Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-07

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OCTOBER 6, 1883.
~ the annual meeting Of the Tobacco
Association yesterday evening Captain
Thomas J. Talbot was again elected
president, Captain r. g. venable vice.
president, Mr.. |. s. Bendall secretary
and treasurer. The following commit
tees were appointed Executive Cora"
nistec- NJ. p. Jorion, 7. l.. Brown
4. y. AGREE, r. s. Arnctt, y. W.
fcvclI. John o. Rcdd, j. N. Neal o.
s. Schoolfield. X. l.. Dibrcll. Commit
tee on Ssles--J. G.. Lea, j. A. GRAD
dock. u. X. Jones, y. q. Moseley' u.
X. Poindex,er, Daniel Coleman, U. w.
Dudley. A. G.. Fuller. Arbitration
Conmi,.ee--H. j. Miller. ). X. Hutch
ines. L. p. Brsasford, J. p. Taylor, q.
s. Hughes. Charles Noel, A. u no
bsrtsop.
The report OF the secretary and trca-
su,er showed cash receipts Of I'll, 257.76
snd expenditures OF si,0i4.99.
Captain Talbot in his report gives,
along with much statistics, the sales for
last year at s7,0l5, 90s pounds and the
average at el3.54, and the sales for the
preceding year at 27,54S,0l4 pounds
and the average at sl3.07. The average
for the year just closed was higher than
any other ayersge Of the last ten years.
lie declines to express any opinion as
10 this years crop. saying 1t would only
he the opinion Of one man. III the
amount OF the purchases that have not
passed through the warehouse---lhe
purchases directly from the planters
and from other markets--shOald be
added 10 the amount Of the sales re-
ported from the warehouses, then he
thinks the Danyillc purchases OF leai
tobacco will run up TO 40,00O.OOO.
In reference 10 the sale Of primings.
CAPTAIN Talbot says that the monde
script stuff put upon the market IN that
form cannot be manufactured into any
desirable goods, and should be allowed
70 lie upon the land, and the sale OF It
has become growing evil in several
respects.
The Beethoven Association gave the
first concert OF the season last night
and the musicians met with q hearty
reception.
The mercury stood at AZ degrees on
the hills yesterday morning, and is at
SO degrees this morning. Some dam
age was done in low and damp places
night before last.
Dir. W. W. Brown was elected coun-
Gilman yesterday morning in place OF
Dir. d. A. Overbey, resigned; Mr.. d.
A. OveIbey was elected police commits
sioner in place Of Captain Daniel Cole
man, resigned DR.. ii. A. Wiseman
was appointed in the Hastings Court
as magistrate in place Of Mr.. J. L.
Tyack, who had been appointed clerk
in the inteInal-reyenue office.
Captain j. S. Redd, general deputy
collector for this district, succeeded IN
capturing last week near the White
Top mountain. in Grayson county. the
notorious moonshiner Calvin Wood,
and also Joshua Watson, one Of Woods
assistants, with the distillery and APP
purienances. Wood was caught while
asleep. lie is said to have been biga-
mist, a raider upon the corn-fields of
his neighbors, and the terror, in gen.
sral way, Of oil the country round.
Captain p. W. Terrell, in his history
OF the Baptist church read Sunday
morning last to the congregation, says
that the town Of Danville was incorpO-
rated in 1892. and that there was then
here no church Of any denomination of
Christians. The Baptist church was
organized on the 2Sth Of June, 1884,
NY Elder John Jenkins, with twenty
Ave members, and worship was held in
the old Masonic Hall Qong since re-
moyed) on Craghead street. The then
new house was dedicated in H2rll,
1896. The lire Of pastors is IS fol-
lows: Joseph S. Baker, Hartwell
Chandler, Isaac S. Tinsley, Jacob
Tipslcy, John Kerr, John l.. Prichard,
Williamson NJ. Ferguson. John III.
Lacy. John Il. lIardwick, c. g. Chap
lin, Thomas Hume, Jr., j. f. l..
Holmes, S. A. Goodwin. The new
building cost 1872, 692.l0; the lot on
which it stands, $4,000. The number
Of members is now 4j3.
"0ld Aunt Katie Ross" colored
woman, who was born January IL,
1853, died here on the 4th instant;
aged enc hundred and two years eight
months and twelve days.
The Hancock House," frame
building, is being removed. On the
site will be erected for Mr. W. P. Hod-
nett four brick store-rooms and a ho-
tel-all just about the post-oflice build
Ing, ALPHA.