The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-12

CONCORD AsSoCIATi0N-THE LOM BE
TRApE-TuE CULTIVATION or COTTON.
ICorrcspondcnce Of the Richmond Dlspatch.l
CHASE Cry, VA, August 10, 1883.
This Mace. once called ChristianNille and
afterwards named for Hon. :. Z. Chase, OF
Ohio. is substantially in the hands OF immi-
grants from Ohio and Pennsylvania. IL is
The present terminus OF the Richmond and
Mecklcnburg railway, and is distant about
twenty miles from Keysyillc and twelve
from Clarksvile. Working parties under
Contain Gooch Us contractor are pushing
of with the railway extension towards
Clarksyille.
The town Is rather more newish in APP
pearancc than many OF the county-Seats,
and the new residences, erected mostly
by the settlers, have been built with rs
much reference 10 the demands Of taste
a. the demands OF economy would permit.
There are here one Presbyterian church.
one Unitcd-Prcsbyterian called the L. ~
church, one Methodist, and one Episcopal
church; about seven stores. two tobacco
warehouses. orc hotel aud some boarding
houses, several workshops. The United
Prcsbytorilns once numbered seventy, but
they hayc all gone away except three or
four. The Presbyterian church Of which
cnt without a pastor. There is talk about
the moving OF Concord church 10 this
place.
The settlers here and in the section OF
country between here and Wylcsburg and
the BlucStOne came in by Il family or so
nj n time. mostly under the influence Of
two northern men, Mr.. John +. Boyd, OF
Boydton. and Mr. q. \. End!y, Of the
CITY. who had bought up tracts OF lands.
Many 81 them made two mistakes: They
paid too mach for the lands. and they esti-
mated in pitching their crops the prOduc-
tive power Of the lands too highly. Some
were so sadly disappointed that they went
back North. One man tells me that he
turned over q large acreage OF land COW
evercd with straw and those weeds which
he was iorcwaned by the older inhabitants
did not indicate fertile soil, using two
horse lcft-iurning plough with Il heavy
chain hung from the beam. and he put in
seed-corn "aS they do up NORTH and the
return was big crop Of fodder.
The Concord Baptist Association. COM
posed Of delegates from twenty-five
churcheS-some in Mecklenburg county,
others i'm Charlotte. Lunenburg. NottOway,
Brunswick. Greensyilie, and Dinwiddie-
closed is hitv-frSt session Yesterday. The
Introductory sermon was delivered by Rev.
ST. George +. AbrahamS, from the text
"FOr 10 ne 10 live is Christ" Rev. DR..
Sydnor thc MODERATOR announced that the
Association had been organized fifty
years ago. and no his request memorial SER
vices were held on the 2d-SeryIceS in
which he gave 10y request history Of TaS-
sckiah church (Which was organized in
1770. and several OF the ministers and lay
members gave "reminiscences. In DR.. Syd-
nor's history il was stated that Jeremiah
Walker aud six other Baptist ministers had
been imprisoned in Chesterfield county
Jail; that Che pastors salary in 1928 was
$50: that minister would not be called
till his gifts had been proved; that MEM
bers were excluded for not paying their
debts. for lying, for sending children TO
dancing-Schools; that Joel Johns served rs
pastor for twenty successive years, and
baptized more than 400 persons; that the
Meherrin Association, from which the
Concord bad been formed, was organized
in 1904.
The Richmond and MccklenbuIg rail-
way runs thus far through what seems a
new country. and has opened Il heavy trade
in certain varieties OF lumber. There are
Cat Fort MITCHELL immense piles Of rectan-
gular oak blocks, about eight feet long,
awaiting shipment to Baltimore. And here,
at " The City" are piles Of hickory blocks,
undressed. which are TO be shipped to
factory at Greensboro. n. c. One citizen
tells me he has sold fifty cords, standing in
the forest, at S2.25 per cord. The forests
do not seem to abound in pine, but there
are. at every depot. piles o? pine plank.
could nor learn that those who planted
cotton i'm Mecklenburg county last year
had found the experiment very profitable.
But people in the southern parts OF the
county planted again last season, to some
extent. Little, il any, has been planted in
the northern portion OF the county.
ALPHA