Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-27
NOT TYPICAL CHRISTMAS.
No Tin Horns aud Pop-Crackers-A Fox
Hunt--A Prosperous Farmer Dead.

No Tin Horns and Pop-Crackers-A Fox
Hunt--A Prosperous Farmer Dead.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch!
CHASE CRY. Va. December 2s.-So lar
as the weather was concerned YESTERDAY
was not the typical Christmas-oay t1a. Is
Claus amid icicles and snowfakes. IL was
bright and lovely weather and the Their
mometer indicated from 60 10 90 degrees
from morning to evening. Human
memory is totally unreliable about
the weather. / met over a. dozen
men Yesterday and propounded the ques-
ton "What kind Of weather DID we nave
on Christmas-day of last year," No two
agreed about it and some maintained ~
was very pleasant day, while the fact Is
il was showing, hailing. freezing, and
more disagreeable out: of-doors day
could not be imagined. To say that the
utmost tranquility prevailed Yesterday
would express it mildly, but that the day
was excessively dull and disagreeabiy
dry would more nearly approximate inc
true condition.
NO TIN HORNS.
Except the fact that about twenty young
men. with the same number OF hounds en-
gagged in a fox-hunt and caught TWO
and started several deer. there was
the bows with tin horns and pop-crack-
ers seem TO have disappeared But
everybody had good dinner, and doubt
less more turkeys were eaten here than on
any previous anniversary festival. Pres,
ents were freely bestowed and kind and
friendly greetings exchanged.
DIPLOMA RECEIVED.
The Mineral Water Company here has
lust received the diploma awarded by the
Virginia State Agricultural and Mechanl;;
cal Society 'for the best mineral
water exhibited at the Fair in the year
1891" signed by A. 5. Buford, president
and A. r. Venable, secretary,
MIR. George b. Waystafl died at his home
IN the Bluestone district OF this county on
Sunday morning, in his sixty-sixth year.
He was prosperous farmer with money
ahead, and was q striking Illustration OF
the saving that there Is more in the man
than in the land" to make money by farm
ING. By attention, systematic tertllizlng.
good cultivation and drainage he made
poor land highly productive and profita-
bic. while his neighbors with similar lands
adjoining have been scarcely able to make
buckIe and tongue meet. His was poor
tract when he bought it many years ago,
but now il is the most fertile and desira:
BILE of any in that locality. He always had
something on his farm to sell produced on
it and bought only what he could not
make.
PERSONAL.
Rev. W. r. Smithey, the newly appoint
ed Methodist pastor Tor this place, arrived
this week, and his first sermons very ia
vorably impressed his congregation. lie
is an improvement on his predecessor.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Drew. ,synodlcal evan
gelist of missions. arrived yesterday on q
visit TO his children here.
Mrs. Fannie l.. Harding, wife of Mr.
Nathaniel Harding. died here of the grip
| followed by pneumonia this week. She
was daughter of g. A. White, of Reno
| both. Iunenburg county; was married on
tho 18th instant 10 Mr.. Harding, and lived
only ten deys. She was a sister OF A. j.
White. of Manchester.
Mr.. s. j. Boyd. millionaire Of Wheel
| ing. w. Va, is here on "a visit to his bro
thssr, John E. Boyd. Esq. one of the pio-
| neers of this town.
| At the close of the revival of Rev. j. f.
| Illusions here there were many additions
| to the churches.
| COMING MARRIAGE.
| Announcement is made of the marriage
| on the 3Oth instant of Mr.. Norman H.
| Williams, cashier of the Bank of Chase
| City, to Miss WillieJesup Russell. daugh.
| ter of William Russell. Esq, OF this coun-
| ty.
| Many college students have been here
| this week to visit parents and friends and
| enjoy the Christmas festivities.
Both hotels here will change proprietors
next year.
| There are no vacant houses and no bust
ness changes contemplated for anoth,l
| year.
During the year there have been no fires
! fights. failures, or fatalities and we feel a:
| if we have been favored, fortunate, friend
| ly, and forgiven. if not forgotten.