Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-24
THE NORTHERN NECK
SUMMER VISITORS swARMINc TO
THIS RURAL SECTION.


CONFORM. KING GEORGE COUNTY.
VA, June 1.-(special)-Cards are out for
the marriage OF Dr. Thomas T. Arnold.
one OF our most prominent citizens. TO
Miss Ella T. Coehiil. both Of this county.
The ceremony will take place at 81.
Johns Episcopal church on next wednes-
day evening at $50 o'clock, and will be
the event Of the season.
CITY VISITORS.
The attractive residential portions OF
the county are being enlivened by city
visitors. who are 'swarming" to the plea
SAINT rural regions to spend summers
heated term with their country cousins.
aunts. and uncles. The very interesting
and engaging sports OF fishing. boating.
shooting. riding, berry-hunting, fruit
picking, &C., afford endless amusement
and healthfuI recreation for the gay and
bleached city-foiks; but the nrst happy
days outing among the wild-nowers. on
the water. or in the saddle paints the
cheeks and sun-tans the hands OF these
pleasure-seekers with that rudy hue OF
the rural native.
LOcUsTs IN STAFFORD.
AS stated a week ago. the seventeen
wear Iocusts have not appeared In this
section but I'm some sections or stanford,
the adjoining county. they literally cover
the trees and the face Of the earth, and
although but very slight damage has
been done by them, many OF the people
are greatly disturbed by their presence,
fearing lest hunger may drive the sweet
singers" TO intolerable conduct. Many
wonderful accounts OF the locusts are
going the rounds. and he who can tell
the most wonderful story is the Gnan Tor
the times-a perfect mOnstrosIty. Indeed
and can gain the attention and audience
OF anybody and everybody. A funeral pro-
cession. preacher, mOurners, and corpse,
will stop on the highway under the parch-
ing sun-rays. to listen to a story aoous
the peculiarities OF the seventeen-year
locusts now in some parts of Northern
Virginia. And so many people have sud
denly become practical 60 entomologists
and are making elaborate investigations,
such as tracing the route OF the locust
all the way back to its starting-point.
away down deep in the very bosom or
mother earth.
A GOOD ONE.
One man states that he traced a route
a straight. round hole, as II made with an
auger-two hundred yards 900 feeD down
In the ground without reaching the point
from which the locust came. This was
done by attaching a lead ball to the end
OF a spool OF cotton and gradually letting
the ball down into the hole In the ground
until the entire 200 yards of cotton was
wound off the spool This svas stated as
a bona fide fact. and is generally accepted
by the public But men are by no means
plentiful who will vouch for the truth OF
many similar stories told since the advent
of our seventeen-year visitors, supersti-
tious stories of the warnings OF war,
pestilence. and famine, which some poor.
alarmed mortals imagine they near De-
tween the songs of the cicada.
THE HEATED TERM.
With the thermometer ranging from III
TO 102 for some days this week, our mar
vesters are working under great disad-
yantages. Several horses have already
fallen dead in the fields from exhaustion
produced by the intense heat.
The corn fields have been so many
weeks without rain that IT Is now impos-
sble to pillow them In many parts or the
county. and should the drought continue
much longer a number Of fields must be
abandoned, and the crops lost.