The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-03-29
PETERSBURG.

TIE TOBACCO ASSOCIATIONS; MORE uNsUCCEss'
Full BALLoTING FOR AUcTIoNEER-THE
MARKET.H0GSE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
REVENUE TO THE CITY--sCProsED LOSS OF A
rETSRSBURGER AT SEA--APP0INTMENT-
PERSONAL AND RELIGIOUS.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Di.patch.I
MARCH Is, 1879.
The Tobacco Association met to-day Mt II
O'Clock to receive the report Of the confer
ence committee in the matter OF the election
OF anctioneer, about whom the Association
has thus far been unable to agree. Two re-
ports were submitted. The majority re-
port, signed by four out OF six members of
the committee, recommended as the best
means OF settling the matter that II no election
was effected on or before twenty more bal
lots the two candidates now in nomination
,Messrs. II. D. Moss and James T. Tosh) be
permanently dropped. The minority re-
port recommended that il in five ballots no
choice was made, the members OF the As>o-
citation be released from oil promises and
obligations to The two candidates. Both re-
ports were rejected. The Association then
took six ballots for auctionecr without fc-
subtitle vote standing 10 for Moss and 10
for Tosh Mr.. $. w. Venabe then norai-
mated Colonel f. NJ. Field for the office;
but before any further ballot was taken the
Association adjourned uutl next Monday.
The new buildings on the Old-Markct
Square have been finished, and in day or
two win be turned over to the city. On
next Tuesday they will be formally opened
to the public and occupied. Their cost was
about Sll,500, and the improvement is n
very handsome one. To-day all the butcher
stalls were rented out at auction, bring
ing.prices ranging from 500 to $175 each
10 Of DR. pf. II lie o. iron
so to $40 each, and the restaurant 1921.
The aggregate rent received by the city for
the firSt year will be nearly $1,000.
The commissioners appointed by the
County Court OF Chesterfield will in few
days award contracts for repairing Swift
Greek bridge, and repairing and ditching
and grading 4 portion OF the Richmond and
Petersburg turnpike. Z few miles out from
this city.
The relatives and friends of Mr.. John S.
Van Pclt. q citizen OF Petersburg, have very
great fears that his life has been lost at sea-
On the 25t OF last November he left Bayti
in the schooner Anne S. Collins for one OF
the ports OF the United States. The vessel
has never arrived in port, nor has it or any
of her crew or passengers ever been heard
from. The probability is that it was lost at
sea and no one survived to tell the story.
The last heard OF Mr.. Van Pelt was letter
dated October goth, few days before he
was to leave Hayti. His wife. who is SIS
ter OF Mr.. James B. Blanks, OF this city, is
living here.
Mr. w. n. Racland has been appointed
chief clerk in the Office OF the Internal Reeve
nue. Dcual tment in this city uice Mr.. Samuel
+. Maddox, resigned. 80. .....-..
4 letter received from Rev. Joseph II.
Riddick, pastor of the Washington-Strect
church, who is visiting Spartansburg, S. c.,
for the benefit OF his health, states that he
is much improved. He is stronger in body,
and his hoarSenesS of voice has been much
relieved. Mr.. Riddick's pulpit will be sup
Piled during his absence by Rev. j. It.
Whitley, of Suffolk, late OF the Christian
Church. .-.*. 49,
The Baptists OF Chesterfield county will
commence union meeting at South Branch
church tomorrow, to be continued for sew
eral days. ROBIN ADAlR.