Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-06-16
correspondence OF The Star. !


Aaeh-The Recent Et.ction-''Hands' Wanted
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Oct Work iH Washington.
correspondence of The StarI
EAsTwOoDs, FAIRFAN COUNTY, June l3
lo10.-Tbis is an extraordinary season Forty
DAYS am, nights OF nearly continuous rain! No
evil consequences. however, seem, ~ yet, to
have resulted 70 the crops. The wheat has not
suffered, although, like the corn, II demands
more sunshine. The hay harvest will be unttv-
ampled. The blowing OF corn and potatoes,
and the late planting OF the same. has been sad
" postponed. Weeds. therefore are in their
glory. one week ago to-day, heavy and inces-
sant rain, from to l.. M, raised SCOTS Run
higher than il has been knOw for thirty yea-s
and washed out whole acres OF crops in meadow
lands.
The strawberry season is drawing TO a close
short but luXuriant; and the cherries are ripen-
ing rapidly and plentfully. The soil OF Fairfax
is not that OF the valley Of the Nile, everybody
knows, but, foI all species OF fruit known to the
temperate zone, il Is surpassed by no region on
the continent. Lime permanently ameliorates
the soil; while guano and artificial fer tlizers act
a. stimulants for single crops, II nothing more.
Clover plOwed in, seems, however, to be the
cheapest and most reliable manure, after the
baTn-yard.
The Circuit Court was in session last week
Fairfax Court House has not been so populOus
since the war. The new judge (Keith) created
a good impression. He is young, but digniied
in bearing, and evidently a man of ability.
Farther south, it may be true, as charged, that
iuries seem empanelled purpOsely to acqult
but that is certainly not the fact in Fairfax
Conviction follows conviction, hit or miss, right
or wrong. Burch, the negro, a man of bad re.
pute: who was charged with vi0lat'g q oi,I
near the Alexandra line some tir .. ago go. Zen
years in the penitentiary. H-snite c,nse far
some reasonable ..vupts;" and Young McGar-
rity was nhes some 500 and costs because, in a
I, premistsious sort of ''skrimmage," about year
| ago, at Lewinsville, in which a number of the
| bows were engaged, pistol which was SAID to
| have been in his hand happened to go OF, and
| one of the other boys was slightly wounded, in
| stead OF himself. Massachusetts needn't put
| on airs over old Virginia after that. uritan-
| ism must Weld the palm to 1.-THE chivalry' for
claw and order"
| The recent election for township officers
caused a. little sensation here as 1t did anywhere
| else. Everything was quiet and seemed far
| The re registration was by no means full one
| and the balloting didn't come up to the regis
| tration. The conservative ticket, ~ Is known
| prevailed. The Republican party must induce
| the very best men they have to accept the nomi-
| nations, it's DAYS are numbered in Fairfax
| Once must seek the men,-nOt men the office
| Mere party fidelity don't count for much here
| even with the colOred voters. Recent events In
| Washington ought to teach lesson in this re-
gard. The Republican party is no longer pow
| erful enough TO run Beefzebub into office, If he
| can only get the nomination. The conservatives
| NAV perhaps, always triumph in this county, il
they bring out their best meh-old citizens o
new. Even the blacks will vote for man o.
| the rebel "persuasion," il honest and capable
| in preference to a quondam Major General il
| the Federal army, il the reverse. They say so
at any rate, and acted so in the lats election.
OThe farmers are greatly in want of hands
and hope, that now your election Is over. the.
can have some; unless, peradventure, Congress
should appropriate another So, 900 TO feed then
| in the city; in which case they hope their ow
claims to charity may not be ignored