Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-15
MECKLENBURG.
BUFFALO LIrHIA SPRINGS.


country and representing nearly every
State from Massachusetts, to Texas, ex-
ceeds any former year. The aceommo-
dating capacity Of the place has been
taxed TO the fullest extent. The waters
have now gained worldwide celebrity,
and, although comparatively unknown
ten years ago, now find patrons from
every State in the Union. Even from
across the Atlantic orders have come
for them, and the highest medical au-
thoritieS all over the land cxtol their
virtues and recommend their use, claim
ing their potency as s remedial agent
not surpassed by the hitherto unrivalied
waters Of France and Germany.
met a gentleman here to-day from
MARYLAND. who informed me that this
WAS his eleventh annual visit. and he
attributes his being alive solely to TINS
water. His complaint was calculus.
Although now completely restored, be
returns this year with some OF HIS
family TO see the fountain whose Won
dcrful waters enabled him to reach the
age Of seventy-three years.
The rapid transformations from dis
case and debility TO health and yigOr
witnessed here fill one with amaze
ment, and if Ponce de Leon had lived
to this day and continued his search for
the fountain for restoring youth and
health, he could have stopped here
and exclaimed, Eureka" Various
smusements are here provided, and an
ease, sociahility, and freedom from re-
straint not usually visible at other SINH
lar resorts are apparent with the visi-
tors. Some afflicted with that terrible
malady insomnia inform me that here
the waters produce delightful rest-not
like the obliyious sleep Of Lethe, but
sound and refreshing slumbers. The
equity, rheumatic, and dyspeptic invalids
soon become as cheerful, hearty, and nc
tive as ifthey were young again. One old
gentleman remarked to me to-day: "
never did see sick people eat so much
in my life." told him this water was
noted for being great appetizer. "Oh,
yes" he said. "we want three meals
day and a plenty Of everything, and
here we get it," No intoxicating liquors
are sold here, and constant use Of the
Mhia supersedes the necessity for any
other stimulant.
Many have inquired why the spring
is called Buffalo. For their infOrma-
ton / will state that Colonel William
Byrd, in his history Of the dividing
line between Virginia and North Caro-
lima run in 1902, says the first buff
faloes he saw coming west were on
stream rising near the Carolina line,
which he named Buffalo creek. This
passes near here, aud hence the name
Buffalo Springs. Tradition says there
was at this place " lick" where, over
one and a half centuries ago, buff
faloes, deer, and other wild animals were
seen. There are none here now, and
the advance of civilization caused their
disappearance with the Indians to the
far limits of the West. The Lithia is
a very recent addition to the name,
the analysis Of the new Spring No. ?
showing this rare and valuable medici-
nal ingredient in a larger quantity than
in any other mineral water on this con-
tinent.
At Buffalo Baptist church, a short
distance from this place, the Rev. Mr.
Hutson, the evangelist, and Rev. W.
p. Gray, the pastor, recently held a re-
yival meeting for one week. The church
and grounds were crowded every day.
Over sixty protested conversion, and
forty-six were added to the church.
Mr.. Illusions efficiency rs reviyalist is
always attestsd with the most crafty
ing results. Mr.. Gray has the earnest
ness, energy, and ready resources
which, combined with his personal
magnetism and direct appeals to the
common understanding of the people,
make him power for the accomplish
ment of good in his Church. So faith
fully and efficiently has he labored that
his material for Church additions about
here has been nearly exhausted.
The Concord Association, which met
last week in this county at Olive Branch
church, will hold its next annual meet
ing at Wylliesburg, Charlotte county,
at the new church the Baptists have re-
Gently bull, there.
From a trip recently made, extend
ing from Chase City, in this county, to
the upper end Of Charlotte-over fifty
miles found that the seasons had
been very uniayorable in some lOcal-
tias for corn and tobacco. The rains
have not been general. Some have had
an abundance, while others say their
cortland has not been wet since it was
planted. In the morning | would !
pass bold running streams. luxuriant
fields of corIa and ycrdant pastures, |
and in the afternoon dust, wthered |
corn, stinted vegetation, and dried-up |
branches. Immense preparations were |
made for tobacco, fertilizers extensively |
used, and cultivation thorough, but the |
plant does not generally indicate a
healthy growth and heavy crop. In
less more favorable seasons, although |
this crop does not require soaking rains
eight and frequent showers are prefera-
'ble), the expectations for large crop
will not be realized. Everybody is
attempting TO make the yellow tobacco,
and N every direction you travel new
barns and preparations for flue-curing
can be seen. The production of dark
tobacco will soon be confined to that
class Of farmers who do not live to
learn and profit by the experience of
their more fortunate neighbors.
At Chase City l found tobacco the
talk Of the town-the merchants praised
Il, the warehouse-men gloried in telling
the prices, and the old farmer with the
heaviest load was the lion Of the day.
The streets and warehouses were full,
md even the air odorous with the fra
france Of the money-crop. was in
formed that there was not an unoccu-
pied house in Chase City. Without the
obacco trade there would be many.
In the Coles Ferry section Of Char
otte the new county was uppermost in
he minds of the people, and they ex-
sect TO haveit. About the courthouse
he scheme was considered visionary
md impracticable, and in the lower end
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