The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-16
BRENTWOOD.
The Magnificent Estate Of the
Hon. y. -. Ne nt..-A N1OnOn.
galian Carving Out a
Prfncely DOmninin
the Wilds Of Ar
kansas.

A correspondent of the Little
Rock, Ark, Gazette, writing from
Brentwood, that State, has the fol
lowing to say of Judge Dent, an old
Monongalia boy:
OF the many magnificent estates
in the last twenty years carved by
sturdy strokes from the wilds here,
there's none more typical than Brent
wood, the princely domain from
which this is written. 1t is typical
of the best there is to be found in
the county, while consisting exclu-
sively of gum lands, in proportion to
its entent, and on the score of health,
tenable at all times of the year,
there is, perhaps, no more valuable
farm property, in one body, through
out the White River valley.
Its area is 2100 acres, and though
according to requirements of tenants,
Ats acres are in cotton and $50 in
corn, it is, for all that, a great mixed
farm industry. Exclusive of 1918
acres of heavy timbered land, year
by year being reclaimed for the
pillow, and the 725 in cotton and corn,
there is residue of $50 acres in Or
chards, whey yards, clover, timothy,
red top, orchard grass and wood
pasture. The yield per acre of the
lands, according to season, is from
1900 to 1900 pounds of seed cotton !;
corn, from 40 to 60 bushels per acre.
While as to grasses, though excel
lently adapted to each, individually,
the best showing is obtained from a
mixed seeding of clover and orchard
grass, timothy and red-top, and tim
othy and clover.
The owner of Brentwood is the
revered and correct citizen of Wood
ruff, Hon. J. B. Dent, county and
probate judge--a post-bellum settler
of twenty years standing in the
county, and until the expiration of
the war, major of the Fourteenth
Illinois cavalry. HIS is a native of
Monongalia county, w. Va, but fol-
lowing his third year, reared in Put
nam county, Ill. His home immedi-
ately ante-dating the war was at Ga
lena, where he was accounted warm
friend of the "Great Commander"
and, indeed, to whose immediate
family he is related by ties of con-
sanguinity.
Judge Dents career in this county
since December, 1865, would be an
interesting one for the assailants of
the hospitality of the south towards
| the northern man who came to her
midst after the war to earn his bread
honestly, the while also not forget
ting to bring with him the generous
ness towards others-as toward him.
self-born of common fairness and
intelligence. And therefore that
which is particularly in favor of the
master of Brentwood is that every
days record of his history in this
county is that of gentleman, and
adding to conscientiousness strong
will, and behind the act, always the
man with refined sensibilities. In
deed, this is much to say, and were
else fulsome did not the people
whose trusted friend and neighbor
he has been these many years delight
to voice his praise, well knowing
that no adulation could disturb his
equipoise; and no gainsaying of his
daily life take from his humanity
and charity, the one always man.
tie hiding the foibles and errors OF
his fellow men, and the other as the
gentle dew, distilling itself into
many offices of kindness, many deeds
of practical good.
AS argued by his success among
young men of equal stature of mind
with himself, and nothing of adven-
titiousness or failure, dispiriting
his energiesZhis business abilities
are of first order. This advantage
coupled to well-ordered information
and knowledge of men, has rebound
ed not only to the security Of his
personal comfort, but to the official
administration of the affairs of his
county. During the past three
years he has relieved the county
wholly Of a debt which, as an incu
bus, had weighted down its respect
ability since the days Of the Clayton
dynasty; on the other hand the duty
Of his official station being largely
that in which the law is personified
in the distribution of estates, it il
also to judge Dents credit that from
first to last the proyerbial oppressOl
has found in him stern guardian
of the widow and orphan; and from
| first to last, never : case thet hal
not showp him a be i just man Il
Hell q exact ofl|cial