, as gentleman told us on this oc-
casion, and if he was correctly inform
ed. others were buried there with Gen.
eIal Lewis.
A short distance west of this, and Just
east OF the Blue Ridge Springs, large
quantity of fine looking hematite ore
deposited by the roadside indicated that
the wonderful veins we visited a year
ago, little north of the road, had lately
been opened. General MumfOrd has
leased them from w. F. Chapman and
others. The Blue Ridge Springs are
about two thirds full.
Passing Big Lick, we met an old
friend in the person of Col George P.
Tsyloe, who said to US, II wish knew
Mr.. Klmball, President of the Shenan-
ioah Valley Railroad, as 1 would urge
him to buy the property OF Mrs. DR..
Kent, because it is so much better for
hotel than some property the Company
has lately bought for that object. X.