National Republican., 1882-08-28
ABOUT ALBEMARLE.
SCENES AROUND CHARLOTTESVILLE.
A Beautiful Countrywide Blue Rldge-A Town
With bright Future-A Railroad Cen.
ter-Tho Chesapeake and Ohio
ROad-MiSs Hatohett
Special Correspondence orTnr RrrunMcAx.

Special correspondence ofTTiE REfunhCAN.
NEAR CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, Aug. %-When
God made Natures smiling face he placed dimplo
in her chin, and now men Gull 1t Albemnrlc. This
is certainly most lovely country The scenery
has none oithat rugged and startling grandeur that
one sees In the other mountainous portions of the
sphere, aud Is devoid of the unsutisyng flatncss
that characcrizcs SwRmroodlc and other spots in
Ireland but for calm and poetic beauty, for sweet
pastoral perfection, and for symphonies of color
Albemarlo can scarcely be eXccled anywhere.
Most Washington men arc imbucd with n tender
regard for hash and their landlady's prettiest
daughter. They also have n divine hHnke;ing for
dead hend thcater tickets and clerkships, and
may be said TO be "leshly" in their tastes; but
your correspondent can scarcely conceive of n
person so coldly material and non aesthetic that
the landscape hereabouts would not make warm
thrill permeate his heart The undulating wood
lands the pastures pictureSquely dotted with sleek
cattle, the emerald meadows, running graSsily on
ward to lose themselves in
THE AZURE OF THE BLUE RIDGE,
MI these lovely sweeps and effects lend their sub
tie sweetness to- the picture. 1t is as though nature
was singing silent song IN the iufnity, and makes
fellow eager to perpet9,o poetry and become
sentimental sent me i with the girl in pink muslin. But
drawbacks. The undula,ing woodlands conceal
hordes of hungry hornets as sanguinary as the
Washington Light Infantry, those fearless soldiers
who are now battling with netiles and mosquitoes
at Cape May. The picturesque pastures feed the
cattle, who in turn feed incisive yellow ltckets;
ana tno emerald meadows tepm with ye humble
bee and wasp These articles of natural economy
are, according to your scribe's idea, the Kelley
motors of the animal kingdom. The amount of
strength and energy which fingers in the after end
| of a hornet is almost inconccivnbc. From per-
| sonal experience the writer may safely remark
| that ho has no doubt
HORNET WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
can make man weighing as much as the fair, fat,
and foruitous Colonel Jim Christie move over terra
irma at a rate of velocity which would take pro.
| fessor of mathematics armed with diftrrentiul
| calculus couple of weeks to determine. Then,
| III addition, a hornet leaves an impression to
which the pangs of unreuuited affection or an nl-
| cohUlc morning headache are as the gentle
| brcezeets of summer arc to tho wild and bowling
billiards. Of the West. Any one wanting n slightly
| mnsnitied neck can secure the same by applying
| to the undersigned or TO an Albemnrle hornet.
| Another pest in this county, which, however
| rreys on the inhnbitnnt, and not the visitor is
| the English sparrow, that miserably useless and
pugnacious representative of the ienthered tribe
SO familiar TO Wasiigtoninns. Omithologsts
| have dragged the bone Of contention all over the
arena of argument with pros and cons about the
| bird, but the undersigned has found without Al
doubt that the little brown burglar destroys vege-
tation instend OF making war upon Insects that do
| likewise. The farmers around here have declared
war to tho knife and knife to the hilt against them
swoop down in large tlocks upon the newly -sUwn
| fields and make the seed disappear with rapiii y
that would do credit to the Flumingo or any other
! gentleman with a
CHAMPION PIE-EATER's APPETITE.
Ofthe several killed and examined by your scribe
| the crhw of each was full of wheat and garden
| seeds, but devoid OF worms or insects. Enough
of birds, beasts and reptiles. Some of the patrons
| of Providence Hospital Will raise up and howl ii
natural history continues Charlottes syille is u
| town with u bright future befrc it.. Since the
completion of the track of the Virginia Midland
| Railroad from Orange Court House this town has
become one of the most important abroad ccnters
in Virginia, as the Chesapeake and Ohio-that
magnificent road that now connects the far West
with the sea by the most direct routc-intersects
the former road here. Just above Charlottesville
at the crossing the ground is being prepared for
the erection of large union depot that viii cover
two acres aud be model of artistic beauty and
convenience. The tralic of
THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO ROAD
is already immense and increasing daily. From
sunet to sunrise the grain, coal, and mineral
| laden trains rumble along to Richmond and New
| port News. prominent railroad official from the
| North told your correspondent some time ago that
the Chesapeake and Ohio was destined to become
| i'll Il few years the great trunk line. 1t is the
| shortest line from the West, and is already the
artery through which the commercial life blood
of the West Is pouring onward to the sea. As the
road runs by all the prominent Southern springs
the GFeenbrier White, &c, ils passenger traffic at
this time is enormous, the Western. bound trains
usually consisting OF ten coaches, besides the bag.
gage and mail cars. The officials of the road, with
an eye to business, are giving their attention to
sources of Virginia and West Virginia, and gloat
| over the prospect of their increasing wealth and
prosperity The main topics of conversation in
| this section are the Garland trial and the races at
| the Greenbrier White. Your correspondent will
Let you know of the latter, as he goes up to the
famous resort Monday.
universal sympathy is expressed for the prisoner,
| not SO much on account Of the duel, but because
| there seems TO be an amount of personal malice
| connected with the prosecution that makes it
| simon pure persecution, Mis- Hatchett must feel
| extremely delighted at the misery her frivolous
| fOolishneSs has caused Garland may have been
q very bad fellow and all that bu. the young
| woman was undoubtedly one of those giddy crea-
| lures in petticoats for whom and in whose behalf
| any man was fool to interest himself. Itwould
| however, have been gratifying to the public il
both dueliss had been killed and Miss Ha,chett
| had taken generous dose of lRuinnum. Perhaps
it would have been better still if the girl bad dmed
off laudannm anld lang ,syne., TO go bNck tc
Charlottesville. The first thing that strikes Wis.
itor Is the remarkably cheap rate at which one
may live. Meats and vegetables are MS low as
as the editorials in the New York Times lit i.
pretty hard to conceive anything lower save 1t il
an editorial in the New York IFibuHG), and gro.
Ceries sold ut city prices The country is filled
with summer boardcrs who can air their fine
that would be required for two days sojourn al
the fashionable springs.
EVERYTHING IS LOVELY
in the culinary line at the boarding houses, ant
| the mutton is real mountain mutton, that sends
| fellow into the seventh heaven of epicurean de-
light The people are as hospitable as they cai
| be, and the grls-excuse these blushes-the girls
| heavens above us. the girls There is as much
sweetness and brightness In one Abemar le girl a.
have u magnetic something about them that
makes fellow feel if he was eradicating Jelly.
cake III sugar warehouse, with a second courst
| coming of peaches and cream. May the shades o
| Juno and Venus ever hover over them. There
| was great excitement In Charlottesville Satur.
said to be ranging around the mountains neal
| the town. but Investigation proved the NOR Il