The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-28
Keller from Petersburg,
correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
pETERsBrRC FahrIIary 81 1879

PETERSBURG. February u, 1873.
Last night quite a lively snow fell for q
| few minutes, pow(lering the ground with
white, and the air was cold and searching to
correspond. To-day the weather has been
much more balmy and bright, but tie clouds
| are even now coming up as if for more fall
| ing weather.
II now appears that the case Of Mr.. John
W. Baylor, referred to in my last letter, is
| not so serious as was represented. The in
jury, inflicted by the young man accident.
ally upon himself While whiting, is pain.
tul and dangerous, but as yet amputation is
only among the remote possibilities, and the
doctors are very hopeful of bis recovery
without that extreme resort.
| Tho revival of religion at the First Baptist
| church continues under TIM earnest minis
| tration OF Rev. Dir. w. Il. Hatcher with un-
ahatcd interest. There have already been
| ftty-odd conversions, and the nightly meet
ingS are largely attended, Notwithstanding
! the inciement weather.
The masquerade ball to be given at JAR
| rett's on the 18th Of March. CHE festival of
Purim). by our Hebrew citzcns, iSto be one
| Of the handSomest and most elegant occasions
of the kind that ever took place in the city
| 4 meeting of the committee having in hand
tie preliminary arrangements was held last
ni.ht, ut which favorable progress was re.
ported. Tie following additions were made
to the committee, TO arrange further provi.
sonS Of the grand occasion s, 5, Rrinacli. j
Rosenichs A. 5. Robinson, q. l.. LowentbalI
j. lsaacS. NJ Renach.
| In the Mayors Court this morning the
| case Of Captain J. II. Lanier and Frank
| Lewis (wllitc), charged with making an as.
sauIt Oh Il negro named Sam Wilson, at tho
depot of the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
| railroad, was postponed until next Saturday
morning.
The body of the late Mrs. J. r. Nelson
whose recent death ct Columbus. Georgia,
has hran referred to, is expected to arrive on
The train to-niaht from the South. The hus
hand and mother Of the deceased lady, nc
compluicd by her little children. arrived Oh
The train ut noon from Weldon.
The trains of the Petersburg railroad ar,
still using tie bridge of the Seaho&rd anC
Roanoke railroad near weldon, though the
repairs to their own bridge pre- said to have
Iii:t IL in Il condition of safely satisfactory tC
the engineers.
RoHictt and Hawkins, the two men de-
tanned in confinement on account OF making
Il mlrlurous attack some weeks ago upon 8
man named Tray lor, near the city, III CheS
terrified, were to-day Temandcd TO Constable
simonSon, representing the authorities Of
that county, and will probably be sent to the
Richmond jail for Sate-keeping.
A meeting OF the stockholders Of the Up
| per AppomatloX Company was held yeStcr.
day. Captain William f. Hinton, Jr., presi.
dent, in the chair. The proceedings, so tal
rs ascertained, are not of public interest.
Yesterday afternoon the remains of the
late G. T.. Parkinson Uhe magician "St
Maur") were received from New York, and
after appropriate religious exercises, were
buried in Bandfortf cemetery.
Fifty rases Of machinery for the Swift
Creek manufacturing CONF any, which re-
Gently arrived by the steamer Peruvian from
Europe, were received here to-day, and viii
in brief time be put in operation at the
factory.
The Bright Hope coal-pit, one of the Clio
yer Hill connections, which was rendered
Unfit for use by fire last summer, is again il:
opera;ion. Twcnty-slX carloads Of coal from
this Dit were received here to-day-thc frs
that has arrived since the fire.
There are now overdue eleven vessels from
Europe flcghtcd with iron for the Atlanlic
| aiis,issippi and Ohio railroad. There ha'
already bcrn received by this company III
teen ship-!oads of rails since last June, OF
which was paid, through the collector
customs at this port, the neat amount O
Sl6a, 800 in gold. The company has now II
Europe 1900 tons, which are to be shippe(
lther during the approaching summer.
One of the detained vessels has had TO pu
| back in distress, but all the rest ali on thell
| way over.
| Sir. Earnest Miller slaughtered here to
dav hog which weighed $50 pounds.
Among the strangers now visiting the CITY
are Dir. L. u. Spaldlng, OF Toronto, Ontarit
(eanada), and Nj. Il. S. Potter, promlnen
merchant of Boston.
The Milling and Brewing Company NEE
again tonight, when it is hoped late dl!ler
cnces NAV be adjusted, so that the operations
| of the company may begin without delay.
1t is reported lha, Il dozen or more mem NJ
beers OF the Legislature are TO visit the cit!
tonight on a social occasion.
ROBIN ADAIR.
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