Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-06
|uNT VERNON.

|s| INT VERNON.
q lated by the superin-
98s "a II IS Z II HoiiinGsford.
$s I'll IS IS rsy itss- Mount Yer
Ell lc Or Col. Ho.lmgs-
Il les Of the humorous |
Il. revisiting its differ
III 81; feel that pilgrims
s. associations lose
{ # led the stories, told at
80; 8 S|E|1 With the relish of 8
~ haunt the spot like
1 fciIcs the house and
vashingSons favorite rest
|s can forget the reyerential
|@& which tho worthy colonel
fact, recorded to the glory
80 ION, that through the long
|Ss lonnt Vernon was the one
otfw here SUnionist and Sc
aua met as brothers, and where
al strifes We're forgotten2 4
aching the tomb, as if to
Il for its simplicity, the
suld tenderly. say, And you
Washington said in his
the tomb Shall be of
;iitihg to. the eagle within
he would tell you with
81 81 IL E| that the only dissertation
f committed during the war,
e soldiers of both armies met
s q ss assawas that a relic hun
|||| III and carried.
b of thNs-ssagle."
S6t lice, he would add "for
ne boastkT 1t on his return to Vir-
ginia book it simply as relic
\ Ellen H. colonel's mirthful humor
<oul1tubble over the seriousness of
= tnc scene, aud he would say with an
an unforgettable twinkle, Il say dis
1inctly. relic hunter! I was asked
ia olaer DAY who Alec Hunter was!'
FROM tbs place he wosld point out
The ice 1Use which gavezrise to Mark
Twa famous story of tl5S lady weep
inc there in passionate sensibility.
mistyldns i for the tomb; and the
spot where Washington threw the sill
Yer dollr ioross the Potomac clear to
the otl side, linking with it the
r. story oI l,r. Eyarts Who, when asked
d # he 4..eyed it, replied quickly,
a. ''WhyEsl y dollar went a great
E deal - iuithose days
WaS&Sngl on: he would point out
7s,zpI5,.sa trees the mag
Ola planted the year that Washing
Ton died, which, only ninety years old
sSW now. is coeval with the century; the
|# trees planted by the emperor of Bra
Iii, Dom Pedro. and by the Prince of
Wales.
They died and were planted again;
died; planted again died. Royalty
cannot flourish on this soil; but look
here, he would say, the temperance
ladies planted this and it lives and
GourShes, and every day we give it
little drop. they wish me to say, how
ever, that the bottle of Washington's
which Sen. - saw taken out Of
the wall probably COMMUNICATIVE
CART"
There were all sorts of things taken
out of the wall, after the falling of the
ceiling in the banqueting room. in
1883 Org slippers, snow shoes, belts,
sSeletoINi a mouse in a bottle, ETC.,
all otr~Srlch were displayed as curios.
The ''halchet story" Col. Hollings-
ford maintained, belonged to an eaEIier'
day than Mount Lerne-1 and the
sceTc-0f-it he 1aid forty miles farther
down the river on the farm where
Washington was born, and where the
veritable Ratchet was plowed up from
the soil al4
b His version Of it was very different
fS2ib ;ne lr;itfFtfs,'-1 7lhc-ry tree story.
5sshlngton, SO he said, had little
of 1S servant who was the partner
w al his childish pranks. and when
1e -ather solemnly asked about his
-, tree, George boldly renlied
5;&.s& IKE n G-o 1t, with my little hatchet."
S sIf4'Es 40 storyswas dearer to his
1s ~. heart than that of the superb
,'' NJ N the banqueting room, carved
lay OF the finest Carrara marble
IS ~, iolig voyage from the Mediter-
In shore II met with many perils
M We" "a captured by pirates who then |
ssa T ',rtfa tue high seas in search of |
l In old adage says There is honor
~ among 1h5xisaazyRsEss