Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-31
OLD DOMINION
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MARION, VA, July %, 1886.
All ofour people who can afford IL are
enjoying . rest during those warm
days m which the dog-star prevails.
The weather has recently opened up
hot and dry. For several days there
has been no rain. and, as the people are
never satisfied, there IL wish now for
rain. Unless It rains every other day
from the 22d Of July to the LIST Of Sep
TENDER, the corn crop Is hazarded, they
say. But the croakers to tho contrary
notwithstanding, there need be no fears
about crops. 1t will all turn out for
the best 10 the end. There was great
dread concerning the wheat crop; but
after oil that crop Is quite good. And
there has not been such crop OF oats
since the war. Hay is turning out
quite well. There is not particle OF
danger OF famine in Southwest
Virginia for 0 hundred years TO
come. Providence smiles on this land.
II can be we'll said that sit Is
. land flowing with milk and honey"
Such a climate as ours is unsurpassed.
II the thermometer rises to 90s at 2
p. NJ. 1t will 90 back to CO., by ii
o'clock P. NJ. Such splendid time to
sleep from that hour till A. N. The
people here from the South and East
Virginia enjoy it with the greatest salts.
faction. No climate on earth can excel
ours in the summertime, and Is late in
the fall as November. Come out and
try it. We enjoy life. Horizontal reduc-
tiop,sts, revenue reformers, and States
rights theorists can bite the wind, so
fsr as we are concerned. Everything
will seek its level and "right-about" 10
due time. But there Is class that we
are quite fond Of. They are known as
the holders Of Virginia bonds. 1t is
quite exhilarsting to the plain farmers,
mechanics, and others to have the Trea-
sury entered by the self-executing cou-
Don. the school fund attacked, and the
little hopefuls deprived Of the benefits
of m education, which is the birthright
of oil. Now. we don't mean to say
that the people out here wish to de-
privs Virginia's creditors Of their just
deserts. They are willing to pay as
provided by the Riddleberger settle
ment, and in no other way. Then the
schools will be protected and al the
other interests Of the State subserved.
Buildings are rapidly going up in
Marion. Four substantial dwellings
will be completed by the Is. Of Octo-
Der, Town lots have been laid out re-
Gently, and property is approaching
here. Quarter-acre building lots on
Main street are worth from 5000 to
$1,000 now. Persons who wish to To-
cate here and to get an even start with
New Marion must not delay. The
population of Marion in 1880 was
LOO; now II is at least 1,50O, and by
1890 We predict an increase OF fifty
per cent. Telephone communications
will soon be established between this
place and Independence. Perhaps other
places will 60 into the company. The
Southwestern Asylum is nearing com.
pletion. Two more months will put 1t
under cover. The building committee
has Just closed contract for the per-
petual use Of the finest spring in the
land. The flow from it is more than a
million Of gallons per day. But the COM
mittee will put in pipe that will only
carry $40, 900 gallons per day. They
say that $4,000 gallons will be all that
the institution will actually need
for several years. The surplus will be
used for supplying fish-ponds, foun'
tains, &c. This asylum is going to BIO
the best equipped institution in the
State. Mark it.
The time for the nomination OF can
didate to represent us in the next Con-
gress is coming on apace. The contest
in the convention will be Q warm one.
At this writing it is not possible to say
who is to be the man. AIR. Trigg starts
cut with a solid delegation of twenty
six from his own county. This gives
him good beginning. If he has much
strength elsewhere i. is not difficult to
forecast the result. But the nominee
is sure TO be elected. There are many
reasons for this assertion. We can't
undertake TO name them now.