The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-29
pErERsBURG.


NOVEMBER %, 1881.
our city was visited by quite ees'fuc-
tive fire on sunday morning nj on carry
hour. Shortly after 4 o'clock, as parties
were returning from the Appoina'. ..s
depot. they discovered flames IN frame s,a-
BILE building on the rear premises oi M, M.
T.V. Collins, on BollingbrooN street. nis
bouse was coon consumed, ana WIN ~
buggy and spring-wagon belonging 10 or
Collins. The stable belonged 10 MI.
Epps Hargravc, and was insured lor
S3o0 in the Virginia Home company
From this house the fire was coininu-
nicated TO the large iour-story Drlck
building near by, on Second street lusl
below the Bollingbrook Hotel ana lmmeul-
atcly i'm rear OF Mr.. David Bailey grocery
store. This building was erected iOr 4
tobaceo-factory, and until within the i;!st
wear or so had been occupied rs sucn by
different manufacturing firms: IL was 4
very large structure, with ali neceSsaT!
room and convcniences for that business.
During the present year, however, IL mas
been used as a storagehouse ior suinac,
leaves by Mr.. James NJ. Williams, VINO nad
filed all the floors OF the building win SUI
mae. and had therein about ,oOO,0O0 POUNDS
Of the leaves. besides some 10000 bags TO
be used for packing and shipping when
necessary. When Mr.. Williams COM
meneed the storage OF sumac IN inis
building, shortly after the ire when de-
stroved nearly 100000 pounds OF the
leaves for him in Che old Petersburg foun-
dry building on Old street, the property
owners i'm the vicinity made protest
against it, and appealed to the Common
Council 10 pass an ordinance forbidding the
storage OF sumac in large quantities in The
heart o. the city, on the ground OF its be-
inf, liable 10 spontaneous combustion, ana
therefore dangerous TO property III the
neighborhood The Council, however,
thought it had no power in the matter ana
took no action.
The sumac caught fire through Che win
dows. and being an extremely inilammable
substance The department was powerless TO
stop the progress Of the flames. The build
inc itself is a complete wreck, the walls
from front to rear being levelled TO the
ground. The immense bank OF sumac-
leaves is still burning, but Is so damaged
bv fire. smoke, and water as to be almost
yalueless for merchantable purposes.
Mr.. Williams has insurance TO the amount
of $1,000 Oh his stock as follows, which
will fall several thousand dollars short OF
covering his loss: Georgia Home. $1,000;
Washington Fire and Marine, $500; Fire
Association. of Philadelphia, 5000; Pho
nix, of London, $1,000; Merchants and
Mechanics, OF Richmond, $1,000.
The building was owned by Mr.. Robert
Hamilton, formerly OF this city, now OF
North Carolina, and was insured Tor $4,000.
as follows: Petersburg Savings and In
surance Company. 5000, OF which $500
is reinsurcd in the Manhattan, OF New
York; Niagara. OF New York, $1,000;
Fire Association, Of Philadelphia. Sl.o00;
West Chester, OF New York, $1,000. The
building could probably not be replaced for
less than $4,000 or $4,000.
The stable belonging to Mr.. David Bailey,
near by,was damaged to The extent OF about
500, which IS covered by insurance in the
Virginia Home.
The fire was OF course the act OF an in
cendiary. All the adjacent property was
saved from damage.
A telegram was received to-day from
Colonel Mcdonald, the Fish Commissioner
OF Virginia, stating that nc would ship to
our Fish and Game Association on We'd
nesday for distribution among the farmers
of the adjacent counties five hundred young
carp and one hundred pairs OF adult two
year-Old) carp.
Colonel James u. Brady, the collector Of
internal revenue for this district, says that
he has no knowledge Of any intention OF
the President to appoint him to Cabinet
position other than what he has seen and
read in the newspapers. He has had Sevc-
raj interviews with the President recently,
and the subject has never been mentioned
to him.
Mr.. Joseph A. West, OF this city, re-
turned from Baltimore last evening, width
er he lad been in search Of his son, Ed
ward b. West, aged twenty-three years,
who left Cincinnati for home on the eve
ming OF the 10Th instant, in very feeble con-
diti0n both in body and mind. Not hear
inc from his son for some days after his
departure from Cincinnati, Mr.. West be-
came uneasy and started out to search for
him. On the 2ith instant he was shocked
to learn from the officers of the Bay View
Asylum, in Baltimore, that his son had
been brought to the hospital of that insti-
tuition in dying condition on the 14th in
slant, and that he died two days later and
had been buried. He was too weak TO an
swer questions. and was only able TO tell
his name and age. 1t was not known at
the institution until Mr.. West arrived there
on the oath that the young mans family
lived in Petersburg.
Captain NJ. p. Goodwin, for many years
an officer on the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio and Norfolk and Western railroad,
and formerly chief of police OF this city, is
seriously i'll.
Fashionable circles are interested in 4
brilliant marriage which 1t is reported is
to take place in this city early III Deem
Der, in which the arrangements are to be
after the fashionable English style. The
lady is the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of leading member OF the Pc
tersburg bar, aud the gentleman promi-
nent citizen of Montgomery, Ala.
ROBIN ADAIE.