The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-10-20
LOCAL MATTERS.
THE coMMON COUNCIL.


A meeting Of the Common Council was
held yesterday afternoon. President Bradley
7. Johnson, of Clay Ward, In the chair.
Present: MeSSrs. Babcock. Bargamin,
Bright, Carter, Christian. Curtis, Davis Of
Madison. Davis of Marshall, English, Fos-
ter, Gilman, Klein, Lauer, Manson. Metz
Ger. Powers, Puliam, Purcell, Straus, Tai
bott, and Tower.
COMMITTEES ANNOUNCED.
The President announced that Mr.. I. S.
Tower. recently elected to fill the vacancy
occasioped By the resignation of Mr.. James
Alfred Jones, would act on all committees
! in Ajr. Jone>'s stead,
The Chair also appointed Mr.. M. L. StrauS
on the Committee on The First Regiment
Armory.
STREETS GENERALLY.
Mr.. Curtis. of Marshall Ward, from the
Committee on Streets Generally, reported
contractors for work already executed or
now in progress (ordered prior to July 1st
by the late Committee on StreetS), and 10
enable the Street Department TO pay its Off
GERS and employe, and laborerS, and to feed
it, teams TO the end OF the present fiscal year
tJaruary 81. 1SI5,) they are under the neceS-
sity OF asking further appropriation OF
$1,000. The committee rec0 amended the
adoption of the following:
:. Resolred That the sum Of 5000 be,
and the same is hereby. appropriated On
such manner as may be prescribed by the
Committee on Fnancc), TO be placed to the
credit OF the Committee on Streets Gene
rally"
The resolution was referred to the Com
mttee on Finance.
Tie following is an approximate state
ment, prepared October 1st, showing in de.
, tail the requirements of the department for
the four months ending February 1st: Street
contingent fund, $500; hands and carts,
S9.545; steam road-rolser and crusher, S4,-
567: necessary repairs TO sidewalks, curbs,
&C.. 81 ,33S. Total amount needed, $4,000.
Less amount to credit of committee October
Isl. $1,000. Net amount required, $4,000.
The committee say that the work recon-
mended since July 1st by the present Com.
mittec Oh Streets, and which has been APP
proved by the Council, amounting in the
aggregate to $4,000, has not been let to con.
tract.
FRAMED HOUSES.
Mr.. Talbot, from the Committee on the
Fire Department. presented joint resolu-
ton for the refusal OF the petitions of the fol-
| loving parties to erect wooden 0ullalngS IN
the rlty George w. Smither, store on the
corner OF Beverley and Pine streets; l.. A.
CrenShaw, office on the corner OF Twelfth
aud Cary streets; Joseph Augustine, Kitchen
on the south side of Grace street; William
| +. Jefferson. house near the corner of Thir-
fourth and Marshall streets; &. Z. Spawed,
house on Grove avenue above Monroe. The
same committee also presented joins resou-
| lion giving permission to the following per-
sons to erect wooden buildings: Charles W.
Null. kitchen and courthouse on Twenty
fourth street near Leigh John w. King, ad-
dition to stable; Cornelius Payne, dwelling
IN s.. Peters street corner OF CHARITY street; ;
| Edward Mosey, dwelling Oh Hancock street
near Marshall street; J. Coming, addition 10
his house TO be used as kitchen, DC w.
II. TYLER, shed on Marshall and Sixth streets;
r. F. Walker, temporary building Tor
carpenters, Sc, Eighth street between
Franklin and Grace streets; Redmond
Evans. Kitchen, Thirteenth street between
Clay and Marshall; w. A. Smith, dwelling,
south side OF Cary street between Washing
ION and Randolph streets; William 4. Polk,
kitchen. north side of Holly or High street,
corner of Pine street; William Mason,
dw,lnp. corner Of Calhoun and Iyler
streets: BENZ min Charles, dwelling, corner
OF Calhoun and Tyler atreets; A. NJ. WOOL
folk. dwelling, No. 1928 st. Peters street;
J. {. Dickinson, addition to dwelling, Mar
sl all between Twenty ninth and Thlrtietn
streets :. Patrick Cummings, dwelling, &c,
Buchanan street between BeVldere ana
LowDdes streets; Edmund. Griffin, dwelling,
Carripgton street between Nineteenth ahu
Federal streets; w. Gregory, dWeilihs,
Pine street. &c.; Charles Lewis, dwelling,
Seventh street and Navy Hill; Arthur Pol.
lard, two dwellings, corner OF NJ and Ihlr-
ty-fr.t streets; Boston Calian, dwelling,
Trentv-eighth between Q and L streets;
Thomas Jefferson, dwelling on GiImer street
between Leigh and Moore: George Cum
ningbam. stable, No. Ills Grace street; b.
Higgins, kitchen and shed on Louisiana
street near Fulton street, Rockets; Mary T..
Brown. addition to house 1904 Third street !;
Mrs. c. w. Harwood, dwelling, southwest
corner of Twenty sixth and Leigh streets
Francis Mahoney, shed tor Phladelphia
Steamship Company, OH Dock near twenty
fifth street; W. j. Word, kitchen, 3l4 Madl-
son street: Francis Mahoney, an addition 10
house No. 29O7 Clay street; E. L. Lumpkin
& Co.. photograph sky.light, NO. lOll
Slearns's block, &c.
The Joint resolutions were agreed 10.
STEAMER FOR CHURCH HILL.
Mr.. Talbot, from The Committee on the
Fire Department, reported that the purchase
of steam fre-eDgine, TO be located on
Church Hill, bad been discussed by the COM
mittee, and that they concur in the neces-
siry for the same. The committee recon.
mend that they be authorized to contract Tor
the LuiiGing OF a suitable steam tre.enslne at
q cost not to exceed the sum OF "a, 800.
The committee also say that they nave
considered The suject and necessity OF estao'
fishing hose-company 10 some central ioca.
ton. This they consider sueJect o. great
importance to the city. They recommend
tia, the committee be authorized to rent
suitable house for that purpose, anu tnat
they be emf owered 10 purchase one thou-
sand feet OF leather hose, with sore" coup.
lings. &c, to be used upon tire.plugs--cost OF
said hose not 10 exceed $l,400. TO be paid
out of the present years appropriation TOR
the Fire Department. The committee also
recommend that commander be elected,
and that authority be granted the com.
miftee to organize said company. ine
committee recommend the adoption OF Inc
following joint resolutions
:. s.kes0leed tine Board of Aldermen con,
currin.), That the sum of S4,oOO De, ana
the same is hereby, appropriated 10 pay iot