Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-09
VIRGINIA

RICHMOND, July THE read
iusters state convention met in the
theatre to-day at 11:3O a. M, and
was called to order by Gen. VIM.
Malone, chairman of the state
executive committee, who made
brief speech, counseling harmony
and wisdom in their deliberations.
He then nominated Col. Ii. FL.
Riddleberger, of Shenandoah, as
temporary chairman. Upon as
suming the chair, Col. RiddIeberger
was greeted with the widest en-
thusiasm, the applause continuing
for SONS moments.
He spoke at some length, con-
trasting this convention with the
one which assembled at Mozart
Hall place, where the readjuster
party had its origin, thus showing
the rapid growth of the party
since its birth. People he said
had taken their own affairs into
their own hands and intend to ad-
just matters in their own way
without regard to the wishes
of political dead-beats and
without fusion or afiliation
with other parties. The readjust-
ers had come to the bridge and they
proposed to cross it and march on
to victory without looking to the
right or to the left. He was fres
quently interrupted with loud out
bursts of applause.
The call of the roll showed that
representatives were present from
all the counties and cities in the
state except Northumberland and
Page and the city of Danville. The
delegates numbered nearly six huns
dred, and included about forty
negroes. .r
After the appointment of the
committees on credentials and per>
manent organization, the convention
took recess. Upon reassembliDg
the commirtee on permanent organs
ization reported, and recommended
Col. Abram Fulkerson, of Wash
ington county, as permanent presi~
dent, together with list Of vice
presidents, and P. II. Mccall, of
Pulaski, as secretary. Adopted.
Col. Fulkerson, upon taking the
chair, addressed the convention, giv>
ing brief resume of the origin and
history of the party, and its rapid
and widespread growth in the state
against the most powerful combina>
ton, until now it was the dominant
party of Virginia. If the work of
this convention was characterized
by wisdom and good judgment,
by which the party had heretofore
worked, the electoral vote of Vir-
ginia would be cast in the next
presidential election by the readjust-
ers of the state, by whom it ought
to be cast.
A committee on business, plat
form and resolutions was then ap-
pointed and a recess was taken until
5 o'clock this afternoon.
DANvILLE, Va, July 8.-Tuest
day evening Glenn Estes, negro
shot and killed Joseph H. Estes, a
white young farmer, near Cascade
village, i'll this county. The alter.
cation grew out of an alleged as.
sault by the deceased upon a female
relative of the homicide last Satur.
day evening. The girl was getting
vegetables in the garden of the de-
ceased against his prohibition an(
he forcibly elected her.
In their encounter Tuesday the
homicide attacked the deceased with
a shotgun on his own premises, anc
killed him after receiving the fata
shot. The deceased shot his assail
ant with pistol wounding him seri'
ously in the leg. The homicide was
arrested, is now in custody and will
be lawfully tried. He was formerly
owned and brought up by the father
of the deceased. There is some ex
citement in the neighborhood, bu
lynching is not probable.