Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-30
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
SOMETHING ABOUT SESSIONS or
THE TloEWATER BAPTlSTs.
The Hsppahanpock Association nc Coau
Church-Creps Damaged by the
Droaght--100 Years Old.

tCcrrospondence OF the Kicnmont Dlspefch.l
CoMcRy, KING GroRoE COUNTY. Va, July
T.-The Rappahspnock Baptist Associs-
ton convened in annual session at Coan
church, In Northumberland county, on
Wednesday OF this week. Both Potomac
and Rappshannock steamers carried
large delegations and many ministers
from the upper counties Of tho
Northern Neck on last Monday, and
among these were ministers and laymen
from other associations. These annual
meetings OF the Tidewater Baptists have
grown IN interest and popularity from
year to year. and now the meeting OF tins
great body means the minglipg together
OF vast concourse Of people OK va
rious religious denominations. The pres
ent session is characterized by one pecu-
liarly sad feature. and that Is the vacant
seat OF the late General X. Il. 4. Beale,
whose familiar form, clarion voice, and wise
counsel for SO many years formed signin,;
cant part OF these annual meetings ana
added force and pleasure TO this august
deliberatiye body. Several years AGO
General Beale delivered powerful adj
dress ut one of these Northern Neck Bap-
fist conventions, choosing The Missing
Link" as his theme, aud now, as his sur
wing associates gather around bis vacant
chair that grand old Christian and patriot
press upon their memory as 1.-The missing
link" of this convention.
THE GoyTRsoRsHrP.
The circulation heia this week of the
printed address by the "OFerrall State
Organization has served largely to disa--
buse the public mind of the impression that
Colonel O'Ferrall is not n sym pathy with
the agricultural interests Of the country.
On account Of some family connection
here Hon. J. Hoge Tyler has had the In
side track in King George from the start,
but this week has not been without very
decided changes, and the substantial de-
velopments in public sentiment are In
Colonel O'FerralPs favor, and If bis friends
go into the county convention on the first
Thursday in August with the same enthu-
siasm that characterizes the Tyler folks
0'Ferrall will have majority OF the King
George delegates. This whole section or
the State is very ENTHUSIASTIC over state
Senator William A. Little, Of Fredericks-
burg. for Attorney General, and 1t is now
nearly certain that there will not be sim
gle dissenting voice in the county mass
meeting against him. Senator Little on
the State ticket will break the force OF the
Populist movement here in the fall cleo
ton for the reason that he is the
chorce of the farming element throughout
Tidewater. The statements here made
relauve 10 the several aspirants IN con-
nection with the prevailing sentiment In
this section of the State are not simply the
views of any single individual or faction,
but we speak entirely advisedly after
careful study and investigation OF tho
situation.
SERIOUS FORM.
The IN oapfral and mort h.
ern parts Of this and the lower part OF
Stafford counties has assumed serious
form, and if it continues many dsve longer
the corn crop will be cut short at least 10
per cent. No amount of rain now can save
the late Irish potato and early melon crop.
for already the vines are drying up and
DYING. Many Of the large streams are
without q drop of water and the pastures
have not sufficient grass aud water to sus-
tam cattle and horses.
HER sAEcTIFIcATioN.
An old colored woman who claimed 10 be
l09 years old has just died in this county,
and so triumphant was her death and so
remarkable were her demonstrations OF
faith aud evidences of "sancttcatiou
that the white people of the ueighborhood
we're attracted TO her bedside, and still
the case is topic OF conversation. The
wonderful part Of II is that one entirely
untaught and unlettered should close life
by such utterances as are oulv commanded
by the most learned. While her claim
for 100 years Is not satisfactorily
vouched for. yet there seems to be no
doubt whatever that she was past 100
years Of age.
SHARK TEETH.
Perfectly preserved shark teeth were
recently found in this county By WE'LL
digger fully forty feet below the earth's
surface, and il is an unexplained mystery
how they were deposited that depth. as
the ground at that place had never before
bsen broken beyond the ordinary depth
of plow-furrow, and that on q high hill
where the rains for many generations
have tended TO wear the earth away rather
than heap it upon the long-hidden in
Cts0rS.
Several hundred barrels of peaches and
apples have been shipped from this county
to Washington. ID. c., this week, and the
proceeds from the same are so very un-
that the fruit enterprise will
racatua hut iittla at on ion hprpaft0r-