The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-19

correspondence oil tue Republican.
WIGGINs, W. Va, Aug. 16, 1891
have just returned from q trip on
horseback to our District Conference
held at Pickaway in Monroe County,
some twenty-five milesfrom here. /
enjoyed the ride greatly, as i passed
Through rich limestone country re-
ljoicing in fine grazing farms. Or
chards of rich fruit and horses and
{cattle of q fine breed, while the houses
all along the road showed that the
owners had an eye to the beautiful
while consulting comfort and conve-
ninence. Every five or six miles ]
came across q Fairbanks platform
scale used for Weighing fat cattle and
ltan-bark of which large quantities are
sold in that region. This country is
well watered aud the timber is of the
best quality.
On arriving at my destination was
given a home with Mr.. George G.
Young. who with his wife and niece
gave me hearty welcome and made
me feel at home at once. Mr.. Young
lis living upon the farm where he was
born some siKty-five years Ggo, and
has all that heart can wish in the way
OF rich land, fine old oak groves, or
chards of rich fruit, nice kitchen gar.
lsary for his purposes.
Among other things he has a pond
filled with carp, some weighing not
less than fifteen pounds. BY way of
Idlgression, let me tell you that this
morning caught q catfish which
weighed eight pounds. The business
of our conference was transacted hnr-
moniously, and was well attended, the
house being we'll filled at each session.
IRot in report on temperance with
resolutions pledging the clergy to use
all the means In their power In the
pulpit and out of it to aid in the abo-
llition OF the trafflcin alcoholic liquors
On this subject let me add that In my
Opposition to this throne of iniquity /
have had my enemies destroy two of
my finest apple trees, and uproot my
currant bushes, but this kind of re-
venRe won't stop me In my fight
against the rum power, and nothing
short of my death or the day OF judg
ment will.
In this State we are bound hand and
loot by men worse than anarchists,
men that have sold themselves to the
rum power of the State, men who
have prostituted public Office to tho
basest uses OF merciless despots, men,
who as members of the license court
lSuHef LneIr SOpnlStfy TO Delle their
reason and In violence to their con.
science. for the sake OF securing few
votes for their party In politics grant
license to men to sell that which draRsI
their fellows down to ruin and in the
lend to blackness and darkness where
hope or mercy can never reach them,
but enough of this.
Our wheat crop has been good and
our corn crop will be fair one; oat 81
came out number one and our gardens
have yielded their increase.
Fruit is better than 1t was last year,
but in some sections the blight has got
in Its deadly work and destroyed a
large number OF fine fruit trees. This
blight is micro-organism which at
tracts the tender twigs working DOWN
ward, destroying the sap until the
whole tree is killed The only remedy
is to cut off the diseased branches and
burn them.
Our prospects are reasonably good
'or wheeling this little mountain State
nto the Republican column. This
county we think will give Republican
majority. Still the fight will he a
strong and bitter one. W. b. w.