The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-29
PETERSBURG,

-x,v rrccJpTS AMP TOBACCO ExP0RTs--
".,yypryp AS ISSPEcT0Ks--HANDS0A COLI
evcr,cy--NFSIsTgRIAL DEER.HUNT-~X MORE
..r,,.y geYs coATSG--SEw LODGE 0KGaS-
nsr.-coTTOS RscEIrTS-AS0THER BATCH
,sssbSTS EXPECTED, &c.
sIo,,es,ondcsce Of the Richmond D,spsieh.]
DECEMBER -, 1879. /
,,,,o ;,sernal.revenUe collections in the
.bmre district for the week ending to-
amounted TO $3.50. The exports OF
'u'."n;nufsc;ured tobacco from this city for the
.rsag we're 26.525 pounds.
In the Hastings Court to-day Messrs. Sid
,,nr NJ. Green md Freeman w. Jones APP
resred and qualified as samplers or inspect
nrs of tobacco at Centre warehouse, 70
ybicb position they we're recently appointed
by The Governor and confirmed by the SEN
y; w. They gave satisfactory bond In the
sur, Of $4,000 each.
nov p. Fl. Griffith, agent OF the Southern
parIis, Theological Seminary, spent several
Sare recently In Petersburg. 1t is stated
s,3, during hisEisit he secured about 81 600
g. rho endowment OF the Seminary.
, distinguished clergyman OF Richmond
o,h another OF this city, I learn, In response
~ an imitation, will 60 out 10 Sussex coun-
~ an Monday to engage in deer-hunt. AS
S.er are very abundant in that section, and
GOOD dogs and drivers will be furnished, it
e hopfd some game will be bagged.
Another instalment OF orphan boys from
tbe New York Children's Aid SocieIy will
arrive here early In January, to the care OF
Major B. F. Wingfeld, who has already,
during The past two or three years, found
homes for nearly or quite two hundred OF
these boys. He states that about two thirds
ri these have done well, and now have good
and permanent homes. The other third,
becoming dissatisfied, found their way back
North. AS general thing, the New York
Society reports that the boys sent South
have done better and Jared easier than those
sent out through the West.
The new lodge OF the American Legion
ri Honor. organized on the same basis as
.tbe Royal Arcanum, will be formed on Mon.
day night, with about sixty chartcr-mem-
bcrs.
The receipts OF cotton ut this port this
week per the Petersburg railroad amounted
10 a3j balcs-making total OF II ,4Sj bales
received by that route since the 1st Of Sep
TENDER.
Thc annual pound-party for the bencfH
O., The psor OF tic First Baptist church
will be held on Tuesday evening.
II is expected that another lot Of about
two hundred colnrcd cmigranis from North
Carolina will reach this city on Monday, on
their route to Washington, and thence to
Indiana.
Rev. Joseph Scar, the new pastor OF
BIandford Methodist Episcopal church, was
the recipient on Christmas day of well-sup.
Piled arder at the hands OF his congregation.
Provisions and family supplies enough were
scut or brought TO his house to last him fol
long time.
III n difficulty in Nottoway county on
ChriStmas-eve between Allen Andrews
lwh,e) and q coorcd man it is stated thai
the latter was badly cut by the former will
an axe. Andrews was arrested.
Several OF the colored Masonic lodges o
this city will 90 down to City Point Oh
Monday to join their brethren there in fes
tiyitits.
Our people have settled down quietly t.
business after Christmas, and trade con
tlnucs quite brisk. ROBIN ADAIR.