The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-02-12
pE1tERSBURG

ST. PETERSBURG
stsToRAI, s,I III, ACGEPTED- THE COUNCIL AM, |
& rnE oRpfNAsess-- PERSONAL MATTE n s.
Is or,D GR4Yss NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
& yyAR LEAD FUNERAL. or ABEL0vEn LADY
FfNE PRICES F0R T0BAcco. &c.
correspondence Of tie Richmond Bsspatcb.I
f FEBRUARY II, 1879.
The authorities OF the Second Pfesbyte-
Ran church in this city have been officially
notified oil the acceptance by the Rev. .. a.
VIM, oil Cnipeper, Of the call to the pas
toral charge OF said church, extended 10
him some weeks ago and urged by COM
Inittee OF elders before the Presbytery OF
the Chesapeake In Alexandria. lt - un.s
aerstood that Mr. VIM will take iormai
charge Of the church on the first Sunday In
March. In the mean time the pulpit VIII pc
sI,nnlied By Rev. r. Douglass Eraser, OF
Toronto. Canada. who Is now visiting the
5city. The congregation have been without
\ nasfor for nearly year, and Dir. Winn's
acceptance causes much rejoicing.
Tbe Council was in session until near
midnight last night considering the revised
ordinances. The ordinances concerning the
markets, the wharves, and Blandford Gene
terry were fully discussed, and the last
named was reco mnitted for further report.
The facts that have recently been developed
regarding the administration OF the late
Keeper OF the cemetery, Mr.. II. T. Taum,
make the Council cautious as TO the funds
derived from that source, and it is proposed
to cbange the ordinance so as to place the
sale OF burial lots in the hands Of the City
Treasurer, and to make the requirements
as to the payments OF fees for digging
graves more strict. Next Monday night
the Council will consider the street ordi-
nance, one Of the most important on the
Looks.
Colonel T.. A. Wyatt, the auctioneer Of
the Tobacco Exchange. who has been i'll for
several weeks at his home, in DlnWiddie
county, is slowly conyalesceut, and Is now
able to sit up for brief intervals during the
day. Colonel John A. Peterson, one OF our
venerable and most respected citizens, is
still quite i'll.
The Old Grays' Association, at a meeting
held last night, determined to celebrate the
tifty-tirSt anniversary of their organization
on the 22d Of February in the usual man.
ner-that is, by banquet-and a commit
tee was appointed to make MI the necessary
arrangements. The firsv captain OF this
company was the late David 81. Branch, and
then John Pollard, Jordan Branch, and Jo-
seDh V. Scott-all dead-successivety COM
manded it. The president Of the Associa-
ton is Captain Thomas P. Pollard, a son OF
one OF the old commanders, who surren-
dered with the command at AppomattoX
Courthouse.
One would suppose that fourteen years
after the war The business Of buliet-gather-
ing along the hostile lines would have
ceased from the very exhaustion OF tae sup
ply. But not so. During the past few
months one firm alone in this have shipped
nearly twenty thousand pounds of these
bullets. For some, years after the war the
business Of gathering bullets along the
lines around Petersburg was followed by
great many people-mostly freedmen-and
many thousands OF dollars in the aggregate
were realized. All the country adjacent TO
the lines was dug over, and the breastworks
themselves pretty we'll leyelled, by the lead
hunters.
This afternoon the funeral OF Miss Sallic
Lou, daughter o. Dir. James II. johnson,
took place from Blandford Methodist Eps-
copal church. The deceased was one OF the
most beautiful and accomplished young
ladies in the city, and one most widely be-
loved.
At late hour last night George Randall,
4 negro, was arrested for creating disturb
ancc on the street. He became so violent
and abusive that the officer wa: compelled
TO club him.
In the matter Of AdoIphus Gilman, in
dctcd by the grand jury CT the United
States Court for eiecting a deputy marshal
from the polling-room in the Fifth-Ward
precinct, in this city, the city will employ
counsel for defence. Gilman is q police |
officer, and in eiecting the deputy marshal
was only acting i'll obedience to orders from |
his superiors and discIlarsing his duty as
policeman. II be had failed to do as direct
ed he would have been discharged from the
police corps. .-
At Centre Warehouse to-day some eight
or ten lots of dark-leaf tobacco, raised Ill
Dinwiddie county, and running from 600
to 900 pounds per lot, were sold at prices
ranging from IS to SS.75 per hundred
These are about the best prices
paid in any of the markets OF the State
since Christmas.
The weather has been stormy and rainy
all day. ROBIN ADAIR.