Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-12-08
BLACKSBURG'S NEWS
Winter Takes q Hand 10 Dead
Earnest.
SOME DISTINGUISHED NAME
Church Notes-New, But Secret
Method of PreservinG Appies-A
the College Laboratory.
Correspondence OF the Dispatch.)

water-plpes to freeze and the ponds in
the neighborhood had on them a good.
solid coating of ice. The skaters have
gotten out and rubbed up their skates,
and II the present spell continues they
Will very soon have an opportunity 10 use
them.
The college roll contains quite distin-
guished names upon II. From last ses-
sion W brought over an ex-President
Of the United States and an Ex-Governor
Of Virginia-Benjamin Harrison ana
Henry A. Wise Naturally we looked ior
distinguished additions. but none of US
presumed TO expect the great English
commoner or the great American humo-
risl. and yet they are both here-Giad-
stone and Mark Twain-who maintain
nobly their high regulations.
DR.. McBryde, who was indy called
TO Philadelphi by a telegram announc-
ing the sad and sudden death OF re-
lative, returned on Tuesday last. On
Thursday morning he left for Richmond.
to attend the meeting OF the Board oi
Visitors Of the coliegc. This Is the regular
semi-annual meeting
The Blacksburg Post, a bright and
newsy sheet, maze its appearance here
last w Elk Its owner and Gator, Mr.. LIN
NETT Price, promises that succeedins
issues shall be even more newsy anu
brighter than the FIRST If so. Mr.. Price
viii do well and place our community
under obligations TO him.
CHURCH NOTES.
Rev. Mr. Gamble. a young Episcopal
minister, sent by the Bishop as pastor Oh
the Christiansburg and biacksours
churches. preached his first sermon here
on last Sabbath, and made .ery favor
able impression on al VINO heard him.
Rev james NJ. Holiday, the pastor
Of the Presbyterian church, has been alb
sent for the past week. preaching at
White House church. by order OF MS
presbytery
what has become OF THE Idle Re
porter? We miss very much his hume
rous and entertaining letters from the
Dispatch, and hope that he may be soon
again prevailed upon to take up his facile
pen.
Your correspondent was shown last June
an apple in perfect state OF preserva-
tion which was one of number when
had been stored and kept since the nrst
of the preceding November. The young
man who exhibited II refused TO state
how 1t had been so long kept, but SAID IL
was a discovery of his own, very llttle
trouble. and comparatively inexpensive.
He had, merely to test his method, stored
quite "A number, and they were all In
equally as good state OF preservation.
If this is really true, and have no rea-
son TO doubt II, II is really remarkable.
and the secret would be to our farmers
and fruit-growers a very valuable piece
of information.
FATAL CHICKEN DISEASE.
A very strange and fatal disease has
prevailed among chickens In this section
during the past fall. The veterinary sur
geon at the Virginia Agricultural and Me-
chanical College pronounces II very bad
form of Indigestion, for which there is APP
parently no other remedy than change OF
food. &C. But this has not been found
eficacious and great numbers have died
from IL. 1t seems TO have abated some
what with the coming Of cold weather.
Our farmer friends have been very bust
ly engaged during the past week in Kill
ing their hogs. and unusually fine ones
they are. AS corn was abundant and low.
! and the mass very heavy, the hogs are
very fat and large. and as they have
| during the past twelve months been to-
| tally free from disease, there are great
many OF them. Pork Is selling at s. per
| hundredweight. Corn and oats remain
stationary at 10 and % cents per bushel.
and good hay Is bringing 30 cents per
hundredweight. delivered.
AS the students were absent In Lynch
burg on Thanksgiving Day, Mine Host
Kipps OF the college mess, postponed his
| Thanks giving dinner, but the boys say
| that when did come IL was great"
| Other guests than the students were pres
! ent by special invitation, and rarely has
! repast more tempting 10 the palate or
more sumptuous In all its appointments
been served in Blacksburg.
| Messrs James T. Hardwck and Charles
| Crumpecker are absent In Augusta on a
business trip and report business as very
lively.
Outside Of Radford not a drop OF wh!s-
| KEY or any ntoxicant is sold in our coun-
". Local option has prevailed for more
| than ten years. our experience diners
widely from that OF the people OF Oman
cock, as given by your newsy correspond
| ent from that place. For the first few
years we were a good deal annoyed by
| the moonshiners peddlirg Hootentop. as
well as by local dives; but a firm adhe-
renee TO the law and faithful exc
| cution of II by the officers has had the
| effect Of almost completely suppressing
illicit traffic. and we now boast one OF
the most orderly and sober counties In
| the State
Misses Annie Bell and Matte Martin
| daughters of Rev. Or. Taylor Martin
| of Dublin, are visiting their friend, Mrs
| Kent Black, at her attractive home, on
the city limits.
Mrs Theodore p. Campbell who has
been visiting friends and relatives in
! Richmond and Petersburg for the past
month. returned home on Friday.
Miss Bessie Hooper. daughter Of Rev
| DR.. T. w. Hooper. Of Chris iiansburg Is
visiting friends in Richmond.
The friends of Mr.. A. o. Sullivan were
very much pleased to see In the Dis.
| patch that he was reelected to his form
| er position, and especially at the mag
| nifcent ovation extended him by the eau
| Gus.
II is with sincere regret that I learr
that the condition Of Judge Gardner. tbs
loved and trusted treasurer of the col
| lege. Is by no means so favorable.
Professor Robert c. Price, of the chemi
al department of the college. has re
emily finished a large amount OF chemi
cal analysis for the State Of materia
vhich was sent him by Commissions
thomas Whitehead Of Richmond. Mr.
Price and his assstants-Messrs Sampl
nd Heavener-are doing a quantity 0
work. Of this sort In their laboratory
| Quantities are also sent to the laborator,
very month by our farmers and land
,wners for analysis. This work. unde
Professor Prices direction, Is Away
ione promptly and accurately, and tn
esults given TO the farmer at no cost 4
! aim.
RADFORD.
farrfage--Did Not Come-LocaI
Option.