The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-11
CITY NEWS.

CITY NEWS.
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THE CITY CoUNC IL.-An adjourned
meeting of the city council was held yes
terday afternoon at the council chamber.
The most important business transacted
was the repeal of the sample merchant or
dinance. May it never be re-enacted. The
committee appointed at the last regular
meeting TO confer with the legislative COM
mittee relative to the proposed amendment
to our city charter presented their report,
the substance of which has been heretofore
published in THE JOURNAL. Seven hun.
dred and fifty copies of the mayors mes
sage, the gist of which we have published,
was ordered to be printed. City water
mains were ordered to be extended to
Thirtieth and Main sire cts. The James
River improvement committee expended
$685.. 46 for repairs to machinery and sala-
ries for the month of February. There
were 7,070 cubic yards dredged, including
382 cubic yards of rock.
A saughter-house was ordered 10 be
discontinued within the corporate limits.
Six mules, carts, aud harness were or
dered to be purchased for the b GARD of
health, to be used in gathering garbage.
A resolution requesting the city repre-
sentatives in the General Assembly to
procure such changes in the constitution
of the state as will provide for the election
of the city treasurer only at such time as
the other city officers are elected, was
adopted
A preamble and resolutions protesting,
in the name of the people OF Richmond
against the passage by the Legislature of
the bill authorizing the extention of the
charter of the Valley railroad as adverse
to the interests of Richmond and calculated
to divert trade from this city to Baltimore,
was debated and referred to special
committee.
Resolution directing the clerk to furnish
our representatives in the General Assem-
bly, with the suggested amendments to the
new charter, and requesting them to urge
the passage of the same, was adopted.
A resolution to the effect that inquiry
be made whether 1t would not be more
economical to have the new reservoir built
by contract than by the city engineer, was
debated and tabled.
The finance committee were directed to
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dinance concerning the sale of liquors by
sample.
Sundry petitions, etc., were introduced
and referred.
Adjourned.
New ENTERpRIsE.-We are always
pleased to chronicle any new enterprise
that may be started in our city, especially
in the manufacturing line. 1t therefore
affords us pleasure to call the attention of
our readers to the new firm of Messrs.
Wood & Armstead. These gentlemen are
now manufacturing on an extensive scale
at their works, corner Ninth and Arch
streets, what is known as morris Patent
Lubricating Compound" The lubricator
is intended for use on railroads, journals,
mills, machinery, wagons, carts and other
vehicles.
Although this firm has been in existence
only short time, their "lubricator - is
endorsed by nearly every railroad in this
city, the Tredegar Iron company, Haxall's
mills, and others.
To those in want of lubricatipg COM
pound, whether in the city or country, we
heartily recommend trial of the Norris
patent. Messrs. jackson. B. Wood and
William A. Armstead, who compose the
firm who manufacture this compound, are
SO well known as old and tried merchants
as not to need any further commentator
from us.
CoLoRED SOCIETIES OF RICHMOND.
The Richmond correspondent of the Pc
tersburg News writes thus to that paper:
II have always felt like paying tribute
to the usefulness of the colored societies of
Richmond; they really do great good
not generally considered by those who take
no notice Of them except when they see
them parading the streets in the vanity and
pomp of brass bands, kettle drums, faunt-
ing banners, &c. They take care of the
sick, bury their dead, and help the widows
and orphans, being thus benevolent 'and
1" charitable in the highest sense of those
words. Without their aid not very many
of our colored friends could at their death
have decent burial. In many instances
the families of deceased men are indebted
to the societies for assistance and encour-
agelnent that alone prevents them from
becoming a charge upon the city,"
How THE MONEY GOES. -The South
ern Churchman, in its last issue, IS show
ing up the doings of the Virginia Bible So
ciety. 1t appears that the society received
last year from the churches $40, 500, and
that it paid out for salaries and other ex-
penses 81 600, and only $4,000 was appro-
priated for Bibles. The general agent of
the society received $3.50. From the
above showing it appears that each Bible
given away cost about $500, when the
fact is that the same Bible can be pur.
chased in. any bookstore for about fifty
cents. Can the people afford such waste
of their money when there are so many
thousands of the poor suffering for the
want of food? The society is entirely
useless, as the work it pretends to do is
covered by the various church organlza-
tons. The society now only serves to
give fat places to favored few at the pub.
lie expense.
CHURCH CoNCERT.-Grace.st
Presbyterian church was well filed last
evening, the occasion being the concert
given under the direction of Mr.. l.. P.
Wheat. 1he'programme was most at
tractive one, and the various pieces, both
vocal and instrumental, were rendered in
faultless manner. We never remember
to have seen Mr.. Wheat in better play, and
with the assistance of the Mendelssohn
slxtette, and his quartette, the entertain
ment was made one of the finest it has
been our pleasure to listen to. We are
soon to have another of these musical
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