Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-06-12
LOCAL.
AN EVEN THIRTY YEARS AGO.

AN EVEN THIRTY YEARS AGO.
SOME STANTON RECoLLECTIoNs-
SCHOOLS THIRTY YEARS AGo-WH'
DID BUSINESS, HERE-THE PRICES Of
PRODUCE.
&C., &C, &C.
a friend has handed US copy of tn
VINDlCAToR Of Aug. 4th, 1856. On th
margin it is directed to Captain Thomas
Burke, a noted county Democrat of tina
day, and as may be inferred it was tn
Democratic organ CT its time. 1t was call
ed the Republican Vindcator," and Wal
published by AbsaIom Koiner and S. nj
Yost every Saturday morning on Mair
street, two doors East of Union Hotel.
There must have been four papers ir
Staunton in that day, for we see tvs
advertisements are marked to be COPIED
by the True American" spectator
and Union Republican" Of the town.
The old copy we have is dingy and musty
but it was a twenty eight column paper
of handsome appearance when it was new
and furnishes some interesting reading
for this day.
EDUCATION THIRTY YEARS AGO.
There are four schools advertised in its
columns. The Virginia Female Institute
of which Rev. R. Fl. Phillips was Princi.
pal, announces that it will open its ses-
sion Sept. LIST. W. 3. Johnson advertises
that the BOSWELL Academy, NEAR Staun-
ton, will open at the same date but only
take the limited number Of twenty boys
as boarders. The cost is 5000 per annum.
Among his references are Hon. A. I'll. FL.
Stuart and Judge Lucas P. Thompson.
Next we have the advertisement of l..
Waddell, A. M, Principal of the Staun-
ton Academy, who announces that he Will
open Sept. Sd, and will have The assistance
of Mr.. John CARRIER, a graduate of the
University of Virginia and Late Profess
sor in Messy Greek Academy" The
terms are $40, with French at $40 extra.
Next, we have the advertisement Of Tai
bot B. Coleman, who announces that he
will ''reopen his select English and Glass
ical school on the 1st Monday in Septem-
Der next, in the school room in the base
ment of the Evangelical Lutheran church,
Staunton." His terms are $40. and his
references were Hon. A. IL. FL. Stuart,
Rev. T. T. Castleman, DR.. J. G. M. Mer
rilat, Rev. r. Ell. Phillips, DR.. F. T. Strib-
ling and Edwin M. Taylor, ESQ.," Next,
John B. Warwick announces that 1.-THE
next session of tbs Middlebrook Classical
School will commence On the 1St Monday
in SEPTEMBER" Tuition $50, with board
$3.50. He refers to Rev. John G. Hensell,
M. W. z. Hogshead, john G. Slower, Of
Waynesboro.
THE NEWS.
There was no Local column" in that
day, and what little local news there was,
was scattered about among the news
items. The smallpox was just dying out
and all, save three or four cases, had got
ten well. The epidemic fame of the town,
however. had spread, for an freshman
was before the Mayor. who was a grave
digger; had come from Charlottesville
where he had heard that there were 100
cases in Stanton, and having had the
disease himself came, hoping to get big
job in his line. Prince" John Van
Buren,, a son of the f<ee-soil magician of
Kinderhook, N. Y, had passed through
Staunton on his way TO the White Sui
phur Springs. The Lennon slave rescue
case had just occurred in New York and
some idea of the feeling in the slave
States may be gotten from this pacific
suggestion of the VINDICAToR:
GLOW would Prince John like it if we
would catch him out here, tlagellate him
until he renowned his abolition fana-
ticism, and promised to be more of sane
man ever hereafter ? There would be
about as much reason in such treatment,
as that which befell Col. Wheeler in Penn
sylvania, add Mr.. Lennon, in New YoTk.
II Southern men have no right to their
property in the North, Northern
men should have no right to their hide,
color, or clothes in the South, and if the
people of the South would catch every
mothers son of the North the moment he
tread shoe leather GA Southern Territory,
and tan his hide. give him d coat Of tar
and feathers, and then send him home to
pay for his own washing and cleansing, a
sense of individual right might possess
him. We must adopt some reJaliatory
measures, and we are not sure chat this
would not be about the best. Prince
J ohn may go this time, but take care for
hereafters."
Capt w. A. Moody, conductor on the
vi rginia Central Railroad. had been
crushed to death at the water tank at
Gordonsville. Chas. II. McGuffin, one of
the Virginia Hotel staff had died the week
before.
Know N othing campaign then progressing
for Governor.
ADVERTISEMENT is.
Alexandria seems to have been to
Staunton in that day for trade, what Bal
timore is now, and the paper had many
advertisements of Alexandria business
houses, among them one Of the great guano
importing house of Fowle Il Co., father of
Capt. W. FL. FoWle, now of Staunton.
Richmond, who was competing with Al
exandria, also had many advertisements.
The Staunton hotels advertised, are the
American Hotel, kept by W. H. CARRIER,
l.. l.. Stevenson, and J. B. Breckenridge;
the Woodward House, by j. N. Wood
ward, and the Virginia Hotel. by McClung
il Peyton.
Among the professional firms are the
following lawyers-Baylor & Baylor, Zone
being w. Il. Baylor, afterwards killed at
the head Of his regiment.) Imboden &
McCue, Harmau & Bell, N. K. Trout,
Brisco A. Stuart, Jno. B. Watts, II. Fl.
Robertson, and Marshall III. FuitZ. The
following doctors-Dr B. B. Donaghe,
DR.. A. B. Arthur. DR.. 3. 81. S. Wise. and