Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-12
HOTEL GOSSIP

'The winter just past said Mr.. Thomas
Marshall of upper Fauquier last night at
the Metropolitan, "has been the most
verc on game which frequent the foothills
of the Blue Ridge of any winter during the
past thirty-five years. OF small game, per-
haps, the partridge has suffered most, while
wild turkey, with which the forests east OF
the Ridge abound, have died of starvation
TO an alarming extent. Experienced hunt
ers estimate that it will take three years
to supply the loss in edible birds by reason
of the extreme and continued cold weather
and SHOWS. In parts of the Blue Ridge dsep
snow banks still exist. a very unusual
thing in region of country where stock
in the low lands Craze the year around and
grow fat Nearly all the bear and deer,
which ordinarily roam the mountain range
in the vicinity of Markham, have been
driven farther south, but, of course. will
gradually return to their old camping
ground the weather increases in mild
ness
1.-THE death of Gen. w. H. Payne, said
Mr.. Thomas B. Flynn of Warrenton at the
st. James a few evenings since, sis deeply
felt in my town, where he grew to man
hood and built up lucrative practice in
the law. 1t was my good fortune to serve
under him for four years, and | can bear
testimony to his goodness of heart, per-
sonal courage in battle and skill as an
officer of cavalry. No danger daunted his
fiery soul; his greatest fault was that he
did not make a proper estimate of danger
when in the face of the enemy. His tenn
per was high, like all of his race, but his
flashes of rage were quickly over. 1t was
one of his ancestors who knocked down
Washington in the market place of Alexan-
dria at spring election because of a fam
cied insult. A D. Payne a cousin of the
general, also a lawyer of high repute COM
manded the Black Horse at the close of the
oix hon in n
Virginia convention adopted the ordinance
of secession, Gen. Payne, who anticipated
the result, made 1t point to be present
AS soon as the result was announced he
wired the fact to the troop. which had been
organized for three years previous, to COM
mencc getting in shape for the impending
conflict. The Black Horse was wholly COM
posed of young and well-to-do men anxious
to fight and it is due to the truth to state
here they got all the fighting they cared
for long before the last shot was fired at
Appomattox Gen. Payne was OF med um
stature, but very muscular, wiry and quick
in his movements. l have never known
main possessed of so much nerve force.
When engaged in conversation he walked
the floor impatiently very much like
Gagged lion His eyes were large, dark and
penetrating. He was a dangerous man to
fool with
although 1 am resident of the potato
zone in western New York, said Charles
Brown of Victor. at the Raleigh, Il am
compelled to confess that we are short en-
that article of food at the present time.
Good potatoes sell right at home for 30
cents n bushel, while seed potatoes bring
from 81 per bushel to 10. larger arei
than ever will be planted to potatoes this
year, with the probable resultant effect of
a big crop and low prices. Farmers in my
section of Ontario are now dividing their
attention between the raising of cabbages
bage industry is comparatively a new
one with the people. but 1T has paid
big dividends up to date; in fact,
last years crop paid better than the
many Ontario county farmers were engaged
a few years since. has about petered out.
It is too early to say what the
harvest will be of apples and grapes.
end Of Niagara county, along the borders of
Lake Ontario. Pear orchards comprising
all the way from $50 to 300 acres are COM
mon in that locality. i understand the
severe winter, together with the cold winds
which blow off the lake, has killed thou
sands of pear trees
.I notice.. said John Madden. the cele-
brated trainer and breeder of thorough
breds. at the New Willard last night, that
one DIR. J.C. Mccoy of Delaware. in a recent
the great race horse and race horse sire
Hamburg as the proper kind of horse to be
crossed on trotting mares. | coincide with
the doctor in his views. No other horse
carrying Thoroughbred blood could produce
better results, If one desires the hot blood
of the desert in the trotter. In conformation
Hamburg is strikingly like George Ketch-
um's great trotter Cresceus. Again., Ham
burg is intensely inbred to Lexington and
Boston, a strain of thoroughbred blood that
has blended best with that of Hambietonian
10 and Mambrino Chief IL. Then, again, he
traces three times to Glencoe, once to i'm
ported Bonnie Scotland, and once to i'm
ported Australian. Some of the fastest
trotters and PAGERS In the United States
trace to the thoroughbred sires named. AS
showing the potency of the Hamburg blood.
during the past thirty-three years the lead
ing sres of twenty-seven seasons appear in
his pedigree Lexington's get In seven years
won $565 .589; Leamington's get won on the
turf In three years 1915, IA: Bonnie Scot
virgirs get won In one season $13. 2s5: