The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-02-03
PETERSBURG.
ESSEX COUNTY, VA.

DECISION IL THE DEMURlAGE CAsE-IHE
COUNCIL. AND OLD BLANDFORD CHURCll-THE
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE TUE CITY's DREDGE-
DEATH OF TWO wELL-KNOWN CITIZENS
NEW APPLICATION or AN OLD REMEDY.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspaich.l
FEBRUARY >. 1852.
In the Hastings Court this morning
Judge Mann rendered decision for the de-
PENDANT i'm the demurragc case, OF which
mention was made in my last letter. The
suit was for S9j damages brought by the
owners Of the schooner Lily and Anne
against firm OF this city Tor alleged delay
i'm getting into dock at City Point after the
vessel had arrived in the stream oil the har-
Dor. The Court rccited that the owners OF
the vessel had not placed il in position to
serve notice for discharge OF freight 10 de-
PENDANTS until il had reached the dock;
that under the law the defendants then
mad twenty-iour hours in which to COM
mence di.chargng; that they did not avail
themselves Of this privilege. but COM
menced unloading within one or two hours
after the vessel landed nj the dock, and dis
charged the load in accordance with the
terms OF the contract; that it was within
the province Of the plaintiffs TO have made
Il contract i'm their bin OF laden, specifying
and requiring the defendants TO pay dam
ages for detention in the stream; but in
the absence OF such specifications in the
contract. and the defendants having no
wharf ut the Point. they are not RESPONSE
bic for the delay in Getting 10 the dock.
The Common Council, at IFS meeting last
evening. appropriated SLID for repairs to
old Blandiord church. Many Of our pco-
Dlc would have heen clad FOR the Council
TO have appropriated a sum sufficiently
large TO restore the venerable building TO
it, condition in Colonial days-With its
aises. it, pcwS. IT, pulpit and chancel, It,
galleries. its floors, &c.-and II is probable
that all this may hereafter be done. But
the Council deemed il ineXpcdlcnt and I'M
wise Just at this time to cNpend so much
money Tor this purpose. when there are so
many other heavy demands for money.
The sum appropriated yesterday will be
used in rcln,tating the north and south
walls and cornices, timbcring and stating
the roof. and otherwise STRENGTHENING the
building As will preserve it for some years
TO come.
The Council approved the action OF the
Lower AppomattoX Company in present
inc the city's dredge and machinery to the
United States Government, on the condi-
ton that the same shall be put and kept in
good condition and used in improving our
river and harbOr. The company had been
notified by Colonel Craighill that such an
offer on such conditions would be accepted
by the Government.
Captain VI. Peterson Goodwin, formerly
CHIEF Of Police OF thin city, and for num-
Der OF wears connected with the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad, died last
evening at the residence Of his father Cap
tain +. \. Goodwin. after 4 lingering and
painful illness. Ills remains were sent over
TO Richmond this afternoon for interment
i'm HOLLYWOOD cemetery, accompanied by a
number OF friends and an escort OF Knights
Of Honor.
Mr.. b. +. Rudd, a worthy and respected
citizen Of Chesterfield, died laSteyening, OF
pneumonia. after brief illness. He was
originally from Portsmouth. but had lived
here nearly ever since the war. He leaves
a widow and seven children.
4 lady OF this city who has for long
time been constant and severe sufferer
from rheumatism has been within the last
two weeks almost entirely relieved by vac
cination. As soon rs the vaccination took
her rheumatic Sulerngs decreased. until
now she has been almost entirely relieved.
ROBIN ADAIR.