Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-03-20
FRIDAY MORNING, MAR. 20. 1885.
LOCAL.
A GENERATION AGO.

Gd0 IO6u6 dlO PnoodDlCs
A TION AGO.
WHO DID BUSINESS IN STANTON THEN
THE RAILROADS AND THE STAGES
WHAT WHEAT WAS So YEARS AGo-THE
SAME ARTS IN POLITICS AS NOW.
&C., &C.. &C.
Mr.. Tolly Woodson has furnished us
with copy of the VIND1cAToR of date
March 4, 1850. Its editor was Frederick
J. Alfred, and the publishers were Steven
son Il Geiger, and 1t was about third
the size of the present journal. If its
readers of to-day are as much interested
as we were by reading of the long past
time, they will enjoy the following notes
made from its contents:
THE MERCHANTS OF THAT DAY.
A new firm of druggists just opening
was A. D. Wren, G. K. Harper and G. N.
Kinney; VIM. G.. Sterrett was a grocer
'just opposite the postofice'';; David S.
Bear and Geo. B. Wright owned the two
rival jewelry stores; Hardy Il Bros. had
just bought out the coach making firm of
Hardy & Marsteller and advertised to add
the building of threshing machines to their
established business; Waldeaur Il PollitZ
kept the Baltimore cheap clothing
store" in the basement of the Virginia
Hotel and next door to the law Office of
Baylor Il Koiner'; A. M. Simpson had
just returned from Baltimore and Phila-
delphia. where he had purchased "a band
some stock of materials for manufacture
ing shoes of all descriptions; Geo. E.
Price had opened hardware store In
building "a part of the old Bell Tavern;
Eskridge & Kinney was drug firm next
door to B. Crawford 80; A. j. Deakins
had shoe store; J. c. Ridgeway hat
store; Levi Shafer, Ben Crawford & Co.,
and VIM. Kyle, had general stores; Brown
& Fulks were grocers; Bare & Sterrett,
tailors; DIR. E. Berkeley, druggist; VIM.
Miller. confectioner; O'Rear & Tanquary,
tailors; W. J. 6 J. G. Potter, tailors;
Cowne & Brooke, grocers, D. M. Huff
man, tailor. NEARLY all the tailors adver
tised to take good country produce in ex-
change for goods.)
The professional advertisements were
v. T. Churchman, M. D., Greenville, DIR.
A. T. Laird at the Virginia Hotel, John
B. Watts, attorney at law, and e. M.
Loving, attorney at law.
AN Irish RIOT"
A paragraph gives an account of 1.-The
TIL, Efsba foil ad in
the trial in the county court. The pris-
oners engaged in the fight numbered ff
teen, all employed on the Virginia Cen
trail (now q. & o. railroad. The court
wac composed of Jos. Smith, David Grit
nth, Jacob Baylor, s. S. Abney and Sam Il
II. Bell. The prisoners we're prosecuted
by Col. Baylor, John McCue, Absalom
Koiner and Thos. J. Niche. and were de-
Tended by John D. Imboden, R. P. Kin
ney, VIM. Frazier, E. T. Albertson and
John b. Baldwin. The examination las
ted from Tuesday to Saturday night, and
ended In nine of the accused being sent
on for trial, and six discharged.
THE OLD STORY.
The VINDICAToR being a Democratic
paper. and old, Wing, Zachary Taylor,
having just assumed the Presidential
chair, it was utterly unable to see why
anybody should want to remove Demo
Gratis from Office. A correspondent of the
Richmond WING writing from Highland,
Points. The VINDICAToR's editor can
see nothing in this but malice, and calls
the correspondent "a cormorant, as lank
as half starved wolf" 1t also calls at
tentlon to the fact that Taylor came in
power pledged to make no removals for
opinion IS sake. and that every member of
the Virginia legislature, but one. had
signed a petition to him to retain Marshal
Points. That excellent officer by -the-by
was not removed, though the same paper
contains q grief-stricken announcement
that Henry +. Baker, postmaster at Win
chester, has just been "turned out by
Taylor
FACILITIES OF TRAVEL.
Two weeks before the date of that issue,
ground had been broken, west of the Blue
Ridge. for the Virginia Central road, the
first shovel full being thrown up On section
8, between Staunton and Fishersville, on
Peter Orchard & Co.'s contract. All
the contractors, west to CovinRton, sx-
cept the one near Waynesboro, had COM
menced their work. Passengers then took
the cars at Charlottesville. There was
much excitement in Staunton in that day
over an opposition line of stages that was
run to Winchester by Paul & Burke
Thomas Burke owned the line from Staun-
ton to Newmarket, and Isaac Paul the
line from there to Winchester. At Win
chester the opposition passengers took
stage at the Union Hotel. and in Stanton
at McClung's hotel. The line ran alter
nate days and the fare was 81 The reg
ular line was that of Parish. Peyton,
Kemp & Co.
RECEIVING OLD ZACH.
The paper publishes in full the address
made by VIM. Kinney, then Senator of the
county. who was the member of the COM
mitteo of the legislature to meet Presi-
dent Taylor at the Potomac river on his
way to Richmond to lay the corner stone
of the Washington Monument. The ad-
dress compared cid FAC to General Wash
ington. Syme, Of Petersburg, was the
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