The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-23
Fishersville items.

dalliance with old Winter, that everybody
is telling his neighbor what nice weather
we are having" Same to you, gentle
men and | hope you are enjoying it eN-
tensiveiy. The air is still little chilly ;
yet, as though in vigorous protest against
further suppression Of her nights, the III
dignant earth. like some yeXed and pout-
ing beauty longing for opportunity to dis
play her lIery, is rapidly DOMINIC her
most stunning robe of tender vernal green,
to be flecked, anon, with early buds and
flowrets. and bedtck with diamonds by
"rosy fingered Morn.
The farmers tell me that now the out
look Tor forelook) for crops, and abundance
of grass, is good. The general impression
seems to be that the hard. unfayorable
weather is at an end, and everybody is
hopefully anticipating IL good and beneIi-
cial season. So mote it he.
You will have heard. probably, ere this
reaches yuli of the death of Mr.. Sandy
Brand IL member of II prominent family
in this neighborhood. lie had been down
with pneumonia for about Il week When
on last "Wednesday morning he calmly
breatlletl his last. From What | have
learned of him. he WAS quite an exemplary
young iuan. giving on his death bed fire.
quent evidences of acceptance of and
strong trust in the christian faith, and
proclaming to the last his readiness and
entire willingness to die To the last, too,
as hear. he encouraged and comtorted,
| as well us he could, his sorrowing friends,
some of whom had come long distances in
order to extend to him
THAT tender farewell on the shore
OF this rude world, when all is DER
That cheers the spirit, ere its bark
Puts off into the unknown dark
| There was Il quite interesting and eX-
citing event, on Saturday last, at Judge
Geo. W. Bateman's, some four miles west
of Fishersville That gentleman has a
beautiful artificial fish pond thirty yards
| from his residence. with pretty little
picturesque island in the middle of it.
Three years ago, he put into this little
| lake a dozen or fifteen young carp, which
at Washington. For some cause or other,
although these fish grew rapidly and
| thrived apace. yet. examination OF the
| pond last year revealed very unsatisfac-
tory and rather discouragng results, in
| the way Of increase. There was little or
no progeny In this important line, the
bull frogs had far outstripped the aristo-
cratic foreigners. for there was mo end
of . tadpoles (save the end of the tail, and
t'Other end) So, after destroying these
metamorphons incipient batrachians, MI
| e. concluded to put into the pond few
Young suckers which he did. Now
whether it were by the faction Of pres
ence" of these Ito use a chemical phrase
or whether their contiguity excited 4
| Jealous ambition in the bosom of meiaheei
| Carp or. whether he had been hitherto
| too youthful to entertain seriously the
prospect of a numerous family on his
hands-or erItdterer the conditions prevail
ing. certain it is that, whereas, preyi
ously, as mentioned, there seemed to exist
an absolutely monastic state OF affairs IL
the silent cloisters beneath those waters
on drawing off the latter last Saturday, ;
very different condition of things was pre-
sented. A few weary looking, downcast
brow-beaten tadpoles came up-not owe
an honest quart of them in all-appar
emily anxious for any change promising
relief from constant humiliating reilec
ton on their own extreme insigniiicance
while a goodly number of rakish looking
Young suckers" made their appearance
saunteripg leisurely up, or rather down, t
the almost exhausted tloodgate by whic
the water had been drawn off, and wher
Mr.. Bateman was standing, deftly dis
eliminating between the various denizen
of the pond, there necessarily congregate'
en- mosse The tadpoles found th
'changen they longed for ON the bank
where they quickly persisted. as was tn
fate of few little suapercA. The ''sucE
ers' were at once thrown back into tn
little pools vet flecking the lake bed Will
the little German beauties, by handful
aggregating many hundreds, and from on
and a-half to three and four inches lons
were deposited in special recepticles, t
themselves. From 1000 to 1900 wer
thus segregated, not counting few tina
!. are known to have been been carried OF
through the chute, to the creek. III
water being turned on again, these wei
: returned to the pond.
Several gentlemen. besides your corre
: pondent, were present at this aqueous IA
ueiling, and assisted materially at the GER
monies. The old carp, that had been slow
> nosing round, up to this time, half out {
u the shallow remaining water, and half b
9 wildered too, were caught up by Mr.. Hug
Hamilton in his net. and deposited in
!. large box=of water, until the pond W.
Il again ready for their reception. Tit
were certainly beauties. Some of the
{ were at least - inches in girth, and fro
II IA to IS inches long. and are still We
% young fish. Two of the medium size on
Is were dressed and cooked for dinner, al
+ afforded an ample meal for one dozen pc
: pie who partook of the Judge s. and MI
d Bateman's hospitality that day.
u 1t envolves a fearful calculation, t
u number Of splendid fish that will inhal
Il that pond in a year or two from now. Al
&c they are the finest fresh water fish | ev
u tasted, except the trout. Mr.. b. is
G great stock fancter, and is delighted wi
this acquisition to his other fine 'stock
g He is acknowledged to possess-with t
exception of Mr.. Hugh Hamilton S, viii
We the same-the finest sheep in the cou
+rv aud certainly he has beautiful a
, snlen fidiy stocked fish pond.
ORESITROPHOS.
Messy Greek Items.
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. The people of this vicinity are very BIT
!. o4+;,,,. raoav ! w planting corn. Many