The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-05-01

TIL. SPRING MISUNDERSTANDING OF SILVER
CUP--REMovAL OF A POPULAR RAILROAD
orFiCrAI.-riGRoN.suo SHOOTING MATCIi--woRK
on THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD AT
wAyNEsBoRo' REcoMuENcED--uEAvYw WORK
FOR THE TELEGRArR--IxyuRY OF A FORMER
RICHMOND MAN.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispaich.l
April. 80, 1880.
The Augusta county spring races took
place at the Fair Grounds this week, lasting
three days. There were six or seven hun
dred persons present during tie racing,
some OF which was rs good a. was ever sect
In this county. The successful Inauguration
u these races has been principally due to
the interest shown BY the English Riding
Club in the undertaking. Mr.. o. w. Will
kinson, the secretary, has been very active.
The gentlemen belonging to The club rode
in mourning IN memory Of the late ST. John
Ben, Il valued member, whose recent death
has been noticed. Mr.. a. Bumgardoer's
Blue Dick won the elegant silver cup which
referred 10 several weeks ago. Ii was
presented to Mr.. Bum9ardner at the Vir-
ginia Hotel by Mr.. Il. u. Drake, OF Mills &
Glib, OF New York, the donors.
A pigcon-shooting match was added TO
the races. The first was won by j. Il.
Scherer. Jr. In the second there was tie
between Mcssrs. Harris and Shaefier, and
the prize divided; and in the third another
tie between Messrs. Bissel and Moore,
which was shot off and won by the former.
Mr.. j. w. Hopkins, who has for the last
seven years filed very acceptably the re-
sponsible position OF freight agent for the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
here, has accepted an offer from the company
oh him IN (t..nnalfan on Nay let
The business at that point has become very
heavy, as from $50 to 200 carloads OF coal
per day are shipped, which are loaded from
the mines at the place and brought from the
colieries in the neigbborhood, Of which
there are eight or ten. Mr.. Hopkns's ex-
perieRce and business qualifications we'll tit
him for the place. Mr.. G. w. McIlwee, Of
Capneiton, will be transferred TO Stanton.
| The post-ofiice fixtures will be removed
| TO the new Office IN the Tams building to-
morrow.
The County Conservative Committee has
been called together by its chairman, Cap
tain Joseph Bumgardner, "fOr the trans
action of important business" 1t meets
tomorrow.
The contract on the shenandoah Valley
road near Waynesboro, which was sur
rendered about q month ago by firm after
working il two or three days, has been
again let 10 Mr.. J. J. Fitzpatrick, OF the
! firm Of Fitzpatrick X Co. There are said 10
be | 200 hands now mt work upon this road
between WaynesborC' and Uagerstown.
The work done by the telegraph Office
here during the three days OF the Republic.
can Convention was the heaviest ever ac-
complshed in the same time at this office.
Mr.. j. W. Crews, the very capable manager
for the Western Union here, had the as
sstance OF very competent office-man from
Richmond, Mr.. w. G. Wastrum, and to-
gether they sent 81 800 words-nearly all OF
il in three nights between the hours OF IL
Up, NJ. and a. NJ. There were special re-
porters for twenty-siX papers, in Rich
mond. Alexandria, Norfolk, Danvile,
Lyncbburg, Charlottesville, Petersburg,
New York, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati,
Washington. Baltimore, and the New York
Associated Press. Ii is due TO the opera
tors. who worked so diligently and willing
ly. to say that their work was highly COM
plimented by the newspaper-men. and il
has not appeared that but one single word
was sent wrong during the whole time.
DIR. G. III. Perrow, for many years resi-
dent OF Richmond, and medical adviser OF
the Piedmont and Arlington LifC-Insuranct
Company, was seriously hurt at the races
Monday. He was galoping around the
track, when bis stirrup broke, throwing hin
on the ground in front Of his horse, which
tramped upon his breast and broke severa
ribs over the region OF the heart. Tht
Doctor has suffered very much. He Is at
tended by DR.. c. c. Phillips OF this city
who reports iayorably OF his condition.