The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-18
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letter from Petersburg.


Correspondence or the Richmond Dispatch.
PErsRssunG, June II, 1872.
a fatal accident occurred yesterday morn.
ing on The excursion tiaig frosn this ctty b
Richmond. TIE victim, MI. j. nc. Brutton.
u resident Of this city, was Knocked of I'm
top OF tho train by a bridge near Swift creek
and was instantly killed, Ills skull heinz
crushed In q frightfiii manner. ! This 10 fhe
second accident that has occurred since these
excursion trains have been running,
at t'c annual meeting of the Methodist
stnday-Schoot Union of tbis city, held YES.
tertay afternoon, most of old officers were
reelected, the only change being In the Office
OF secretary and assistant secretary. In place
of MIR. G. w. Camp, who declined q re-
election, Mr.. j.. j. Balm was elected secrcta-
~, and Mr.. W. +. Butcher was elected as
sistant III place OF Mr.. w. III. Wbcary.
Tie report OF the efficient President. w. r..
Davis was OF a very encouraging character,
representing all tho schools Belonging to the
Union to be I'm n very. tlourishing condition.
Since tho last meeting OF the Union a Ger
man school. lately organized, has united
with it, and IL is expected that at the next
meeting the exercises will be varied rby the
introduction OF q song i'll German by this
| school.
The German MethodiSts, under the mas
torat clargeof Rev. III. Ebcrx, having united
themselves in a church organization. have
purchased n lot and will o commence the
erection OF u handsome church cdifice.
hllo on church matters allow me to
allude to the Second Baptist church OF this
city and its faithful and efficient ysistor, Rev.
D. f.. Hutson. Commencing a few years
since d mere handful, a few faithful members
have nobly laborcd until now they have a
larger membership than the First church, on
Washington street. Their pastor, though
not what may he styled n pulpit orator, is a
man of works IN well as faith, constant in
season and out Of season, and his labors
among his flock hayo been cmincntly sue
~cessful, and while other churches in the city
are lanSuishing, his congregations are always
large, and scarcely a Sunday passes but that
one. or more members are added to the
church.
The municipal elections having taken place
there has been 4 temporary JUL in the scram.
bic for Office among the faithful seekers OF
the Republican party in this city, but now
the near approach of the meeting OF. the new
Council has set the wires to work again, and
the contest for the few offices at the disposal
of that honorable () body begins to tIlickcn
very much. There il not u single position,
If, indeed, | may except that Of port warden
Qhe salary of which Office is about. fifty dol.
lars per annum), for which there are not
several candidates. AS in the last election,
Cullce is ~bcginiang to assert his rights, and
will demand his share in the distribution OF
the loaves and fishes and the chances are
that our police, already dark, will he darker
Still, and the few whites now in the corps
| will have to retire.
4 small lot Of new wheat was offered this
morning, but was not sold.
hear no new developments relative to the
railrcad wal. ROBIN ApAIR.