The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-29

. DR.. VanderwNyde exhibited some
weeds which had been sent TO him from
California, and on which he had made
some experiments, the result being the
prOdnctionof coarse, weak fax, and
also powder made from the root. which
when mixed with plaster OF Paris, form.
ed substance similRrto meerschaum,
and could be cut and carved 10 differ
ent formsJ The weed In called at the
South, Jnpe, and at the North, Marsh
WRllows, and me. Gregory thought
that liz abundance oughr to draw some
.attention 10 1t, as an important staple
10 manufacturing rope, mats, &C. ia
ra' u.nIi cHIEDLAiNs. '. b
. A poor Unfortunate Wrote that bio hsd
had i've physicians trying to cure bis
ehiiblAins, and asked ior ? remedy.
Dr.. Vanderweyde said Jet salyes and
doctors alone. Keep them clean and
.chIlblains will cure themselves. ~, ,-@,
l,rag HEMrsTEAD PLAINsro l4s st,
The Chairman said that he saw Ia The
room DR.. Peck, iof1onR Island, who
looked so smiling that he was sure that
the Doctor had felt that the cause In
which he had labored for SO many
years almost without hope (that Of sci!
Ting and cultivating the wIlds OF Long
1sland) had at last uiumphsd aud that
last Saturday, when the people OF
Hampstead, voted to Bell Hampstead
Plains, TO Mr.. AIT. Stewart, was o
new and bright era In the. Do6tor's ex-
istence and fortune. He invited the
Doctor TO address the meeting.
Or. Peck very modestly responded,
aud gave 0 glowing description OF Mr..
'Stewart's purchase, which, he said, was
equal 10 the best land In the Genesee
fats. It was for two feet deep d rlch
black soil, which required two yoke OF
oxen and the best and strongest pillow
10 break the turf up, after whlehIit re-
quired but little manure. At present,
II cattle were kept out, .Rrass five feet
high would grow on it,na lnIiiynf HUf
/. DR., Peck said that Hampstead Plain
was an upland meadow or prairie, or
about 5000 acres, running along the
Bouthside OF the range Of hills which
extend east and west through Long
Island; that the old settlers or i200
years or more were stoutly opposed to
The building Of the hongHslRnd Rail-
AoAAAl tNhbNlIti y uA4nI ukVt kAuA Nuyli lI1a
provementS which would do away with
the old stages that ran 10 and from the
villages, and whose horses eat up the
corn Of the Long Island farmers, with.
out the latter sending oats to 4 New
York market. Hampstead Plalns Ind
been an agricultural. blot and disgrace
on Long Island, but better times were
! Nj. Stewards enterprise was an en-.
terIng wedge which would induee
others to 20 on Improving the fertile nm.
cultivated lands TIL Long Island would
be the garden OF the State Of New York.
The Doctor said that fol, thirty miles
east OF Hsnpstead Plains another tract
OF former WlId'laud had been reclaim
ed, Rndlsuoh was the richness pf the
soil that It was quite common 10 get
2k tons OF hay from the acre. ~
Both Mr.. Crowell and DR.. Trlmhle
urged the necessity Of manure for Long
Island land, and ALI argued the best
results from Mr.. Stewarl's purchase and
hoped the next step herwould take to
add value 10 his purchase would be 10
connect II 10 Brooklyn With q cheap
and rapid railroad.
The meeting was quite Interesting,
Adjourned. P1 ssIis74 f'unf -