Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-03-19
Kaylnarllet Agricultural! Club.
IReported for the Alex. Gazette.

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The third regular monthly meeting OF tho
Ha,narket Agricultural Club was called to Or
der by President Brown at Mill Park, the resi-
dsuce of Mr.. g. a. Ucineker, Prince William
county, with all the members present, on the
18th instant.
After the adoption Of the minutes of the last
meeting and tho appointment Of Capt. Tyler,
A. II. johnson and D. Witlicbcn as CRITICS.
Ing committee, The club broke up for the in.
spection of farm, stock. vineyard and wine
cellar.
Lord and Ladies' Mill Park (Jersies) were
| much admired.
Upon reassembling (sf.cr DgtheaiDg body
and mnd) tho questions OF the day were fully
discussed aud the members were uniformly 10
favor of sowing. orchard grass more extensively
| TO harrow wheat thoroughly 10 the spring, even
when timothy is sown 10 the fall, some advocat-
ing the use Of the roller after the harrow. Land
10 good heart was considered necessary for the
| cultivation Of German met, and coru 10 drills
was thought more profitable, although the cur.
Jog is somewhat difficult when housed carly.
a short description of the quite extensive
vineyard and cellar of the host may be Of geno.
raj interest, especially as the enterprise is sue
cessful and blooming moro profitable day for
day, and the same ia the result Of energy, care,
perseverance, and study Tito vineyard COD
tanning the Concord, Ives, Norton, Delaware,
EIvira, Catawba, Isabella ADD other varieties
ia variable numbers, contains about IS acres,
staked. wired and poled and 10 bearing condl,
ton. Part Of the crop has been shipped to
northern markets every year IN small boxes and
baskets, part made into different wines and
sold to dealers in Baltimore and New I FORK,
and to an extensive and increasing private GUS
tom to all parts of the United States. The aim
is to make WOES resembling the hooks and
carots Of Germany and France. as the taste Oh
the wine drinking public is in that direction
The cellar is walled and runs into hill, has q
Two story building above and can store about
10000 gallons, mostly 10 500 gallon casks. -
The wine is pumped by fulcc TO aDy
part of the building, thereby excluding all the
air The lermcnting, filing and packing
is done in a room above provided with
stoves, venlators, ETC. Next to this room Is
dwelling, and the story above is used for stor,
ing bottles, boxes, crates, ETC. 10 front OF the
cellar is we'll with good water and large
boiler with fireplace for cleaning and
steaming barrels. In all it is a most
complete establishment 10 its way. Vine
yards and cellar have been planted and built
within the last eight years. The eastern slope
CT the.RulI Run Mountains seems TO be espec:-
alIy we'll adapted for the cultivation OF the grape
and about 500 acres of vines have been planted
and are thriving in the Immediate neighbour
hood of llaymalket.
SENATOR JOHNSTON ON TuESTArE DEBT
While talking with Senator Johnston. oil
Virginia, Saturday. the Post asked him ii the
treasury of the Old Dominion il really a. empty
as reported?
"Oh no." he answered, "Virginia is not SO
door as she is represented. Tho State has a
constant sourcc OF reyenu, from the Motfct
bell punch, and the very day after it WAS re-
ported That the treasury contained ouly about
one hundred dollars maybe a hundred thous
and was turned in. There is another feature
too that needs explanation. 10 Virginia the
Treasurer appoints certain days to visit dlter'
ent points and calls on the people to meet him
and pay their taxes. All who don't pay at that
time arc assessed per cent additional, aud lh,
fact is a great many pe0plc choose to put 1t on
and pay the 5 per cent. Its nero matter OF
convenience, and pcraors who are perfectly
solvent often take that plan. SO the taxes that
were not paid promptly are not lost by any
means. From this source the State vii! real
IL, considerable, maybe million or 50.
lis the funding bill recently passed by the
Legislature victory for the so-called rrpudIa
tionis!s D
ooh, DC; not at all. It's measure that the
whole Conservative party can iodorsc. It's a
bill to refund the debt, but it docsn' t force the
creditors to accept. 1t just says to them,
This is what We can do aud we will be glad
if you will accept. But you needn't take 1t If
you don't choose to.
Senator, is there any danger OF this dlvl-
sion o. the debt question dividing the Demo
cratic party so that it may lose the StateT
81 don't think there's bit of danger Of
that. The Conservatives will fight among
themselves, but when they see the enemy in
the field they como together again. Their
differences arc only on local questions.
"Do you believe your party will carry The
State next Fall?"
mo doubt of it. We will carry every Con-
gressioual district think; even that now rep
resented by MIR. Jorgenscn. The close dis.
uicts are all united on the debt question. It's
only 10 the Democratic strongbolds that there
is any division. - Washington lost Of this
morning.
DR.. G. w. CHANCELLOR.-A dispatch from
Annapolis to the Baltimore American says:
"Dr. Conrad, late Superintendent Of the
Spring Grove Insane Asylum, was before the
Joint Committee on Public Buildings this
afternoon, and made some startling statements
in regard 10 the cause which forced bis reslg'
nation. He states that DR.. Chancellor has
been schcmirg to get the place for himself, and
that long prior to the meeting OF the General
Assembly he expressed his determination TO
have MIR. German introduce the pending bill
reoonstructing the Board, so as to get rid of
members Objectionable 10 him dr. Chancellor, }
and that under it he dr. ChanceI lor) would
become Superintendent OF the asylum. DR..
Conrad further charges DR.. Chancellor with
converting the purchase of supplies by the
hospital to his political advantage by giving
out the contracts to his political friends, in one
Instance because person had contributed one
hundred dollars to his election to the City
Council, and that be shipped howeriog and
other plants from the hospital green house to
bis country residence in Virginia. lie specified