The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-14
Petersburg.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatcl.I
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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatcli.I
PETERSBURG, June ID, 1873.
The Improvement OF the river. which has
for SOME months been progressing quietly
has again come to public notice and il at.
tracing attention. So large sum has been
expended both by the city and the General
Government towards deepening the channel
of the Appomattox and increasing its facili
ties of navigation that great disappointment
is felt by many that the visible results are
not larger, and some despond of their ever
proving wholly satisfactory.
However, in some respects the work has
progressed well. Mr.. J. II. Fenner, of the
Albany Dredging Company, to whom was
awarded the contract for deepening the
channel between the east extremity of Pud
dledock cut and the Point of Rocks, has
completed that contract; 80 that there is now
good channel eighty feet wide and ten feet
deep at ebb.tide between those points. The
bids, also, for excayatng an additional 10O,'
600 cubic yards in the channel between the
CITY and the west end of Puddeduck were
opened Yesterday, the lowest being that OF
Mr.. b. S. Burch e Co., to whom the award
| will no doubt be made. As for PuddledocG
itself, the machines dig in vain to make open
| its channel, where roots and sand are still
| triumphant over all.
A good deal of unnecessary excitement
| appears to have been shown with respect to
| the levy of the city on the Petersburg rail.
road for some four or five thousand dollars
of delinquent taxes. The company pro-
tests against any tax whatever being inl-
posed by the city upon it. claimlngto he
fully exempted under the provisions of its
charter Judge Mann last night granted an
Injunction at the suit of the company to re-
strain the officials of the city from making
the levy, which injunction the city will, Of
course, attempt to have dissolved. The
whole proceedings are formal, and designed
to bring the matter before the courts So.
this morning Collector Farrell went up to
the depot to seize on some of the company's
effects, aud was stopped by the injunction of
Judge Mann. And there the matter al
present rests.
The following is 4 statement Of the receipts
of cotton at this port for the week ending to-
day: Receipts, 139 bales corresponding
week last year, ! 10 bales; total since Septenl-
her /. 1872. 40,67S bales; corresponding time
last year, 27 ,4s7 bales; exports, 274 bales ;
stock, 1906 bales; stock same time last year,
$50 bales.
The brick factory on the corner Of Wash
ington and Jefferson streets was SOLO yester-
day at auction for $3.50 to Mr.. G. G.
Starke. The residence of the late Lewis
Mabry, on Portervllle street, was sold for
$500 to T. +. johnson.
An express office has been opened ut
Stony creek, on the Petersburg railroad, of
which MIR. X. X. Alley is agent.
The physicians of the county of Dinwid-
die propose TO organize medical associa-
ton.
The amount realized by the races Wednes-
day was about SO, which will be distributed
among the orphan asylums Of the city-the
colored included. !
Mrs. Bate, most estimable lady, died
suddenly yesterday, at her residence, in
Prince George, of heart disease, at the age
of siXty-seven.
Next Wednesday there is to be boat
race between tue Firedy and the Captain
Jack clubs of this city.
A boy named Rogers was run over yeSter.
day evening on Washington street. and
made miraculous escape with his life.
should have said in yesterdays letter that
Taply had been agent of the Howe, and not
Of the Domestic Sewing Machine Company;
and the types made the name Of Colonel
ToWues appear as Colonel Turner.
The police tished $50 pounds of railroad
irou out of the river to-day.
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