The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-01
letter from Eluysnnn.
Of the Richmond Dispatch.

correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch
FLUvANNA COUNTY, Sept. -, 1870.
With the exception of the usual winter
and spring rains. we have had none here for
lust fifteen months, so YOU MAY very reason
ably conclude We are rather dry here. We
harvested 4 pretty fair crop Of wheat, but
corn and tobacco will fall more than third
short of an average crop. Though the sea-
sou is at hand, we have not commenced
seeding wheat, rs we have no tallow-land.
Still, we are happy and hopeful, mistaken
in our belief that Fork Union township is
the garden-spot of the world. particularly
in point of morality and religious adran-
tages. We have four Baptist churches in
this township, and not one Of them has had
pastor for seven months. Still We are at
work, but our philanthropy partakes of the
Whole.souled. worldwide character of that
noble Christian woman who permitted her
own little ones to die of Group and pDeu-
monia, so entirely was she absorbed in
making shirts and * Sich " for the poor lit
tie nigEers born way down in the heathcn-
ish South. Like her, though unable to EN-
ploy shepherd for our own straying tlockS.
our ears are open to every ''come over and
help u.s. which reaches us from China or
the South Sea Islands, and our hands are
ever ready to subscribe.
Politically we arc i'll pretty fair condition,
and the union effected last May between
whites and blacks upon the broad principles
Of conservatism promises, in spite OF the
efforts OF a few Wooly-headed diSSenterS,
still busy tu@oing at that bottom rail to get
it on top, occasionally humming line from
that patriotic air, .'Hung Jeil. Davis OH a
Sour Apple Tree" and in spite Of few
white fanatics, who, with their broken
rivetcd jack-kniVes, are whiting away at
the huge column Of negro suffrage, pro-
posing to erect in its stead provision for
the extension of slavery in the Territories.
In spite of these efforts the ranks are firm,
and promises TO poll telling vote this fall.
The fall term Of our Circuit Court closed
a few days ago, having disposed of pretty
lengthy chancery docket. No criminal
cases, Shores, indicted last spring for the
murder of Harlan, having escaped.
A very sad affair occurred in Columbia
last week. which resulted in the death Of
one of its citizens. 1t is difficult to get at
the exact particulars, but the prime facts
are these Mr. Roberts and his SONS Chrec
in numbcr) own ana run manufacturing
mill. AT this season they grind all night,
and it is customary for the old man and one
OF his BOYS to remain at the mill until mid
night, when the other two take it till morn
inc. On the night of the 2lst instant The
time for them to be relieved. The father
inquired OF the son present where his
brothers were. He didn't know, but would
tind them. lie did, ut Richardson's gro
Gerry, very tight. He started them on, and
reaching the mill few minutes behind
them himself, met up with his father near
the door of the room into which they had
gone. The son asked where he was going.
lie replied, to correct the boys. The son
followed him in, and saw one brother sit
ting OH the bed whiting with his pocket
knife, the other having gotten in bed, and
apparently asleep. The old man accosted
him roughly, and advanced, aiming blow
at him, Which the son, to avoid, fell back
on the bed. The father falling OH him, was
cut through the heart, and expired in few
minutes. The sou in whose hand was the
fatal knife, seemed unconscious of his
lather's being cut until told by his brother.
He is youth about II, and though consid.
cred rathera bad boy, it Is generally thought
to have been an accident. It IS i nelan-
choly affair, and another warning of the
bitterness which lies beneath the sparkling
surface Of the wine cup. SIMMONS.