The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-21
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch

ats g fss3s JULY II, 1870. 4.
Hfsa very widely.diffused idea that the
season at the White Sulphur never really
begins until about the first week In August.
This year. Judging from the number and
character OF the guests already present, the
custom bids fair TO be broken In upon, and
We may expect to see crowded ballroom
before The end Of July. The grounds are
In excellent condition, and the large spread
ing oaks on the lawn look wonderfully re-
freshing 10 the tired, dusty refugee from
the hot city. AS we stroll about the WELL
kept walks, or loll lazilyunder the oaks and
listen TO sweet strains OF music as they float
through the evening air, we try to think
how our friends in Richmond are existing
with dusty streets and the thermometer at
1000. That eccentric old FrenchmGp, who
ia known throughout the world as the
author of "Paul and Virginia" once
wrote a more pretentious volume IN which
he fiobbled in science with as much freedom
40 recktessness. Animals, vegetables, and
minerals were twisted and contorted into
all Imaginable shapes to make ut materla'
for bis net theories OF harmonies ana con-
trasts. When the patient reader lays ASIDE
the volume. il he comes to any CONCLUSION ut
all, it is likely to be that ST. fierre thousnt
that great deal, il not all, OF our happiness
proceeded from contrasting out fortunate
positions with what might so easily become
ours. Certainly one does feel quile sensa'
ton Of enjoyment and comfort mere WINE
reading the Dispatch accounts Oh intense
heut and dusty streets. The managers are
doing great deal to make the visitors rs
comfortable az the circumstances will admit
OF. Those who follow the old custom OF
drinking two glasses OF water from
the spring before meals find nothing
in the fare TO be complained OF.
The mountain mutton is Of peculiar
excellence, and the table is supplied
with it beautifully and in every variety !;
roast and boiled mutton and lamb, with
sauce and without sauce, but always the
best dishes at the springs. Capers, in the
olden time, were vulgar berries, and LETT
for democratic digestion. In modern
times they have been known to lead 10
trouble. 81 once saw growing IN italy,
said an Irish traveller, fit to be our own cor"
respondent, "the finest anchovles l ever
beheld." A listener naturally doubted the
alleged fact, and the offended lrishnan not
only called him out, but shattered his knee
cap by piStol-shot. AS he was leaping
about with intensity Of pain, the 1rishman's
second remarked to his principal that he
made his adversary cut capers, at any rate,
" CaperS " exclaimed the ALDERMAN
"capers faith, that's it. Sure, SIR" be
added, advancing to his antagonist, "you
were right; it was not anchovies, but ca.
perS, that I saw growing. beg pardon
don't think any more about it,"
The company already numbers more than
four hundred. Most Of them are from the
North and West, both New York and Phil
adelpha sending good delegation. I'm.
| bo ID ;aI,p rrirls tn wi
have some trouble in keeping up theil
reputation in face OF the beauty already
present.
Among the visitors are Simon and Don
Cameron, Wayne MacVeagh, General Lor'
ing OF Florida, Hon. A. Ii. Ii. Stuart, and
Governor Mathews. see from Richmond
General and Mrs. Anderson and son, Mr.
and Mrs. Seldom Bruce, Mrs. ]. A. Jones
Andrew johnson, 10. Lane Stern. Alstor
Cabell, S. S. Campbell, o. j. Schoolcrait
and others. A.