The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-15
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, MEMBER OF TIN COUNCIL RESIGNS AND Is
,rcxisa THAN coNkfiNG AN INJUNCTION
AGAINST TAX LEVIED BY rHE COUNCIL
SOME or TUX SUNDAY sERyicEs-PERs0N-
us-RAxDoIPu's ACCOUNT Box--Ine CON.
PLANTS OF rNE PLANTERS AND FARMgeS--
ACCOUNTS OF Tux HENRY RAILROAD CON.
PANY.
fcorrssponaeace OF the Richmond Dispstchl
JUNE IS, 1891.
on Saturday evening Mr.. Frank B.
Crayely resigned his seat in the Council,
and was Immediately thereafter unani.
mously reelected. Mr.. Gravely resigned
because he bad heard unpleasant remarks
about the isx.bill, aud about himself In
connection with the tax. bill, the bill having
heen drawn br himself and one OF his col
leagues. After the UNANIMOUS endorsa'iou
Of his course 10y the Council he resumed bis
seat.
Judge Whi,le, of the Circuit Court. has
granted an Injunction against the collection
from the tobacc0-dealers OF tax OF fifteen
cents for every thousand pounds OF tobacco
purchased by them. The injunction Is
granted upon the ground that the tax bill
wss passed without the previous notes oil
,ea days which the charter requires. There
* a belief, moreover, in the minds Of some
az toe dealers that that tax is oppressive
soon after the injunction was granted the
Coxncil met. One OF the members offered
the old tax bill, and order was made that
the Council meet again on the tenth day
hereafter. order was also made raiiiying
ana confirming all acts of the officers under
the old bill and making valid all payments
made under that dill. In reference to the
yeonlrcment that a tax bill should be pre-
.enied ten DAYS before the enactment OF II.
Nr. GrsVely, who is chairman OF the FL
nance Committee, says that that require
peni had never before been observed 4" in
Ell his experience as a councilman"
Rev. Mr.. Holmes, OF the Baptist church,
rrc,ched for Rev. Mr. Lambeth at the Main
s'r,e, Methodist church last night. Rev.
p.ul Whitehead. ID. D.. Of Farmville,
mr., hed at the Main.Sjreet Methodist
fburca Yesterday morning, and at the
Iynn-Sireet Methodist church last night.
>enator J. I. Stoyall. Of Henry county,
came 10 The city from Henry county Shur-
d., evening.
trom citizen Of Charlotte county desk
'or account; box) which once belonged to
Jonn Randolph Of Roanoke. II is Of wal
nui. j. about Two feet wide, eighteen inches
deem. and four feet high. At the sides are
Il
"niceon-holes about six inches square.
The planters and farmers who were in
town saturday were complaining heavily
about the drought. They bad planted out
much tobacco and IL was now lying IN the
hill "by the thousand" There bad be en-
some Improvement in the prospects of The
wheat, bui there was no hope as TO tue crop
OF oats.
From the account Of Mr.. W. Talley,
treasurer and secretary Of the Dlnvllle and
NeN-Riyer Railroad Company. ii appears
that the receipts bad been rs follows: From
Henry county, S64, 42l 50; from Dauvl!e,
Sl9.,4G.66; from private stockholders.
s3.39e.0s; from loan, $1,000. There had
been paid for engineering, S4.99l 81; for
rigat Of way. sS29.93; for construction ex-
pfnse.. SO, So 81; for tools, S7,l25 0S; for
roliing.Sock. 1926 81; for rails and fasten-
ing>, S7,4j0.16; telegraph line, sl2l.02.
Bilsnc- on hand, S926.0l. ALPHA.