The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-14
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correspondents OF the Richmond Dispasch'i
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CORRESPONDENCE or the Richmond utspasch'i 4,
prrsgsBrRu,. December IL. 1872.
The engineer corps of the Atl1ntic, MIS-
sissippt aud Ohio Railroad Company, which
has been lately engaged in the WORK OF sur.
veying TIE route OF the proposed virginia
and Kentucky railroad, arrived IN THIS city
to-day, for the purpose, II Is stated, OF select
Ing and marking the line OF a new ROAD 10
Richmond, for which a charter was granted
last year By the General Assembly. Inc
corps has already left the city, and Is reported
Ia have begun its operations near the city. l
am not able to give the particulars Of this
new and unexpected railroad movement.
Mr.. N. c. Jameson. cashier Of the Allan
tic. Mississippi and Ohio railroad. arrived in
the city to-day on a special pay-train, and
paid OF all the bands in the company's EN-
ploy at this point up to the 1st Of December.
Mr.. Jameson leaves tomorrow on 4 special
car for Norfolk to pay the employees 81 tie
Company on that division OF the road.
A petition Is being circulated among the
tobacco manufacturers of the city, addressed
to Congress, and praying that honorable
BODY not to agitate further the taX.now i'm.
posed on manufactured tobacco. They state
that the experiment Of the uniform tax has
lust commenced. and that lts operations SO
fur have been attended with benefit and are
satisfactory, and that any tampering with the
subject at this juncture would only serve to
disturb public confidence and injurc all the
tobacco interests.
The work on the river had to be sus-
pended Yesterday on account OF the ice On
the ditch through the Puddledock marsh
fhs ice has already formed to the thickness
of al inch, and is growing thicker.
The illness of Rev. Father Nulvey, vicar
General Of the Catholic Diocese OF !rSlnla,
is rs serious as was reported in the spe-
ciai telegram to the Otspach THIS morn
3ne. He is reported by those who lmme-
diatrfv attend him to be lying at the very
gates Of death, and is growing hourly more
and more weak, and death may cnslIe at any
moment. Father Mulycy is constantly at
tended by two priests and distinguished me-
dical gentlemen, and His condition causes
Borrow throughout the city inside and
out Of the Church in which he has been such
an able aud faithful munster.
The following is statement OF the move
meut Of cotton at this port for the weak end
Ing to-day: Receipts, 1884 bales; CORES.
bonding week last year, LIP bales. Total
since September ], 1872, 23,468 bales; cor
responding time last year, 14,111 bales. En-
ports, 1.G5. bales stock, 4,129 bales.
East Ward school was broken open and
entered b. some Vandal last night. who stole
the clock on the wall. There was nethiug
else stcalaole handy, :
Mr.. y. X. Wcisiger, Of Richmond, >old
to-day tic lot and dwelling at Chester occu-
pied by Sidney Bot to Mr. I. L. Sncad fer
$500.
The pulpits of the Methodist churches of
the city will be occupied on Sunday by the
new ministers recently appointed Ivy the Con-
ference Ill of whom have arrived and en-
tered upon the discharge of their duties.
The freight on the Southside division OF
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad
has been very heavy recently. Thirty-three
cars went west and twenty-five east last
night.
The weather has been intensely coldto-aay,
The snow has frozen hard and partly eYapo-
rated. The jingle of the first sleigli.bell has
not yet been heard.
l. Is stated that Mr.. c. B. Raine, who was
the Liberal candidate for Mayor last May,
has sold out all his property in this city and
removed his residence from it.
The rciaion of the Riiemen Association
takes. place tonight, and will be largely at
tended.
The Sunday School Association of the
Methodist churches meets Sunday at 9 P. II
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