Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-24
THE NORTHERN NECK.
FARMERS AGAIN SET BAcA
wrpyr.pAY,s sxow-sroRs'
A. r.v.,son by Drovers-Horses -"
MuIes OF All sises SOFA "
49, ~ Embellishments
Affected by a scarcity Of Money
,o.,.,,.nce of the Dispatch.)


,corrssronaence Of the Dispatch)
CONFORM KING GEORGE COUNT.
VA March z3-Our farmers naa
begun work, and the kinks Oh e..
had scarcely left their long races -.
wednesdays snow-storm set In anu o'o.e
r,ougbmen from the fields. SO IKE '"e
,ah,ed hair that broke the Gamers o"'
MO, this return Of bad weather, tna' !"
discouraged farmers more thah any
hack" they have had this year. f,o"
human point OF view 1t Is no'
wondered at that tillers OF the So'i
discouraged. for but little farm-worA "
any kind has been done, ana the sea'o
is now so far advanced that fun crops
cannot be pitched" To say the ieas'
the present outlook for agriculture ia '"''
section IS serious and gloomy.
Rev. w. II. Savage, who recently re-
signed the pastorate of Hanover bap.is'
church here, left last Monday for Ialpo.
county, Md. Mr.. Savage came 10 hine
George from Nelson county ABOUT tMo
years and a half ago, and ser'eu rV'o
mac and Hanover churches unui idS'
September. lie then severed his connec-
tion with Potomac but continued with
Hanover until about two weeks ago. wnen
he resigned that charge TO go 10 Mary
land. 1910,
King George has been literally INVADED
by droyers from various sections TOT
several months past, and large numbers
of horses and mules OF all ages, SIZES
and descriptions have been brought mere
by them-all for trade or sale at prices
ranging from five dollars or a SOW anu
pigs. up to fifty dollars or a yoke OF
oxen The manned, halt, blind, deal-
the bobbed-tail. the nick-tail-all SORTS
from the wee-wee pony TO the worn-ou',
over-grown, Percheron, are daily exhibited
and many a poor, ignorant man has
traded his only COW and only hog for an
old horse. just for the sake OF owning a
horse, and then find, when II is too late
that he has nothing. Some OF the OLD,
worn-out street-car horses brought mere
from cities and traded 10 our people
either suicide in barbed-wire fence or
break their necks in ditch.
IN DEMAND.
Railroad ties are in better demand here
this month than they have been for more
than a year. Standing timber from which
ties are made Is commanding better
prices than have been offered by the
dealers for two years or more
Many Of the public schools of this
county have closed for the session, and
the others will close in the course of the
next ten days.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for
Stafford Circuit. was held at Andrews
chapel, near Brooks Station. last Satur-
day. Presiding Elder Rumsey Smithson
was present in his official capacity, and
n full corps OF stewards and other Off,
GERS were in attendance.
Messrs. f. w. Mason and s. NJ. Welch.
land assessors for this county, are at
work assessing the King George lands.
MONEY SCARCE.
Agents who control the insurance bust
ness in this section make very dlf-
feTent report of the financial condition
and business outlook for 1895 from those
made by commercial travellers who come
here regularly The insurance-men de-
clare that there has never been greater
scarcity of money than now. and that
none feel this scarcity more keenly than
those who have hitherto been in the
easiest circumstances. II is shown that
I, the Northern Neck has for some years
taken more literally to fire insurance
than. perhaps. any other section of the
State remote from large cities, and that
the insurance business here has steadily
increased both in volume and popularity;
but 1t Is learned from the same source
that a larger number of Businessmen
ask for time" on their policies this
spring than any former period. Now IL
the insurance-men and the travelling
statesmen are each correct I'm their state
monts concerning the financial condi-
ton Of the country Il is evident that the
la crat ahaa1 ~ Ia former and
In the currency, for one reports great
plenty and the other reports great de-
preston BE this as IL may. the average
citizen mods assent to the insurance-man'S
version of the situation. while he signs
and shakes his head doubtfuly when one
declares that money is plentiful and busl-
ness booming.
La grippe is epidemic in some neighbor-
hoods of this and Stafford county, but
in somewhat milder form than it was in
previous years.
1t Is now feared that last Saturday
nights freeze and Wednesdays snow,
followed by fall in the temperature
again Wednesday night. destroyed the
peach-crop. Reports come from some
parts of the county that Saturday nights
severe weather killed both peach and
apple-buds in all bleak orchards along
the Potomac. Certainly a great many
peaches are dead, but to what extent
the snOw-storm damaged the crop
throughout the county has not been as
certained as yet. The orchards are be-
ing examined.
A DRY COUNTY.
An Alexandria horse-trader came down
here this week and in forty-eight hours
after his arrival pronounced King George
the dryest' place In the whole world"
The day was cold and raw, and he
FASTENED In the first store and ordered
drink. I'VE don't keep it," said the mer-
chant. He galloped off to another store,
and called for drink. I'VE don't keep
IT. sir he was told again. Galloping four
miles to another store-a fiourishng es-
tablishment-the call for a drink was
repeated. I'VE don't keep anything to
drink, SIR" greeted the strangers ears a
third time, whereupon the shlvering
AleXandrian said: Good Id Mr., I'm
dying for a drink of whiskey. VIII you
tell me where | can find it?" well, sir"
said this merchant. you might find some
thing TO drink in Fredericksburg twenty
miles away, but King George is a local
option county-'dry.' you know" The city
man sighed, rode over TO the Potomac
to meet steamboat. and declared that
everything In the county was dry" even
the wells and milch-cows, and that he
never before rode day after day with
out seeing an intoxicated person, but here
he had not even seen a red nose or a
man who Looked lilo n loafo.