Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-01-08
MiddlehrN0k News.

| Your correspondent was in Lexington last
week. Went through from home in a buggy,
and therefore had ample chance to see the
| country. There are some very fine farms and
residences along the road, one in particular,
and that is Mr.. Mitchell's, near Brownsburg.
The house is pleasantly situated on Lice rise
to the right Of the road as you go toward Lex
ington, on either side of the road there stretch.
| es forth fields rich in verdant pasture, but
| poor In briers and rocks, things often neglect>
ed by farmers. The large and spacious barns
are situated to the left of the road, and are
very clean and neat and also very comforta-
BILE. There everything in the way of stock and
| farming implements are sheltered f.om the
destructive elements; you don't see this gen.
| tleman's wheat drill and mower. reaper and
buggy rake. plows. &c. sitting where he I'm
ished using them last in the field but they
| are taken to the implement where they
are cleaned up and properly put away. This
model farmer has also the very finest import
ed horse he could get but it was not my pleas
ure to see him /; good judge pronounce him a
very fine horse Everything around this farm
is neatness itself. Some farms we saw along
the road had briery fence corners. and wheat
drills and other utensils sitting in the fields
where last used F; but you never see 1t at this
farm. We would suppose from the general APP
pearance of things that this gentleman has
plenty of that material called money, and he
is using 1t to beautify his premises as well as
make everything comfortable around him,
Such a mode of farming is sure to be remuner.
alive, to say the least. Cedar Grove, that once
busy hive of industry and thrift, now looks
like it had bid final and lasting farewell to
prosperity, and had entered into the last stage
of diiapidation. Along the road above there,
some nice little residences have been erected
lately. The corn crop seems to be about all
gathered and great deal of blowing done for
the spIing crops. Commonwealth's Attorney
Moore has the next best-arranged farm we
came t.. Everything is neat and clean and
reminds one of a Kentucky blue grass resi-
dence and farm. He has a tremendous amount
OF fodder, baled hay, and straw, and the cattle
will surely fare well at his barns. We next
came to Mr.. Joseph Shaner's market-garden
and bot-house. Everything there is indica-
tive CT great prosperity and thrift.
East Lexington does not improve much in
the way of buildings, though great praise. in
deed, is due to the people of that section for
their hospitality and charity. We saw moth
ing new around the V. NJ l. or the w. & l.. U.
Everything was lean and neat. There seems
to be a good set of students at both places this
session.
Dad at East Lexington, ON Tuesday morn
ing, the l4th uit.. Mrs. Maggie Walker Smith,
wife OF Mr.. James NJ. Smith, and sister of Mrs
SpeDee and Mrs. jones' She died Of consrmp-
ton. She bad been beofas5 fer something
over a month he was perfectly resigned to
the will o: her God, IN whom she trusted. She
trusted fully in GOD and left bright evidence
of her acceptance with God. She leaves a
young husband. but no chidre The stroke
falls heavily upon the aged father well as
the husband and other relatives. She was in
TERED at the cemetery in Lexington on We'd
nesday at O'Clock p. M. large concourse of
sorrowing friends and relatives attending.
The services were conducted by Rev. A. M
Cackley. OF the Methodist Church. The pail
bearers were ]. Boyd Shannon. Benz. Tankes-
ley, W. M. Neltz, Frank Argen brig ht, W. M.
Eaton. and Lewis Humphries. The casket was
a ye-y neat one and was furnished by Mr. Ag-
nor of Lexington. The husband, friends and
relatives have the sympathy of the community.
Deceased had been married but a short time.
Mrs. Catharine Talley, of this place, is quite
Ill at her residence here.
Christmas passed off quietly here A few
colored men were taken In and fined for being
drunk and disorderly. O.