Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-05-25
Letter from Jefferson Co.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
DUFrIELDs, JEFFERSON Co., w. VA, May
"a, lS75.-Our County Court will adjourn to-
day, Monday, after weeks session, this being
one Of if not the principal county term, of the
year, all the Magistrates, fourteen 10 number,
occupying the bench, with Col. Robert Baylor
as its President The question of granting
liquor licenses was once more before the Court,
the twelve mouths of local option having ex-
PRED. As was to be expected there was great
interest evinced GU both sides of the question,
the Rev. Mr.. Meade, rector of the Charlestown
Church, aud Daniel B. Lucas, esq speaking
against the granting Of any licenses and A. f.
Kennedy. in favor of the same. Whilst local
option as measure Of prohibition has been a
failure in the county, yet there is 40 doubt that
less liquor has been sold ADD drunk during the
last year than formerly. The Court decided to
license all the regular hotels 10 the county,
under the restriction that all bar rooms were
to be Oh the first floor Of the hotels, with open
doors aud no screens or other device intended
to conceal those potronizlDg from public gaze
So ends this great question IN Jefferson for the
coming year. OF course the action OF the Mag
istrates, whatever it might have been, would
have been unsatisfactory, and it is not to be
wondered at that what they have done meets
with severe criticism.
We are still without depot and express agents
at this point, and DO knowing when We are to
have them. The present opinion prevails that
we are to have a new building put up by the
R. r. Co., and till this is done no agent will
be appointed. As it is our shippers aud re-
ofr n}- 60 frnr, Ia md, in
convenience, all goods being shipped at Har-
much trouble and almost as much expense to
gel them as it would be from Baltimore.
The Grange store at Dufield's is now 10 full
operation, under the control and management
of Messrs. Draubaugh & Taylor Link. This store
will, no doubt, be great help to the order, as
goods will be sold to them at a small advance.
We have nothing more encouraging to say
about the wheat than heretofore it is simply
bad, and what little there is on the ground
seems to get 20 better on account Of the long
dry weather we have had. The corn Is about
all planted, and large crop it is; much larger
than usual, some wheat fields even having been
plowed up to be planted in corn.
The commencement at Shepherd College,
which now has some l60 students, will take
place on the 18th of June. B.
FIRE IN SUBSTANTIALLY olored man
named Roots, living between the Plank Road
and Spotsylvauia e. H.. built fire for burning
brush on Thursday. The fire soon spread, burn-
ng over the land cultivated by Roots, 1.-The farms
on which Rawlings and Beaseley, colored, live
progressing into Mr.. Battaile Pendleton's land,
destroying 800 panels Of his fencing around
wheat field. thence over Mr.. S. S. Aisop's farm
reaching the county Poor House, where the fire
was checked. On Friday Mr. Peodetop's
neighbors turned out and reiucosed his field of
wheat with a good fence before nghtfall.-
Fredericksburg Herald.