The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-16

.porsas,t hap =, salsfses ranging from 800 .
TO 800 per month. They pay their cniea
cook $3.50 per. month, ind .eraplo twenty
cooks that cost them round SUM. q 80
In tho midst or the aeason they consume
IN single tiav Q beeyea, 80 mutt tons, W hams.
400 chickens. @ barrels of -four, barrels OF
suear. so GALLONS Of ice.crean, from 3o0 10
4StI dozen eggs. and vegetables, fsh, pastry,
cake, nnss, Sc, in the same proportion.
During the last season there was a vast
amount Of eating done here, as The following
table Of leading articles consumed VIII snow !:
Tbev ate $1,000 pounds of beef, .oi,tso
pound, of mutton, and / Az pounds OF veal
being total of 1G4,2I2 pounds OF fresh
meat: g, 400 pounds of ham, sGe pounds OF
breaklast.bacon, 397 barrels Of flour, 2G,oos
rounds of sugar. 4,744 pounds OF coffee, $50
rounds of tea, 2S2 gallons Of syrup, 81 SACKS
of salt. u barrels of vinegar, 1857 POUNDS OF
| lard. Il. 900 chickens, and other thugs W
the same proportion. The establishment
| was lighted be C5 boxes Of hotel-cand'es anu
$50 gsl!ons of kerosene OIL 49,. ...-
The prospects fer the next season are
briohtcr thon ever before. The complexion
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad 70 inc
| Ohio. which will be very certainly accom-
| plishcd in the early days Of 1873, Will open
| up the great West to this charming retrea',
and give the cities of CINCINNATI, Louisville,
| s.. Loui., Chicago, &C., quick and read! ac'
cess to it, while ifs location on the imn1casate
line of the great highway Of travel from East
to West must always give it most conf
handing position. c,u
Besides its long-cstablished reputation lor
| the cure Of various disease, tue " i'iIc our,
| phur has within the past several Years Saineo
Considerable celebrity for the marked power
of the wafer in Overcoming The desire Jor We
use of ardent sp,r,ts, and this eflt ct Is so &C.
cjdrd that there Is talk Of establishing mere u
Grand inebriate asylum. II has also a slIaf
lar effect OH opum-eaters.
With all of these attractions ana adEah-
tages the PAST Of" thc Old White Is but Tue
earnest of q most brilliant future. Indeed
It NAV bo confidently predicted that Tue
d.y is not far distant when the Visions mere
will be numbered By thousands every year,
and flourishing town will grow up around
this health-giylng fountain.
Last week there was memorial meetlnS
held here BY DR.. George b. Taylor, KEY. =
p. Huff, and Rev. J. NJ. Pitcher, ut which
the weak Baptist church of eleven members
contributed TO the memorial tuna gov,
which they promised to increase to $500. :,
This week the efficient pastor. Rev. >: NJ.
Pitcher, late Of your city, has been holding
q series of meetings, which have been wen
attended, and at which there bave been n'e
professions Of conversion, and much interest.
The "clI,lrch on the laWn.' whIc! was
built chiefly by the contributions OF VISITORS
to the Springs with the distinct understand,
ing that it was to be "Jrce to al erdlgeltcuI..
denominations" is now closed against all
except the Methodists. and Coionei feyton
has generously converted one of bis largest
rooms into very comfortable chapel, 10
which the Baptist Church worship ana
which is cordially rendered to al! other de-
nominations who may desire to Use 1t.
IIATUR.