The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-07
Virginia News.

A very large attendance is expected in
Norfolk 1T the Protestant Episcopal Con-
vention to be held there on the 18th IN
slant.
4 committee from Eastern Virginia is in
Baltimore negotiating for the purchase OF
the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company's
property.
CAPTAIN Frederick Peters. former we'll
known citizen OF Petersburg, died few
DAYS ago in the Grundy county (Mo.) aims
| house; aged about siXty-two years
Judge Palmer on Thursday last granted
/ license to sell liquor TO all who applied out
| side Of Salem He refused all applicants
| from Salem, giving as his reason for so do
ing that the sale Of liquor injured Roanoke
College.
Professor y. b. Webster and f. 5. Tay-
/ Tor, Esq, have declined the nominations for
school commissioners rendered them by
I the Coalition party in Norfolk on Thursday
night.
/ Mr.. Leonard Marbury was nominated at
| the Conservative primary in Alexandra
/ on THURSDAY. There was an earnest but
good-natured fight between the nominee
and Mr.. :. q. Brent. The friends OF both
worked earnestly.
A writer from Snow Creek in the Frank
lin Gazette says: "GO where you will, the
name Of William Malone is indelibly writ
ten the arch-impOstOr. The Reddlusters
all express a desire 10 see Massey come TO
Franklin and expose Malone. They say
that they do not abuse him for being Re-
publican, Tor if he would say that he is
Republican he would tell the truth and
be an honest m;m. But they say
that for such man to come be-
fore the people OF Virginia, and
when charged with being Republican
denouncc the idea Of such a thing thou
sand times, TO procure a seat in the United
States Senate at the hands of a Democratic
Legislature representing Democratic
State; 10 90 as orr representative to the
councils OF the nation, and the very first
thing lac does on getting there Is to raise
war with the Democrats OF that body while
/ they are struggling TO protect our rights:
then to turn around, shake hands, and
make peace with the Republican party,
whose whole object has been ever since it
got into power 10 Cypress and degrade Viz
ginia; that for such man. after such be-
hayior as that, to have the assurance to turn
his face back TO Virginia and to proclaim
/ am Democrat. is an imposition and an
insult too great to be endured by Democrats
who voted TO send him there"
The Charlottesville Chronicle says it is
r,rmorcd that the Hon. John Paul is "on
/ the horns OF a dilemma" in regard to the
applicants for positions in the University
/ bv parties in his district; that Albemarle
furnishes twenty-tbree applicants for posi-
/ tons in the University, and that the mem
bers Of the Board are besiegod by the
anxious candidates. Where the carcass IS
there will the eagles be gathered.
"LovE LAUGHS AT LoCKsnTHs." This
old adage was illustrated since our last
issue by the successful escapade and subse-
Qlent marriage Of a young lady OF Char
| lottesyille and student Of the University
Of Virginia. The couple lett for Weldon,
\. c., ON the A. NJ. train Monday, at
which place they arrived safely in the nj
teTnOOu OF that day, and, procuring the
necessary license, were united in marriage
lat ll:3O u. NJ, in the presence Of mutual
friend OF the bride and groom and n special
friend of the groom, both students OF the
University. 4 telegram Tuesday morning
announced the marriage, and informed the
parents Of the bride that they had not lost
a daughter. but gained son.
The bride. Miss Eva Williams, is the
daughter OF Mr.. 7. }. Williams, one Of
Charlottesyille's most worthy citizens.
The groom, Mr.. r. W. Gator, Jr., is a son
of the late head OF the mercantile house OF
Armstrong. Gator d Co., Baltimore, now
conducted by his uncle and brother.
The newly-married couple are quite
Young; the bride not vet eighteen years
old, and the groom twenty-one on the day
OF his marriage.
After the marriage, as we understand,
the parties returned to Richmond, and
from thence proceeded to Baltimore
Charlottesville ChrOaicie.