Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-31
rur RrcHMOND DISPATCH--SUNDAY, JANUARY 81, 1886.

IL has been reported that they would
ask the Legislature to release them.
This report is not true.
Miss Matte Fletcher, Of Accomack
county, is the guest Of Mr.. Antrim, OF
OILS east Marshall street.
Mr.. Dallam Barksdale and wife have
returned from their bridal tour South,
and are at the Exchange.
Senator and Mrs. J. Singleton Digs
will spend the winter with r. l.. Noel,
Esq, No. 3 east Main street.
Judge L. L. Lewis, II. G. Chamblin,
and John Chamblin are among the best
gentlemen drivers in the city.
Misses Pearl and Ruby Bodeker are
just completing a row Of very pretty
dwellings on east Grace street.
The streets in the northern part OF
the city are in a very bad condition
so much so that 1t is next to impossible
for a pedestrian to cross them.
Mr.. Mccain, one Of the oldest aud
best known residents Of Oregon Hill,
died suddenly Friday of heart-disease.
He was over sixty years of age.
With the opening of the season work
will be resumed on Chimborazo and
Marshall Parks, and they will both be
greatly. improved and embellished.
A lady was observed yesterday
closely searching the mud-pond at the
Main.street car-terminus. 1t was ru-
mored she was looking for lost child.
The new site for the smallpox hos
pital is one Of the most secluded spots
in Henrico county. 1t is two miles
and half from the city, and was the
property Of c. Y. Morris, Esq.
The new zouave company now in
process of formation number nearly
sixty. They will adopt the regular
zouave uniform for company purposes
and will attach themselves to the regi-
ment.
A water-lily (nymphed odoratN in
the pool around the fountain in Mar
shall Park attracted so much attention
last summer that Mr.. Higgins. the
keeper, intends putting down several
more roots in the spring.
Miss Ann Judson Gordon, of Frede-
ricksburg, is spending several days with
her friends, Mrs. NJ. /. Garnett and
daughters, 20S south Third street, prior
to her departure for Georgia, where she
will remain several months.
Mr.. William c. Ludwig, son of the
late Charles l.. Ludwig, Vice-Consul of
Sweden and Norway, is now private
secretary Of General g. W. c. Lee
whilst he is pursuing his studies at the
Washington and Lee Univerity.
The recent rains and SHOWS caused
large landslide in the cut on Twenty
third street between Broad and Grace.
This has always been regarded dan
gerous place, and the city should take
proper pTecautiOn to protect paSSers-by.
There is an abundance OF money here
to lend on real estate. Where the Sc
curity is good the rate Of interest is
higher than it should be, owing to the
fact that the annual tax on notes secured
by deeds Of trust is imposed. Lenders
say that it is unfair to tax note Sc
cured on a deed OF trust, as the proper
ty that is thus taxed is taxed twice.
The Loafers' club is still in -four
ishing condition. At late meeting it
was thrown into CONSERVATION by the
announcement that times were improy-
ing and that there was a prospect OF
work. A member was soundly berated
for seeking employment in the service
Of the city, but as he did not get the
office, he was told to 20 land sin no
more
Mr. :. S. p. Patterson, a well-known
lawyer of this city, last fall went out
West TO seek home. lie is satisfied
that the West has more nuisances than
blessings, and that people live on pie
here who think cornbread luxury out
there. lie has written an article in the
Industrial South that tells of happiness
here and misery out there. He con-
trasts the price of lands and manners
and morals Of the people Of the differ
ent sections.
The bill pending in the House giving
county courts jurisdiction in sums not
exceeding $500 is Of the greatest i'm
portance to merchants Of this city and
others. 1t will enable them if it
should be passed to get judgment
against debtors in any Of the monthly
courts, whereas, as the law now exists,
they can bring suit for sums over 500
only in circuit courts, which are held
only twice a year in large majority of
the counties.
Nearly every Office in Crenshaw's
Warehouse building is occupied by leaf
tobacconists, forming quite a settlement.
Only a step or two takes them to the
Exchange and the loose-tobaccO sales
and warehouses. The list is as follows:
l.. NJ. Griffin 4 Co., F. d. Barksdale ~
Co., Darlington " Co., T. II. a \. r.
Gum, T. d. Neal, Jr., Carr ~ Dickin-
son, J. NJ. Wise, Skinker a Archer,
Peyton Wise Gnspector), William E.
Christian & Co., commission merchants
in grain
Richmond is sadly il need of street
cleaning force. Sometimes the streets
are not swept for several months. 1t
is estimated that it will cost about
$4,000 per annum to keep them clean.
At the last meeting of the Council
resolution was offered, which was re-
ferred to the Finance Committee, to
have the following named streets swept
twice each week: Seventeenth and
Eighteenth from Nenable to Cary, Main
from Twentieth to First, Cary from
Seventeenth to Ninth, Ninth from Basin
to Broad, Broad from Ninth to Brook
avenue, and the principal business cross
streets. When we have clean streets
and electric lights Richmond will no
longer look Ike an overgrown village.
Miss Sallie Williams, Of POS east
Main street, gave handsome entertain
ment to her young friends Friday
night. There were over fifty young