The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-07

lCe,-,spOlIJencr OF the Elcnhoiu b'spAt@a'J
,.,-,,ric.L-rRsGHT FROM WINSTON, N. c.
.,>.rcR ClARE-RELGIoU5-
DAxv,LLE VA, April 5, 1876.
Tho cole. q, ,rat tob,cco for last month
,,s r.porr,d bv President P. W. Ferrell,
~ IN. Tobacco As.or'a'on, as follows:
0nrri,y sold, 1992.s7,5 pounds amount
T,,I,btrelor. s2ls 46553; average per huR-
tyri pounds. SlO.95.
Tbes,lts for Ma.cn, 1875, are stated thus:
Oq,r'jry sold. 1,SS".5l5 pounds; amount
mad therefor, $3.50 $3.50; average per num-
d!td pounds. S20.34.
The sales o. i,si tobacco for six months
from n. l,f Of October, 1875, stand thus:
Quantity sod, 10 lol,s47 pounds; amount
Tad therefor. 81 oGs 1854; sversge per
hundred pounds. SlO.5l.
The ssIts for he SIX months from tho 1st
ofOr'obcr, 1874. stood thu: Quantity SOLO,
T.l17S62 POUNDS; amount paid therefor,
81 j41,l29.SV; average per hundred POUNDS,
f!L2i
The average prices of leaf tobacco by the
nouh since the i, OF October last were re.
sec ively as follows: October. 1885; No
ymhpr. 1926; December. 1914; January,
sll.92; February, $1,000; Msrcn, Sl0.9a.
TIE internal revenue from manutac' ured
toA,ceo aud cigars for last mouth amounted
tosg3,4O4.so: for March, 1915. $40, A13.73.
The internal revenue from manufactured
tobacco aud cigars for the six months from
tie Isl Of October, 1876, amounted to S4O4,-
ts951; for tn" same period OF the previous
year, S4O6 ;SS03.
The ,n,eroM revenue from distilled spirits
for last month was $4,000; from licenses,
Sl44l7.
The export-.ay on manufactured tobacco,
O. ten ceutr yer package. was S29 30.
The tax nn cigars for last month, which
have included III the statement Of internal
revenue tor the woAth, was S36S.4O.
At a mrf'irg Of tue Tobacco Association
held on IL" 81. Captain Daniel Coleman, OF
tic committee Of warehOuse-men which sxd
been app0ittci 10 confer with the tobacco
men OF Winston, \. g., in regard 10 the
Charge for Transporting tobacco thence to
Tbs place, reported that Colonel Talc'tt bad
informed the committee that the charge was
ffy-lhree cests per hundred, and not sew
enty cents. as had been reported; and that
any amount which had been oVerpald would
BE- refunded
Al this meeting Of the Association Mr.. r.
e. Pace offered resolutions OF thanks to Sen
a'or ". T. Clark "for his indefstigable
efforts 10 securing the repesl" Of the 56th
section Of the tobacco inspection laws. The
resolutions were adopted unanimously.
The Rev. $. 5. Lambeth, Of the Main.
Street Methodist church, proposes to hold
services At his church every night this week
eXcep' Ss'urdsy night. ana in the same mao.
neF during next w--k. il it seems proper 90
10 do. He bias the assistance Of Rev. J. K.
Naggener, Of The Virginia Conference.
We have had our debates about the date
oi Easter Sunday, IN which we had under
Consideration the Paschal moon. Julian and
ecciesiast'cai time. and otner kindred points.
De fe.u,: Easter Sunday Is the 16:h, and
some OF 'he slm,nscs deceived many Of the
lup's IN The public schools and our female
eoIese, aud We shall SOW snaps one week
ia.tr than We hsd intended.
Nr. Jsm"s Dix died few DAYS ago near
nS's Ferry, in this county, 10 his ninety.
fl b year.
/! said that large quantities Of the Irish
potatoes which had been planted before the
recent Polar spell have rot,ea. a
Weather now cool and clear. ALPHA.