The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-19
YORK COUNTY
JAIL EMPTY
A Place Where Thirty Cents
Looks Like a Dollar.
THE MOCKING BIRD IN JULY
a Fine Brood Of Puppies Raised on the
BottIe-No Good Man in York Will
ling to Stand for the House.
Satisfied With Constitution.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.,

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YORKTOWN. VA. July 1S.-The law
dockets OF both County ana CIRCUIT
Courts of York have been exception
ally bare OF criminal cases. Inc county
tail has not had single incarnation lot
vice since January 1st the ohls occu
nant of the pen, being a harmless old
colored lunatic. Never before in the his
tory of the county has such conditions
prevailed for so long time.
The negro Of York county is as good an
example of the Afro-American of to-day
as the country can boast Of
Living is also not a very great task as
few commonplace prices will Indicate
Enough fish can be purchased for dime
to feed a family Of half dozen; fish OF
the finest salt water varieties. and kicking
when they go in the pan. Fifteen cents
buys more meat in the shape of frying
size chicken than anywhere in the state,
and the proverbial thirty cents OF insig-
nificant purchasing power, buys as many
vegetables as an ordinary family can
consume in a week.
When the noble York. GIBBS low In
shore, and the water runs from is inches
to "a inches deep. soft crabs may be hnd
for the trouble Of rolling up ones breeches
and finding their retreats, and as to hard
crabs, Familiarity breeds contempt for
the one who INDUCES In hard crabs Is
either very hungry or a long way from
being an epicure.
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS.
The formation of aggressive plans of
operation by the independent Democrats
OF Warwick county is viewed with con-
siderable alarm by the rank and file of
the rest Of the Democrats of this legis-
lative district. Many blame the new Con-
stitution as the cause of the disaffection,
for they are staunch believers In the old
Yankee idea of United we stand, divided
we fall" United under the new organio
law, the grand old party is invincible;
divided, it is but a question of very
short time ere the guns of the enemy
turned upon the disintegrated ranks. can
not possibly result in anything else but
defeat. stampede of the worst sort, a
Republican member of the House Of
Delegates from the Thirty-sixth Senatorial
District. These are the views held BY
those in a. position to know, some even
protesting Republican success In the
present Legislative contest. The Republic
cans, as would naturally be expected. are
quite jubilant over the situation, and are
chuckling1 in high glee. as they declare
they admire the new Constitution, and
Its provisions.
t A FAIRY STORY.
There is quite a pretty little story. or
rather legend, of this vicinity very appli-
cable to the present season OF torrid
tempera ture. It is a we'll known fact that
the hooking bird, the far-famed southern
songster which enlivens the highways
and hedges of Dixie Land. is silent during
the month of July. Not a note comes
from the slvery voiced songster to en-
lven the daylight hours or brighten the
solemn stiffness of the rural night. The
cause of this ra Their strange state of af-
fairs, so the story goes. lays in the anti
patty which the mocking-bird bears to
the dry-ny so abundant during the pres
ent month. The dry-fly. or locust. makes
such a hideous, rasping, metallic noise
that the mocking-bird finds the feat of
imitation quite an impossible task. and.
in consequence Of which he tucks his head
in shame at the defeat and utters not
note while the dry-f1y holds sway, and
rules the songbirds Of the woods.
School examinations have been In pro-
gress here during the week. Superntend-
ent J. S. Philips announces the number
of teachers taking the test rather
larger than in former years. and the
questions as quite rigid. !ntimating that
he didn't believe there was a person In
the county could make 100 on all the
interrogatories. Numbers of the young
ladies have called down benedictions on
the devoted. head of State Superintendent
S'o''"f PUPPIES ON THE BOTTLE
Spot, the beautiful two-year-old pointer