Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-24
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! Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspatch.l
PETERSBURG, VA, Jan. %, 1888.
A good deal OF excitement has been
| caused in colored circles by the arrest OF
some seven or eight members Of the so
ciety known as "The Young Sons and
Daughters of Israel" charged with as
sault upon sister named Eliza Jackson.
/ The complainant alleges that at meet
ing of the society held on Friday eve
ming last she was elected from the room
in a manner so violent that one of her
collar-bones was broken and other bodi-
" injuries sustained. She swore ont
warrants against the parties for assault t,
and the case was called in the Mayors
Court this morning. The complainant,
however, beng unable to appear, the
case WAS continued until Wednesday.
The defendants deny the charge of as
sault.
The Hastings Court has been en-
gagged all day in the second trial of
Walter Jones (colored), charged with
outrageous assault.
A number Of the operatives Of the
Norfolk and Western railroad were taken
up to the new town of Crews, III Not
tOway county, yesterday to enable them
to select sites for their future dwellings.
1t cannot be said that they were enthusi-
astic at the prospect of the impending
change. The transfer of the main shops
of the company to Crews will necessitate
the removal of q number of the en-
ployes from this city.
The suit of Mayor Jarratt for $4,000
damages against Mr.. r. p. Barham,
editor and proprietor of the Indcr-
Appcai, for alleged libel, has been post
poned in the Hastings Court until Mr.
Barhams return from Albany, n. y,
where he has been summoned as a wit
ness in an important case.
In the Hastings Court this morning
a verdict was rendered against the State
in five cases, in which the genuiness of
coupons rendered for taxes was proved.
The committees of the Common Conn
Gil and Chamber of Commerce will APP
pear before the House Committee on
Roads to oppose the extension OF the
charter of the Virginia and Carolina rail
road unless some guarantee OF good
faith on the part of the company is given,
and ourpeople hope that the House Com
mittee will give them justice.
The congregation of Grace Episcopal
church propose at an early day to make
some very important and desirable I'M
to their church at cost of
between three or four thousand dollars.
The work will be commenced as soon as
the weather opens sufficiently.
During the recent frost very painful
accident occurred at City Point on the
United States monitor Ajax to Past-As
sistant. Engineer L. j. ". Cooper. Mr.. /
Cooper has but one leg, and although |
very careful III his movements in de-
scending from the upper deck on a long
stairway leading to the lower deck, /
slipped aud fell from top to bottom. /
But for the fact that q sailor caught him |
when nearly at the foot he would proba-
bly, have been instantly killed. lie fell /
upoI his head, and since then has LAID |
for several days unconscious. MIR. Cooper /
has been carefully attended by Surgeon /
and Is reported as somewhat /
better this morning.
The ice was three inches thick IN ponds /
his morning here and at City Point
As nearly all the people at the latter
place have ice-houses they have filed .
hem to-day rather than wait for what
may. not come-viz., thicker ice.
ROBIN ADAIR.