Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-05-07
DIX. R.gGBI"S LETTER.
CHiRLESTOWE.
ICorapondeaco Of lie Richmond sidte.l


pleasures that return no more, " ah the
old restful feeling is gone" Yes" added
Mr.. Shriyer. we had. the whole hotel, Il
was little one then, ali TO ourselves. We
had old Virginia eating; we went riding IN
a cart-rouEh riding, but glorious. HOW
we enjoyed it,
No doubt they did. Now the Hygeia Is
the Fiith-Avenue Hotel clapped down on
the seashore 1t Is the penalty of riches to
lug tirst-cla5s Establishment wherever you
90 and thus never get really away from
home. What we city folk imperatlvely
need Is a change-a return TO primitive lie.
That is rest. peace, health. But the girls
must have beauX the boys demand pool,
the men whist and the exchange of ideas
with other men of their class, and The wo-
men. 10 say the least, do not object TO an
exhibition of fine dress .. Some crowd into
fashionable resorts, leaving thesweet. lorcly
places deserted And ut iast rs they are
hunted up they. too, are crammed. Ihus
wags the wofld.
But there are places whetethc liitlerooms
with tareadbarc carpets show plenty OF
match-scratchcs on the walls; the wash
stands are scabby, the soap made for wear,
e
and stingy in the nOstrils, the tumblers are
cracked, the cifcrn water has mild favor
OF old shingles If YOU turn around You get
whitcwash on your clothes, and the iood, al
belt the best season affords, Is at times rath-
er trying; and yet these places are so lar d
head Of Your frst-class hotels that they
ought not to be named ON the same day.
:, tranquill Little birds in the tree that
almost touches y0ur window sing old songs
for YOU; they have wetted their bills in clear
dew-'tis Of Paradise they tell. 4 puppy,
louc-boded and short-legccd, plunges about
i'm the new-fallcn snow with the impetu0us
delight of q boy scarcely can you keep
rom throwing up the window and joining
him in IN old-tashioued snow-wallow.
Lie, fresh from the spigot comes back t.
you in full strcam-it's all q mistake about
being oid
came hither by way of Baltimore and
Washington. At the door of the baggage
room of the Baltimore and Potomac rail-
road in Baltimore stood q wcll-tO-do, care
.ully-drc-.ed gentleman, whose face gave
token Of good living and choice old wine,
Il ci in moderation. As | came up he went
of. a New York banker" said |, men
tally. Good bye to You. sir; ] wish had
your clothes But behold him in the smo-
king car, and on his Russia-leathcr yalise
the name. "Marye" had to make his ac-
a,ba:ntcpcc. lie proved to be Mr.. c. !,
NIar,a who .'ft Virginia thirty years ago
for California. an was a banker, prosper
Gus. and IN roufe to Washington on busl-
ness. Pleasant chat with Hin.
In the store Of Compton & c., on Seyy-
anth street in Washington, was 'Uh gish
gentleman with q sunburnt eompleA'oh'
who was introduced to me as Mr. Cayce.
Irish" thought /. He was from Hindu
ros. or thcreaGouts. "What business ~ /
asked. Mahogany" he replied. Proved
90 be Mr. G.. VI. Cavcc, who was born and
raised in Cumberland county, Va. four
miles or SO from the Courthouse: knew Fe-
ter Foster and all Of them
Gov. Vance in his lecture calls the Jews
de scattered People" Nirginians come
next. My friend, Mr.. James Compton, was
IN Richmond comforting with Mr.. Whit
lcck about a box that Is t0rcv0,utiOnize the
bpx-world. Saw 5tilson Hutchings, Of the
P1st. tor d few minutes. 4 go-aheld western
man. reminding NE somewhat OF ballard
Smith, formerly Of the C0RTIer-J0TaqL
Writers are not wanted, sad Mr. H.;
"pleuty of them are 10 be had for the ask
ing" agree with him. Good writing ls
about the most abundant and cheapest thing
I'm the modern market. was / o'clock in
lhc day and the Post folk had just begun
work. Ilutching7 promises active war
agaia-, Mahoac.
Two trains stood side by side in the Bal
.imo~e and Ohio station. one OF sleek pal
lce-car- bound North the other sombre and
lonc-usei. bound for Virginia. The peo-
pie and the country were worthy OF the
train-rough-dried. like clothes that had
been washed i'm muddy water. Forlorn lit
tie stations and lots Of them. poor land no
homes of gentlemen. A glimpse OF Rock
vile. and after that q better country, but
not enhancing. Gen. jim" Williams a
board. full of Mlhope and lis recent tn
umph" i1 The Senate. Also Col John
Carson brother of the Rev. Theodore Car
son. We cross the NOn0cacy, a river, not
a creek rs bad supposed, see the Sugar
Loaf Mountain near Frederick the Che'a-
pcake and Ohio canal. with boats on 1t, ana
pause a long time in the handsome station
at Point Of Rocks, or Washington unct'on
as it is called. It is quite dark when We
start; there are divers stoppase at small
villages for trains 70 pass pretty giri
with box OF beautiful flowers gets on; she
is going TO her home in Winchester, and
many gcnlemeT make Upt0 her. Harper $
Ferrv. as we discern by the bridge and the
lights on the hills much backing and forth
inc. and at last ve are OF to Charles;o"n,
which we reach ut hali-past nine.
No. Twill not call it West Virginia. Bad
enough for the old state TO be torn apart,
but 10 be robbed of two such counties as
Jefferson and Berkeley against the earnest
protest of their inhabitants, D. more tnan !
can stand. Maps may say what they please
but I say this is Virginia. They get up an
article Of man here that fills the Virginia
bill-witncss Andrew Hunter. Esq and Dr.
George Tcrrii. br0.AcT OF Icrrll. ~ Elth-
and the hGlest man OF elghty-tNo tl-dt YOU
will find anywhere. At Mr. ". l.. VIII
sons the other evening the Doctor tod Us
good one about q negro man Who derived
great benefit from a box of gun caps
" De best pills. master. for rheumatic dat
uvcr tuk-m0nsus act,ye, mons1s. A. Id
the ladies. look at Mrs. D.. There
bloom for YOU. And if y0n want roses
here's Miss Essie, daugher Of Dr. W. Leigt
Burton. with dead loads OF 'em. My trlenc
Mr.. Andrew Kennedy, says there grew uI
m The Bower" a few miles out OF town
"the hand.omest woman that walks tnf
earth" She Is married now to a certain
( LAWYER named B. tell him that II she
bandsomer than Mrs Dr. T.. ! don't wan
to see her. Why not?' ,ays Dag ihi
uicknamel. Because human endurance
limited. and that of Meekins Is limiteder
Hor-e rire. much snace and many illus