Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-13
THEY ARE PLEASED.
THE NEW RAILROAD WILL MAKE
KING GEORGE PEOPLE HAPPY.
THINK 1T WILL HELP BUSINESS.
Every Class Looking Forward to
IL With Engerncss-Much Talk or
wnr-COunty News and PERSONA
Mention.


CONFORM. KING GEORGE COUNTY,
VA. March 12-CSpecial)-The report
that the work Of construction would be-
gin this week on the railroad TO run
from Fredericksburg TO the Chesapeake
Bay was the most welcome piece OF
news received here in many years. 1t
has awakened great interest and enthusi-
asm among all classes Of people from
one end Of the Northern Neck to the
other. Indeed, this sudden assurance
that this long-talked-of and much-needed
railroad will be built right away has en-
Unused new life and activity throughout
this section. and the simple prospect OF
the scheme Undertaking. has already had
the effect Of making our people as buoy
ant and hopeful as If an era of great
prosperity was about to dawn upon
them. For some months past this rail-
road scheme had not been talked of here,
and all hope, and apparently all prospect,
of its being built had long since been
abandoned by our citizens, so that the
announcement this week that work on 1t
would begin at once caused as much sur
prise as IL did delight. Almost every
person who owns a team-even a horse
and cart-entertains hope of getting "A
lob Of hauling when the work Of con-
struction is fairly commenced. and the
hundreds OF idle men and boys all along
the route believe that the great enter
prise means employment for them. Even
the farmer sums up the benefit that will
accrue 10 him long before the road Is
completed, and is already planning TO
raise vegetables, &c. for the laborers TO
eat, believing that the presence here OF
the number of men necessary to build
the road will create a ready home market
for milk, butter, eggs, &c, as well as the
products Of the soil.
TALKING OF WAR.
The newspapers are being sought after
and read by people of this section just
now as never before in many years, so
keen is the anxiety about the results to
follow the investigation Of the blowing
up of the battoship Maine. Our people
are quite impatient for a solution Of the
matter, and the most prudent and conser-
VatiVe, and the wcll-informed crave
peace and all that peace means; but they
express themselves as ready 10 offer |
country should an emergency arise and |
the President have TO call for volunteers.
Some Of the old eX-Confederate soldiers |
say that the mere talk of war with Spain |
mas chased the rheuma;lG pains and
kinks" from their limbs, and that they I
would leave their plOws and hasten 10 /
their country's call more cheerfully now, |
if necessary. than they did in 1860.
MIR. Penny McCarty, of this ncighbor- |
hood, whose dwellng-house and its con- /
tents were consumed by fire last week, |
VIII soon have on the same site a man
sion much better and more commodOus |
than the one burned, and without cost to
himself. The citizens of the county have |
contributed the lumber and other mate
rial and money to detray the expenses !
of building. The material will be hauled |
In place by citizens, without cost to Mr.. |
McCarty, and it is probable that these
good people Will also furnish the house |
for him as soon as II is completed. Nearly !
enough lumber TO build and a snug sum
OF money were subscribed for this pur-
pose before sunset Of the day on which
MIR. McCarty lost his house.
COUNTY GOSSIP.
The handsome addition TO the Episco-
pal rectory al King George Courthouse |
is about completed and ready for occu-
pancy.
The work of building a cannery at
Sims Wharf on the Potomac, near here, |
Will soon be begun.
A large steam planing-min will be
built and put in operation at Somerset |
Beach. the new summer resort on the
Potomac, In this county, this spring.
The "WestmOreland," the magnificent |
steamer TO run from Norfolk TO Frede-
ricksburg, made her first trip Of the new
schedule to-day. This will put the people |
Df this and adjoining counties in direct |
and business touch with |
Norfolk.
Herrings are being caught this week
Dy the Potomac seines, and are command |
ng high prices.
Captain W. h. Baker of Shiloh this |
county, one OF our most prominent citi-
zens, has been confined TO his room sew |
sral weeks by an attack of rheumatism. | {
The Parsonage Aid Society Of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal church, of this
county. held an interesting and largely j
attended meeting at the parsonage this |
week. Among other things. plans were Z
considered for an entertainment to be |
gwen at the Courthouse at an early day
or the purpose of raising additional ,
unds for repainting the handsome new
parsonage.
MISS NUN sun VI YAK 1IONc, west 1 i
noreand county. is the guest Of Miss !
osie Brown at ''Waverly," near this !
,lace
Captain G. W. Grigsby. Superintendent {
II Public Schools of this county. has re-
Covered from an attack Of grip sufficiently d
o be out again. I
Miss Katie b. Arnold. Of this county, e
Who is attending school in Washington !.
,. c., TINS session, spent this week at !
nome here with her father, DR.. II II v
Arnold. a
Judge John E. Mason, Of this place.
las been In Caroline since Thursday h
where he went TO hold Circuit Court ~
sowing Green-the first term presided
'ver by nm.
ar. John w. walker IS enlarsinc his ! Il
ndertakers'-, wheelwrIght-, and black II
In this village. The struc. V.
ures when completed will be the largest y,
I the Kind In the county. fa
Mr.. h. L. Hunter. one OF the commit III
10 clerks Of the State Senate. will arrive 10
his home at King George Courthouse q
'-day. Being one OF the most popular ~ ~