Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-02-25
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A regular meeting of the City School
Board was held at the Mayors Court
room last night. Present: f. c. ID.
Farmer, chairman ID. J. Weisiger,
clerk, and Messrs. W. W. Pool, j. c.
Moon, John O'Brien, W. l.. Robinson,
S. Carter Weisiger, and Superintend-
ent f. b. IIowle.
a. bill Of Mr.. W. ID. Anderson,
amounting to sl4.74 for books fur
nished INDECENT pupils. was ordered TO
be paid.
Superintendent IIowlc's reports for
October. November, December, and
January were received and filed.
On motion of Mr.. 0'Brien the special
committee consisting of Superintendent
Howle and Messrs. Peple, Robinson.
Carter Weisiger, and John 0'Brien
was instructed to petition the City
Council to submit to vote Of the tax
payers Of the city the question Of APP
propriating $1,000 for the purpose of
erecting two new school-houses.
|. Superintendent IIowle reported that
at the Supermtendents' Convention re-
Gently held in Richmond scholars from
the schools here received nine first GER
tificates and his school received the
only Peabody medal awarded to schools
Of cities of the second class. Several
members Of the Board expressed great
qualification at the pupils Of our schools
acquitting themselves so handsomely.
Adjourned.
Misses Roberta and Sallie Clay, the
two young ladies who were burned in
Petersburg Monday, and who have since
died from their injuries, were frequent
visitors to this city. and had many rela-
tiyes and warm friends here. They
were admired not onl Y for their beauty,
but for the Iovcliness of their charac-
tiers. Their shocking death has cast
quite a gloom over large part Of our
best society. A party Of relatives and
friends of deceased went over to Pc
tersburg yesterday to sympathize with
the sorrowing family and to attend the
young ladies' funerals.
The terms Of Office of John II. FoS-
ter. b. A. Nunnally, 6. A. Pcplc, and
W. l.. Robinson, members Of the School
Board from the First. Second. Third.
and Fourth wards respectively, expire
the Sd of April. and the City Council
will have then to appoint their success
sors. These gentlemen have discharged
their duties as school trustees in the
most acceptable manner, and it is hoped
they will all accept reappointment.
The remains Of Mrs. Lucy Christian,
who died at the residence Of her son-in-
law. Rev. l.. X. Thomhill, in this city
last Saturday morning, were taken to
Appomattox yesterday to be inferred
in the family burying-gound at her
late residence in that county. The in
formation received by the Dispatch
that Mrs. Thornhill returned to the
city Monday was not correct, but she
telcgraphed from lynchburg Monday
that she would meet her mothers
corpse in Appomattox yesterday.
Snow commenced to fall here early
yesterday afternoon, and by Q o'clock
last night it was one and half or two
inches deep. The prospect then was
that we would have quite deep snow.
Florence, the seven-year-old daughter
OF Mr.. Benjamin b. Weisiger, one of
our most highly-esteemed citizens, died
late Monday night, after brief illness.
Mr.. Weisiger and family have the ten
der sympathies Of their many friends
in their distress. Her funeral will take
place from her fathers residence, Deca-
tur street near Twelfth, this afternoon
at O'Clock.
The attention of the registrars ap-
pointed under the Anderson-McCor-
mick law is again called to the fact that
the law under which they were ap-
pointed contemplates that they shall
qualify by the lst of March. As Sat
uIday is the last day ofFebruary. these
officers should qualify at once.