The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-09
Letter from Petersburg:
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.1
PETERSBURG, April 8, 1879.

| PETERSBURG, April s, 1915.
DELEGATES TO THE GRAND LODGE.
The following delegates have been up-
pointed to represent the lodges OF this city IN
the Grand Lodge |. o. 0. f., which meets in
Harrisonburg next Tuesday: AppomattoX
Lodge: E. B. Branch, w. ]. Parham, and
A. Eichburg. Monroe Lodge: james b.
Blanks and n. j. Clements. Glazier En-
campmcnt: John W. Stewart. Mr.. Henry
T. Alley, who is Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge, has appointed Major William II. JAR
Wis, Chief Engineer of our Fire Department,
| Grand Marshal for the OCCASION. The dele.
gates will probably all attend, and one OF
| them, it is thought, will be chosen repre-
sentative to the Grand Lodge Of the United
| States.
Preparations are being actively made for
the reception OF the delegates 10 the Grand
Council of Red Men, which commences its
ANNUAL session in Petersburg on the 21st Of
April 1t is said grand banquet will be
rendered the Council on its adjournment.
SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT.
The evidences of Improvement are hume
rous in the city, and the prospect is that
more houses will be erected here this year
than during any year since the war. al.
ready the builders and carpenters are busy
and have contracts s,'me of them some
distance ahead. In different portions of the
town houses are rapidly going up, and sere-
raj very handsome reside .oces have just been
completed. Mr.. T.. L. JOHN son, Major G. S.
StringteloW, Captain S. w. Jones, and
others have just erected fine dwellings.
REUNION OF MAHokE's o.ID BRIGADE.
The proposition for rtNnion and re-
-. Vol air
brigade on social and beneyoaeut basis has
met with such general fayer amongthe officers
as well as priyates Of that famous coninand
convention of the brigade to be held in this
city on the 10th Of May. The CAL, it is said,
will be issued in very few days.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. Moses D. Hoge, D. D., has consented
to deliver lecture here Oh Tuesday evening
next for the benefit of the LADIES' Mission
airy Society of the Tabb.Slreet Presbyterian
church.
The remains of the late r. III. Poole, for
merly prosperous merchant Of this city,
who died at the Asylum, in williamsburg,
the early part of this week, were brought
here to-day, aud his funeral took place from
the Marke!.Street Methodist Episcopal
CutitCu tuls dltcTuoOH. ac Wds UuFleu WN0
Masonic donors. The deceased leaves wife
and several children.
Petty robberies have been very numerous
in the community recently, though the police
have been successful in most all cases ia ar
resting the guilty parties. There were no
less than five parties before court this MORN |
ing charged with larceny. The mayor con-
siders the wbippiug-post The best preventive
of such crimes, and orders the lash freely.
A fine building lot Of about one.half or
tbree-quarters of an acre, on Market street, |
was sold privately several days ago for g..
500.
Isham Hardy, negro fireman on the Pc
terSburg railroad, had his leg broken.
The chairman Of the Committee on Public |
Property visited the North this week, in
company With the City Engineer, and, itisun.
derStood. purchased the fountain for Poplar
Lawn, for which the Council made an sp-
preparation at its last meeting. The foun-
tain will be put in place some time this
month.
Mrs. Fl. P. Lockett, much-beloved lady,
late of Amelia county, died at her residence.
in this city, this morning, aged fiftv.seven
years. ROBIN HOOP,