National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-07

roads. In the earlier day planters from the
South and Southwest wcrc the patronizers of
the berkeley Springs. Coming In their private
carriages, sometimes in coach and four" a Ia
President Grant but unlike him in this. that
slaves hold tho ribbon, whilo Grant handled
them oftencst himself, In true Republican
style, they Travelled from Watering place to
watering place, taking the rounds of the warm
and hot springs and all the sulphur springs,
white, red, &C, that they heard of, with no
local Attractions then beside its sanitary
promises TO the invalid, thore beingno pictu'
rescue village among the hills. dotted with cot
tages and stores,as now-the first named occu.
pied by some of our best Washington people,
such as ex-Commissioner Dole aud Congress
sonal Printer Defress.
by the way, there has recently boon added
a fresh citizenship-seeker to the vicinity from
the distranchised crowd of "nobody's" at the
National Capital, MS You have well styled them,
in some of the justly, indignant exposure of
anamoloHs commissionship, rule aud ruin OF
the present day allude to DIR. j. f. Snod-
grass. This is wonderful fruit region, small
orchards of select fruits loaded down this sea-
son, adding their attractions to the rural land
| scape as no where else within any travel in tho
Middle or Southern States. This new citizen
ship.seeker Is well known rs one long in-
terestcd in fruit culture, aud worker for tho
promotion Of that important agricultural in
toicob VII lOWeT IOlOnlHc, III Jne Cip'Cit9 VI
Secretary OF tho Potomac Fruit Growers Asso-
citation, whose twin, i predict, ho will not be
long in suggesting and working up herein
which event how appropriate would be some
such name for las "The Upper Potomac Fruit
Growers Association"
Having come hero apparently hopeless
invalid only mont ago, Dr. SnodgrasS is un-
derstood to have been greatly benefited by
drinking the Warm Spring Water" which he
says is a true Homeopathic prescription, put up
in the safer laboratory of Nature, in whose
diuretic effects Is the secret of its efficacy in
rheumatic complaints generally, his being
properly classed amongst such, being general
irtability and spasmodic tendency of the
tibrous system, especially the lungs aud
stomach. (The Hon. Chas. Jas. Faulkner, who
lives in the adjoining county of Berkeley, this
being now Morgan County, and from long at
tendance at the courts here, familiar with the
developed facts, attests to your correspondent
that with the ample opportunities to compare
the more famous watering places of Southern
Europe with those at Berkeley, that they are
unquestionably more efcacious in rheumatic
ailments than any of those he visited abroad.)
But, to return to Dr. Snodgrass, 1t was to be
expected that healthy region like this, so pro-
life of fruits, would capture him, and 1t has, for
he mas purchased an already fruited farm
about two miles and quarter east of the
Springs, at a hamlet known as Ridcrsville, on
the road from Martinsburg with the purpose
of enjoying its culture in the oti,m sine dign-
tate of reclaimed citizenship in his native
State, for he was born in Berkeley County,
from whose territory Berkeley Springs" was
taken, and hence its apparently contradictory
name. NIATOR.