The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-05

PETERSBURG.


The G4oRsous ,rouRTH--pRoc EssroSs AND EX-
csiasroNs--A GENERAL. HoLlDAY-MtLIrARY
uoSoRs-rHE RCRKES1L.LE cELEBRATl0N--
mr. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or CITIZEN Cor
ToN.MfLL SUSPENDED woRK-suNDAy-
SCHOOL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, sc.
CORRESPONDENCE OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
it ;.'.ss Jrr.Y 4. 1877,
Patr;otlsIesAi ricas and: the thermometer
have pretty snr,cl, had their own sweet way
IN the old TOWN to-day. All the public in
stisutions were closed up, under the law,
and most OF the stores followed the exam
pie. The nniilien darkys, more or less,
who departed yesterday afternoon on ancX-
custom for Washington have bad the void
spaces which they left behiud abundantly
filed out BY q million other darkys, more
or less, who arrived to-day on an excursion
from Weldon. Pr
All day the streets have resounded with
martial music the thunder OF the captains,
and the shooting. At 5thls afternoon the
Petersburg Grays and Artillery (white COM
uanicsf will parade through the streets and
salute the, day we celebrate with the usual
yol!eys. Holiday prevails everywhere, while
The weatheris reeking hot, notwithstanding
the very sharp thunderstorm which visited
us hast night, but which left the atmosphere
believe none OF our people, or very few,
departed for Bnrkeville TO participate in the
magnificent programme announced from
that place. I have not heard that any gu
bernatoriat candidate either went up or,
came down the road TO take, part IN the ora
tnrieal tournament proposed TO be- held
there. Powder was sent up last night to
fire the salutcs with, bnt no other Kind OF
music WIS contributed from this direction.
Both OF the daily papers are suspended
for to-day in honor Of Independence-day. -
1t appears that the City Council did vote
Or. HARDWOOD a hundred dollars in addition
to the thanks which he received for his able
and economical administration OF bis office
as president OF the Board OF Health.
The funeral OF the late William II. BeaS-
lev, an old and respected citizen, took place
Yesterday from the Washington-Street Pres
6vterian church. :, The disease Of which he
died was soitcning OF the BRAIN =, no,
Work at the Ettrick cotton mill has been
SUSPENDED for the present to admit OF the
removal " the great wooden wheels by
which the machinery has heretofore been,
propelled, and the substitution for them OF;
one OF the improved and economical lron
wheels. t.s = -, 30
The contract for building the new Meth
odist church at Ettrick has been given to
Mr.. Addison Traylor. He Will commence
work without delay. .,..I.#
A negro man, whose wife Is employed in
the city, walked all the way here from Zuni
station, between forty and fifty miles, last
Sunday, to spend the day with her. He is
somewhat more devoted than the average
white husband. ~. ..,.aE-rays o.. :
The seventeenth anniversary or the Old
Street Sabbath school will be celebrated on
next Sunday afternoon with the usual
exercises OF reading, singing. and rccita-
tons. An address will be delivered on the
occasion by Rev. " illiam Frost Bishop, OF
Ashland. - i
II is announced that Professor Samuel D.
Davis, lately elected to the chair OF Common
and Statute Law in Richmond College, will
continue the practice OF law in this city.
Captain Daris's late partner, Judge r. II.
JONES', has formed Il co-partnership with
Mr.. Wifliam K. Mckinney in the legal line.
Rev. j., Powell Garland, pastor OF the
Market-Street Methodist church, has left
for Amherst county on a visit to his father.
.... - ~ - : ROBIN AFFAIR,