Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-18
7 F. Hayes, in the lower part Of the
''y y MYSTERIOUS sATcHEL.

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Some time ago a satchel was iouilu
hanging on tree near the yard OIL nun
over Rantist church. this county, and,
for reasons satisfactory TO the people OF
tho nelghborhood It was allowed 10 re-
main untouched by human hands-no one
being willing TO run the risk OF open
ing it-untn later, when DR.. V. -.
Car1thers opened it and found therein
some genteel wearing apparel OF q man
of medium size. At last accounts no
one could Identify either the satchel or
its contents. and so mysterious are the
circumstances that some citizens now
advance the theory the whole may be
the belongings of n tramp and tnat ne
may have suicided, either in the body
of woods Immediately adjacent, or In the
well near where the satchel hangs-the
latter not being In everyday use. The
affair has caused almost endless conjec-
ture and no little uneasiness in the i'm
mediate neighborhood
Rev. w. G. Bates. pastor In charge or
the Methodist churches Of this county
has been quite sick for n week. Under
the advice Of his physician. he did not
fill his appointments last Sunday.
1t is feared that the heavy frost this
week injured a good deal Of the fruit in
some sections of this and other counties
Of the Northern Neck.
Fine. fat shad from the Potomac
waters are selling this week at 10 cents
per pair, and 81 per hundred. At present.
the supply is in excess of the demand
here.
All the public schools of King George
have now closed for the session. The
schoolhouses have beep turned over to
the trustees. and the male pupils to the
cO.n-felds.
Mrs. NJ. f. Lusby. OF Baltimore. is
visiting her sister, Mrs. James A. Arnold,
at Potomac View" this county.
Mr.. William de Gruchy. late OF STAFF
ford, has charge OF the mercantile busi-
ness in Westmoreland county belonging
to Mr.. f. p. Tayloe, of this county.
A good many cattle are being bought
from King Georgians and taken to the
grass-farms i'm Piedmont Virginia TO be
fattened for the fall markets.
There IS a mighty scramble by several
prominent Republicans for the post-office
OF Oak Grove, in Westmoreland county.
WAXING WARM.
The latest advices received here from
Lancaster are 10 the effect that the local
option fight there is waxing warm, and
that both parties feel confident in win
ning-i. G., that the license advocates
expect TO defeat the effort being made
TO put the district on a local option basis,
and the anti-license folks expect to sue
coed.
Mr. w. w. Mountioy. Of New York city,
visited his mother here this week.
Mr. ]. j. Sale, whose Illness was re-
Gently mentioned I'm this correspondence.
left his home here several days ago for
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
for medical treatment.
Mr.. Richard Turner Of Port Conway,
one OF the oldest and most prominent
citizens of this county. is critically i'll.
and his relatives and friends are watch
ing developments with the deepest
anxiety. His present symptoms are re-
garded as exceedingly unfavorable.
The mail-route from Igo to this place
has been sublet to Mr.. Charles Sorrell,
of this neighborhood. The service on
this route will require one man and one
horse from about 10 A. NJ. TO 2 or p. NJ.
every day in the year except Sundays,
and the price paid for all is $50 per year,
or s. per month, the carrier boarding
himself and his horse, of course while
performing the service.