The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-22
NsANCffEsTER ITEMS.

TRUSTEES MEETING:-Afl the members
present-President Worthingfoif in the
chair.
The Street Committee asked indulgence in
the matter OF extending Seventh street (the
free-bridge avenue):
4 committee was appointed to inquire into
the eXpcdiency of the immediate purchase OF
4 site for town cemetery.
Henry w. Br7lnsrord was elected Town
Attorney cice W. i: Clopton:
The election of additional policemen was
indefinitely postponed:
The petition OF PiEtS5rf & Co: for re-
duction OF water rent was rejected,
The petition of Alert Fire Company to
carry engine to Norfolk was granted.
The sub-letting or lease of water-works to
Kirkpatrick & Co. was ratified.
j. w. Jones IL Co. were allowed to use
water for making brick on the usual terms.
The JAMES RIVER BRIDGE.-By advices re-
ccived from Colonel Clarke, the engineer,
now in Philadelphia, an instalment of the
superstructure is daily recei"ed. Three piers
on Ninth street are now complete, and work
is rapidly progressing on others. The curved
arch over the Richmond and Danyille rail-
road will be finished in Il short time, and the
work of filling in between the arch and
abutment commenced. The entire structure
will be ready for delivery early in the fall.
PERsoSAb.-Messrs. G. r. Harding, Town
Collector, and Il. ". Burnett; Auditor. have
so far recovered rs to be able to resuing their
duties.
Captain e: Tiekers; contractor for stone
work OH the free bridge; is absent in North
Carolina on business.
Mr.. Henry Wrenn was badly injured SIT.
urday by a fall from a building in the west
end.
One of our well-known citizens is said to
have been made liappy By recent legacy OF
$4,000.
MARINE NEws.-Our marine reporter
gives the latest arrivals at Walkers landing,
port of Manchester, as sloors My Mary. Ann,
Dolly Warden, and Horace Greeley, with
material for the newly-established cedar
works of Kirkpatrick Il Go.
EXCURSION or THE ALERTS.-ThiS morn
ing the Alerts leave on the John Sylvester on
trip to Norfolk. They will return Thurs
day. They carry their engine and the full
strength of the company, also string band
composed of members of the company
They anticipate very fine time with theil
friends in Norfolk, and will also show them
some frst.class squirting,
THE TREDEGAR BRIDGE.-This bridge is
now in running order, and the trains of tho
Richmond and Danyile railroad make trips
over it at all hours of the day, carrying ma
terial heretofore harilcd in drays and wagons
and saving the company considerable expense
Freight intended for the Trcdcgar Works i:
now delivered at the Danylle depot and con
veycd thence by rail. The bridge is also
used by the Trcdc@ar employees residing OF
the south side. 1t has been fully tested ant
pronounced seryiccablc in every way.
CIEsTERrlELD AHEAp.-Harry Bassctt, th'
celebrated racer, is Il Chesterfield horse, hav
ing been foacd ut Colonel NlcDanicfs farm
Broad Rock, nea: this place.
MINOR ITEMs.-Thc stonc'cuttcr5 of tht
various sheds mt the Government granite
works have al been photographed. Little
work and good pay seems to agree will
them.
The Joint excursion of Stuart Lodge, ]
o. o. f., and Friendship Lodge, Il. of +.
will take place at West Point July 29th