The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-07-31
Letter from Rev. =, Ban.
A1rxAspn1A Co, VA, JulY 20.

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Editor 1ntellieeneori
Upon leaving Warrington via tho Bal.
timote & Potomac Railroad, / soon
found myself within the corporate limits
Of oFall's Church, This village lies
Just across the Alexandria County line
In Fairfax Comfy, The name 10 taken
from the old Colonial Church, which
stands near the centre Of the place. Mod.
etn skill does not allow such bricks to be
burned now, nor such walls to be built,
This village was incorporated mainly
that the sale oil liquor might DO prevented
within lis limits. This point has been
gained, and Is very easily held. There
is, perhaps, population Of 400. The
village bears the marks Of taste, industry
and comfort It haa q graded school Tor
institute, as it is called, the Princi pai Of
which receives salary Of $1,000 per
ycar-S300 Of which comes from the
Peabody Fund. There are eight con.
gregations worShiping in the place-one
Of the NJ. L. Church South; two Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, which
the people arc pleased to call the "Meth.
odist Church North" They are not thus
designated, however, either through II.
norance or prejudice; but from mere
force Of habit. Still II ought to he re.
membered that there is no such church
on tho continent as the Methodist Church
North. We are what we weee from the
beginning. over century old, with a
total membership Of / 100000, and church
property amounting to millions more
than that Of the entire Roman Catholic
Church in the United States. This Is the
status Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church" independent Of all the branches
and subdivisions Of the great Methodist
family. But ] have digreased, In the
village there are two Methodist congre.
gations-one white and one colored.
There are two BaptiA congregation-one
white and one colored. A Presbyterian
Church, Protestant Episcopal Church
and Congregational.
Iworshiped twice on Sabbath in the NJ.
E. Church South, where | met number
Of my school.mates, who have grown up
to mature age, having their families
around them and like myself, receiving
the respect and the consideration due to
grey hairs. To Mrs. Ball and myself 1t
was an unspeakable satisfaction to yor.
ship with those kind friends, and enjoy
their Inequalities at their homes.
In this vicinity fruits from orchards,
vineyards, fields and gardens are abund.
antly cultivated and marketed in Wash
ington City. The products OF one or
two small farms, cultivated by represen.
tative men, will doubtless seem large, but
have visited each one OF them, and have
looked over their lands, and no one need
doubt the correctness Of the statements.
will first say that the wild blackberry
sells in Washington for 30 and So cents
per bucket, The improved black berry Of
the "Kittatinny" variety Ia worth 10 cts
per quart, wholesale. One Of these gen.
tlemen has, up to this date, sold Of the
improved berry 1895 quarts and the sea.
son is not half over. The crop, no doubt,
will reach 5000 quarts. Forthe picking
Of these he pays l ] cts per quart. Rasp'
berries and strawberries are cultivated
as largely. Thirty acres in Strawberries
are on one Of these farms, yielding 10000
quarts this year and 10000 quarts last
year, with 100 piCkers in the field at one
time and no line drawn between white
and colored pickers, as was the case near
Richmond. The prospect Is that this
year he will sell ten tons Of grapes Al
5 cents per pound, or So per bushel, SOC
bushels OF corn, COO bushels Of wheat, and
so tons Of hay. Three thousand peach
trees are laden with ripcniug fruit, and
800 dwarf pear trees Of different and
choice varieties arc in full bearing. II
is amazing TO behold the limbs dropping
to the ground with as beautiful fruit as
| ever beheld, with twenty-five thousand
heads Of cabbage in the field and 200 apple
trees. Certainly not less than 800 bush.
els Of potatoes, $500 quarts Of red rasp,
berries, and 1900 quarts Of straw.
berries were sold this year. This IL an
unusually abundant year. Tomatoes are
now being sold in Washington for ten
and fifteen cents per buShel. These
men have fine stock and outbuildingS
and chickens in abundance mot that ]
a preacher, have any liking for chicken,
only mention the fact). One Of these
farms contains 176 acres, another l3(
and another las. And the best Of all is
these men arc religious men, and the grace
Of God sanCtIties their family relations
and all these good and perfect gifts which
come to them 30 abundantIy from thu
giver Of all good.
The population Of this county is 1880
Of which 1910 are colored. Taxes art
high-about 81, all told, on the hundred
The coutry is beautiful, and far in adj
vance Of what ii was before the war
Timber is coming on rapidly, and in lei
or fifteen years will again the abundant
saw for the first time at the shanties o.
some colored people, little pigs and hal
grown hogs tied out 10 grass-thc cord
being fastened around their necks. The
old ''hen'grass" and pine fields over
which run and played "fox and hound
during my school boy days, are
SO highly improved that the land Is now
selling at from one hundred to three hun
dred dollars per acre. The people are
intelligent and highly cultured, and The
community is q very desirable one in
which 10 reside. From the front porch
OF the residence Of my cousin, where
write portion Of this letter, the steam
ers on the Potomac are seen; also Dor,
tions Of Georgetown and Washington
The Capitol, with It's majestic dome, risel
several hundred feet towards the sky
and the beautiful amphitheatre Of Mary,
land hills meets the armament and forms
the distant horiSon in the background.
And now l wish to say, there Is no rea.
son why q man Of some little means fol
a start-a man Of industrious habits and
Of good habits-may not make nice lit
tie fortune in ten years near Wheeling
who would make specially OF raising
such fruits rs l have spoken Of in thiI
letter, peaches excepted perhaps, il he
would 60 at it as these men do In the
vicinity Of Washington. Generally the
people Of Wheeling adopt too small O
scale OF gardening to be really and large
ly rcmunerative. F. BALL.
DIED.
CAMPBELL On Monday morning, july soth
ISH, q llK O'CLOCK, ARCHIE W., infant sou Of A