National Republican., 1881-07-21
FROM LoupouN COUNTY,
How Some or the wnshIngion People Are
Enjoyins Themselves.
eclal correspondence ofTuE REPuRrIcAN.

EniOying ThemseIvcs.
Special Correspondence ofTHE REPUBLICAN.
LINCOLN, LoUDoUN COUNTY, VA, July19.-
This is the garden spot Of Virginia. as the resi-
dents with patriotic pride call this corner of the
State. l write you briefly from "Springdale"
This is the name formerly given to the fam M house
and premises now kept by our excellent host aud
hostess, Samuel c. and Rachel A. Means, when the
same constituted boardlng.sohool for young
ladies. Ii Is now utilized rs boarding house for
students In winter and visitors from the cities In
summer, some forty being here at present II Is
within eighty rods of the village Of Lincoln, the
post.ofiee, which is two miles from Purcellville,
the last station but one on the Washington and
Ohio Railroad, which terminates at Round Hill,
three miles above, at the foot Of the Blue Ridge.
WE HAVE BEEN HERE es-
since July and have enjoyed the bright days and
cool nights. We drove through from Washington,
distance OF about forty.ive miles, over the old
Alexandria and Leesburg turnpike, which we
reached ut Falls Church. The drive was delight
iul-wife and children, and even the horse and
dog, enjoying the gradual advance toward tho
mountain country with all the relish of a return
home from weary journey. The neighborhood is
settled by Friends, or Quakcrs, and the farms and
buildings indicate thrift and intelligence in farm
ing. The wheat and rye had just been harvested
on our arrival, and stood In shocks in the field;
and across the
GOLDEN sTuBBLE-F1ELD
ran, at regular intervals ribbons of waving green
about ten feet in width. This beautiful feature In
the rolling landscape we first noticed aller cross
ing the Catoclin Mountain above Lcesburg, and Il
proved the rule in whcat-H fields west of 1t to this
place. Our curiosity was excited about this orna-
mental field, and Ii was not satisfied, on closer in
spection, to ascertain that the green ribbons were
strips Of oats just heading out. TO remove the
mystery and discover the motive for this mixing
Of colors, we stopped at wAyside field and in
quiTed Of a man binding wheat for the reason of
such striped farms, and learned that in the
economy OF farming wheat crops follow corn, grass
follows wheat, and corn follows grass; and the
corn being cut and stacked up In
ROWS OF SHOCKS,
the corn ground IL pOwed and sowcd to winter
wheat, leaving the strips where the corn shocks
stand until the spring, and then they are put In
oats, grass.sced being sown with both the wheat
and the oats. The ont strips are now ripcning,
and the grass and weeds have made the wheat.
s,ubble green so that now the coors are ex-
changed, and the same fields show ribbons Of
gold on fields of green. This country is well
iarmed mud well stocked and well watered. no
pun intended, because the water does not come
from wells, generally, but from springs) Ague is
thing unknown In this vicinity. l don't know
what
PEOPLE DIE or HERE,
but have heard Of one case of cholera morbus and
suspect that n country which produces so many
apples and other kinds of fruit must produce some
of the usual Accomplishments, though ] heard one
farmer say he could not eat enugh apples to make
him sick. This county Dcems to be u favorie re-
sort for Washingtonans, We hear of b. U.
Koysor aud family at Round Hill; Mrs. Acker aud
family at llami!'~. I'D u number of others. and
~ g ..dt uumber ut Leslie Hail. near Hills
Doro and many in this vicinity and on tho line of
road between here and Washington. There are
now at our house from Washington DR.. Il. u.
Donaldson and family, Alexander Gardner and
family, Job Barnard and family, Rev. A. I. Steele
and family and W. L, Chandlee aud family:
from Alexandria, Mr.. Dunn and family and MIR.
Avery aud family and from Baltimore j. II.
Hail. HAROLD.