The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-29
WARM SPRINGS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BAYFIELD,
soRaAsIzATIoS OF BATH cousrY-INTEKEsr-
rroy-seso0naence or me Ricnmond Dispafch.I

rCorrespondence or tns Richmond Dispaich.I
l. ~ ENftffS FPTENBsR, 1881.
The season this summer has been prohta-
nlc. The guests have been numerous and
| pleayatt. and were from North. South, and
| West. Colonel Eubank, his popular and
| attractive wife, and all connected with the
hotel have been polite and accommodating.
J The fare has been excellent, and no one so
/ far as I have beard, has gone away dissals'
led. The Warm Is the oldest watering
Mace In the State, and was known and re-
sorted 10 by health. seekers one hundred
Gears aeo. Letters written in the eighteenth
century speak OF the writer's visiting Inc
Strings under difficulties and OF hndlng,
what happily has disappeared, professionai
gamblers. This valley and the Warm, me
Hot. and the Healing, although accessible
by good roads, need much a nafrow-gauge
railway.
The late rains, slow in coming. have en-
abled the firmers 10 fallow ana 10 50"
wheat. The grass, with a new lease OF lille,
has assumed a iresh-green aud will prolong
~pasturaqe, and thus compensate somewhat
Tor the Short grain crop. A disease among
the turkeys Is quite fatal. Dir. Eubdnk
has lost over forty. PoSt-mOrtem eX-
aminafinps by several doctors nave
revealed neither the disease nor a
remedy. The Circuit Court was IN session
last week. Judge Mclaughlin, who seems
TO know everybody aud his ancestry 1or
several generations, dispatches business
TO the satisfaction OF lawyers, clients, Jury.
and witnesses. lie is very popular anu
saves parties litigaut by bis wise and hrm
course much cost and illfeeling. He Is a
beautiful illustration Of what an able and
upright Judge may DO for a country.
A meeting was held during court ana
another this week commemorative OF PGe-
sident Garfield, and the feeling was IN flll
accord with what has been so universally
expressed.
Near the Warm is a neglected graveyard,
with dilapidated monuments and oiheT EVIL
dences OF misuse and decay. spencer
Roane was buried here. From the broken
pieces OF the bead-stone | copied TINS IN
Scription. said 10 have been composed Dy
Judge Tucker " Spencer Ro1ne, Tor nearly
thirty ycirs Judge OF the Court OF Appeais
OF Virginia. Honorable and Just, pure and
patriotic, he bad the confidence OF DIS
countrymen. He thought strongly, and
spoke and scted independently, and COM
mapdtd universal respect. His judicial de-
cisions are a monument to his official worth.
He died on the 4th Of september, ISL
Dr. Baxter, Of Lexington, was sent Tor
TO presch the funeral sermon, and tradition
SAYS it was able and eloquent. TIE ClTcult
Court being in session al the time OF the
death appropriate resolutions were passed,
and Judge, lawyers, and officers atiended
the funeral. The resolutions refer to Arch.
| Stuart, presiding Judge, as "the politlcnl
associate and personal friend" OF Judge
Roanc. DR.. John Brockenbrough, proSi-
dent Of the Bank OF Virgins, and MS VINE
lie side by side. Near by is John Mercer,
OF Fredericksburg, third son OF General
| Hugh Mercer.
The Executive Committee OF the Virginia
| Historical Society, in their awakened ana
laudable activity, having impaired Iresh ~
terest To everything connected VIII the
early history OF the Old Dominion, some
facts gathered from the earliest records OF
this Old and honorable county may not be
undressing: a commission OF the peace,
9th December. 1890, and fifteenth year OF
the Commonwealth, being awarded 10 elgh'
teen gentlemen, It was openly read; where
upon Samuel Shrewsbury and John OlVer,
two of the justices named, administered
'the Oaths OF Congress, The oaih OF ndelly
10 this State, also the oath Of a justice OF the
Ieace and chancery. as also the oato OF
over and ,erminer," TO Sampson Mat
lltMS, dlOlLtl VI Az
who in turn administered TO the tif-
teen who were present. The first court
for Bath county was held at the house OF
Margaret Cervis, at the Warm Springs, on
the 10th OF May, 1901, fourteen justices
being present. Simpson Matthews, one OF
The original eighteen, presented 4 commls-
sion from "his EXcelleney, Beverley Kan
dolph, E,q ;" appointing bin sheriff OF ne
county. and having given bond Tor Gl,OOO,
he took the necessary oath. Charles Came
ron, ESD, was appointed "Clerk Of the
Peace for the county," and he lucknow.
lodged bond to the court In the penalty OF
81. 900" and took the oath. william Poage,
Esn.. was recommended "to the Exam
liners for the College OF William and Mary
A. a proper person for surveyor" Archi-
bald Stuart, +. O., the father Of our honorcd
and distinguished fellow.citizen, Hon. a.
II. II. Stuart, was recommended 10 the At
,orney-General aa a proper person for Dep
uty Attorney.
On the 18th Of May the courthouse and
other public buildings were ordered TO be
made on the lands OF the heirs OF John
Lewis, deceased, at the Warm Springs,
"the widow and Telict and one OF the
heirs" having made an offer gratis OF
two acres Of land. At this session the
sheriff entered his protest against the sum
cheney Of the jail, deeds were acknow'
lodged. roads and ordinqries authorized,
and surveyors appointed. One man was
exempted from payment Of county and
| parish ieUy, and various military oflcefs
were recommended TO the Governor.
On the 18th OF June, 1871, the court set
rates and prices Of liquors, dlats, lodging,
provender. stsblesge, %pasturage, Madeira
wine, clarct, strong beer, cyder, west In
dia ram, Continental rum, wniskey, "lodg-
ing with clean sheets for night" punch per
quart, toddy per quart, &c. John CoaIler,
Gentleman, afterwards OF the Court OF Ap-
peals, ard James Reid. Gentleman, were
licensed as attorneys.
On 9th August, 1871, court met at the
house of Margaret Lewis, but adjourned
to some trees dOwn the lane near the
highway" Arch. Stuart and William IL.
Csyendish were admitted as lawyers. The
first grand Jury was empsnelled, but made
! no presentments. one Abraham Thomp-
son was fined E3 for insulting the court.
On 10th August tobacco was ordered to be
collected "from each tithable person for
building a jail"
These items must suffice for the present,
but all the county records would furnish
interesting material for the historian. Y.
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