The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-24
LYNCHBURG.

vprcuTrfu. PAII-To RESUME OPERA
rroNs-TuH IRON INDUsTRY-sTREET IN
PRoyYmENT-FIRE DEPARTAENT-LOcATIO
or RICHMOND AND AILEGBANY RAILROAD
suops-svDpRE DEATH-FATHER HANLY.
rcorresnondcncc of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NOVEMBER %, 1881.
couptryman named Daniel b. Hill,
from Cody. Halifax county, had fright
full tumble last night from the iooi-
bridge which spans Tan Yard branch, on
Court street, Just below Twelfth. Ills cries
OF distress were heard by Officer Pendle-
ton. who. with the assistance OF another
policeman, conveyed him to a drugstore,
and subsequently TO the stalion-hollse,
where his hucts, consisting Of disocated
wrist, a severe cash across the right tenn
pie. and minor bruises about the person,
were dressed by two surgeons, and this
morning his condition is rs favorable as
circumstances will admit. The great
wonder Is that he was not killed outright,
~ the distance which he fell was about
thirty-Gye feet, and on the jagged rocks be-
low. He was doubtless intoxicated.
Thomas II. Dunlap, lessee Of the Central
Virginia Iron Company's property in Mel
son county, was put in formal possession
Yesterday, and operations in the mines Will
he resumed this week. The original cost
Of this property was Sij0,OO0, and Mr..
Davis. the receiver. informs me that 100000
has been expended in developing it.
The irop-mnnufacturin industry about
h sreappears for the time TO be paralyzed. The
James-Riyer Iron and Steel Manufacturing
Comnny, the works OF which are located
about three miles above the city on the line
OF the Richmond and Allegheny road, is
said TO be i'm financial distress, and has stlS-
pendcd operations entirely. EX-GOYernor
Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, is one OF the
principal executive officers and large
stockholder in this company. The Lynch
burg Iron-Works are likewise idle; the
furnace is in blast, but nothing Is being
done.
Contractors Rick, of Richmond, and KEEL
lev, of Lyncllburg, have just finished re-
having the carriage-way of another squal c
on Main street with granite blocks. Will
liam II. Ford. the contractor for the Other
two squares, finished one OF them several
days ago, but the work was pronounced ty
the City Engineer Of such inferior charac-
ter that the block is being relaid.
The question of paid fire department
for this city has been abandoned, and should
never have been agitated in the first in
stance. Everything that was wanting to
perfect the volunteer system here was to
purge the brigade OF imy-shirkers and
furnish the companies with horses to draw
the reels. This it has been determined by
the Special Committee on Fire to do.
IT has been raining here incesSantly for
three days, but there is Il very little rise in
the river.
The round-bouse of the Richmond and
Allegheny railroad has been located at
Dukes Pond. two miles below Lynchburg,
and over hundred workmen are now en-
ployed in its construction. | understand
the workshops and foundry Of the COM
pany viii likewise be located at this point.
William III. Shaner, ST., said to be the
oldest butcher in the city, died suddenly
Yesterday afternoon from an attack Of apo
pleXy.
The condition Of Father Hanly, whose
illness here was noted several days since,
is somewhat improved to-day.
Mr.. James C. Taylor, delegate-elect to
the General Assembly from Montgomery
county, is spoken of as likely to succeed
Judge Garland, Of the Corporation Court.
The Readjusters haven't a respectable law
yer here, and unless they take Grigsby,
who is tolerabiy yersed in law, will have
to seek elsewhere for man. Judge Kir-
by, of Nelson county, wants the place;
likewise brother-in-law of General FL
lott, a Dir. Boudurant, OF Buckingham.
The friends of Latham went to Richmond
yesterday to look after his interests.
IRIARTE.