Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-10-08

MODEL YOUNG FARMER-JEB STUART s
BUGL ER-LITTLE TAMMANY-IM-
PROVEN s-BACoN GETTING
SCARCE.
&C., &C., sc.
Reported for the Staunton vINDICAToRl
A leisurely drive down South River. last
week, took us through some OF the finest
country I ever saw and having now visit
ed every section of the county, am
brought to the conclusion that Augusta is
the best county in the State, and that
. there are no better farmers anywhere than
our Augusta farmers. They are all seed
ing wheat now and nobody ever saw fields
better prepared and more neatly sown,
than are some of those we have passed by.
There are SO many of these good farms
and neat farmers that one hardly knows
which to single out for the model. In fact
I doubt if there are less than fifty model
farmers in Augusta. But will venture to
mention one of the youngest, whose energy
and good judgment have won for him the
praise of all his neighbors, 1 mean Mr..
Harry Antrim, son Of T. II. Antrim,
ESQ.,, of Waynesboro, who is not quite 70
years old and who in two years has so
transformed the old Hall farm on South
River that if the late Clint Hall. who last
owned it, could come back from his last
resting place in Thinking Spring church
ward. he would never know it. The place
was grown up and run to waste-fences,
gates and outhouses gone down and much
of the low grounds wilderness, when two
years ago Mr.. Antrim bought and settled
his son upon it. Now, the low grounds
have been cleaned up and put in grass,
underground and brush cut away, new
outbuildings put up, neat plank fences,
gates and bridges made, roads graded,
the land fertiliZed and neatly cultivated,
and thousand other Improvements made
that none but good farmer retaining a
rundown place would ever think of or
venture On.
JEB sTUART's BUGLER.
ALI through this section of the country
you are continually coming upon new
residence or new barn, new fencing and
new painting. Progress seems to have set
her foot down on every plantation, and
the whole country gives her smiling well
come. One of the most noticeable farm
houses is the neat and pretty residence OF
Mr.. Geo. W. Freed, several miles below
Waynesboro. He was Jeb Stuart's bug
Ter when he was Colonel of the LIST Va,
cavalry; afterwards bugled for Fitz Lee
when he commanded the same regiment,
and stuck to the old First all through the
war. After the war his father gave him
40 acres of land. He made and saved and
| added to it, built and improved. until he
owns one OF the best farms on South Riv-
er, SET off with nice dwelling and fine
barn and outbuildings.
wAYNEsBORo.
+! the metropolis of South River, keeps well
along with the advancement of the rural
districts. Since the writer was last there
| number of neat, new residences have
been erected, also a handsome Masonic
building. But the most noticeable i'm
prOvements are the extensive buildings OF
the Fishburne Military school, which sit
uated on an eminence overlooking the
town and in the midst Of pretty grounds,
present fine appearance. This school is
very fourishing this year and is credit
to the town and county, and its future is
most promising.
MEssRs. WRIGHT & GRATTAN'S NEW
CREAMERY
is attracting good deal OF attention here
It is large building, 50x30 feet, with an
engine house attached; the lower story, 10
| 10 feet, frame. 1t is in the western part
of the town and rapidly fastening towards
completion; will be ready for operation by
the 1st of November. The plant will cost
about So 500
But Little Tammany is making
A VERY IMPORTANT PUBLIC IMPROVE
| MENT,
| in paving her streets at a cost of $500
The curbing is now being put down on the
north side of Main street, through the
| whole length of the business part of town
from the corner below the Bruce House to
Austin's corner on the top of the hill. west
The cross-street also from the depot to the
Presbyterian parsonage is to be paved on
one side. The corporation is putting
down the curbing at cost Of $500 and the
pavement from 5 to 9 feet wide will be
laid by the property holders along thai
side Of the street at cost of $40 so pei
900 brick, which is estimated to reach 6
total of 1000. Some of the citizens or
the opposite side of the streets will have
the privilege of paving in front of theil
properties on the same terms. Let Staun
ton look to her laurels. Little Tammany
is working up boom.
MANGANESE.
This interest is getting to be very i'm
portant one in this section of the county
The works at Crimora are now quite ex
tensive, employing about ATS persons. The
American Manganese Company, Carnage
Brothers. have leased for term of years
these works from the Old Dominion Com
pany. Mr.. M. G. Davis, the President, il
now in the North buying a large 125
| OIS6-pOWoI cuS luO3 WILL WuICu W Up6FdLs
the new shaft. The works will be very
much extended in their operations BY
these additional facilities and it is expect
ed that operations will be enlarged from
time to time. Several other Individual
and corporations are prospecting for ant
opening manganese veins near, and Souti
of, Waynesboro, and an observant gentle
man expresses the opinion that in few
years no less than 5000 men will be EN-
ployed in this industry in Augusta county
! SAVE YOUR BACON.
| A very malignant disease is destroying
| the hogs ON INNER South River. The nrin