The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-07-21
A Trip 20 TayIOrsviile by way OF Cas-
cnde, Rtdgcway, and Penu's store.

SKETCH or TAYL0RSVILLE-TAYL0
MEN-AN OLD RESIDENCE CROP ITEMS
MINERAL WEALTH OF PATRICK COUNTY-A
FIGHT WITH BUCK-FISHING THE BLUE
RIDGE ASS0CIATION-MR. MASSEY WAS TX
PECTED-THE HENRY IDEA AND OTHER P0-
LITICAL ITEMS.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
TAYTORsyILLE, PATRICK COUNTY, Va,
July Is, 1881.
About forty mud holes between DaDville
and Cascade, wide and deep, are grievOus
tax on all who travel that road. Cascade,
which is about twenty miles from DanvIlle
and about one mile from the western line OF
Pittsy lvsnia county, is beautifully-situated
aud oldtime village, with complement Of
stores, shops. and neat residences. There
Is only one church here, and that, being
free church." is not in good condition, and
so found that the PresbYterians were pre-
pairing to build house for themselves, and
The Baptsts likewise. 1t Is expected that
when Major Sutberlin gets his cars 10 rum
ming uD TO Cascade there will be a new era
amongst business men. Captain e.. W.
Venabie ships annually from this place 10
Chicago about $4,000 pounds OF dried black
berries aud q fair proportion OF dried cher
ries. Captain Venable lost storehouse
and the stock OF goods in May by fire, and
by the lapse of day or two he lost policy
on tue property destroyed. Recently he
built another storehOuse, and this house,
which is 56X24, and two stories high, was
completed on the nineteenth day after the
irst tree of lumber for II was cut down.
From Cascade to TaylorsvlIe the roads
are much better than the roads in Amherst
county, and so they were found to be by Cap
tain and Mrs. Venable, Rev. DIR. Hatcher,
Rev. j. NJ. Pitcher Rev. j. II. l.. Holmes,
and several others. Mrs. Venable (Once
Miss Griffin, of RichmOnd,) was the assist
ant commissary of the caravan, and Captain
Venable conducted the march.
Smiths river (nlmed for ore Of the FAM
iy, and not on Indian name translated) is a
stream Of about Two feet deep and thirty
yards wide, and runs rafting or roaring
amongst the rocks and between the hills
10 LeaksviIle, and near there into the
Dan. II will shortly have TO bear the bur
den Of perhaps two railrOad.bridges. "Oh,
tue water.power," thought |. &" II only
there were this water-pOwer at Danvllei "
About in this vicinity Major Sutberln
was met coming from railroad expedition.
I" Tell those Patrick people," said he, PPM
going to work as long towards Christmas as
/ can; that | will be at Worthwhile next
spring, and that if they will only reach out
after me I'll come up to them"
Rdgeway is pretty little village in Hen.
ry county, on the great road from every
where TO Patrick Courthouse. Here body
can look over the Marrow Bone Ridge upon
the mountains OF Patrick, Franklin, and
Pittsylvania. Here there is tobacco.faeto-
ry. Here since the recent marriage OF Mr..
s. G.. Sheffield with Miss Lula Martin,
daughter OF Colonel William Martin, after
a courtship of many years-the appearances
OF things have much improved. And here
the gentlemen OF the ministry, having all
got themselves packed into one carriage,
began a series of sacred concerts which
made people along the road clay down the
shovel and the hoe"
PENIS Store, 10 Patrick county, is not a
store, but village. Major Jefferson Penn
has a beautiful residence here, and the
shrubbery indicates that the grounds about
the house have been beautiful for long
time. Here, | am told, the Penns OF Dam
vile learned the business (tobacco) at which
they have prospered. Near here lives,
though in Henry county, Rev. Daniel G..
Taylor. an honored old gentleman, the
father OF several sons who are ministers.
Rev. j. Judson Taylor, OF Lexington, KY,
is now on visit to friends a2d relatives In
| Henry and Patrick. Here, too, in a much
finer house than usually falls to the lot of q
preacher, and on tract Of land the rever.
sion OF which is in bis children, lives Rev.
X. ID. Haymore, the orator Of the Blue
Ridge Baptist Association.
| TaylorsyiIle Patrick Courthouse) Is q
neat village, set down between two ranges
Of mountains. There are several stores
here, three hotels, some shops, one Metho-
dist and one Baptist church. The Baptist
church was flushed not long since at cost
OF about $1,000, and has Just been dedi-
Gated. The cost OF the Methodist church
was Sl,70O. The courthouse is a large
brick building, aud one Of its halls is also
used for preaching purposes. More than
the usual proportion OF houses for village
are Of brick, aud am told that people have
been forced 10 use brick because lumber
suitable for building was hard to be OBJ.
tained. Pine plank Is sometimes hauled
out from Reidsyiiie, N. C,--oYef forty miles,