Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-11

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| FALLS CHURCH, Va, Dec. 9th, 1882.
The clerk of the weather seems to be debiting
against the wet weather account of last summer
and winter to the end that balance and COM
plete adjustment may be effected. A wet summer
following remarkably wet winter, so far as my
observation extends, is very remarkable me-
| neurological fact. 1t is not an unusual circum-
etance for dry summer to follow wet winter
and vice versa, keeping the adage, to wit:
Zone extreme follows another" intact. or true.
by quick demonstration. The demonstration
seems to be coming now, and at later date
than usual. For some time the rain storms have
been sheer ffzzes, and the wagon tracks are
hard and substantially dry. The very high
winds of the 9TH inst. seems to have been dis
spater of the collecting material for rain. and
have brought to us sudden and very great
change of temperature. On the 18th to nearly
noon there was no frost In the ground i'm the
open fields. At am. OF the Sth, temperature
deg. above zero. and this is, by ONE degrees,
the lowest of the season.
1t seems to be proper thing to Lut on record
the evidence Of the unusual productivcness of
the past growing season. Who has seen such
abundant crops of rye, wheat oats. grass or
nay, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, and various
kinds OF roots in one season and i'm a lifetime as
we have had this? In the line of fruits there
has been, as compared with the general result
for many years. diminished quantity. The
strawberry and the raspberry crops were short
ened by the freezes apparent on the mornings
of April 18th and 18th; on the latter morning
temperature "a and still the market was fully
supplied. The peach crop was shorter than
usual bearing years" and resulted from the
same freezes and yet there were enough
of peaches for the demand.
The narrow guage project has proved to be a
mere bubble. There were ties enough pur-
chased. it is my understanding, for the super
structure from Georgetown to this place and
were piled along the graded bed. This fall the
ties here have been sold at 81 per cord for posts
walks, and some even for wood. They cost. [
thlnk, go per hundred L presume We shall
hear no more of the narrow guage road as q
probable railroad connection with your city,
Latterly there has been some exceedingly ag-
gravating vandalism manifested here. 1t is the
first that have seen in this place A house
owned by Capt Duncan has almost all the lights
broken in the front windows. panel in the
front door of a house owned by Joseph Riley
has been smashed in. One of the colOred win
dOws of the Congregational church has been
broken by some one belonging to the same class
OF scampA- Ten Of the cOlOred windows IN the
NJ f. church. am informed, have had stones
thrown throguh them. It is said some colored
boy or boys broke these last Justice should
Overtake all these rascas, be they big or little.
Mr.. s. II Ba rrett, Mrs. ID. F. Barrett and Miss
Carrie Barrett lert here few days ago. for
and the La persons named are natives of Fair
fax county. ard these two 90 for q more genial
climate and for health. Many of our citizens
parted with them regretfully
Literary and social associations seem to be
getting contagiOn among u.s. "The Club has
Deen In existence here some four or five years
and another has been organized this fall not TO
name still another association that has had an
intermitting presentation Of itself for several
years. lisa