The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-08
,DANVILLE.

prr>iprNG HOLLAND AND TWO OTHER MEN,
grr> oF THE COUNCIL RESIGN WHAT
cMOyEl. WATSON SAYS-MASONIC CEEE-
NONY POSTPONED-A SLIGHT FROST: MUCH
TOBACCO OUT ~ PORTIONS or HALIFAX
yHE United STATES WORKING PARTY.
fC5rre.pondcnce Of the Richmond Dispatch.I
OCTOBER 6, 1881.
Az tie regular meeting OF the Council
bsl night Mr.. C.. G.. Holland. the prCSi-
dent. offered the resignation OF his men,
bership. accompanying the offer with
some remarks, in which he said that
sense Of duty TO his own affairs required
that he should resign; that he left the
Council with the kindeSt feelings
for every member ci it; that for the
sixteen wears during which he had been o
member he had endeavOred to do his
duty as a good citizen; that there had been
some acts Of thi. Council OF which he
could not approve, but that in general hc
could endorse what had been done, and he
thought that the people OF the city would
discover that they had cause to be grateful
70 thi, Council The resignation was ac-
CeWed. resolutions % complimentary
character being also adopted, and Captain
+. C.. Hemd0n was elected member in
Place Of Dir. Holland, and Mr.. VI. L. Jor-
dan elected president. Mr.. +. B. Grayely
and Captain +. J. Talbot afterwards ten
deIed their designations, and the rcSigna-
lions were accepted.
Few men in this county own more land
than Colonel Isaac II. Watson, or have
more public spirit. The Dispatch knew OF
him while he was on service in the House
Of Delegates. Colonel Watson says that
while il is true that the struggle by which
we were eXtricated from carpet-bag rule
wa severe struggle, and the success a
.mnd achievement, yet success in the COM
ing election is much more important to the
State than was success then. Then we
we're struggling mainly against foreign
clement that had been introduced under
military authority, was consequently
odOus to the real people, and would as a
msiter Of course be after awhile elmi-
nqted. But there are issues involved in
the present contest about which there can
be no compromise and As TO the decision OF
which there can be no pOstpOnement. Inc
leaders Of the Readjuster party are inviunS
Us to eat OF fruit which will produce death
The laying OF the cornerstone OF the
custom-house, which was TO have taken
IilAif Nf~AlulN HuuNi ANNAN
Ma,ons. has been postponed TO the llth
instant. the wOrkmen not having been
able 70 prepare for that business by 'hc
dh.
The weather is cold this morning. There
Is slight frost in some places, but 1t Is
hardly supposable that any damage mas
been done. Parties here from HaliiaN
county say that there is much tobacco on
the Hill in the northern part of that county
The planters wishing il 10 stand up 10 the
latest moment, and presuming that ga Doll
viii not strike twice in one place III one
Hattie "a drought first and an early frost
neXt.
The United States working party Is now
engaged in clearing out channel IN tne
river about five miles above Danyille. Inc
width OF the channel is TO be sixteen feet'
The hands for awhile will lodge in a quar-
,er-bost, which has Just been made ior
ibem The said boat draws eight inches
Of water, has hunks for eighteen men, i
weather-boarded, and has shingie ROOF,
and is cited up within for an Once
kitchen, &c. ALPHA.