Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-28
ATTENDANCE At COUNTY COURT.
yudgc ChaIkIey ON ConcenIed
wenpons-WOads Biocknded.

sTAUNTON. VA. February G-tSpc-
oial)-To-day IS County-Court-day, ana
the protractcd spell OF Indictment weather
having kept the farmers housed and $50
lated for so long time, they are IN town
to-day in full force both for business ana
TO exchange stories OF terrible experience
with the blizzard.
This Is n grand-jury term, and Judge
ChalkIcy to-day. in charging his grand
Jurors, laid special stress on the iact
:hat carrying concealed weapons was be-
coming q dangerously common practice
and further referred to the epidemic OF
homicide which has swept over this sec
ton. ,
In the past eighteen months In our jan
there have been inoarcerated nine persons
charged with nine different homicidfs;
three or four OF these cases. 1t Is true
have come from adjacent counties
Our streets are yet In many places sohh
blocks Of Ice. and II is requiring the most
vigorous strokes OF pick and mattock 10
clean of the paved ways. the street.
cars have not yet begun to run again.
The farmers report that In the sice
roads the snow-drifts still linger SIX ana
eight feet deep. and many places are Gu,
off from outside communication via fodu-
ways by these high masses OF snow. Inc
prolonged cold has been terrible tax on
the farmers. as n much greater amount OF
grain and long forage was required 10
| support their horses and cattle.
However. the bright side to the picture
| ia that an average acreage OF wheat was
sown. and this and the outlook TOT grass
| and hay Is good, protected and bianketeu
as these crops have been by the kindly
coyerlet Of snow.
| FRUIT CROPS.
The cherry and peach crops viii amount
| IA little but there is every prospect OF
| "a generous apple crop Recently uhere
| tas been an active local movement III
| cultivating small fruits and operating
| truck-gardens, which has conspired Dotl
| 10 improve the stocks in our local market
| and to keep at home a lot OF money mere
tofore going out of the county.
The agricultural implement trade Is en-
courared at the outlook for the coming
| season. and say that with the prospect
Of good hay and wheat crops they VIII
sell more implements than last year.
IL Is announced that the Philadelphia
National League baseball team VIII play
three games here in April Who the op-
posing team will be ia not yet declared.
but at that early date in the season IL is
presumed the club VIII have sufhcieht
force to make two mines.
our people are very dHNipho t""N ~
Stanton is not TO be In the Virginia
League this season, the State League
teams In making their schedules Will play
fifteen or twenty games at this point
stanton and Augusta parties were
caught I'm the Lexington Bank Crash 10
the extent of $1,000 or $1,000.
Since the crash a number OF Rockbridge
and Lexington people have become de.
posltors In Staunton's rock-ribbed national
banks.
MIR. Frank NJ White, of Richmond
left to-day for his home after spending
several DAYS with his children. who re-
side here with their grandmother. Mrs'
Mary Tabb Wake.
Miss Bennett. of Richmond. KY, Is IN
the city. the guest Of DR.. and Mrs. Frank
NJ. Hanger.
Miss Boydc Faulkner daughter OF
Senator Charles J. Faulkner, OF west
Virginia. Is In the city, the guest OF the
Misses Van Lear. a handsome german
is being given at Crowle's Han tonight
I'm honor OF the West Virginia belle.
Deputy-Circu Clerk Thomas ID. WOOD
ward. who fractured his right arm nj the
wrist by a fall on the ice few days ago.
"a ont on the streets, but II will be some
weeks before he can actively attend TO
his clerical duties.