The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-19
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WI ."htNaiiu"s-IHE COMPARATIVE PUPTs
LirtoH OF WHITES AND BIAcKs--TuBAccos-
INTERESTING NEWS FROM PRINCE GEORGE
CORRESPONDENCE Of The Richmond Dierat,il
PETrRsB,RG. May II. 1878,
The Chester Hotel property has been I,ur-
chased by Mr. W. Iioane Ruflin, OF Chester
field county, for $500, and it is proposed to
organize joint stock company, to be known
as the Chester Improvement Company, with
capital OF not less than s25 900, mt shares of
one hundred dollars each. for the PURPOSE of
improving the buildings and grounds, and
opening the hotel rs place Of summer re.
sort. The scheme is already well under
way. and Il large number of share. have been
takcR .-
The l,dicS Of the Memorial Association Of
this city have determined TO remove tn the
Confederate cemetery at Blandford The re-
maining 600 of the 400 bodies of Conted-
crate soldiers who were buried near the
Fair Grounds in the time of the war. Eight
hundred of them have already been re-
moved and inferred. and neat hcadstopes
placed above them. In order to raise funds
for their new undertaking m excursion
train to Richmond will be run by the ladies
on Wednesday next, on the occasion of the
celebration of the Hollywood memorial
The following nominations for City Coun-
Gil and magistrates have been made hy the
Radicals in three of the city wards: Second
HoF0. For Common Council: ". II. Nal.
Tory, Ed Mumford. George Faycrman. Peter
nnnnan. Fer Magistrates /: A. J. Boisseau,
I. II. Porter, For Constable: Daniel Butts.
fttm Ward. For Common Council: A. Fl,
Marks. J. Nj. b. Holmes, NJ. B. Tapley, Henry
williams. For Magistrates: Jame> Allen,
John :. Qu'rlrs. For Con-table William,
y. Jones. StrM Ward. For Common tutl,-
eli: I. }. Nlrt aleb. james Carter. ST., W. II.
Burgess, J. II. Hill. For Magistrates: Ed.
Stokes. Lawrence Thompson. No constable
nominated.
Of these nominations nearly onc.haf are
OF ncsloes. Mr.. Mallory and Captain Butts
are the only ones ranked aS Conservatives.
The Mr.. Porter nominated for magistrate in
the Second Ward Is the late m. c. who
has matle hi> home I'D this city,
The Conservative authorities have decided
to issue call. for Il grand mas meeting OF
the people at the courthouse next Monday
night. at which their course will he deter
mined on. No doubt it will hc determined
to nominate Il general ticket. and to leave if
to the wards to decide for themselves whether
or not to run tickets for The Council.
hest means Of KNOWN" that had new re-
.i>tlation for the city been allowed by the
last Legislature the negroes would have been
found to outnunS,er the whites not more.
mrhap.. than 100 a> many of them have
removed to the North and many to the
South. Very little can be done towards rec
tiying this discrepancy ny revision of the
lists: but new registration, 1t IS thought,
would have set things straight.
\ man named Gamnnr came to the city
yesterday from one Of the nci%hhorIng coun'
| ties to lodge complaint against his daughter.
| u vo,lG. wonrn. for stealing a COW. II
proved IN he Il mere family quarrel. which
| WAS settled without the law.
\ negro fellow was arrested to-day for
robhing the store of Mr. Thrift. on Com
mere. street, where his operations are h,'-
| lieyed to have been quite extensive.
Thomas Farrr megro) was toby all
Judged II lunatic hy commission. There
are now four negro luna'ic> in jill awaiting
| examination.
\ movement will I've made in Tie Fifth
| Ward Monday night to reconsider tic Ea,:i-
| ,rli nominations for thu touuciI.
| The following l. Il statement Of the r..
rcilt> aud inspections Of toirtcvu al the ware
| ublI~tS Ut Iit Guy itl iit htth 'il''-p "
day: inspections. 3GI Iio@ahcahS: reviews,
| Il hcS>hcad>; receipts, .'o1 llo%Shead<. IT"
| tal inSlmrtinu> 1872. Ills hogshcah>: tVta
| inspections 1873. G.,ilG lu:->imads.
II WAS expected this! the extensive i'm
| Wuvr,nent> alnn. High street would h'
completed to-day. on which "rra>ion thrr'
was to have been celebration hut The ol
was not entirely finished, and the rejoicing
| L. postponed.
| \ mcrtin. OF the Board uf Supervisors -
| Prince George was held oil the 18th to ii,
| thr levy for the ensuing year. The smaiI
Don bill Of br. Stands WAS cut down trcn
| .323 to $4,000. Tie County Tleasulcr re
ported balance Oh the contingent fund Q
| lat year Ct $50, which WAS divided anon!
| the uycrsccr- q th4 poor. The amount nC
| cesar, Tor county cXncil>c~ WI. n, -. lh
rate rf the county tan Cor the ncNi year wa
liNcd ut - cents un the 500 Valuation an'
10 rents c,pitatlon. Amount of property q
the rnrnty, personal aud real, Sl,'il.G3C
| There are about l.S0o persons subject t.
| capitation. which makes &a.303.3 subject Il
Il deduction OF about $40 delinquent AM
$3.50 trcasurcr's commission, leaving II 1858
and ii contingent fund of sos.
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