Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-30
Letters from LOudOun County.

! Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
|. LEEsBURG, Va, June 20.-We have had
very fine weather for harvest, though exceed
ingy warm. The wheat will be finished in two
or three days, most of that in the Potomac
! Valley having beee gotten through with. The
oats are ripcning very fast, land the stem is short.
The corn is beautiful clean and greenland
seems to be growing in spite of the drought.
Hay is heavy and secured in fine order.
| note particularly the upland meadows of
Clinton Lloyd, near IIeesburg, and DR.. Qulnby
oil Oak Hill. They use fertilizers as they were
used near Sandy Spring in Maryland, heavily
on the grain, SO as to act upon the grass. The
result is the wonderful improvement III the ap
pearancc of these Two farms.
| think upon the general result our wheat
crop is one half better than it Was last year, and
| should suppose that the quality would be
very fue.
There has been less grumbling among the
farmers than usual. They seem to have re-
covered their tone Of hopetuness, and, unless
[ am greatly mistaken, the good time SO long
expected is about to dawn upon US. The con-
dition Of the people is gradually but surely i'm.
proving.
hear of no land sales lately except one made
by the executors of Mrs. Nancy Anderson OF
253 acres at $3S, to W. II. Benton jr. 1t is
very near j. 2. Dulanys, fine farm, but re-
railroad depot as any farm in the county-say
about twelve miles. Its assessed value is $40.
We have several prisoners in our Jail who
will be tried at the October term 1t we're de-
sirable that Justice should be more speedily
dispensed, but this can be done only by quar-
terIy term of the Circuit Court, as the return
to the County Court jurisdiction would not be
desirable for this purpose, as attorneys always
elected that their clients should be tried in the
Circuit Courts
The law business has sensibly fallen off, and
probably will continue to decrease.
| have never known anything to give such
general satisfaction to the class Of honest poor
men as the decision of Chief Justice Waite,
sustaining the waiver Of the Homestead in con-
tracts. 1t enables man having less than
$4,000 to stand some show Of getting credit on
the property that he has. 1t will greatly tend
to restore confidence, which, according to Ad-
dison's experience in his vision among the
mouey bags 10 the Bank of England, as relat-
ed 10 the Spectator makes or unmakes money.
The outsiders and the children are half mad
with the Masons of Alexandria that they did
not turn out better at the dinuer last Wednes-
day, and am sure they must be half mad with
themselves for having missed the fine treat Of
diDner got up at the Osborn House expressly
for grand occasion.
A fine bridge has recently been constructed
over Little River, on the Leesburg and Aide |
turnpike, by Mr. r. N. Bruce, OF Rappahan
mock. When the approach to it shall have
been completed all the southern part of the
county can reach Leesburg without hindrance
from high water. Two hundred thousand dol
lars in county bonds expended on roads and
bridges over the various branches Of Goose
Creek, and in renewing the supersiruetures Of
those at Berlin and Point of Rocks would make
the markets of Baltimore, Georgetown and
Alexandria come together at Leesburg, Carke's
Gap, Hamilton, Purcevlle, Round Hill and
SDickersve, which are about three miles
apart, or railroad in the middle of the finest
county in Virginia, capable of supporting
handsomely ten times its present population.
Among other signs Of improvement in the
county note that the agent of the Champion
Reaper and Mower has sold Is new machines
this season. ALIQUIS.