The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-04-07
nANvILLE.


THE BORDER METROPOLIS CANE TO ,nh .cc'.
'" %, rur xorrsTr. REGISTER RETuRNs-Acci'
usxr ro Mns. ARTHUR BArGH-MR. bAh'
norm AND THE MIDLAND ROAD.
,c.r,..roodeuce OF the Richmond Dispateh.l
APRIL 5, 1880.
The Mofe,t registers report ior ms.
month AZ. 7SS alcoholic drinks, lz,szo ma.
ua,d ssiat,lk. "Tcll the Dispatch we are
game 10 the last :" said Commissioner~oftne.
Revenue watson. 1t does indeed seem that
the lcuor.dealers cooperate with Judge
Aiken IN his efforts to enforce the law.
Major Sbumaker has assurances from
Washington that nc will be appointed IN
due season to superintend the erection OF
the custom-house.
II has been reported in the Dispatch that
Renry county had received fer her STOCK w
,r,e Richmond and DanvIle railroad some
shinD over $4,000. 1t is now proposes
THAT The supeiYiscrs subscribe tbs money
for the Danyile and New River railroad,
and the Supervisors have referred the nHter
10 the people and requested them 10 Vote
upon it Al qhe several precincts. rms peipg
the case, President Satberlin gives notice
that ne will share in canvass OF the county
for The subscription.
Mrs. arthur Baugh was knockedfrom the
ra;lroa6 track near the Richmond bridge
Yesterday evening by a fat which had been
turned loose that it might run down grade
ipto position. After being knocked from
the crack Mrs. Baugh rolled down the en-
han tment. which Is very high near the
briSpe. Though Syerv old woman and rather
ipsirm. she appeared TO have been hurt not
seriously. and was able TO walk home, a DIS
tsnce Of about bali mile, with little as
ssstance. The physician who was called 10
see her Is afraid 1t may urn out that she
was very seriously injured. Mrs. Baugh
mad been on a visit TO some friends in Dan
VILE. and after getting nearly through the
bridge on her wav To her home, on the
north side. il seems that she attempted to
get off the bridge and beyond the embank'
ment, and thus avoid the fiat, and YVES not
able to do so.
From the manner in which the Martins
Vile Herald speaks Of Judge Lybrook and
his DrOnunciQmentO at Patrick Courthouse
on last court-day it does not appear that the
Republicans and Readiusters will cOalesce
| in some Of the counties In this district. a
man from the Shockoe. Church neiehbor-
! hood says that each OF these parties IN
some other counties is trying to swallow
the other Just as two snakes once tired 10
swallow each other, each one taking hold OF
the other by The tail; and "that will hap
pen in this cisc." says the Shockoe man,
which happened in the case 81 the snakes.
an honest couniryman eliminated both.''
Mrs. Bette Simmons has been extremely
i'll for some days at her home, on Patton
street. She is suffering from a general
prostration caused by paralysis.
oil f.t 1f
length at the Hot Springs OF Arkansas, has
returned considerably improved in general
health.
Rev. T.. B. billiard, OF This county, has ac'
ceDted a call to the paStorale OF Mount Yer.
non churcn. Halifax county.
A prominent citizen OF tins city has re-
Gently had a full and free talk with Mr..
Barbour, OF the Midland road, He was
pleased with The frankness and directness
with which Mr.. Barbour spoke OF the az
fairs Of the road. This citizen SAYS that
Mr.. Barbour, in his trausIc ions IN North
Carolina ana IN what he has done IN Wiz.
gInia 18th reference to the Aforesaid extern
sion. was pct practicing i1tSe de guerre
but he is really intending to deal honestly
and without deception with the people
along the line; and, says m7 informant,
Mr.. Barbour will do as well for Dlnvill6
as Danvile will let him." As TO the bust
ness Of the new company, there i every
| prospect that its stock Will lie worth some
Thing and it, business be prosperous, where.
rs the stock OF the present company i
worthless. What the road has done In do
veloping the iron and otner interests Of this
county is very wonderful. AS To iron, fol-
instance, in November last the Pigg. River
Mining Company shipped LOO tons OF
ore. IN December abont the sam, and since
June. 1878, about 10000 ions have been sent
over this road.
An April storm this morning. ALPHA.