Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-06-29

were couple OF wild mountain colts
showed considerable miscellaneous cussed-
ness. especially the near horse, a powerful
black in mounting the hill emerging from
Harrlsonburg, and when at the top they deli
berately took the bits I'm their mouths and
started down the bill on a tearing run, which
The united efforts of Messrs. Jehu and Doyle
on the front seat were powerless to restrain
though both muscular young CHRISTIANS of
the Potomac club persuasion. Down we
Numbered, our Jehu yelling at the top of his
voice TO the drivers of various GA k bark carts
TO clear the track; while the writer gripped
the rails of the back seat and prayed for
much power to the breeding. Fortunately,
there were no abrupt turns In the road down
TINS PERCEPTIONS descent, and We reached the
bottom upside up. By the time we had
mounted to the top of the opposite rise, the
ebon-hued brute, who had been invited by
the whip to continue his little run, was in a
latker of sweat, and sufficiently blown to lis
ten to reason, as was his mate, and they be-
haved with considerable circumspection the
rest OF the way. 1t hardly need be said that
though We left HarrisOnburg nearly an hour
behind the rest of the party, we passed them
on the road, and headed the grand procession
into Rawley.
AT RAwLEY.
President Trick, of the springs company
was on hand TO receive the guests upon the
spacious colonnade, and without any for
malities they were speedily scattered about
the premises sampling the iron waters (and
another liquid in big bowl; taxing iron
water baths, &C, and a little later gathering
at the supper table to enjoy mountain trout
and mountain mutton, golden valley butter
white rolls of valley -four, valley eggs, and
various other creature comforts indigenous
10 1.-The Valley" supplemented by all the
exotic Injuries of the season. A good deal
might be said of the enioymentS and spOrtS
of the succeeding three days and nights but
the history thereof has already been told by
dozen bright pens. In brief. whether from
the eXhilerating mountain air, the invigor-
atlng qualities of the iron water. or the eX-
cellence OF the fare certainly everybody was
IN the best of spirits, and the enjoyment of
the trip from the start to the moment Of
separation on the return was supreme and
universal. For one thing, the excursion
served TO bring together in pleasant rela-
tons large number of the young members
OF The journalistic profession, and to
show that there is not only quite an excep-
tional amount of bright talents in the new
crop, but that they have also a fund of good
temper and gentlemanly courtesy that
gives assurance that they will be always
ready TO maintain proper esprit dlt corps.
For Rawley Springs and of the Virginia
mountain resorts generally, it may be said
that they probably present to Washing
tOnlans the kind of change of air needed at
this season. As our air is moist, we need to
go to the mountains for thinner and less
humid atmosphere, by way OF change.
FISH MURDER.
1t has been stated above that trout were
plentiful upon the table at Rawley. The
enjoyment of this luxury would be greater if
the means by which it was secured were less
exceptionable. The mountains about Raw
ley abound in trout streams, and the fishing
ought to be great attraction to the place.
but every angler visiting here is surprised
and disguised to find that in the utter
absence of any laws for the protection of
trout in Virginia. they are raided upon in all
these mountain streams by a set of fish
pirates, who, greedy for gain, butcher them
night and day with spears, (or gigs" as
they call them here snares seines &c, until
the prosecuted fish are frightened out of all
spirit for biting; and If the work of butchery
goes on a the present rate the trout streams
will speedily be depleted. AS a present rem
edy, the mountain hotels should refuse
Peremptorily To buy any trout not caught by
the hook, and on. the assembling of the next
legislature of Virginia a stringent law
should be passed for the prot ion of trout
against the butchers. The state of Maine,
the home OF the brook trout, has found il
necessary to adopt such legislation, and now
the only kind of fishing allowed tor trout in
that state is with the fly or the single haited
nook: an gang hshlDg, spoon fishing, sharing:
spearing, seine hauling and other modes of
trOut-murder being prohibited. There is also
a close season for trout by law in Maine from
the LIST of October TO the LIST of March. cover
ing their spawning time; and fishing through
the ice in the winter is now prohibited. Let
the state of Virginia pass such law. and
the summer attractions of her mountain re-
sorts Will be Increased ten-fOld.
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING.
1t was pleasant to note in this trip the dis
position on all sides to drop the an!mosities
of the war; and this was the more noticeable
fIom the fact that the people Of the Valley
have so much reason TO remember the war
with some bitterness, with their ruined mills
and barns yet before them as reminders
Judge Harris, representative in Congress
from the Harrisonburg district, who break
tasted the party in handsome style at that
place, took occasion to express in very
hearty terms the appreciation by the south
ern people OF the generous welcome given to
the sOutherners at Boston recently. and said
that while the people of the south were not
wealthy enough TO vie with the solid men of
Boston in the way of magnificent hospitali-
ties. they did not want the will to reciprocate
to the utmost all these manifestations of
brOtherly feeling.
u ID ALE.