Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-16
A STEADY INCREASE
IN THE REAL ESTATE AND POPULA-
lion OF MECklENBuRG.
Mr., venable's Remarkable Prediction
A Centenarian with an Authentic
Record-Baptist Revival.
Correspondence of the Richmond p,sps,ch.I

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.I
CHASE CRY, Va. July IA, 1890.
The assessment of real estate in this town
has been completed, and shows very
gratifying increase in values. In this dis
.rict there are 2O6.730 acres of land, and
the average valuation is 1915 per acre.
There 10 one other district in the county.
and the assessment will be about the same
as five years ago.
The census enumerators have not CON-
pleted their work in this county. From
the best information obtainabe the popu-'
lation of the county will be about 30. 600
an increase Of about 20 per cent. over the
1880 census. This town shows gain in
the last decade of 100 per cent. in popula-
ton.
A VERIFIED PREDICTION.
heard the late Hon. Abram W. Venable.
an ante-bellum distinguished member OF
Congress. make prediction the wear after
the war closed that to some extent Is now
verified. Then everything social, financial.
and political was tempestuous sea OF I'M
certainty. He said all the cities and towns
in Virginia would increase in population,
and villages and markets would multiply;
that agriculture would languish for q
time. the large plantations would be Gull
tivated by those who worked with
their own hands. and these men
would eventually own them, and some
of the finest farms would not
sell for the cost of the buildings
on them; that the old and extensive
country mansion with oak grove and
flower-gardens. fine horses and fox-does.
mint-juleps and big dinners, and retinue
az a+ harlr and call OrlH
be only things of the past. lie said people
were like the other animals, and would
herd together in misfortune, hence the
growth of villages. Those reared In affiu-
ence and idleness either could not or would
not work the lands. and that Flnklln's
maxium was true:
tina, he who by the pillow would thrive
Must either hold or drive"
Subsequent events have shown that this
grand old gentleman possessed prophetic
vision.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AGE.
Dr. Nelson, recently engaged in taking
the census of this district. saws that he met
with one man with. authentic evidence
that he was one hundred years old.
NJ -John McCardy died here yesterday
at the residence of his son-ln-law, MIR.
George A. Endly. he was in his ninety
fifth year.
The sad termination OF the life of Slr.
Charles l.. Finch. of this county, at Will
liamsburg. reported in the Dispatch OF yes
terday, moved his friends here with feel
ings Of profound sorrow. He was edu-
Gated at the Virginia Military Institute and
the University of Virginia, and was law
yer of brilliant sttainments. He had not
reached the meridian of life and had
achieved great eminence in profession 10
which he was devoted. He leaves wife
and three children.
BIG MEETINGS.
This town was almost deserted Yesterday
by people going to big meetings at the
country churches. Rev. j. i. Hutson. the
Baptist evangelist, is conducting one at
New Hope near here, and Revs. Dr. Cut
Ter and Berry, Of the Christian Church,
hold forth at Cool Spring. The attend
ance at the two places was estimated at
fifteen hundred, and the greatest abun-
dance for all TO eat.
A splendid rain has fallen here to-day.
Luxuriant crops of corn and tobacco now
greet the eye of the farmer as he looks
over his well-worked fields. j.