The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-02-15
Gainesville and its ERyirons~--A Few
Other Scraps Thr0Hn In.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, February 13, 1879.
Dear Dispatch: Please take your Car
4ersTfiie corrsspo naeut aside whisper In
his left ear, and tell him softly that he
mustn't be jealous OF my admiration for
Mrs. jerks. II he knew her as well us l
do, he, too. would 60 into ecstacies. But
living way mp in the interior, in the little
town Of Cartersville, and being dependent
for news on the canal-which has either
been torn to pieces by freshets or frozen
up by cold for the last two years--it stands
to reason that he is long way behind the
times, and therefore incapable OF properly
approaching the yiyacious and irrepressible
Mrs. jerks. I advise that he leave Mrs.
jerks in my hands. Ipromise to take good
care of her. AS soon rs he gets his rail-
road built up the James-RiVer Valley
(which I hope will be done in the very
shortest time possible), Mrs. jerks and /
contemplate paying visit to Cartersville.
In the mean time, let the town be put in
order to receive us. Burn the chimneFS,
scour the churns, and slosh around gen.
orally in the cleaning-up line.
I suppose Gainesville Tor so much Of it as
is lefl still stands where it did fifty-fve
| wears ago, when ] first knew it. Won't the
old burgh feel lively with two such charac.
ters in il at one and the same time as Mrs.
Jenks and l? There will be such rocking
of the hills and shaking OF the waters as
Gainesville has not known for the last half
century. II nothing happens to prevent we
| eypect to make our visit in q palace-car-the
first, probably, that Gainesville has ever
seen. Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker, Mr. Butler,
and number OF other distinguished
strangers. will be invited TO accompany the
| narty. There will doubtless be great
scarcity OF poultry and eggs after we shall
have cayorted around the town some eight
or ten days.
Your correspondent Il mean your Car.
| tersville correspondent as good as says that
I am incapable OF writing an interesting
letter on any other subject than Mrs. jerks
| This only shows bow little he knows about
| it. i am very certain that if had the time
could "make up" a tolerably sprightly
letter over even as dull subject as the little
town Of Cartersville.
The rash conclusion TO which your CORE
sDondent has arrived only confirms me in
the opinion that men have differed ever
since the world began, and will continue to
differ until it ends. 1t is we'll that it IS so.
As proof OF the fact, call to mind remark
made on this subject by old Father Mitchell
some thirty years since, when he was yerg-
ing on ninety years OF age. The old gen.
tlemen said, with much vehemence Of ges'
ture, that il all the men in tue world agreed
with him they would straightway fall in love
with his wife, which would be circum
stance greatly to be deplored. The venera
BILE divine was level-headed, and about right
! Please hurry up the Solons on the State
debt question and the JamesRiver railroad
Let sNow or Never" be the watchwords
| This is no time for trifling. We shall neve
have another such opportunity.
I congratulate the General Assembly OF
the passage of the buzzard bill. l saw
fellow yesterday cleaving the air GRACEFUL!
and grandly, at least mile in the Heavens
and whilst he didn't seem to me to neet
| much protection. still il was well. out o
abundant caution, to throw the nsis OF th
law around him.
| have been inclined to think ever sine
the Yankees trounced us so badly that tn
buzzard ought to be substituted as the ma
tional bird in place Of the eagle. The bu2
zard is an atfectionate, kind-hearted fellow
The eagle is fierce and ferocious. Max
him mad and he will fight regiment.
| Yours truly and in much haste,
| THOMAS WOOD.