Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-03
THROUGH TnE STATE.


New Eptscspai Causeh ss D~vcr-The
oberss Tsbsecs IN sae cessssy-.I.seked Up
~ oser<s swcsv-shsce xeara
lcoucspcadence o. TIE aschmona psspasch.i
pvvgr Mills, July 2, 1884.
The wstcntisB II the traveller from Rsch.
Hond sionx the Richmond and Allegiisuy
rcsd Mp The beautiful Valley Of he James
" arrested 81 this risce ~ the sing spirc
1t pretty new church. Upon inquiry he
Ends thai 70 u the AILSsints' Episcopas
church, which II being buIltmainly through
tho efforts OF a devoted Christian lady, Mrs.
William b. stanard.
The site, very desirable one upon an
elevation overlooking tho village and rail-
road, was donated 10 the congregation by
w. w. wight, Esq. The cdifice is Gothic
IN architecture, and will cost Si,10o.
Through tbs activity and zeal OF Mrs.
Stansrd, and the Iibcrality Of some friends
and the little band Of Episcopaliaus here.
TIC funds have been almost all provided.
ard The church VIII be finished by fall aud
ctnsecrated on AIl.saints' day, the lst OF
November. Rev. Il. NJ. Boyden Is the
rector. and VIII divide his tine equally
between this church and the one at Gooch-
land Courthouse.
IL VIII be good news 10 the many inter-
csfed TO hear that Che Dover mills are to be
icbuih. l. wit DC remembered TINT on
the night ~ eIection-day last fall this yalua-
tie property was totallv destroyed by fire.
During the year Mr.. w. w. Wright. the
proprietor. has kept alive bis lease OF
whter-power on the canal. for which he
pays the Richmond and Allegheny Rail-
road Company $500 year, by running
corn mill IN an improvi cd shanty on the
old site, using one Of the turbine water
wheels which escaped the general wreck
on the night OF the Ere. lie now has un-
der contract a new manufacturing mill.
which T. 10 be complete and modern in all
its appointments. Is more pretentious
building than the old one, and will be fin
jshed by Christmas.
With fine new aiill, pretty new church,
the pretty depot already here. it, two
stores. pos.ofice, telegraph oflce. and sew
erai nice dwellings, Dover may well assert
her claims 10 position among the rising
young railroad-yillagcs OF the James River
Valley.
Efforts arc being made by Rev. b. NJ.
Randolph and Mr.. w. w. Campbell 10 con-
meet Subjects. in Powhatan county, with
Dover by telephone. This will be y great
convenience 20 the people or that portion
OF PownaiaD, Who now have only tri-
weekly mail, which when The water is high,
rs has often been the case Of late, becomes
only semi-occssional mail.
a telephone between Maiden's Adven.
ture station and Gooehland Courthouse is
also talked OF. and Judge George p. Hughes |
is expected TO move In the matter.
On yesterday the old pcst-ofilce at Cedar |
Point Landing, In this county, was discon-
tinued, and an office opened at Irwin. the |
station half a mile above on the river. |
.Inx fJ.or a.. n for
Powhatan, and more convenience.
DR.. Joseph Parrish. probably the oldest |
physician in Goochland, was badly para
1yzed few days ago, and II Is thought he |
r. af the point OF death. He is seventy-6ve |
or eighty years OF age, and has been prac-
ticing his profession for more than fifty |
years. He lives on the Tbree-Notch road,
and has a large circle of friends and ac-
quaintanccs. lie Is attended by DIR. james
A. Brown. OF this neigib0rheod, who gives
hun the advantage OF IFS upremiillpg 1T
fcntion and acknowledged skill.
The writer was shown the other day by
MIR. N. j. Cosby, OF Pow hatan, near Jeifer-
son, lot of tobacco taken from small
crop be made in 1861. II is probably the
Oldest loose tobacco or oldest tobacco OF
My kind in America. Mr.. Cosby, when
eighteen years old, raised the tobacco on r.. rs
mothers farm at OAKLAND church, In Lou
Isa county, and before he had time TO
market It he YVES called into the army. His
mother kept the little crop as SOUVENIR OF
her soldier boy, and had it spread on the
floor In the garnet OF her brick dwelling.
After the war her son came back. but never
called for his tobacco, went away, married,
and IL raising large family, the old lady
all the time religiously keeping her boys
first crop locked up In the garnet along with
some old relics OF her girlhood and her
parents and grandparents. Not long since
she died, and Mr.. Cosby went home and
claimed his tobacco. He found ii covering
the floor about six inches deep. without
any mould upon It, as sound as when he
put It there, with color mellowed by Its
fwenty-threc years, and smelling, he says,
=" like rose" The tobacco is OF the ORR
noco variety, and there IL about 100 pounds
OF II, and il II Is true, as Is stated by to-
bacco- growers, that every time tobacco
comes and goes II gets better, the coming
and going with every warm, damp spell OF
the last twenty-three years ought to make
this lot OF weed as yweet as candy. Mr..
Cosby says be cannot find such chewing
tobacco anywhere, and he intends to keep
II till he eats II up. N0x.