The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-17
MANCHESTER NEWS.

PAINFUL AccIDENT.-Monday night little
boy named Robert Nelson, son of Mr.
Thomas Nelson, of upper Hull street, was
struck by the tongue of carriage and
knocked down, near the corner OF Hull
street and Fifth avenue, receiving severe
cut Oh the temple. The little boy was one
! of large crowd assembled to witness the
rope-walking, and the carriage drove rapidly
| through the crowd, and no stoppage was
made by the driver after the accident. The
hoy was taken into Mrs. Ftzgerald's, where
DR.. Monteiro administered to him, and yes.
terday DR.. Weisiger sewed up the injured
place, and the boy is now doing well.
THE Town CHARTER.-Messrs. Weisiger,
| Chiles. and Campbell, Of the Trustees; Tay-
lor, Bransford, and Wcisiger, of citizens
committee with Socrates Brooks, delegate
| elcctfrom this county, met at the Council
chamber on Monday night and completed
| the work of preparing the town charter: In
| accordance with a resolution adopted at the
peoples meeting the charter will be submit
ted to the people for ratification before being
| presented TO the Legislature.
THE ALERTs' BALL.-The fourth annual
ball of Alert Fire Company takes place at
| Bradley's Hall December 23d. Committee
| of Arrangements: McSsrs. II. c. Ferguson,
! A. c. Jones, and +. B. Howle. The ball is
not public one, but merely for the conf
| pany and the members families, no tickets
being sold.
TIE PUBLIC ScHooLs.-Mrs. Joseph Wool
dridge has been appointed teacher in the ill.,
tcrmedate colored school cice Miss Hill, re-
signed, aud entered upon the discharge OF
| her duties yesterday.
| Mrs. E. $. Gibbes has been appointed
| teacher in the colored primary department,
and will be assigned to duty in a short time.
The RELIEF CoMMITTEE-Henderson
Lodge, l. O. o. F., has appointed G. K.
Harding, and Manchester Council. Friends
of Temperance, John II. Matthews as repre-
sentatiyes in the permanent Relief Commit.
tee, which meets tomorrow night at the
| Council chamber.
Police CoURT.--The case of William IL.
Bnnder, Jr., for trespass in obstructlng
Fourth avenue aud Brander street, was dis
charged Oh condition that all distractions
were removed by Saturday, December 20.
| On THE WArER-LINE.-The earth between
| the canal and the City Mills has caved in for
a distance of twelve or fifteen feet, but no
stoppage to operations will result there
| from.
| PERsoNAL.-Colonel Edward Vickers, OF
our town, has made some handsome dona-
| tions to the Catholic orphans of Richmond
Colonel Woodbridge, county treasurer; 5.
| Brooks ESQ.,, and Captain Benjamin kclam,
| were in town yesterday.
Coleman Wells, Esq, continues quite sick.
| A CuRIoslTY.-Thc latest wonderful Ches-
| tcrticld production is turkey with four
perfect legs. 1t has been preserved in alco-
| hol.
| The LAST SENsAT1os.-The largest con-
course ever gathered in Manchester wit
messed on Monday night the rope-walking
and trapeze performances Of the D'Orville
Brothers by torchligbt. The rope was eX-
tended from the Farmers Hotel to the resi-
dence of r. S. Whithead, Esq, Fifth avenue
and Hull street.
| AN OLD PAPER.-Among the papers on
| file in chancery case in our Circuit Court
is d copy of the Virginia Gazette OF Decemc
ber 81, 17G7, containing an advertisement OF
lots for sale by Byrd's lottery in Rlchmona
and Manchester, then known as shockoe
aud Rocky Ridge.