Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-12
THE NORTHERN NECK.
CANDIDATES ron OFFICE Still"
POPPING UP.
THE OTTER SEASON IS ON.
How the vnrmint IL Cnught-"'
UabIts-Fnced the BIiyxnr"-'""
..,,. for Working the Roads
Personal and General.


CONFORM. KING GEORGE COUNTY,
VA. February 11-(special.)-The politics
Of this county, several times referred 10
&, This correspondence, are becoming more
and more complicated each week. and IL
IL no longer thought possible 10 better
The situation by convention or any other
means Candidates for the county and
district offices are still multiplying ana
up to this time there are in the field'four
for the office Of Treasurer. five or six for
the sherifalty, three for Commissioner Of
the Revenue, two for Commonwealth's
Attorney. and as many as half dozen
for some OF the district offices. il Is said
that others will announce themselves the
latter part OF this or the first of next
month Among the army OF candidates
already are several colored men-one Tor
the county sherinalty and others for
Overseer OF the Poor.
otter season IS on in earnest, and the
trappers were quite successful in eaten
ing this desirable game up to the FIRST OF
this week, when the snow covered up the
traps and made trapping impossible LOT
awhile. One OF the largest offers caught
here in many years was taken IN OUT OF
the Wet by Mr.. George Roach, or HOP
Yard. last week, the skin Of which sofa
for SC. OtteT-catcbing in some or our
marshes and creeks is a remuneratlVe anu
exceedingly interesting business. Inc
trapper must be acquainted with the
habits OF his coveted game, and know
lust when. where, and how 10 set his
| trans for the ordinary mode or
procedure will not serve in this
Industry Coons. foxes. muskrats, ana
other game are caught by their rect
| or legs in steel traps. which are placed
along i'm their regular walkways But
the otter is caught by its back-the elias
! tic skin over its backbone. 1t Is their
habit TO emerge from their leads or
dens. some time between midnight and
| daybreak and wallow on some nearby
sand and mud-beach. The trapper Sc
| lects q much-used wallOwing haunt, ana
there places his traps just under the sur
| face. out of sight. and then smoothes over
| his tracks and all signs of his visit on
these grounds The otter goes out TO
wallow. and the cruel steel-trap closes on
the skin Of its back and holds the game
there C'bottom upwards" az the trappers
| say until the man in gum boots takes II
out when daybreak comes. An old trap
per said to-day that he never caught an
otter in any way except by its back.
Rev. George VI. Connolly, Of Richmond
county. faced the blizzard and snow
storm thirty miles and reached MS cnurch
in this county Sunday at IL o'clock and
found about twenty of his Pensioners
TO whom he preached. Nearly every other
country church was closed by the severe
weather
Messrs. Bningsley & Taylor. lumber
men of this county, have received from
the North some magnificent new ma
chinery for their saw-mill plant IN TINS
neighborhood.
The King George Board Of Supervisors
will receive bids al an early day for work
ing the public roads by contract, the old
contracts expiring this spring. The plan
will be somewhat changed, and the roads
Will be let to contract in smaller sections
than hitherto.
The members OF Montague Baptist
church are arranging 10 have handsome
memorial tablet placed In the wall OF their
church to perpetuate the memory or Mrs
Robinson Taylor, who was the most hon
ored and useful member Of that congre-
CATION, and who was instrumental in es-
tablishing that church.
The coming Islander suit in the West
moreland Circuit Court is already Dor
dering on the sensational in some parts
of the Northern Neck. and is being looked
IOTWdIQ 10 WIFI lllltnHt iiAANAN"t -
parties to the suit reside in Colonial
Beach, and their prominence gives i'm
portance TO the case. Ex-Judge c. H.
Ashton, of this county, Is counsel for the
plaintiff.
Mr.. Emmett Gouldman, of Westmore-
land county, has accepted the clerkship
on Potomac steamboat.
Many of the Northern Neck people are
delighted at another appropriation or
$4,000, secured by Congressman w. y.
Jones, for the cleaning, deepening, &c, or
Nomni creek. in Westmoreland county.
The public roads throughout this sec
tion of the State are in worse condition
than they have been for thirteen years.
The mud under the snow IS so deep that
travelling is almost out Of the question.
y sewing-machine agent attempted the
| other day to carry a machine 10 patron
near here. and his horse pulled entirely
out Of the shafts, leaving the wagon ana
! the agent stuck fast in the mud. IL IS
| impossible in many neighborhoods Tor the
people 70 get TO grist-mill In Vehicles'
and consequently they have to carry their
grist in small quantities on horseback.
1t is believed that a good many part
| ridges persisted this week, since it was
not possible for them to get food and
| water and ground TO stand on.
! AIR. +. w. Rowley and Miss Maria Crit
/ fin. a very youthful couple, residents OF
| this county, were united IN marriage sew
eral days ago by Rev. John McNabb, OF
the Episcopal church.
Mr.. NJ NJ. Kicker. a well-known saw
mih man of Stafford and this county. is
arranging to move his engines. mill, plant,
| &c, from here to a body Of woods on
| the James river. where he will saw large
| timber-trees into railroad-ties.
/ Mr.. w. II. Tyler and family. OF West
moreland. have been visiting in Frede-
/ rcksburg
Rev. A. r. Martin, pastor I'm charge
OF the Stafford Methodist Episcopal
| churches. has been very i'll with grip.
The snow which fell the early part OF
/ this week was two inches deeper than any
/ that has fallen here since that memorable
| grounding spell" i'm February. 1895.
! which makes It the second deepest here
/ cirnn thnt ~ INahrnnrNt 2 1880