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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-03
HOMESTEAD,

formerly known as St. VALENTINO is Il
handsome bay horse wi a h1ck points,
small star and left ankle white. He is
four years old. His sire is Nutwood, he
by Belmont, by AleXander's Abdallah
by Rysdyk's Hambletonian. Dam of
Homestead. Precept by Pancoast. Second
dam, Artless (fuli sister OF Orange Girl.
2:20) by Rysdyk's Iambletonian. Third
dam, Dolly Mills dam of Waikiki Chief,
sire of Dick Swiveller, 2;lS, and Great
Fourth dam by Young Messenger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-03
A Vigorous Old Age.

Ex-Vice President Hannibal Hamln still
retains the reputation of being the young
est old man in Bangor, Me- His health
continues so rugged that he has not YET
abandoned his life long rule to get along
without umbrellas or overcoats Tac old
gentlemsn's chief amusement nowadays is
a game of whist
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-03
MCDOUGALLS' SHEEP DIP,

McDougalls' non-pOlsonous sheep dip and
cattle dressing, scab specific and insect ex-
terminator on sheep, cattle, horses, dogs,
in this county TOR several years 1t instantly
exterminates all ticks, lice and maggots is
the only true specific for scab, and finely
stimulates the growth OF the fleece, making
its very profitable. When used at n
special strength II also waterproofs the fieeces,
thus affording the animals great protection
from cold and wet. In the United States,
Great Britain and many places abroad il is
now generally adopted-having to IA large
extent displaced the use of tobacco, arsenic,
lime and sulphur, and poisonous mixtures.
1t has important advantages over such dress
ings, and is more certain in its action. For
sale at
SHELDON DRUG STORE. l2;tf
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-03
N.PROSPECT ST., BURLINGTON,vT
FOR NERVOUS AND CMlLD) MENTAL DE
EASES.

EASES.
Sanitarium entirely new, delightfully."- To-
Gated, with all needed convenicnces and med
zeal appliances. Dr. willard resides there,
and is pleased to refer to Bishop Bissell, Pres.
Dwight (Yale), Pres BuckhaIn ~. v NJ ,
Rev. DR.. Bliss, Hon. q. G, Benedict, Buring.
ton, VI.
Board, 50 to $40 II week. Other expenses
reasonable. Send tor circular. Al
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-03
BOSTON'SB RIGHT WOMEN
SOME ARE WE'D AND SOME ARE
SINGLE, BUT ALL ARE CHARMING.
Not One of Those Mentioned Below but
Has Earnest Work in Hand and Is Do
ing It weI-Artists. Authors and Mu-
siCiaus.

Copyright by American Press Asso,iation.l
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
The Tragedian Thos. w. Keene, monday
Night.

The most virile of American tragedlans
is Thos. w. Keene, who will be seen IN THIS
CITY next Monday night. He is in the best Oh
health and spirits after fine summer S
rest at his delightful country nome at
Castleton Corners, Staten Island. There
he lives in mansion built prior to the
American revolution, which is filled with
Thespian relics and curiosities, chief
among which is fine oil painting OF the
famous actor George Frederick Cooke,
whose body is buried in ST. Paul's church
ward in New York. MI. Keene's company
this season is the finest he has yet had III
his support. It's roster is as follows
Henrietta Vaders, Lavinia Shannon, Jen-
ME Ellison, Mrs. S. A. Baker, George Lea
rock, Eugene Moore, Frank Hennig, Jules
Scott, Carl Ahrendt, Edmund Laurence,
Godfrey Stein, J. J. Cummings, Thos. Il.
Engleson, John Grif1iths and Marwood
Andrews. The repertory this season is
made up of this splendid list OF plays :;
Richard III, Richelieu, Louis XII, Macbeth,
Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Othello, Don
Caesar de Bazan, Julius Caesar and Laun-
celot This latter play is by Edwin Arden
and Arden Smith, and is reputed to be a
remarkably meritorious tragedy. 1t is not
quite completed and it will hardly be ready
for the stage before Christmas.
MI. Keene's performances are scholarly
and attractive, and are worthy the patron
age of all who admire dramatic art in its
highest and best form. ''Richelieu' has
been selected for MI. Keene's opening in
StauntOn,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
iron Gate.

The Review of Friday furnishes the fol
lowing items from Iron Gate:
New Housewife Farmers Alliance
Co. will soon commence the construction
of 80 OF 40 houses, to be used by the mel
employed in their shops here.
Big Railroad Busimess.-The c. & O.
freight receipts here for the past month
amounted to nearly two thousand dollars
The ticket receipts amount to about foul
hundred dollars. MI. Smit l, the agent. in.
forms us that the freight is increasing
every day, which indicates that Iron Gate
is making rapid growth.
Lithdo Water for the Inn.-The Iron
Gate Land and Improvement Co. is erect
ing two reservoirs on the hill back of the
hotel for the purpose Of furnishing water
for the Inn. The Lithia water is the only
water used at the hotel, thus guests have
the full benefit Of its medicinal qualities.
Families moUing aa.-Ten families have
moved to our town in less than so many
days, which, we think, speaks well for ou1
young town, considering the time Of yea,
We pred let that in less than 60 days we wi
average that many per day.
Large Force of Workmen.-The Irol
Gate rolling mill has employed on it's day
and night forces about $50 to 200 men, Tx
Farmers Alliance Go. employs oni build
ings about IS OF 100 men.
Brick Mak5ng.-Messrs. Billheimer an(
Partlow have received their new brick
machine and will soon have things in run
ming or1er. The machine has q capacity
of about 80 OF 40 thousand brick per day.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Clifton Forge.

The Review gives the following news
from Clifton Forge:
The Stanton Street Cdrs-TWelvestr street
cars, made by the st. Louis Car Company,
passed through here this week for service in
Staunton. They were beauties. The lefty
Of the hills" is coming
Grading the Streets-Mr. d. B. Avis,
General Manager of the Clifton Forge Co.
has 500 hands at work grading the streets
and avenues.
Experimental. G. Bryant has been
appointed G. Il 0. ticket and baggage agent
for Clifton Forge.
Kaled-James T. Roswell of Clifton
Forge, freight conductor on the Louis
vile & Nashville Ry., aged 20 years, was
killed August Sd, by falling under his train.
The body was inferred at Clifton Forge.
Persona!-Mr. Harry Gait ard family,
who have been in the city some time, have
returned to StauntOn.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Easlc City.

The Basic City Advance Of yesterday
furnishes the following items:
Transactions IN Real Estate.-The
transactions IN real estate for the past week
have been large in volume and high up in
prices. Frequent sales of lots at 81, O0O
have been reported, and numerous dealings
at 500, $500 and 5000 have taken place.
These lots were purchased in May by the
original OWNERS, at prices ranging from
IS 30 to $500.
Match ry.-Arrangements have
been made by q manufacturer from Leb-
anon, Pa, to art match factory here.
Lumber and Coal Co.-A charter has
been applied for, for the Basic City Lumber
and Coal Co. Theprojectors ale Virginians
and North Carolinians.
NeW Presbyterian Charch.-Within a
few days $4,000 have been subscribed to
erect a handsome brick Presbyterian
church, to cost IS, GOO. Rev. A. r. Cooke,
W. w. Sproul, NJ. W. Quarles, Samuel
Forrer and J. II. Lindsay, were the COM
mittee soliciting.
The New Hotez.-The Queen Anne Hotel
will be open for guests by October Goth.
Improrements.-Th grading of Basic
City's streets is going forward rapidly.
They are handsome streets, too, and the
grading cannot be surpassed.
Tie abutments for the iron bridge across
South River, at the foot OF Third street,
have been nearly completed. The bridge
will be erected at once.
Persomal.-We regret to learn that MI.
M. A. Booker, Secretary and Treasurer OF
the Car Works Co., is seriously i'll at his
residence in Staunton.
Mr.. J. w. Campbell of Staunton, is now
a resident of Basic City, having become
connected with the real estate firm OF
Thompson & Walters, the real estate dealers
on Commerce st.
The handsome three story brick building
of Geo. c. Jordan, Esq, of Staunton, To-
Gated on Augusta Avenue, will cost about
$4,000 when it is completed. 1t will be
used for mercantile purposes and offices.
Miss Mary Funkhouser of Staunton, was
here Tuesday, en- route home from visit
to her sister at Roanoke.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
WaynesborO.

The Times Of last Friday gives the fol
lowing from WaynesDoro and vicinity:
Sale of Real Estate.-T. r. N. Speck
Commiss Toner, has sold the Ereal estate OF
w. E. Grass, decd. J. w. Garrison
bought the home place in Sherando, about
II acres for 1925; also q acres ON Back
creek for $106. W. S. Baber bought 3e
acres on the Howardsville pike one-halt
mile west of Sherando, for $S7.
PERSONAL---VERY.. Jno. A. Preston, OF
Florence, Ala, will fill his old pulpit at
Thinking Spring next Sunday.
Rev. A. r. Cooke, Mrs. A. r. Cooke and
Mrs. A. Leyburn have returned from q
visit to friends.
Rev. f. Kuegele, pastor of Trinity Lu.
theran church, has gone to st. Paul, MINI.
to attend Synod.
Nh. VIM. Patrick and several other prom
inent Stauntonians spent last Wednesday
here.
Mrs. Susie Woodward, the widow of Capt
John Woodward, so long the popular C. &
o. passenger conductor, and Mrs. Frank
Colts and daughter, of R chmond, are Wis.
iting the family of DR.. Watson.
Capt. n. B. Sheppard and wife, of Ron,
ceverte, W. Va, ale the guests of Mrs
Sheppards brother, MI. L. X. Huff and
his wife.
Rev. J. E. Shenk, Of Bethlehem, and wife
accompanied by MI. and Mrs. John Stuart
of Lyndhurst, and Maj. A. Koiner's wife
ana son Stuart, of Fishersvllle, will spend
week at Old Point Comfort, Norfolk and
Virginia Beach, leaving last Tuesday.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Where is the Owner Of the Musket?

A Connecticut Union veteran few days
ago wrote to the Richmond Dispatch that
he had a musket gotten on the field OF
Fredericksburg, marked 18TH Va. Co. B., y
the initials of the owner being &c. A. p
The letter was published, and the musket
aas been claimed on behalf of Conley a.
Peck, who belonged to the 5th Va, and on
behalf of Cornelius A. Parsons, who also
belonged to the 5th Va. and was killed. We
are informed by veteran Of the 5th that
there was no Company BIZ in that regi-
ment. OF rather there was one only few
weeks. When the 18th Va. regiment was OF
gained at Harper's Ferry, with ten COM
panies from A to L, a Rockbridge company
under Capt. Sam Letcher was assigned to
it as Company ''B'' That company was,
soon after, assigned to the 9th Va. regi-
ment and no company ever took the place it
had left vacant in the 9Th. 1t is probable
that &C. A. p may be heard OF III Rock
bridge if he survived the war, as 1t is
likely he marked his musket while yet with
the 9Th Va. regiment.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
From Black Rock Springs.

THE ACColIMODATIoNs-L NUMBEl
OF vIsITORs-LIsT OF ARRIVALS, sc.
TReported for the Staunton VINDIcAroR.G
BLACK Rock SPRINGS, Aug. 9Th
season opened July 1st, with Mr.. w. P
Mayo from the University of Virginia il
charge of the hotel, and several families oc
cupying their cottages.
There are nineteen siX-rOOm cottages here
and hotel with sixteen rooms, and a bal
room forty by eighty feet, make up our ac
commodations.
The attractions of the place are thre
springs, a freestone, a sulphur and yer,
strong chaly beate, whose medicinal virtues
| have been tested for over twenty years
Here amid the cool breezes waited from
the slopes of the majestic mountain range,
the invalid soon regains his strength.
There are two hundred and thirty-fiy,
guests here to-day, and about seventy-fiv,
excursionists came up from the South Riy
er neighborhood. Albemarle and Nelsol
| counties are well represented here, as one
third of the cottages are filled by them.
Last Thursday, the census showed thre
hundred and sixty persons present on TIL,
grounds, including q picnic crowd from
Mt. Sidney. In their cottages now STAYING
here, are the families of G. D. Fishburne
Charlottesville, Va, Brown Patterson
Chas. Patterson, Sam Alexander, Tolari
us Coyner, Rev. Sam1 Driver, Thornton
Stout. S. N. Patterson, David Beard
Chris. Eallle, A. H. Roller, Irenaus Coy
ner, l. B. Kagey, M. p Funkhouser, DR.
Hanger and DR.. H. B. Harnsberger.
To-day the stockholders held their annual
meeting, Chas. Patterson was reelected
President, and 1. B. Kagey, Secretary The
company owns fifteen hundred and eighty
acres of land with the Springs.
The register since the fifth irst., shows
G. Miller, Misses Nina and Bessie Mille1
with Stella Bear, Elkton, Va, I. Martin
and wife, Louisiana, w. H. Carpenter and
son, Dayton, Va, B. G. Patterson and
daughter, Harrisonburg, Va, Nelson Mi
chic, Crozet, Va, II. w. Miller, Elkton.
Va, Misses Bessie and Florence Fulton.
Shendun, Va, R. M. Harris, Albemarle
county, E. P. Chapman, w. C. Martin,
Roanoke, Va, VIM. E. Allen and Wood
Stockton, Charlottesville, Va, A. Harold
Miller and wife, Langdon, La, Francis G.
Lea, Philadelphia, j. r. Walker and J. H.
Cottaman, il, Baltimore, D. Bell Kerr
and J. E. Eakle, New Hope, Va.
Last night the young people enjoyed a
nice hop, with their friends as spect;a-
tors. The ball room was crowded.
A well equipped ten pin alley owned by
amusement for the men. n. E. H.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
HOW to Use Street Cas-.

| The street railway, after the usual diff
culties that attend the starting of line, is
settling down to it's work with good service
and a regular schedule. 1t was a great
convenience Sunday to the church-goers,
especially to the female portion who, with
| thermometer at SOC were enabled to arrive
at their places of worship without red and
heated faces.
To the large body of our people street cars
are new, and they will find a good deal OF
comfort in observing the following method
of how to use them:
Before you board a car, see ii you have a
nickel to drop in the box; it will save you
and the driver trouble in making change
and be convenience to the driver, who has
not only to attend to his team but watch
the fares as they are dropped in.
When you want a car, step to the curb OF
the sidewalk so as to be in full view of the
driver when you signal him with your hand
When you get in drop your nickel in the
box at once and then take your seat as neal
the driver door as possible. 1t will save you
from having your feet trodden on by the
next conner.
If you are an able-bodied man don't STOP
the car to get ON OF off while it is going W
grade. 1t is always slow enough then for q
man to do either without stopping it, and
starting car on an up grade is hard work
for a team.
Whenever you have any distance to &C
take car; it saves time and shoe leather
and helps an enterprise that is going to be
a great aid to the prosperity of Staunton.
Don't stand on the platform when there
is room inside the CAL.
CONCERTS AT THE PARK.
The cars were crowded Tuesday night
with passengers going to the concert at the
Park, given by the Stonewall Brigade Band.
There will also be a concert there tonight.
DIFFICULTIES OF COMMENCING.
The public can hardly appreciate the diff
ficulties Of starting q street Car line as eX-
tensive as is the Staunton one. The drivers
have to learn, for it is much more difficult
to drive CAL than wagon Oh carriage,
aid requires much nicer calculation on
curves, switches and so forth. The teams
that draw the cars have to be taught by the
drivers, and altogether there is a great deal
of drawback at the start. This has in this
instance been increased by the lightweight
mule teams used for draft. 1t does not
look probable that even after learning how
to pull them, they will ever have the strength
to pull a loaded car, and the pushing of
them UP to their work by the whip is so
repulsive to the passengers that it destroys
the pleasure of riding and thus lessons the
passenger traffic. Nobody wants to travel
when the lash is heard at every grade the
car strikes. We learn that heavier teams
have been purchased for the work.
Our people may feel certain that in a few
days all will be working right and that the
service will be satisfactory in all respects.
THE OPENING HAULS.
On Saturday and Sunday the cars were
well filled in the morning, and in the after
noon were packed to their utmost capacity.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
A Cocoonery IN Staun:on.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE CULTURE OF
THE SILK WORM.

| POtuC 1I14N0 ADOC Tile CCLI CieA1 VT
THE SILK WORM.
Few OF our people know that there is a
Silk cocoenery in Staunton which Was
| originated about two years ago by Mrs.
has set apart two rooms in the house
for the culture Of the silk worm,
and has had as many as a million
OF them on hand at one time. Being
an invalid and confined to the house, she
conceived the idea Of silk worm culture to
pass away her time. She procured the eggs
from the Agricultural Department at
Washington and commenced the work. The
rooms she set apart were so arranged as to
admit of perfect ventilation, but to permit
moray OF sunshine to fall on the eggs, the sun
being fatal to the worms either in the egg OF
after they are Matched. After they hatch
out, the worms, Which resemble caterpillar
without hair, are fed on leaves of the Usage
orange, which is abundant in this section.
Thirty-one days after Matching, the worm
begins to spin itself into a cocoon. 1t does
this generally on the floor where it has been
Matched, but often they climb up the walls
and spin their cOcoons all over the room.
In twenty DAVIS after the worm has spun
itself into cocoon it changes to moth,
much resembling a butterfly, and cuts its
way out of it. In twenty-four hours after
that, the moth deposits it's eggs. Several
moths are caught and placed in q thin bag
where there are leaves and they deposit their
eggs all over these leaves. The culture
is easily managed and gives little trouble.
Before the moths cut their way out-for
their cutting Injuries the silk a good deal
the cocoons ale shipped to the American
Silk Association at New Y ork, which pays
81. Is a pound for them. Two bushels and
half of cocoons will weigh about 35 pounds.
The Association sends them to the silk fac
tories in New Jersey OF Connecticut. There
they are put in warm water; the silk, which
is strong and hard to break, is unwound from
them and woven into silk fabric. The first
color of the silk on the cocoon is that OF
rich cream. 1t is changed afterwards by
dying.
The silk worm culture could easily be
carried on by ladies in Staunton, for the
Usage orange used for hedges is plentiful
around here and is nearly, if not fully, equal
as food to the mulberry leaf. Mrs. O7Rorlle
thinks that it is in the power of one person
to make several hundred dollars ayear at it
without much time OIL trouble. 1t will be
very fortunate and profitable for urpeople
if the example she has set should be gen
erilly followed.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Accident on the Rockbr1dge Alum
Railroad,

Yesterday morning, about three miles
from Goshen, the train which had left the
Rockbridge Alum Springs few minutes
before, met with a serious accident. The
front bar of the engine broke, throwing off
the engine and tender and wrecking them.
The engineer and fireman were badly
though not dangerously hurt. No one else
was injured. Among the passengers on the
train were MI. w. Starke Burke, wife and
child, Mrs. Allen NJ Howison, Miss Mollie
Burnett, and MI. Adams of the Street
Railway Co., all of Staunton; Mrs, Dill
and son Of Alexandria; Rev. Jno. B. Morton
and family Of Florida, and Mrs. Capt.
Fitz. The flames that shot up from the
wrecked engine came near firing the train
The passengers were brought to Staun-
ton yesterday afternoon on a special from
Goshen.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Staunton industries,

The arrangements have been made Icy the
Directors of the Staunton Shoe Factory and
it willstart up again next Tuesday in a solid
financial condition.
The first annual report Of President
Tams to the stockholders of the Furniture
Factory Co. is a gratifying one. After
meeting all the losses Of an opening year,
the Factory paid every debt of every kind
and cleared near on to $1,000, OF more than
6 per cent. on it's capital. 1t is now running
on a basis that will make 20 per cent. On it's
capital the present year. President Tams
in his report pays a high and deserved
compliment to the ''untiIing zeal, skill, and
diligence" Of the Superintendent, MI. w.
II. Hyer.
The Staunton Development Co. has secur-
ed the location here Of the Staunton Build
ing Co.. and it will be in operation before
November. The Building Company's Ca
pltal has been increased to $50, 600. 1t will
be located just east of the Furniture Fac
tory.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Tie Stonewal Brigade Band at
R.oncevarfe

The Ronceverte, w. Va, Messenger OF
Yesterday has the following on the annual
encampment of the Stonewall Brigade Band
there, from which it's members have re-
turned to Staunton full of kind words for
Ronceverte and it's people: 1.-The famous
Stonewall Brigade Band has come and gone.
1t was with us for week, just long enough
to give us taste of its really splendid play
ing and impress the community with it's
social qualities as an organization of good
tempered, courteous and genial gentlemen.
They Jared well while here and were pleased
to say that they never enjoyed a more de
lightful camp.
Son Monday and Tuesday evenings the
band gave informal concerts at the hotel
and at the island, but on Wednesday even
ing appeared in the glory Of scarlet uni
foIms and gave q grand open-air concert
in front Of Hotel Denning. Following was
the programme:
l. March National Fencibles. ......... Sousa
2 Medley. selection of plantation songs,
3. Grand Fantasia for Euphonium, ... Hartman
s. Mach arc "rhe Gladiator,
I. Frand Fantasia for trombone, Harris
s. Aria for E-'phonium, Twilight Song,. Webb
g. Fantasia. The Dream. w eDE
40 Waltz Song, Little Annie Rooney, Prendiville
H. March, The Brigade, ebt
cit would exceed our bounds to review
this programme, except to note that Nos
3 and afforded a fine display of the must
cal qualities Of the euphonium in the hands
of that fine performer, c. Harry Haines,
and Nos. 6 and Z, cornet solo by the veter-
an ]. A. Armentrout, and trombone solo
by his son J. B. Armentrout. Outside of
these specialt1es the most popular thing
was No. 10, waltz song, "Little Annie
Rooney" with vocal chorus, which is rath-
Ell new wrinkle to us and was very taking
indeed. The concert was attended by al
most the entire local population, who fully
enjoyed the performance.
''On Friday the band went to Lewisburg
to visit their old leader, Prof. L. M. Tur-
ner, and on returning gave another open
all concert Friday evening. Some of the
members left for home on No. that night,
business claims demanding their attention.
On Saturday morning the tents were struck
and loaded, and when No. 2 left she car
ried the remaining members, a detachment
Of whom had attended the union picnic at
Graves spring.