Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-03
CROCKETT SPRINGS.
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! Correspondence Of the Dispatch)
| CROCKETT SPRINGS, VA, September
I've are entering now what is 10 many
/ their favor.te month in the mountains.
/ Already one catches the new quality in
the air that invigorates and renews ana
strengthens the whole being. making the
| old young and the young younger.
There is one subject that We do not tire
of here-the baths. Certainly there is
/ hardly anything else that gives las the
| glow of satisfaction that they do. Before
| the present hotel was built there were
rude lighthouses up a little higher IL the
/ mountain, to which health-seekers came
| far and near When one imagnes The
past difficulties he fully and gratefully
| appreciates the present excellent accom-
mOdations ana attendance.
Recently we were startled out Of the
/ even tenor of our way by learning that
our Crockett, the law-abiding place,
would be turned. for the nonce. into a
| court OF inquiry, and, since 1t must lie so,
Of justice, we hoped Mr.. Johnson. from
New York, Incorporating as Mr.. Iatem,
had thought it seemed, TO escape the
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mountains Of Virginia. but found. 10 his
surprise, no doubt. that railways and
telegraphs were not unknown 10 us. At
any rate, here Miss Amy Bedott, spin
ster. Of Chicago, found him. and by some
arrangement with the powers that 10
I proceeded 10 institute against him here
a suit for $4,000 for failure TO appear on
what should have been their yelling
day. Miss BedOtt brought with her the
distinguished lawyer. Charles y. Man, Of
Chicago. while "a special train arrived
/ with Judge Lane, of Norfolk and the
counsel for the defence, a. 3. Antrim, OF
/ ROanoke. Some of the guests of the
/ house were empanelled as jurymen. among
/ whom We're William Mckinley, William
/ Jennings Bryan, Dick Croker, Buffalo
! Bil and others Although a strong and
/ eloquent plea was made by the counsel
/ for the plaintiff TO the gentlemen of the
| jury as Virginia @ gentlemen, who were
| ever ready 10 defend wOman's honor with
/ their very life's blood. yet they failed TO
| return a velaict for the $4,000 in either
| silver or gold and turned Mr.. Johnson
! loose. Miss Bedott will eschew hence
! forth and forever woman's rights, and as
! Mr. \. *. Handy will devote time and
! talents TO Allegheny Institute. which, by
] the way, is about TO enter upon a new
session Of unusual promise, success, and
\ prosperity.
/ Some of us have had a new experience
! In attending an applebutter boil. Though
we came by dim moonlight we went by
/ faith. through dense shades that gave US
| the creeps, over creeks and bitches. with
many q tmid feminine exclamation that
/ called forth oh the Callantry of the sex
| that knows no fear-not even of snakes
| Arrived we found the appebutter boil
! In progress, indeed. it had been boiling
an day and would continue throughout
! the night. A huge kettle out under the
| open sky. the rudy glare Of the fire
! upon the faces and forms of groups here
| and there; tho couple stirring carefully %
| because OF thu penalty for carelessness;
| the scTDping Of the eddie" and the
| great girdle OF wooded hills closing in
almost upon us in the gloom, made US
think OF things we had read.
The subscription party Of progressive
euchre on Tuesday evening passed of
most pleasantly. Miss Greenwood, of
| birmingham. won the first ladys prize.
a silver bonbon box; Mrs. Lane. the Sc
c0nd, a silver Nnagrette. Mr.. Tutwiler
secured the first gentleman's prize, a
purse. and MI Charles Langhorne. the
second. a cigarette-holder III consola-
ton lay anywhere for Mrs. Walthall, II
must have been in the box OF Huyler's
she received.
The walk TO Stiles Falls IS one of