Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-30
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SpOttsville and Its News Brought from
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SDOIiSNllle ana It's News Brought from
Retirement.
SPOTTSVILLE, SURRY CO.. Va. April
25.-PerhapS an occasional short letter
from this remote corner of the old South
would not be entirely devoid of interest
to some of your many and widely dis
persed readers. We have at least agri-
culture and politics to speak of, from
which fields an item now and then worthy
of publication may be cleaned And
sometimes there are religious and society
matters, about which it would not be i'm
proper to acquaint the public, even of
another State.
As to the first topic, agriculture, not
much can be said just now. The season
here very backward and very wet. But
little corn has yet been planted, although
1t is at least two weeks after the usual
period for this labor. The main crop in
TINS immediate section is peanuts, and
next, corn, oats, potatoes, truck. fruits.
and so on, about in the order named. We
plant peanuts about the middle of Nav,
and the principal part of their cultivation
is done in June. Our farmers are a hard
working, industrious class, and GOOD de-
gree of thrift and prosperity prevails.
Few sections of the rural dis
tricts can show more evidences
of progress in natural wealth
and healthy, moral tone, than can this
our county, though one Of the oldest i'm
America, long Jagged behind some other
sections of more push and enterprise.
But at last our people seem fully aroused
TO a sense of their duties and OppOrturi-
ties, a spirit Of improvement and progress
is abroad, and the county is rapidly ad-
Nancing along the road of thrift with the
rest of the old South. The lumber bust
ness is carried on extensively here. and if
brings a great deal of floating capital into
the county. Besides this, the Atlantic
and Danville Narrow Gauge Railroad has
Just been started at its eastern terminus
on the James in this county. A large
force Of negroes and Italians have been
put on to grade and prepare the bed. and
il is expected that the road will be finish
ed to nanville in ABOUT two years. 1t will
give an outlet to deep water and ocean
shipping to vast stores Of lumber. coal.
iron and other material, not only along
the line of this road, but to Il large sec
ton of Virginia and North Carolina hav-
ing roads of similar guage.
AS to politics, the whites here are
mostly Democrats, and the negroes dl.
yided between straightOut and readluster
Kepubllcans. Our spring election fer
local officers is near at hand, and there is
ldthNi hibIc IMAM Iilt usual dcIINiIN among
all parties, with the chance slightly i'm
favor of the Democrats. The Republicans
are divided. The boss either does not care
about local affairs, or he has lost his hold
on the affections of ''the man and brother"
In my opi2iOn, Readjusterism is on its last
legs here.
The Rev. w. A. Pearson. of Bvrne
Street Baptist Church. Petersburg. has
recently accepted Il call to Mill swamp
and Smithfeld Baptist Churches in Isle
OF Wright county, and Millield, South
amptOn county. Mr.. Pearson is from
South Carolina, and doubtless known TO
some Of your readers, Mill swamp is one
OF the oldest kaptlst Churches in Virgin
ia, having been organized in 177l. 1t has
large membership and good parson-
age.
The public school system of our State.
Notwithstanding what YOU NAV see aT ii
in the papers, is not conducted with that
efficiency and impar.iaiity which formerly
marked It. \ large number of schools are
now closed, and they are mostly white
schools. b. WI