The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-07
PETERSBURG.

yIRE on SYCAMORE sTReRr--fAyIN0 THE
ELECTION oFFIcERs--A SERIOUS ACCIDENT
A LADY PARALYzED- SUDDEN DEATH-IN-
roRrANT IMPROVEMENTS CONTEMPLATED.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dsspatch.I
MARCH @, 1883.
About 9 o'clock this morning fire was
discovered in the secondstory of the brick
bonse on Sycamore street near Washing
non occupied as a restaurant by Mr.. Will
liam III. Butts. The origin OF the fire is a
mystery. but is believed TO have been In
ccndiary, The building was pretty well
,,utied and the stock and furniture much
damaged. Mr.. Butts has an insurance OF
a 600 on his stock, which more than cev-
or. ,hc loss he sustains. The building was
r.cently purchased by DR.. G. h. Starke,
Ia was insured for $4,000 In the Virginia
N @3fnal, Of Richmond.
III u I,nited states Marshal Hughes was in the
I sity to-day paying of the supervisors and
Aenuty marshals-some fifty or more in
numbcr-who did service at the election
here in November last.
The negro Robert johnson, whose sem
tence 10 one years Imprisonment In the
roni,cntiary for feloniouS assault was COM
mutcd by the Governor to six months in
,ou was brought here yesterday from Din
widdie county on his way to Richmond
the Governors action not being known to
che county authorities lie will be taken
hscl TODAY. lohnson's offence consisted
IN severely biting the cheek Of Mr.. Clary,
mar Ford's depot, during difficulty with
that gentleman.
W. Syncoe. WAS partially paralyzed day
before Yesterday. and her condition Is re-
antfrp lido Of har
hodv i Affected. Her husband, it may be
sto,cl. has been confined 10 bis house for
many months from the effects OF stroke of
paralysis.
JolIy Hines (colored), a driver for
NessrS. Il. w. Collier 4 Co., fell from his
draw while going down sycamore street this
moIping, and was very badly injured. He
received an ugly cut on the head, his jaw
hone WAS fractured, and he was otherwise
seriously injured by the fall upon hlm of a
heavy bale OF domcsticS. His condition is
regarded as critical.
MIR. Richard Eastman, an employs OF the
Richmond and Petersburg railroad. died
very suddenly this morning Of hemorrhage
Of the lungs. lie was at work yesterday,
but this morning after arising was taken
with a spell OF coughing, which brought
on the hemorrhage. lie died in five min
utes.
Now that the tobacco-tsX question has
been finally settled the manufacturers in
this city will at once go to work with their
complement Of employees. TlfA'e are seye-
raj improvements contemplated by proml-
neut tobaceOniSts here in the way OF addi-
tions TO their manufactures. Chief among
thesa may be mentioned the large addition
which VIII he made TO the fine tobacco-fac-
tory Of Watson & McGill. These gentle
men will add 10 the size of their present
place Of business on Washington street,
and will at an early day commence the con-
struction of another factory alongside their
present building.
The new factory will front ON Washing
ton street. and when finished it will in
crease ;hcir business To considerable ex-
tent and give employment to large mum
Der Of hands. The contract for the brick
work has already been Loo, and work viii
be commenced at an early day.
ROBIN ADAIR.