Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-03
WINTER HAS GONE. !"
A SONG THAT FLOATED ALONG
LIKE A BAnBINGER OF HOPE.
suaering Of People, stock, and
Camc-The Doctors Rested ana
cooa Health Rcsults-Baneful Ef.
fccts Of Dad Ronds-PersonHl.
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fC,rrespondence OF the Dispatch.)
ACTON. VA. March 2.-Mr. Han, our
"Ed" Hall. the genial and wide-awake
depot-agent. st Alton, hummed a NICE
little song the other day that began-anu
ended-"winter has gone and summer Is
come again" The wind-a forty-nve-miie-
a.mlnute blast-blew down from Hump
hack: the snow-drIfts piled IN baby noun
tains all around: the open places were
mud, muck. and slush; bouofniess'
acknowledgements one cared to come out
at the seat OF war" over yonder-out
that nice little song" winter has
p-o-n-e." foated straight along like
barbinger OF hope. AMI made the Dispatch
man feel as 'jolly" as Mark Tapley. We
are all impatient To s'ng madrigais OF
spring. for the winter has been terror.
People and stock nave suffered from the
intense cold IN this high climate. VIE
the worst passed many OF our farmers
are short OF feed ana cattle and horses
are being sold a. ruinous prices
SAVE THE BIRDS.
Thousands Of small game, Wild turkeys,
birds. etc. have died IN the mountains
and there should be The strictest prohici-
tion against hunting or destroying the re-
mainder. The poorer whites, as well as
the negroes ere many or them hal-
starved. They will trap or shoot the game
10 its total extsrmind5ion unless
stringent measures are at once enforced
by the rame-laws. MI. lanes Goodioe
has had about twenty young lambs
frozen. Numbers Of sneep and calves are
left with frosted Feet and the domestic
fowls survive with blackened combs. Jobs
comforter says the May cherries are al
ready gone, and the l,ach-crpp blighted
In the bloom.
THE bright SIDE.
Fortunately for us, we are two or three
weeks later here for fruits and vegetables,
and IL IL not generally thought that we
will lose even the earlier varieties. "A
merry heart doeth good like medicine"
saith the Bible. It's better to be jolly ana
hopeful. Body and brain have done their
winters work well: let's humor them
little and count the blessings.
We have been phenomenally. fearfully
healthy. Our doctors have had good
rest. sitting by the fire and studying all
about the anti-toxine theory and the the
rapeuticsl influences Of disease germs,
&C., while the Great Doctor, for the
healing OF the nations" has been freezing
out the microbes and the bacter with
medicine from Arctic waves of 10 below
zero.
We have plenty OF ice. and the snow
has been good for the wheat Never
mind II it is selling low. II tastes just
as well. and It yet takes 357 pounds pei
capita to feed the average American. The
Inevitable clouds are all silver lined. The
things that lie within the helpful pro
vince of man make the tustiiiable grum'
bier.
GIVE Us GOOD ROADS.
The roads. Put It down in big capitals
place a period, and let imagination dc
the rest. Enough has been written tc
make a corduroy road from here TO John
O'Groars House, The condition OF the
Virginia roads retard traffic. The freight
receipts are less and the railroads surfer
the bark and tobacco teams stop haulins
and the drivers want for wages; less
money in circulation and everything tied
up. Give us good roads or set Edison 70
work on food pellets. and somebody else
finish the invention Of air-ships.
The deaths here, with one exception.
have been sudden, and mostly OF Old
persons who have succumbed TO the uh'
usual rigor OF the winter
A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE GONE.
PARALYSIS Tuesday evening while cutting
wood, and died Wednesday morning at
) o'clock: aged ~ years. He was an old
soldier and well known about Alton.
For many years he had lived alone and
yended fruit To the summer boarders
at the hotels. He was buried near Bates
vile.
Mr.. Ernest Cook and Miss Lena CrlS-
zen were married Wednesday night.
The festivities of the coming week VIII
not interfere with Lent, as we have been
in a state of social inertia more or less
for a month.
Miss Carrie Wayt, Of stanton. is visit
ing Mrs. Tom Martin.
Mrs. John G.. SPOTS. OF the Royal
Orchard" will enlarge and improve her
residence for summer boarders, and Mr..
James Garwood moves UP there as man.
ager.