Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-27
HAPPIER FAMILIES.
GOOD TOBACCO CROPS AND LIVING
PRicEsAT CHASE CRY.
Absence ofths Mortgage system sad inde'
pepdence OF the Farmer-A Distress
ing Innaenzs--In shs Dispatch.

(cOrcspoodonce OF tho Richmond Dispatch
CHAsR CIrY, Va. November 26.-The IA
vorable weather Of this week for handling
tobacco has caused an influx Of this COM
modify to the different warehouses here
The demand has been equal to the supply
and most satisfactory prices for all grades
have prevailed. As this Is exclusively the
money crop Of the farmers Of this section
when rsmunerative values are obtained
they become better satisfied with tne,f
avocation. and women and children took
for ward with brighter hopes Tor the en-
joyment OF the winter festivities. inen "a
addition there has been raised an aounu,
ance Of bread-stufs for the famiiy. anu
grain aud forage for the stock, aud TIE TO-
bacco money can be otherwise appropri-
ated instead OF buying provisions.
NO RUINoUs kDyANcEa.
The mortgage system on growing crops
hy merchants as prevails IN the COTTON
producing section has no foothoid nere'
and the products of the farm can be dis-
posed of bv the owner when, wherever
and in any manner his convenience or III.
terests may suggest. In fact, thers - ~
advancing by commission merchent te
make a crop-a ruinous policy 70 ali .con
oerned in vogue here about ten year
AGO. As an old farmer remarked re"
DAYS DAYS ago, Il ask no favors now, an
under no Obligations, and every tho mas te
stand upon its own bottom. lt has oeeh
hard time getting 10 il, but It IS the oes'
and safest plan after all. snd L now sec my
way clear
m TT WILL STAY SETTLED"
1po oonol,sion reached nv the fnan
ciers for the adjustment of the State deo'
is considered by the thinking men avery
satisfactory one If 1t will stay settled an
be kept out of politics and never more az
| ford a way for demagOgues to ride lnte
official power.
GRIP Remedy.
There has been for the last month . DIS
| tressing influenza perYading this ana con
| tiguous communities. 1t is on the wans
now. The best way 10 treat 1t IS ike th'
| doctors modern method of treating W,
| phoid- fever-that is. mot TO treat IL az
au.n Knowing ones say Avoid eA
posure. take an aperient, eat little, ano
| the grip, OF whatever 1t Is called, WIN Ipl
| its course and leave the system when th'
| time comes
JUDGE BoULpIN's DEATH.
Judge Thomas Tyler BouldIn, OF the ad
| Joining county of Charlotte, died last weel
| in his seventy-niuth year. HIS father, o.
| the same name, was the successor OF th'
celebrated John Randolph as the repre-
| sentative of this congressional olstrle,
and who died ON the floor of Congress q;
he ross TO make speech on the sarln
question February "a, 1894. He was coun
~ nudge of Charlotte from 1874 to 1881 ano
was a brother of the late Judge Wooc
Bouldin, of the Virginia Court of Appeals
The estate on which Judge 4. Il. Bomdin
died was the one where he was born and
| it had been in the family for over "a cen
tury, the oldest in continuous possession
Of one family IN the county.
SPECIAL TERM.
A recent letter from Judge +. ID. Irving
of Farmyille. states that IN consequence
of the feeble condition OF his health 81
! will not hold his regular Circuit Court II
| Mecklenburg this month. A special tern
will be held by some other circuit Judge IL
January of next year.
Mr. John L. Hughes, who moved TO thi'
| place from Pittsylvanis county last TAI
| and is now a member OF our Town Coun
Gil. has been very Ill for week or more
| but is now convalesoent and Will doubt
| less soon be able TO resume his regula
| business.
THE LIGBT or TIE DESPATCH.
Some few weeks ago there appeared II
the correspondence from this place IN tn
! DlsPArcH mention that our Town Counci
was aeitating the question OF providing
electric lights for the town. Since tina
| tlme the clerk of the Council has received
scores of letters. pamphlets, and PROPOSE
tions in reference 10 electrical apparatus
| from Boston to Atlanta. Pittsburg to DE
! troit. and, IN fact, from nearly every manu-
featuring city North and West. Surely Ia
! hyhJ Of the DISPATCH enligltens a vas
| scope of country.
| Thanksgiying-day was observed Wy pal
| tial suspension Of business, church sel
ices. and feastiug GU the largest and mos
| palatable native American fowl.
/ Men from Connecticut are continual
herr roaming over forests fOr hickory tim
| Der. They say our hickory IL elastic an
arm aud well adapted for their purposes
! An immense quantity has been shippe
| from here,
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