Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-26
HALIFAX.
NEWS AND GOSSIP IN AND ABOUT
SOUTH BOSTON.
Court Day-steps to Organize Fire De-
partment-Death Of Well
Known Citizens.


correspondence Of the Richmond Dlspstehl
SOUTH BosToN, March %, 1886.
Last Monday was March court. A
GOOD crowd was in attendance, but
business in all lines was very dull. In
court Judge Barksdale occupied the
bench, and large amount Of business
has been transacted. Judge j. u.
Coles, Of Pittsylvania, was present to
preside in some cases in which Judge
Barksdale was employed as attorney
before his reelection. Among the VS.
itors during the day noticed Hon. John
L. Hurt, President pro tenn. ofthe Senate,
who was warmly greeted by many OF
his old friends and acquaintance OF
this his native county.
TO PROTECT ITSELF FROM FIRE.
The fire at this place last month has
had the beneficial effect Of arousing our
people to the necessity of taking pre-
cautionary steps to prevent q recur.
renee. and few days ago meeting oil
the citizens Of the town was held to
consider the advisability Of organizing
a fire department. Mr.. Henry Easley
was elected chairman and j. A. Phil
lips secretary Of the meeting. Sentl-
ment was unanimously favorable to the
formation of fire department without
delay, and after some remarks as TO the
best methods by Messrs. Henry Easley,
Joseph Stebbins, X. Hunter Beazley,
E. p. Wilkinson, Colonel j. j. Hill,
and Mayor J. NJ. Darlington, the meet
ing adopted a resolution asking the
Town Council to purchase at once
hook-and-ladder truck, and to follow
that with the purchase OF an engine
and such other apparatus as might be
necessary and expedient. Doubtless
we will soon have an efficient IRE de-
partment.
DEATHS.
Many households in Halifax have
recently been darkened by death. In
deed, the sad record Of mortality has sell
dom been so remarkable as within the
past m0ntn OF TWO.
The death last week Of Mr.. Elijah
Jordan removed from earth one OF the
most estimable and revered citizens OF
this county. Mr.. Jordan was IN his
eighty-third year, and during his long
life had never moved from his native
county. lie was man noted far and
wide for his strict and uncompromislng
honesty. and for the peace and gentle
ness which had marked his life from
youth to old age. His wife, who for
sixty years was his beloved companion,
survives him, and also several children,
among them r. E. Jordan, Esq, Hon.
William I. Jordan, Mr.. John NJ. Jor-
dan, of this town, and Mr.. c. ii. Jor-
dan, of Republican Grove.
Miss Sarah E. Chalmers, daughter OF
Mr.. Thomas Chalmers, of News Ferry,
died last Friday at the residence of her
father; aged eighteen years. Not
many weeks ago she returned home
from Richmond, where she had been
attending the school Of Mr.. J. IL.
Powell, in her usual health. She con-
tracted a cold. which resulted in con-
sumption of the most violent type, from
which she did not recover. Miss Chal-
mers was a young lady of most beau
tiful and Christian character, and her
death will be heard n with the deepest
grief by her friends.
Mr.. John R. Dyer, a highly-respecte ed
citizen of Omega, died last Saturday.
Tuesday night last Laura CLANCY,
daughter of Mr.. j. NJ. CLANCY, OF
South Boston, died at the residence OF
her father of pneumonia; aged ten years
Mr.. Samuel Griffin, an old aud re-
spected citizen, died near Wilkerson's
Mill few days ago.
ATTEMPTED POISONING.
A dastardly attempt was made a day
or two ago to poison the family OF Mr.
Edmund Dunn, near Hyeo. Some mis-
creant put a quantity of strychnlne II
the water-bucket, but the bitterness oil
the water aroused the suspicious o.
Mrs. Dunn when she started to drink
it. and she called in DR.. Pollard. whC
declared it a strong decoction OF strych
nine.
BRIEFS AND PERSONALS.
Mr.. j. +. Booker, Of Amelia, WHIT
recently rented the South-Boston Hotel
is extremely i'll, and his condition
causes much anxiety to his friends.
Colonel Thomas II. Owens, until re
Gently occupying a desk in the Stat
AUDITORS office, is engaged in the to
bacco business here.
No steps have yet been taken by tn
local.optionists Of Halifax toward
having an election, and none will b
made until after the spring elections.
The tobacco market is much iirme
than when last wrote, and while price
are still low as compared with those q
last year, still they are as much as tn
offerings demand. PHIL.