The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-10
LOCAL MATTERS.
Briefs and pprxonoI.

The Second Baptist church l. 70 be 70.
painted. a sca1old is now being raised
around the steeple. ''''0'
Inc annual meeting OF the Chamber OF
commerce will be he'd Thursday evening.
Tomorrow night the cOurt-martial will
/ assemble TO try Captain lie Roy Brown.
IL Is something about plumes and disobedi-
ence Of orders.
samples OF our granite are asked for by
General Charles =. Stone, chef engineer
OF The Bartholdi Statue OF Liberty Com
mittee in New York. II suitable in price and
qnality, our granite may be taken for the
pedestal Of the statue.
The pleasant face and hearty laugh OF
Senator Paul Edmonds, Of Halifax, re-
joiced many friends here in Richmond yes
terday.
Our telcgrams have recently given ac-
counts OF two powdcr-magazines which
were struck by lightning and exploded,
with damage 10 surrounding property.
Miss Anna VI. Miller, Of this city. died
suddenly at Reno, New. on June sth, while
travelling with Raymond's excursion party
from Philadelphia. She was q sister OF NJ.
A Miller, Of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way.
Mr.. William II. Selden, the proprietor Of
the Metropolitan Hotel, Washington, D..
c., is in the city. the guest OF Colonel J..
l.. Darlington, OF the Exchange Hotel.
The Exchange Hotel has recently re-
ceived some very attractive improvements.
Colonel Carrlngton, the proprietor, keeps
fully abreast OF the times, and is "Old
Nirginia-neyer-tire " in looking out for the
comfort and convenience Of guests.
The British schooner City Of Nassau, rs
tons, Kelley master, cleared yesterday at
the custom-housc for Nassau, Bahama
Islands, with an assorted cargo, valued at
S1,064.s2.
Mr.. +. Sinclair Beal. a former member
Of the Otey Battery. died OF pneumonia
Friday in Baltimore, where he bad lived
since the war. He was cashier OF the
Farmers and Merchants Bank OF that city.
The deceased was n native Of Virginia, and
was forty years OF age, and leaves 4 wife
and one child.
The city ambulance, in charge OF DR..
Mercer, was called out yesterday morning
to render medical aid to Mr.. Andrews,
who fell through the hatchway at Stokes's
tobacco factory, and was badly bruised.
He was carried to his home on Leigh
street.
Nearly all OF the rooms here in which
commencement exercises were held last
year were dangerously crowded. In such
audiences panicS would be peculiarly dan
gerOus. Ii is the duty OF those having
charge OF the arrangements TO be very pro-
vdent in this respect.
City-Auditor j. B. Royster was extreme
ly i'll yesterday. HIS condition eXcites the
worst apprehenSions.
The United States Internal-revenue col
lections for the week ending Saturday, June
9Th, were rs follows Monday, SJ,2j9.01;
Tuesday, Sj,5G3.54; Wednesday, 4,761.92;
Thursday, S3.9G3. 16; Friday. S4,Gl6.4i;
Saturday, Sj,3j3.J0. Total, 500, ,j20.13.
The proceedings Of the fourth amua
session OF the Grand Council of the Royal
Arcanum OF Virginia, held in Richmond
April 18th, and 23d and oath, printed in
handsome pamphlet form, have just been
issued from the Dispatch printing-house.
In the Circuit Court yesterday the trial
was commenced OF the ease wherein it is
sought to make the Richmond and Allie
ghany Railroad Company responsible for
the death OF Dave Frazier, colored bar
Der, who, last summer in getting of
train ut the basin here was drowned. IL Is
claimed that the platform arrangements
were faulty.
Colonel II. B. Berkeley, Of Farmyllle,
Va, was in the city yesterday.
The Mutuals, OF Philadelphia, to play
with the Richmond Baseball Club tO-mor-
row, are considered experts. What our
people like and hope TO get is a well-con-
tested game. They like to see ii close.