Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-07-17
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FROM APPOMATTOX.

On wednesday last, the 10th, Mr.. w. +.
Johnston, formerly of Richmond, but now of
Appomattox, took US in his jersey through the
eastern part of Campbell county to q point
near Gladys, pretty village on the Lynch
burg and Durham Railroad. So far as seen,
the crops along the route were fine and
well cultivated, but, regrettable to say, the
ravages committed by chinch-bugs were visi-
bic. Tobacco is the leading industry Of Camp
bell county, and has been so from time i'm
memorial. The farmer always considers a TO-
bacco barn as his bank" There lives near
Gladys practical farmer by the name of Will
liam A. Legrand. He believes in raising grain,
vegetables, fruit, &c, on large scale. And,
moreover, he is jack-of- all-trades. He built
a dwelling house, and grist mill, both of
which are commodious, carpenters shop,
blacksmith's, an undertaker's and others too
numerous to mention, all by himself on the
farm he bought. He has the finest garden in
the neighborhood if not in the county where
vegetables of all kinds grow luxuriantly. He
has an extensive orchard where every tree is
groaning under the weight of fruit. Among
the beverages he makes is white wine, which
He keeps a large apiary in the loft of his
residence Mrs. Legrand who, by the way,
received US with the grace of those ''to the man
ner born" has a sweet-scented flower called
Cape Jessamine, full of snow white blossoms
near window through which it sends its
fragrance into her house. Mr. Legrand was a
ward master in Staunton during the war. The
smallpox of a malignant type then broke out
there, and resulted in many deaths Mr.. Le-
| grand took out sixteen corpses himself at a
time, but he did not catch the disease. 1t
| should be stated that he had been vaccinated
| in all his limbs, and so, he was thoroughly in
noculated
Two weeks ago son of Mrs. Lizzie Thomas
of Lynchburg who IS summering with her
family in Concord, while picking cherries in
a tree, fell is feet down on paling fence just
beneath. The sharp ends of the palings pen
etrated his leg several inches. His mother
| lifted him up from the palings with difficulty.
Strange to say, he is mending.
In a late electric storm, lightning struck
| Granville Nash's residence in Appomattox,
shattering the windows and clock, but fortu-
| nately none of the family was hurt.
A few nights ago, Mrs. Pollard, an old des-
titute woman living near Spout Spring was
robbed of her fowls. In order to keep her
quiet within walls, the robbers fired a pistol
several times, then broke into the hen-house
| and carried all the fowls off.
There is fellow in the country who is noted
| for keeping thin horse. Not long ago, an
| urchin took hat around, and got money
enough to buy box of magic food and pre-
scented it to him. The fellow was angered, and
made threat to inflct punishment on him,
which he would have carried into effect, had
| the youthful donor, not scampered in time.
| There are anumber of pensioners in the coun-
| try, some of whom have married widows of
| low estate. One of these widows not long
since telling widow in better circumstances
how happy she was, because she had pen
stoned husband, and he was amply able to
support her, insinuated to her that she could
get her such husband. The latter frowned
| and threatened to whip her, if she dared make
such hint again.
Rev. William Cumming, Pastor of the Sec
| ond Presbyterian church, Staunton, passed
| through our village on Tuesday, the 9th, en-
route to Prince Edward county to join his
family. Among other things, he said that the
roads across the mountains and hills from At
| ton to Mt. Olivet six miles from Concord,
were the worst he ever travelled-steep, rocky,
muddy, rutty, etc, and probably half of the
way he could hardly make more than three
miles an hour. These roads, as well as all the
others in Virginia, should be mended at once
and kept in good order. Good roads will raise
the value of farms, contiguous to them.
Mr.. Earnest Tyler, of Staunton, spent sew
eral days of last week with friends here. He
seemed to be much pleased with our city"
1t is a great pleasure to US to know that the
excellent SPECTATOR is still in possession OF
Mr.. Mauzy, the venerable and able pen driver
May he be long spared to the journalistic
world HING.