Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-03-11

AYE, very much-more than equal to th
occasion, and that the honor that has bee
reflected upon her is far, very far, MOI
than was conferred upon him. Let us see
He bears the name and is a regular l'nef
| descendant of the 'sLord of the Hills" of tn
| Founder" with half-dozen other aliases
| which, for the sake of brevity, we may b
| excused here from considering, and, for tn
| same reason, he can't designate how man
generations he is removed. Then, too, is b
not, on the maternal side, the grandson G
one of the first men of his day-self-made
so much more to his. honor-who, apar
from the fame which he won at the bar
represented two several districts in Virgini
i'll Congress-, after representing his adopte'
county in the House of Delegates. Then
If you please, reader, bear it in mind win
his paternal ancestor was. Has he no
worn the honor of sitting where Lee ant
Harrison and Masoa and Archer and Leigh
and Tazewell and Tyler, and many other
Of Firginia's worthless, have sat? Then, too
does he not now wear the ineffable homo
of being next in rank to the present mos
| distinguished Governor Virginia has hat
since the days Of Dunmore, to whom, j
not akin, there would seem to be striking
resemblance. He, too, besides the man,
acts that will carry his name down as ;
sweet SAVIOR to coming generations, has wor
an unusual honor in being the Commodore
of the Chesapeake.
Then, again, this representative from The
great county of Rockingham is the son o
one who figured lately as second on the
ticket
FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THESE UNITED
STATES.
There is yet one other honor to which his
father is entitled, that as a truthful chron-
icler should mention. 1t was in the sum.
mer OF that memorable year, when 50 many
OF our cousins across the "Herring Pond''
were dying of starvation, the year 184?,
when we found him occupying position
something akin to that referred to as being
held by our present Governor. He should
be styled
THE COMMODORE OF THE SHENANDOAH.
1t was our fortune about the same time
to experience the novel excitement of
shooting the falls ''of the beautiful daugh-
ter of the stars as the Indians called the
Shenandoah, for the first time at the head
of half dozen of boats, one containing
liberal donations for our suffering Irish rel
atives. Ga reaching Harper's Ferry, the
Commodore, found, had preceded me a
few hours, and with a like number of boats
Raised as he was at the head of naviga-
ton, he was as much at home on the rapid
stream as duck, and doubtless had forgot
ten more than we ever knew as navigator
Yet we found him presently much more our
superior, posing in altogether different
line. After seeing the lions of the Ferry,
he proposed that we should acalt down the
tow path to Alexandria. I think the dis
tanca is from fifty to seventy-five miles,
though it is wild guess. We thought we
were somewhat of pedestrian, yet as We
shall presently have occasion to refer to a
remarkable physical exploit of youthful
son of Esculapius in the progress of our
narrative, we are sure that he could have
far better coped with our companion than
we could. Whilst the change from the
''cribbed, cabined, and confined' precincts
ofsa flat boat, as we swung along at a rapid
gate, was pleasant, we found before we had
measured one mile that we had, beyond the
peradventure of a do=bt, aroused the wrong
passenger. / think the distance to the
Point of Rocks, by the tow-path, is near
twelve miles. We had scarcely measured
half the distance when our mpanion, |
Go not know if out of sympathy for me
or because he had dircovered he was get
ting more than he bargained for, proposed
that
WE TAKE THE CARS AT POINT OF ROCKS.
As a matter of course, we were only too
glad, and doubtless, as the girl before the
Parson, not sure he heard her, said yes
twice, am not sure l didn't also. He had
not made the proposition very long when
we heard the whistle of the engine. We
were some miles short of the goal, and the
train must have been at Shepherdstown, OF
above, when both started in a dog-trOs.
Bless your soul, reader, it wasn't very long
until | felt / would swap a boat-load OF
-four for seat in the cars, whilst our com
panion, as lOng-winded as sleuth-hound,
was going along at his ease. Yet we made
the connection, and | learned a lesson, but
paid too high for the first quarter.
We are not through with our representa-
tive yet. He poses in an important char
acter as
ATTORNEY FOR THE UNITED STATES
in the Federal Court of the Western Dis
trict.
Hence the reader will appreciate our de-
signation when we say the Rockingham
delegate will be understood "a the Claw y
Inasmuch as the aggregate attendance
outside Of Augusta was but eight, we must
follow closely our classification to manage
the remaining fifty-seven.
Of these, the distilling interest had two
representatives; one representing the oldest
concern in the county, near Greenvile, we
will call SD. No 1;'' the other, near New
Hope, will be recognized as cd. No. %
There were two representatives of the drug
establishments of your town, but as the
compounding of pills is prominent, as
well as legitimate part of the profession,
we will designate them as ''P. No and
P. No. g." according to seniority, which
will be readily understood. There was but
one establishment in the boot and shoe
trade, so we shall designate him as "Boots. y
There were three of the sons of Escula
Plus in the crowd, and, for the sake OF
brevity, we will designate them by the
three first letters of the alphabet, A, B.,
and c. DR.. A, of your town, was one Of
the originators of the fun, with I'D. No
g." Of New Hope, had forfeited the cup,
and all in this quarter were on tip-toe to
hear from them. when, as we have said, he
of the internal Revenue 'stole their thun.
der.o
DR.. B., the senior of both, has retired
from practice, has a scion filling his slip
pers at the Capital, and besides being sue
cessful farmer, was, on the occasion of the
last hunt, with a near neighbor, elevated te
the dignified position of being made the
judge Of the speed of ''North and Taylor
as between them and their competitors.
DR.. c., the junior of the three, and one
of the representatives of Little Tammany
will appear presently in new role-othel
than the dispenser of pills.
There was but a single representative o1
that rapidly increasing and very importan,
interest, mining; so should a necessity oc
cur to refer to him, we will call him s'Mr
NJ" There are but two others to describe
outside of the great, honorable, and re
spectacle interest underlying, and the solid
substratum, as we have said, on which al
the others rsst-the farmer. One of these
is life-insurance, and whilst we don't know,
yet strongly suspect that he carried in his
little carcass a tremendous sum, in the
shape of policies, and as he seemed on the
first day to be SO reckless of life, as we vii
presently show, had any of the risks that
he incurred resulted in ''his shuffling of
this mortal COIL" we are inclined to be.
lieve, apart from all other pecuniary con
siderations, in the shape of investments
real estate, and all that, there would have
been widow in the "City of the Hills, y
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