The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-17
BRISTOL.

CLOSING EXERCISES OF EDUCATIONAL INSTI
| TUTIONs-REv. DR.. WILLIAM s. PLUMER-
THE CHICAGO NOMINATIONs-A SPLENDID
| WHEAT CRoP-TOBACCO IMPR0vING-THI
| CONSERVATIVE READJUsTERs RESOLVED To
SUPPORT THE CINCINNATI NOMINEES.
| correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
BRIsToL-GOODSON, June IA, 1880.
1t has been quite a stirring time in oul
two towns for the past ten days in the way
| OF commandments Of our several college.
and schools, for we have three frst-clas'
female colleges, in addition to King Col
Iege male), and one high school for boys
all OF which have been well patroniZeC
during the session just ended.
| shall not attempt to cumber youl
columns with any detail OF the examinations
only to say, en- PEASANT, that they all
passed of with great credit not only to the
teachers but to the students under theiI
charge.
III did not fear that ! was violating one
OF your rules would mention the success
O: an old Chesterfield man, who has taught
here most successfully for the past ten
years, a graduate OF old William and Mary,
at Williamsburg, who Is the true type OF
the old Virginia gentleman, and has the
same love and attachment now for the old
State as be had during the four long years
OF the civil war, In which he commanded q
company OF Chesterfield and Prince Ed
ward men under the gallant Pickett. Will.
liam j. Morrssett is the gentleman to whom
/ allude.
The venerable DR.. William s. Plumer,
OF South Carolina, preached the sermon
before the young men OF King College.
need not tell you that il was powerful adj
dress, as he is well known TO all Eastern
Virginia.
The nomination at the Chicago Conven-
ton Of Garfield and Arthur creates no en-
thusiasm i'm this section among the Repub-
licans-in fact. disappointment is depicted
on their faces for they feel well assured
that their days are numbered, politically.
I really do not believe that Garfield will get
anything like the vote that Grant would
have gotten in upper East Tennessee or
Southwest Virginia.
IL the Cincinnati Convention will only, as
we believe and hope 1t may, hearken
to the wise counsel which the Dispatch
has from time to time given, and nom-
mate Ex-Governor Seymour and Allen &.
Thurman, or, il Seymour will not accept,
then Bayard, the election OF the ticket will
be as certain as the November election.
am glad to say to you that, after good deal
OF painstaking and inquiry to ascertain the
facts, that there will scarcely be bakers
dozen in Washington county who are set
down as ReSdjusters but what will most
heartily support the Cincinnati nominees,
Malone and the lesser lights to the contrary
notwithstanding. / learn that throughout
the Southwest the vote will be about equal IL
not fully up TO the usual Democratic majority
Our farmers are now busily engaged in
their wheat harvest, and such crop, all
through this section, has not been for
many years. We have bad quite dry spell
for two or three weeks, but fine rains to-
day. Corn Is very promising, and oats
have wonderfully improved within the past
lew weeks. A very good tobacco crop will
be set out, plants having come In in very
rood time, aud now q nne season for set
Ing them. The tobacco crop 10 quite an
TEN OF Interest 10 our people within the
past three years. You may be surprised
when tell you tina. at one warehouse here
rom LIST January till lst May the proprie.
or informs me that upwards OF 100000
POUNDS had been sold, Mt an average OF
1923 per hundred. BORDER.