The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-07

TOBACCO STATISTICS -PEHSoSALS-fALUE w
LOTS AND Buildings KNIGHTS OF TUE CRIES.
CEST-pR. MUSSEY--lNFELlcE.
DASvILLE, Va, December 6, 1915.
The internal-reyeuue receipts from cigars
and manufactured tobacco for last month
amounted to SS1, 1886; for October last,
Sl03 G32 so; for November OF last year,
S34,0062D. The amount received from
cigars, an item included in the above, was
Sl3ll0
The amount of the tax on distilled spirits
was siO3 20; the amount received for Ii.
censes. called special tax, was Soo4.2o.
The sales OF leaf tobacco at the warehouses
for last month amounted to 1928, l66
pounds: the amount paid therefor was
sl19.783.5l: the average per hundred
pounds, s.. %. The statement from the ware.
houses for November of last year shows that
the quantity sold was .112 ,295 pounds the
amount paid therefor. 1922, 1858 the aver.
aec ger hundred pounds, S20.O3. But not
comparing the sales of last month With those
OF November, 1874, which was in the midst
Of the reign Of the exceptionally high prices,
and passing over the statement for NoVem-
Der. 1873, which was about the beginning OF
JAY Cookies panic, would rather look at
the statement of sales for November, 1872.
That find to be as follows: Quantity sold,
q26, S62 pounds; amount paid therefor, $780,
1925; average per hundred pounds, S9.72.
We do not understand here that Captain
". T. Clark, senator from this county and
resident OF Danyile, is tobacconisf, as is
reported in the Dispatch OF last SATURDAY.
We do indeed eat, drink, wear, smoke, and
chew, and almost breathe, tobacco IN this TO-
bacco city, but it's only Sin figger," or in
figures, perhaps. We are not all tobacco
,rly =, <,f y1onS a n.
terprisipg and succe ssful merchants, but not
on that account any the less fAithful repre-.
sentative Of the tobacco interests of this city
and this county. ..a-....s ~
The value OF all the buildings in Danville
is put down by Mr.. T. 3. Doe, who was ap.
pointed BY The Council to appraise the rea
estate. at Sl,07S,925. The value Of the lot:
and buildings is put down at S2,0o6, $50
This is larger than the previous apprasemenl
BY nearly half q million.
The "Knights of the Crescent" society
constituted by several young gentlemen here
Ca the 9Th OF September, 1872, is rising lutc
importance as one of the Institutions OF Dan
VILE The members Of the fraternity claim
that sixty seven of our best young men nave
been initiated int the secrets and mysteries
OF their society. 1t is benevolent and pro
tectye society, and is secret in It's workings
SIN the sense that secrecy Is rlght ana pro
per in those things which concern the prl
vate interests OF common family" Ine
officers are: l.. P. Bransford, commander
J. W. Menefee, sub-commaDder; n. L.
Green, chaplain; Millard Wood, conductor
j. l.. Penn, secretary; E. G. Moseley, trea'
surer; u. w. Dudley, inside sentinel; d. L.
Brann, outside sentinel.
Rev. DR.. Munsey preached at the Lynn
Street Methodist church yesterday morning.
Although it was rainy and otherwise dis
Agreeable morning, the house was packed
His subject was "the conversion and call oil
Isaiah" He was TO leave to-day after preach.
ing.
Mrs. Augusta Evans-Wilson's last novel
Infelice, is very popular here. When the
posters announced that the book was for safe
there was general resort by the povel'reao'
ers to the Latin and French dictionaries fol
the definition and pronunciation OF ,ntetace
s-I i" ALPHA. .