Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-08-07
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FROM APPOMATTOX.


VI Her wings and not her feet
, BROKEN WING.
For the SPECTATOR.
FROM APPONIATTOX.
1t has been seasonable since Wednesday, VI
to which we had had no rain of any conse
quence for four weeks, particularly in thi
neighborhood. most welcome rain camt
on that evening" and it fell continually
through the night, thus giving new life tt
vegetation.
There was concert by Colored Bras:
Band in Concord few evenings ago. Darwin
would have said it was ludicrous; he would
moreover have told the people present that the
power of producing and appreciating music
existed among the human race long before the
power of speech was arrived at.
The scarcity of buzzards has been comment
ed on. 1t is generally supposed that the cold
;snap, long to be remembered, last winter,
killed many of them. These birds flap heavily
through the air all day long. From the way
they find carcass or even dead snake, it is
evident that. though apparently stupid their
sense of smell is keen. Whoever saw their
nests?
| That this soil, especially on this ridge, is
peculiarly adapted to the production of fruit,
is evidenced by the spontaneous growth of the
wild. Why this fact has so long been over
looked, is beyond our conception. The con-
lecture is. however, that the people have been
doing as their grandpapas had been, never
thinking of raising anything else that would
most probably have been more profitable. This
soil will grow as good grapes as those in Abe
marie. There are several Germans here, who
have been engaged in raising grapes with salts
factory results. This delightful pursuit is a
good deal less laborious than the culture of
tobacco. Fruit is easy to raise, and will grow
while we sleep.
Lucky are the millers who have not removed
the old fashioned grindstopes to make way
for New Roller Process. The people down
here prefer flour ground in the old way, which
is "granulated'' as the millers term it, to the
Roller Process, as they get the full sustenance
of the wheat That the New Roller Process
-four is unwholesome is proved by the fact
that there have been more patent medicines
used since the Roller Process has been used,
than ever before. Some of the farmers in the
neighborhood of the New Roller Process Mill
that has of late been erected and equipped in
a modern manner, have carried their wheat
out to the old fashioned mill Is miles away.
to be converted into granulated four This
may look strange; nevertheless it is true.
One morning last week we took drive of
some thirty miles, through several bodies of
thick forests, apparently interminable and
across as many broad creeks to Mikes store in
the Southern part of Campbell county. No
pen can depict what the eye Toasted upon, and
the hospitality extended to the strangers in
that section never visited before. In proof of
this truth, farmer working in his tobacco
field halted US in the way and filled the vehicle
with luscious apples almost to overlooking.
Things seen are mightier than things heard"
Needless to say that the crops of corn and to-
bacco down there are decidedly fine, it having
been seasonable. The farmers as rule have
wine of their own making, with whom they
delight, as their grandfathers did in treating
guests as we'll as strangers. Near Mikes
store is the extensive saw-mill of Mr.. Simpson.
He has a tram-road sixteen miles in length
from his mill to Marina, new section on the
Lynchburg and Durham Railroad, (the South
ern Railway over which single steer or mule
can haul ZOO or more pounds of lumber east
ly.
Miss Belle Williams, of Staunton, is the
latest, but not the least pleasant addition to
the population OF our village, for the summer.
She is charmed with the country.
Much success to the Spectator Newspaper
Publishing Company! H. &c.
Charles F. Crisp, ex-Speaker of the
United States House of Representa-
tives, is sightseeing in London. He
recently visited the place where he
was born in Sheffield, January 30. 1915,
while his parents were on a visit to
that city. Ex-Speaker Crisp is to be
dined in London by Speaker Gulley. of
the House of Commons.
Mr.. Walter Dabney, of Virginia,
solicitor of the State Department at
Washington, is spoken of as the posi-
BILE successor of the late Professor
Minor, in the chair of common and
statute law at the University of Vir-
ginia.
The sea serpent which the papers al
legged had been captured on Black
wells Island proves to be the body a
python, which died on its way from
India to New York dealer in animals
and had been cast overheard.
An attempt to produce a new play
hased upon the San Francisco church
murders resulted in the arrest of the
manager and actors of the Alcazar
Theatre in San Francisco Monday
night of last week. Theodore Durant,
on trial for killing one of the girls
found in the church, had obtained an
order of court restraining the produc-
ton of the play.
Six persons were drowned in New
Mexico and three in Colorado in floods
caused by cloudbursts.
Three colored men who sailed from
Savannah for Liberia last March with
the colony of Southern negroes have
returned to Philadelphia. They say
the colonists are INF a wretched condi
tion and many have died of starva
tion.
The Populist State Convention oil
Mississippi nominated full ticket
headed by Capt. Frank Burkett fol
Governor.
Mrs. Kate Chase, the daughter of the
former chief justice, explained thai
the sum raised to redeem her fathers
place, Edgewood, is still insufficient
and that she has been turned out and
is without a home.
Twelve joint debates have been ar
ranged between General Hardin, dem
ocrat, and Colonel Bradley, republi
can, nominees for Governor of Ken
Etucky.