Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-06-23

popular style; and many are Of a sombre
brown with but little architectural beau
ty There are many lonx, rambling old
family seats, old fashioned and airy, where
hospitality is openhanded, as free as the
fresh breezes that blow from the wide
ocean.
COMMERCIAL FACILITIES.
Few sections are more convenient to
market. Every neighbSrhood has two or
more shipping points. AT Onancock and
Pnngoteague it is only about eight miles
from the kay-side to the seaside landings
and at Belle Haven ,..Iy- two or three miles
the deep salt water creeks running up into
the interior everywhere, 50 that the farmer
has the choice on the ore side of the Bal
timore and Western markets and on the
other of the New York and Northern. and
4 railroad is now being surveyed right
down through the centre OF the peninsula
to Cherrystone. The drummers from the
cities, with their buggiss, rejoicing in the
fast trotters OF the country, scour the
country and are hardly ever cut OF sight of
the dust Of each nthtls' wheels Every
tning is in u $ ir, and bright future is
evidently before the p-,ple.
THE NAMEs,
as have said, ere new ard strange to the
ta s If II Valley MANN my u! item an
IS.
S me AZ musical as a dusky ms.dcn's song,
aud others az Sharp aud harsh AS war
rior's tumahawk There are such as DC
cohannock, Chesauussex Nxndua, Nassau
aGux, Wachapreaxue, Mi;chapungo. Chin
colleague, Assaprelgle, PuhgOtetKue, Pc
cumGke, SWsnsacute, and such suggestive
family names as Brnadwater, Brickhouse,
Doughty, Wlllet. Oldham, and HyslOp
the last name very familiar amuAg straw
barry dealers and other, ~ the originator
of the earliest aid most p pular berry now
raised.
FIELDING.
Iii sts there man with soul so dead'
| who would tegrudge good word for a
| coed landlord Ii SO, let him travel here
and he will speak that word had he never
spoken it before. Let his, alight in front
of the uBpretentiOus locking hotel-they
are all of that character down here-hun-
CRY, tired and dusty, expecting little, but
| finding in the diningroom royal feast
| spread-oysters IN their season, in every
style, stewed, scolloped, roasted, fried,
pie, raw, all on the table at Once-game,
duck, snipe, wild-goose, in season-crabs,
seft or devilled-clame III every style
BIRDS eggs-strawberries, and the tender
| est, sweetest and freshest of vegetables,
and all, and much more, for 81. so day
such fare as WASHINGTON, Baltimore and
New York charge 81 for. The fame of
these hotels at Dl ummondtown, Punco-
teage. Eastville and Onancock is sounded
by appreciative travellers from Norfolk to
New York. and the country is blessed In
them.
SPORTING.
| A good deal has gone abroad of the fine
cunning and fishing in this region, and not
q bit too much, as I'll say who come here,
but the finest sport how is, drum fishing
| These great fellows, SO named from the
peculiar drumming noise they make
against the bottom of boats when at anch-
| or, are now found feeding along the shore
in the surf. and it is grand sport to stand
| on the beach and throw loER line out in
the surf, have it taken by big drum OF
so or go pounds, and after long tug, haul
him up on the sand. The black drum is
fine eating, the red is not so good
Bird egging 10 another pastime. very pop
ular now. On the marshes, where the
eggers must go, pro.t cted witt. high gum
boots, and find the marsh birds eggs
in great numbers, msn only can enjoy 1t.
but ladies Otte., join the parties when they
go egging on the beach. Ii WIS there
your cOrresp. udeut had taste of the
naughty sport. The eggs lay here and
there on the white ground for miles often
hardly dlStlngulSfiabIe from the shells ana
white pebbles, the nests nothing but lit
tie followed ou place in tie sard. and Of
ten hardly that 1t was novel sight, the
surf railing and breaking with loar at
our very feet, hundreds and tbousands OF
sea birds Of every variety and color. III d in
size. from a robin to duck, screaming
over our heads. flying almost in our faces
or running with ruffied feathers 2lcnx just
before us, protesting against the spolia
ton, while the party ran here and there
picking up the different kinds of eggs, bis
and little, spotted and colered, and count
ing against each other. The writer will
aever forget it, and booked a score of 81
tests robbed, though he was a new hand
at tho business. and it was not coed day
for eggiag either. But l am making this
letter too long.
Au revoir,