The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-02
Letter from Petersburg.

correspondence OF the hlcnmoDu DlspnLrn.J
PETERSBURG, VA, March l, 1916.
The rain has been filling with violence
nearly all day. Last night there was small
aud brief dash of snow, and this morning
there was little hail. The weather Is mixed
upawfully, and the river Is yet on the rise.
TO day it is above the wharf, and the tide
seems to be swelling yet higher. The muddy
and rapid current brings down great
freight Of floating timber, plank, fences, and
other debris of the freshet 10 the country
above.
The Council this afternoon elected Cap
tain William E. Hinton, Jr., to the place In
the dictatorship Of the Lower Appomattox
Company, made vacant bv the recent death
of Captain r. d. Mellwalne.
Captain j. W. Young WIS to-day elected
a director OF the Inder Appeal Publishing
Company ui"e r. Is Boiling, E.q., resigned
Adyic"s from Weldon to-day state that the
waters Of the Roanoke river at that point are
rapidly subsid,ng. and that the bridge and
embankmeut are no iGager thought TO. be IN
danger. The damage done by the freshet Is
in course Of rapid repair, and the trains are
already passing as usual between Garysburg
and Weldon on the other side.
A coIored woman named Swami, living on
Plum street, in this city, gave birth one day
last week to triplets two boys and one girl.
All three expired within two days OF their
birth.
Gees bridge, across the heheriD, on the
the old Petersburg aud Boydton plank-road,
vas carried away by the heavy freshet now
reported in all the streams.
The ministers Of the different city churches
preached generally yesterday for the benefit
OF the young men Of the city. Right Rev.
Bishop WiDgdeld preached thus for their
benetit in the morning ut st. PauPs church !;
and at night Rev. w. W. Duncan, at the
Washing !on-Street Methodist Episcopal
church, preached on Manly Strength Per
verted." Several other ministers preached
on special subjects.
At the Council meeting this afternoon the
report Of the Finance Committee was made.
establishing by figures from the OH.
cial reports of the Treasurer and
other officials of the city government
that the expenses OF the Conservative ad-
ministra.ion has oeen $4,000 less than that
Of it's Radical predecessor. l cannot pro.
cure a copy Of the report in full in time to
send 1t to you. These figures will probably
silence entirely the com plants that have been
rife TO some extent, certainly Tor sometime
past, Of extravaganza on the part OF the
City Council.
The Council receded from its resolution
Rot 10 accept the compromise made in be-
half OF the Merchants National Bank to pay
ten per cent. of the city's deposit, amount.
ing to some $1,000 and procure receipt
and acquttance in full. At its recent meet
ing the Council declared that it would claim
every dollar that was owed to the city, but
members became satisfied, after an examna-
ton Of the books Of the bank, that the COM
promise proposed was the best terE,s that
were likely to be gotten, and so this after.
noon they were accepted.
Two propositions were made by the Gas
Company to light the city-oue for S6,OO0
with three.and.a-h alf-feet burners; the
other, to light the stree:-lamps for $1,000
with four feet burners. Both propositions
We're rejected, except on The condition that
the company furnish private citizens With
gas a. IS per thousand feet. 1t is not likely
that the Gas Company will accede to these
terms. There ~ some talk Of erecting new
ras.works by the city to furnish the street
lamps free, as in Richmond, and to reduce the
cost of the article furnished for the consump-
lion OF private ctlzans.
Tue Council did not go into On election to
Gil the vacancy made in the representation
of Third Ward by the resignation of DR..
Thomas Withers. / learn that the COnser-
vatiye members nominated Colonel George
w. Boiling at a CAUCUS held Saturday night.
The Council adjourned TO meat on the 9th
instant. RoBIs HOOP.