Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-01
LOCAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
The following refers to me most in
teresting local events of the past year !:

teresting local events of the past year !:
5asue~y.
lst. Annual meeting Of the stock
holders Of the Virginia woollen Mills.
I'd. Biennial session ofthc Assembly.
Democratic basement officers take pos
session Of the Capitol offices.
Sd. Marriage Of Miss Emily Louise
Triplett and Meredith T. Montague.
4th. Organization Of the Lee Monu-
ment Bazaar Association.
9th. Beginning of the ice harvest.
Heavy fall Of snow.
10th. Ice gorge in the james river.
18th. Carter Jones, colored laborer
at the Tredegar, pierced by red-hot
bar and killed.
14th. End Of the ice-cmbargo.
18th. Rev. r. p. Kerr, of the Tabb-
Street Presbyterian church, accepts
call to the First Presbyterian church.
10th. Excitement about bad quality
Of the city gas.
18th. Called meeting of the City
Council refers the gas question 20 the
Board of Public Interests. Wilson
Coots, white panpcr, commits sui
eide by cutting his shroat and leaplag
from q window.
22d. Reunion and banquet Of "F"
Company.
February.
lst. Reapportionment Of State agreed
upon by subcommittee of Assembly.
3D.. Installation Of Rev. Robert p.
Kerr as pastor Of First Presbyterian
I church.
5th. Maryland legislators confer with
Virginia assemblymen aboct oysters.
9th. Congregation Of First Presbyte-
rian church consent to give up their
church lot for the new City Hall.
Ith. White Sulphur Springs leased
to W. A. Stuart for s26,500 from
March LIST 10 December lst.
9Th. Congressional reapportionment
bill agreed to by Democratic caucus.
18th. Meeting of citizens to send re-
lief to food sufferers of the West.
23d. Congressional reapportionment
bill passed.
2Gth. DIR. W. NJ. withers appointed
by Judge Atkins Sheriff of Richmond
to fill the vacancy caused by death Of
Sheriff Wright.
2Sth. Judge Wexford declines the
application Of DR.. Withers on the
ground that the deputies of the Circuit
Court could continue to discharge the
duties of the Office.
2Sth. Big fire in Misunderstanding
Works burned.
7th. General Grant passes through
Richmond en- route for Old Point.
10Th. General Assembly adjourns.
Dist. Report of the Board of Public
Interests touching gas.
2Sth. Continued rains and high wa
ter.
I'd. II. D. Riddick elected Grain In
spector.
23d. Republican Convention elects
delegates to National Convention.
3Oth. Straightout Republicans elect
delegates to National Convention.
May.
lst. Democratic primary nomination
of municipal officers.
5th. Westmoreland and Richmond
Clubs play baseball for the benefit of
the Confederate Soldiers Home.
18th. Opening of the Veterans Fair
at the Armory.
14th. Democratic Convention elect
delegates to the National Convention at
Chicago.
Goth. Ninth annual session of the
Car Accountants of the United States
and Canada. Memorial-day at Holly
wood.
Both. National decoration-day ; Penn
syHania Veteran Bucktails visit Rich
niOnd
4th. Resignation of Rev. DR.. J. B.
Hawthorne, pastor First Baptist church.
Senator Beck and Congressman Breck-
inridge go down the James river. Close
of the Confederate Fair; net proceeds,
S25. 900.
llth. Count Heros Won Borcke ar
rives in Richmond and is publicly well
coined.
18th. Mr.. Alexander Hall. engineer,
killed on Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
near the cOmpany's shops.
10th. High-School commencement.
23d. DR.. McGuire and Colonel I. VI.
K. Talcott thrown from drag.
July.
Cd. Organization ofnew City Council.
j. Taylor Ellyson elected president of
Common Council; L. l.. Bass of the
Board Of Aldermen.
7th. Sad drowning of Misses Char
lotte Williams and Susie E. Gibson
while bathing near Old Point.
Sth. Meeting of the National Col
ored Press Association.
9th. House fails in on Franklin
street, but no one is hurt.
l4th. W. ii. Thompson elected su-
perintendent fire-alarm and police-tele-
graph.
22d. Boiler put in the Armory for
heating purposes.
oath. Democratic delegates to the
District Convention elected.
2Sth. Governor Cameron, in obedi-
ence to a two-third call, agrees to con-
vene the Assembly in extra session on
the 18th of August.
2Sth. Gas explosion at No. 904 -
.--- street. Water flows freely
from the deep-hidden spring in the
Capitol Square.
30th. Hon. George d. Wise renomi-
mated for Congress from this district.
August.
lst. General John r. Cooke elected |
colonel commander Of X. E. Lee Camp. |
2d. Mr.. James Bahen reports loss
Of 81 300 by burglars.
9th. Henry Meleau, tailor sixty |
years old, hangs himself in his room.
Jth. The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
act declared constitutional by the Court
Of Appeals at Wytheyille.
Sth. Ordination Of Rev. Carter Helm
Jones at First Baptist church.
18th. Commencement Of extra ses-
SION of Legislature.