The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-03-11
Letter from DanviIae.
TIE DkNvILLE WAREHOUSES AND TIL

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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
Z. y III. DANyILLE, Va, March 0, 1874.
Some Of the North Carolina grangers who
were here last week awaiting the action Of
the Tobacco Association as to the warehouse
charges went home without expressing sat-
isfaction With the deduction Of the one-balf
OF one per cent. tax charge. Without stating
what their utimatum was, they expressed
the opinion thatthe warehouses might afford
to sell for three per cent. gross. 1t is calcu-
lated that the deduction already made will
subtract at least niue thousand dollars per
| annum from the income Of the warehouses.
Before sanctioning this deduction, however,
| the Tobacco Association directed commit
| tee, consisting Of Messrs. j. w. Holland,
T. j. Talbot, T. l.. Brown, w. w. Wor-
sham, aud A. G, Fuller, to ascertain the gross
and the net earnings Of The warehouses and
report if any further reduction could be
made. This morning the committee come
out with report that the warehouses can
not sustain themselves under further re-
duction Of charges unless their expenses
can be much reduced, and that such reduc-
| ton of expenses cannot be made without
serious inconvenience to buyer and seller,
and consequent decrease in the price OF
tobacco. The committee also contrast
the present mode of selling tobacco
at the warehouses, according TO which the
planter gets actual weight from sworn
weighmaster, neat and active handling, and
the highest cash price which active competi.
tion amongst seYenty-fYe or one hundred
buyers will bring him, with the old fashion
of selling at the barn, which form with all
Of its evils the trade must assume if the ware
house system be broken up. The committee
also remind the planter that 1t is owing to
the enterprise of the Danville wareh0usemen
that the tobacco peculiar to this seoiion OF
Virginia and North Carolina has become
famous throughout the world that through
them the Danyille market is daily crowded
with bidders, not only resident and from
distant cities, but bidders buying On orders
from foreign countries and they pledge the
Tobacco Association to the most strenuous
exertions to maintain by every possible
means "that mutual confidence and co.
operation which the laws Of trade and good
society alike demand from planter and MANU-
facturer, seller and buyer, warehousemen
and customers"
MIR. William Robinson Is again extremely
i'll, His is said to be q case Of softening Of
the brain. $50.
MIR. .Bibbie " Brooks, OF Charlotte coun-
ty, is quite i'll here with pneumonia at the
house of Mr.. j. B. Faulkner.
A committee of the Council has been au-
thorized to provide driil-room aud armory
for the Blues and the Grays.
Mr. W. W. Waddili read an interesting es-
say yesterday evening at sunday'sehool
missionary meeting.
The average of the sales at one OF the
warehouses last week was $l3 60per hundred
pounds
MIR. E. F. AGREE becomes president Of the
Macedonian Missionary Society In piace OF
Mr.. D. E. Bentley, resigned. ,
Mr., G. AZ. Subett, who Is on visit to the
Hot Springs Of Arkansas for relief from an
affection of the knee-joint, writes that ne has
greatly improved. n
The telegraph has informed you Of the iaii
Of the steeple of the Main-Street Methodist
church, II is said that 1t will Ee necessary TO
remove the whole roof as the first step to-
wards repairing the building. ALPHA.