Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-12
NORTHERN NECK.
supposed Important Arrest-PerSon-
nj and General.


CONFORM. KING GEORGE COUNTY
VA November u.-(Special)-
Bumbrey the young negro who was sew
oral DAYS ago indicted by the King
George grand Jury on charge OF board
ING an oyster vessel in Machodoc cIeeh
and shooting and robpins Dap'"'
pritchett has been captured and looseu
i'm the iaU OF this county. lie declares
that he knows nothing Whatever .".''
the horrible deed. but fails 90 sallsla'-
torilv account for his Whereabouts OH '"'
evening when the dastardiy crime "AH
perpetrated. ana his innocence was "''
indicated bv any manifestation OF genuine
SUNRISE when the officers arrested MN.
The present indications are that ine
coming winter. whether open ana luilu
NJ cin-o and severe. Will be- the hardest
I'm great many years ON that class OF
lab0riug people who work oniy ny tHe
day. month. or week, or 10y the J'p-'he
class who raise no crops ana nav" A'
means or income other tnnn their measie
wages while actually at work ana
who have to spend their wages aS
fast as earned For thirty years past the
immense business here i'm cord wood
railroad ties. and other timber has ai-
f1rdcd fairly lucrative employment Tor
am the able bodied men and boys who
are willing Co work and, fortunately
for laborers. the work in the woods
usually opened up about tine first OF the
winter. when the farmers had finished
their farming operations and no lons.f
had employment for the labor. This
business mas circulated many thousands
Of dollars every winter, and kept hum
dreds OF willing laborcrs ON quite COM
Portable circumstances throughout the
frrf.
opened u the spring But the wood
and tie business is practically at am end
here. 1t has been smaller each season
Tor seven or eight years, ana now nearly
!, every body OF timber woods between the
/, Potomac and Rappahaun1-k rivers has
been exhausted, SO that scarcely cord
of wood or "a railroad tie remains 90 be
cut. The vessels and barscs now load
ing along the two rivers will carry nearly
the last that this section has, and the
army of men Who have been swinging
the axe Tor many winter and carrying
home fat pockct-books on Saturday
nights have no prospect OIL q jon until
farm work begins ln the spring OF 1870.
And. as one of the Old wood CHOPPERS
remarked yesterday, 60 De out of work
all the winter means 10 bee out OF grub.
AN the winter"
Rev. d. r.. Turner, who came here from
Maryland TO assume charge OF the three
! Episcopal churches in this county, is
costly nXed at the pretty rectory at
King George Courthouse Although here
bat a few days Mr.. Turner and family
have made many new friends. ana our
people are much pleased with "the new
preacher"
Mr. d. Asltum Billineslcy q native, and
Tor many years resident. Of this coun-
ty, who has been I'm business in Washing
ton some years. has been spending "a few
days here on business ana visiting rela-
tiVCs.
Several unusually heavy frosts this
week caused no little rejoicing I'm the
malarial districts. where fever has been
epidemic since the latter part OF Septem-
Der.
Mr.. Charles II. Hilbert, who has been
spending some time with friends in this
county. returned 10 his home, i'm the
District of Columbia, this week.
Mr. Henry Mason, >of La Grange, Ca.
is here looking after real estate he re-
Gently purchased in this neghborhood
and visiting his brothers and relatives