The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-30

QUIET CHRISTMAS-DR. HUNT-HAMPDEN-S1D-
NEY C0LLEGE-CAPTAIN M'KENNEY-
COLONEL. MlNOR-TuE BUSINESS OUTLOOK,
&C., &C.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.I
FARMvILLE, December 90, 1876.
"All quiet along the AppomattoN " is the
report Of your correspondent for the Christ
mas letter. And if it be true that "blessed
is the nation whose annals are dul,'' then
this usually very lie young city is enjoying
the beatitude to an envable degree.
An item from Pittsburgh journal gives
much interest to our friends of the classic
that the Rev. DR.. Il. 2. Hunt, who recently
died in Philadelphia, did not forget, in his
will his alma Mater; for he has, so states
the authority quoted, given Hampden-Sid-
ney College ten thousand dollars! This
venerable gentleman (who was about eighty
odd ut his death) married Miss Wilkes, OF
Brunswick, Va, and more than quarter
OF a century ago accepted q passionate at
Wilkcsbarrc Pa. He was the son OF Mr..
james Hunt, Of Maryland, who married
Miss Susannah Watkins, OF Charlotte, Va.
Mr.. Hunt dying, his widow afterwards mar
ried the Rev DR.. Moses Hogc, one Of the
former presidents of Hampden-Sidney Col
lcge.
DR.. Hunt purchased, on removing from
Virginia to Pennsylvania, in the beautiful
Valley Of Wyoming, about two hundred
acres, at some twenty dollars, and built him
acres, and the remainder turning out to be
valuable fer its coal-beds, the remaining one
hundred acres are now valued at $l40,000.
DIR. Hunt, during the last years OF his life,
made generous donations, and among them
- diff of five hundred dollars to the college
during 1876. g..
| He will be remembered is very jealous
and gifted temperance orator OF dnte-6ettU1n
fame. In one OF his Mississippi tours, many
years ago, some one took offence ut some re-
mark in public lecture ON temperance,
aud commented on DR.. Hunts address with
some severity. The late Governor Henry
w. Allen, of Louisiana (who died in exile
in Mexico in 1866 or 1870, made DR.. Hunts
cause his own (he being a relatye), and 4
duel was the result, in which one Of the
parties, believe, received wound.
The many friends OF Captain p. W. Nc
home to-day, after period of illness in
Richmond.
| The death Of Colonel J. w. Minor recalls
to the Farmville people the memory Of re-
iugee during the war whose genial manners
and social virtues gained him many friends.
Business. men, we trust, hereabouts enter
1877 with cheerful determination to work
with a will. They are not given to the
modern sin Of croaking, and will engage in
the business campaign OF ~ with industry,
economy, and enterprise. l am glad to
learn that the deposit line of the banks of
Farmville show that the people Of this re-
gion have some money to deposit. These
institutions, we learn, will make such JAM
uary dividends from the six months busi-
ness as prudent men ought to do. On the
whole, the business outlook is favora-
BILE. TO be sure all desire an early
adiustment of the wonderfully con-
fused complications which daily turn
up in the presidential election results.
But we are possessing our souls with an
extra supply OF the excellent virtue Of pa
thence with the hope that right and truth
will prevail, that Tiiden will occupy the
position to which the people have called
him, that returning boards will return to
their natural obscurity, and that the penl-
Tertiary will reclaim its fugitiyes in office.
This contamination, devoutly to be desired,
will, in measure, quiet the disturbances
in trade. And, after all, when we look at
the gold market, the favorable condition Of
foreign exchanges, and the demand abroad
for our raw productions and manufactures,
we have reason to be hopeful OF restored
confidence at home and abroad, and re-
vived prosperity.