Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-05
LYNCIIaURG MATTERS.
A Railroad Case-The Late Cutting
Case Accident.


Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch.l
LYNOHBURG, August 4, 1886.
A case involving the right of the
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Com
psny to compel the city Of Lynchburg
to sell the plaintiff piece of property,
the price Of which the parties could not
agree upon, has occupied our Hastings
Court all this week, and Was decided by
Judge Latham yesterday afternoon in
favor of the railroad company. The facts
are as follows Some y ears since the city
of Lynchburg and the county of AM
berst purchased jointly the toll-bridge
snd dollhouse over James river at this
point, and opened the bridge as a free
thoroughf.re. The dollhouse " is
located at the Lynchburg end OF the
bridge. This latter property the Rich.
mond and Allegheny Company have
long been DESTROYS Of purchasing,
in order to secure better en-
trance to the city from the east.
The city authorities, while willing to
sell, have hitherto refused to accept the
price offered by the railroad company,
and have also declined to submit the
question TO arbitration, as proposed by
the railroad company. In order to set
tie the question the Richmond and AL
leshany Railroad Company entered our
City Court on an application for the
Court to appoint commissioners to as
certain the value of the said dollhouse,
with all that is implied thereby.
The case was ably and exhaustlvely
argued by Messrs. r. G. Ii. Kean
and Blackford 4 kirkpatrick, for
this city, Hon. Taylor Berry on
behalf of Amherst county, and W.
W. Gordon, Esq, Of Richmond,
for the railroad company. Judge La
than granted the application yesterday
afternoon, and appointed as the COM
missioners Messrs. James I. Williams,
Charles E. Heald, Isaac ii. Adams, and
CIV Winfree, Of this city, and DR..
Sidney Fletcher, of Amherst. The east
EN- entrance Of the railroad in question
is q miserable make-shift, altogether in
ADEQUATE to the demands on the road,
and it will be no less a cause Of con-
graduation to the public than to the
company when the contemplated i'm
proyement is perfected.
A long -ackno wledged want in this
community has been supplied by Mar
shall Lodge, A. f. and A. NJ, in the
establishment Of an institution for the
sick and disabled, where both pay and
charity patients may be treated. The
institution, under the name Of the
Home and Retreat" has been in ope-
ration but q few months, yet so admira-
bic has been its management and so
great its benefits as to render its per-
mansncy . matter Of certainty. Sew
eral ladies Of various churches have
within o day or two contracted to en-
dow bed at $500 per annum for charity
patients. Yesterday well-known
German citizen, whose modesty prompts
request that his name be withheld
from the public, in pursuance Of So
laudable an example, deposited q Gk'
sum with the president of the institu
ton for similar purpose.
Captain Robert W. snead, who wa
cut in an ARRAY with j. 7. Taylor, ESQ.
on Monday, is fast recovering from hi
wounds, and will doubtless be on th,
streets in day or two. The parties
are both hishly-esteemed citizens, snt
every body is gratifsd at the prospect o
so favorable result as the complies
recovery of the wounded party.
The statement furnished the Adsanc
Of this city by a correspondent of tn,
paper from Pulaski that General Jane
A.. Walker had denounced the mestinl
in that county that elected delegates t,
the congressional convention as a.,
packed concern" and the further dscls
ration that be (Walker) "would no
support Trigg II nominated By all th'
conventions in the State" has create,
sensation in this community, whsr,
both gentlemen have many friends.
The result Of the Democratic primar,
in Bedford county, . method in vogue
there for selecting delegates, has result
ed, a. was expected, In . full delegation I,
the congressional convention for Msjol
Sam. Griffin, her favorite son. The glo
rious old county is very much 10 earn
est in pressing her claims TO rscogoi
ton. She rolls up Democratic MAORI
ties by thousands and never fslters
She has had no coperessmsn since The