Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-10-08
Dan VILE.
The Tobacco Association A MandamuS
NiH - No Gas Receipts Improvements
About the Custom-House.

! The Tobacco Association A MandamuS
! Nisi No Gas Receipts ts-Improvements
About the Custom-House.
ICorrespof dcncc Of the Richmond Dispatch.J
OCTOBER :, 1854.
The Tobacco Association is composed OF
| a lively set Of gentlemen. They were in
session yesterday evening from 3 till after
| 3. and all the business was done in a
/ most pleasant way. In nominating
Captain Talbot for the presidency II
/ was said that the Association wanted
| a manufacturer, not an "Order man." The
! salary Of the secretary and treasurer was
| fixed at 800. The initiation or annual
! fee for membership was reduced from s.
! to %. There was motion that the auc-
| tiOnecrs be required TO sell 120 piles per
! hour, hut an old aucti0neer said It was Is
/ much as he could Well do to dispose Of 100
/ piles in an hour. and the motion was with
| drawn. The Executive Committee. which
| / believe is the principal committee, are W..
p. Jordan, l.. 5. Arnett, James VI. Neal,
! +. l.. Brown, John II. Schooliicld, Z. f.
Acrec. John q. Redd, Ii. l.. Dibrell, L. W.
FcIrcll.
noted in my letter Of September the
10Th that Green BaniStcr Ind sued the CITY
for $500 damages caused by work on the
streets. and that Judge Blackwell. OF the
Corporation Court, had refused 10 allow
the case TO he taken upto the Circuit Court
on the ground that the act Of March, 1874.
which allows eases 10 be removed 10 the
Circmt Court from the Corporation Court
a. Of right, is unconstitutional. 1t is said
that similar decision has been rendered
in Lynchburg. The case went up 70 the
supreme Court of Appeals, and writ Of
manddmuS niSi from that court WAS pre-
Sentcd in the Corporation Court here YES
terday by Mr.. PcatrOss, city attorney. The
notice i given that the ease will come up
before the Supreme Court on the 9TH oi
November ut the session then being held in
Richmond.
Nc Gas was furnished last night. Major
Ballou having found 1t necessary to eat OF
the sas in order 10 make some important
changes in the gas-workS. But all gls-
takers had been advised thereof.
Intcrnal-rcyenue receipts for the week,
SS.SAO.94.
1t i announced officially that there are to
be furnished and set in order all the stone
work, sidewalks. the retaining wall, iron
fences. gates, &C., required for the ap-
proachcs 10 the courthouse Qhe custom
house here. This phra>eology covers many
very desirable Improvements and decora-
ticns about the splendid building.
Burning or RaIirsad shed-Damage TO Cot
ton ard Tobacco.
Especial telegram 10 the Dispatch.l
DANyiLIE, Va, October I, 1881.
The shed running out from The rear OF
the Richmond and Danyillc depot caught
fire from spark OF an engine about .
O'Clock this evening. and was burned
down. A small wood building beyond the
railroad. which also belonged to the COM
pany, was burned down.
The shed was about seventy feet by
twenty. Under the shed were twenty bates
Of cotton which had been shipped to The
%orotock Manufacturing Company from
Concord aud Durham, n. c., and these,
valued at fifty dollars per bale, were dam
aged by fire and waterto about 10 per cent:
Of value. The head Of one hogshead oi
new tobacco shipped from Keidsville was
burned out and the tobacco damaged.
The wonder is that the depot building
was not burned. II was only saved by tue
Salantry and efficiency OF the fire cvinPa-
nies. The railroad company il insured by
the North British and Mercantile, and the
losses, counting cotton ana tobacco, VIII
not oyerrun $1,000.