The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-24
FREDERICKSBURG.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Disna ch
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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispa CHI
MARCH 80. 1880.
Among the oldest records OF our Cor
poratiOn Court there is still preserved the
original OF the last will OF Mrs. Mary Wash
| ingion, which was made in 1888. Tue will is
written in a small, fine hand and is much
| faded, but the Signature OF Mrs. Wasting
ton, as bold, free-handed, and masculine as
that OF her son George, is S i'll as black aud
| legible as il written a week ago. 1t is al.
most but not strictly in the phraseOl0gy Gus.
tomary in wills OF that date, the variations.
though slight, indicating that individuality
Of character Of which some traditions sim
remain here. The house in which she lived
IS standing, and is but little altered. The
precise spot where she was buried is I'M
known. The unfinished monument TO her
memory near Kenmore is not, As many be-
lieve, over the grave, but is very near it,
AT the Council meeting held Friday night
The contract for lighlng the streets was re-
newed for one year with the Gaslighi Com
pany al S26 per lamp, il fifty lamps are
lighted. The lamps are TO burn on an ave-
rage Of nine hours night, except during
moonlight nights. An ordinance was adopt
ed closing barber-shops on Sunday on the
petition OF all the BARRIERS OF the town eX-
CSDL Que. NC lOi tue SuI-
port of the-poOr for the last month, incud
ing medical attendance for three months,
were Sl51.T.
Several Of our city merchants attended
Orange Court yesterday. They reported
that hands had entirely suspended work
on the "missing link" or Charlotles-
vile and Rapidan railroad, in the
vicinity OF Orange Courthouse. Early in
the morning agents were on the ground Of
fering from Sl.15 to 81 % day for laborers
on the enaDdoab-Valley and the Lexing-
ton and Big Sandy railroads. The hands on
the missing link were receiving eighty
cents day, and it was reported that nearly
all the hands nj Orange would leave for
Kentucky. A company OF fifty bands Is
now being raised here for the Shenandoah
Valley railroad, and some apprehensioDs az G
expressed by the farmers OF scarcity OF
labor.
The grand Jury called the attention OF the
Court to the neglect Of the erection OF fish,
ladders in the Rapidan river, as ordered by
the Court last year.
A motion was made by the counsel OF
colored man on trial for stealing a hog for
Jury OF his own color, but was overruIed
by Judge TaIiaferro. The Judge directed
the clerk TO enter on the record that the
motion was overruled, because "the Jurors
for the term had already been summoned
with reference 10 their qualifications under
the statute; to allow the motion would be
to put colored men on The jury because
they are colored." cit IL not the pur-
pose OF this court either TO embrace or
exclude colored men from the jury-list be-
cause Of their color" The trial proceeded.
but the counsel reserved the right of ex-
ception.
The Secretary Of the Virginia Amateur
Oarsmen's Association has published the
call for the Council 10 meet here on the 1ih
OF April, at which time ali clubs in he State
not members may file applications for men,
bership.
The statistics Of trade and business Tor
last year, JUST published, show an Increase
Of nearly % per cent. oyer 1878.