Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-24
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erase CRY. Va. Jan %, 1883.
The cold wave has greatly interrupted
I trade and caused travel over the roadside be
difficult aud precautions. The tobacco
market il consequently at standstiIl.
The high prices prevailing for tobacco
viii as soon as the roads are passable
cause a great influx Of this commodity.
The farming community is in a better
condition than for long time. The
Chief money crop - high. and bread and
meat more plentiful than Cor many years
/ have been informed chat one farmer
not far distant IRON here raised last year
25, Geo ponnds OF tobacco. for which he
has refused $1,000, and the entire cost of
production was $500. There are many
others who fuc.cured, aud viii realize
on their crops Ia the same proportion.
Now, why should lands continue 10 sell
so low and you hear so often the stereo-
typed remark Charming don't pay
The special road law of this county
offered by Senator Read in the Legisla-
tire meets the requirements of our sltua-
ton. Good roads promote prosperity,
increase business and social interests, aud
add materially to the value Of lands and
the products of the farms. The present
grades and r1ggedness of our highways
are behind the civilization of the present
age. Many of our roads were laid of
when wheeled vehicles were unknown,
aud were travelled over on horseback
alone. when people went to mill with
bushel Of corn in one end of the bag and
a rock in the other to balance it. They
have never been changed, simply be-
cause our foreiathers used them GEN.
fury ago.
II is expected that many, if not all, OF
our public schools will soon close until
next fall Cause the want of funds to
pay teachers. There should he some
remedy. 1t is bad system that takes
nearly two years for child to 60 to
school six months. The passage Of the
Blair educational bill would be an inesti-
mable blessing TO this section.
Our County Court has been in session
for a week. Criminal trials occupy most
of the time at every term. A special
grand jury last week found five true
bills Of Indictment for felony, aud two
parties were tried for selling liquor with
ont licenses aud each Gned 800. and the
court added ten DAYS imprisonment
The iail is generally well lied with viO-
lators Of :he law. This is the months
EXHIBIT for prohibition county. With
all the vigilance of the extremists the
law is cvadcd md detied and a prolific
source of revenue withheld from the
public treasury. How long will such a
short sighted policy prevail? Prohibi-
ton exists here not by a vote OF the peO-
pie under the iocal-optlon law, but 10y
judicial refusal to grant license when "a
petition against license presented from
It portion of community where license /
is asked.
The question is pow seriously agitated /
Of taking the necessary SIPS 10 form |
new county ont of part of Mecklen- |
burg. The county has an area of over |
300 square miles. Size. population,
court business, and the great dist lance |
many people now have TO travel TO reach |
The comfy. seat would make it greatly /
for the convenience and |
welfare of the people that division /
should be made The present dimen-
,ions OF the county are about fifty miles |
long and TWENTY-FIVE wide.
Mr. ". L. Moore has been appointed
postmaster at Boydton TO succeed Nr. c.
I. Baskerville. who has removed to Ok
ord, \. c.
Information has been received here
hat the Baptist church for the colored
people at Clarksvillc WAS destroyed by
ire few nights ago. Loss, 81, 500, and
10 insurance. 1t caught fire from a
,uroing school building near it. The
after was insured for 1925.
The Chase City Progress, anew paper,
will issue It's first No. this week
: suiiiciency OF ioe of good thickness
las been secured here.
Jurors and witnesses experienced great
inconvenience attending court last week
hrough snow and cold. some travelling
,ver twenty miles and returning home
he same day. City people know no.
uinG OF the discomforts and the trials
Incident to a connlry life. j.