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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch,
SEPTEMBER %, 1880.
Since court.day the town and co,,ntv has
been full OF unevenifulness. Tie dcpart.
ure OF the Normal School and the summer
law class have thrown US into state Of
dulness that can hardly be Conceived. The
Interim. however, has been broGlably used
to get into trim for the regular University
session and the fall trade, which, IL large
| stocks OF goods and the opening OF new
stores are any indication, will be very brisk.
In politics we are quiet. The anomalous
condition OF our county politics Is such as
10 make the most sagacious chary of ex.
pressing an opinion. II seems impossible
TO forecast the result OF the present not very
active canvass. To quiet observer who
has thought out the situation It appears as
| II there was mighty small chance for the
success OF the Resdjuster ticket in Abe-
marie. Our people have not gone stark
mad. While there Is nothing explicit az
| yet to divert the colored vste from the Paul
party, 10 is believed, upon good ground,
| that Republican candidate will be run In
at the last moment. There is quiet deter
mination among the colored people not to
be "tricked" out OF their "right and
dutyn TO support candidate who repre-
sents the interests Of their own party, and
The white leaders will find that they are en-
tirely capable OF cutting loose from party
ties when they find those leaders operating
for themselves IN favor OF avowed Demo-
Gratis. This is the argument OF some Of the
most intelligent.
have Just been shown q private letter
~
which quote this paragraph "They (po-
litical calcuators) say this county will go
for Allen with large majority. Allen and
Paul spoke here on the 10Th instant, and it
was the first time ever saw crowd boot
Paul down, and he seemed to feel il. Old
men who had voted for him every time be
ever ran told him they couldn't do so now,
because they were true Democrats, and
couldn't believe that he was" These
words, which were not written for the pub
lie, may be relied on as true indeed. There
is no Disgusting the fact that the regular
party is strongly pushed in this district, but
that will make it fight all the better.
The coming session OF the University
promises 10 be unusually successful as to
the number OF students. There is larger
number here now than has been present for
years at so early a day. The rooms on the
lawns and ranges have all been taken, as
also most OF those on Dawson's Row and
Carr's Hill, while the outside boarding.
houses are receiving accessions.
The telescope fund has been realized eX-
cept about $4,000. 1t is hardly possible
that the Alumni will allow the want OF this
insignificant amount TO deprive the Univer-
sity and the State OF the great advantages
to be acquired by the possession Of this
magnificent instrument-tbe finest IN the
world.
In the absence OF the pastor, DR.. n. X.
Davis has been making the Wednesday,
night lectures at the Baptist church for sew
era weeks. 1t is bard 10 estimate the value
and interest OF these lectures. The Doc.
tors great learning and deep research has
made his subjects Qhe Psalms), involved in
50 much mystery to the ordinary mind, so
plain that little child may understand
them end appreciate their great poetic
beauty.
At the last term OF the County Court a
man named j. l.. Jacoby was convicted OF
petit larceny and sentenced 10 receive
twenty sshes and ten days imprisonment.
In consideration OF bis wife and family he
was allowed ten days to get remission OF
the sentence from the Governor. II is now
understood that the Governor has refused
to interfere with the verdict OF the Court,
and we shall now have the unusual specta-
Gle OF white man receiving the lash at the
whipping post.
Mr.. Leslie Booth, a well-known citizen OF
this place, 0ied this morning OF typhoid. !
fever. QUIP.