Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-10
THE NEWS OF MANCHESTER.
Personal and other Items from Our
sister city.

The City Council will be reorganizedat at its
regular meeting Friday night.
The July term OF the Chesterfield County
Court begun yesterday. Only civil business
will be tried at this term.
Mr. Benjamin T. Owen, Jr., left yesterday
morning for Norfolk, where be will spend
some time.
MIR. W. T. Gayle left Sunday to spend
some time with relatives and friends in
Northern Virginia.
Mr.. +. w. weisiger and family spent sun.
day with Mrs. weisiger's relatives IN Pow
hatan, and quite number OF Manchester
people spent the day at Hugucuot Springs.
Mrs. David Z. Wake and daughter, Miss
Norma. aud Miss Mollie Winfree are sun
mering in Powhatan.
Mrs. r. &. Broaddus. OF this city, Is visit
ing ber father, Rev. DR.. Winfree, OF Ches-
terfield.
Mr.. P. II. Gary, who leaves to-day for
Henderson, N G., will take with bin bis
granddaughters, Misses Hattie aud Nellie
Leonard.
General Julius c. Holmes, OF the Super
yising Architects Department, Washington,
who was a member OF the Fayette artillery.
Captain William ]. Clopton, was In the clly
Sunday.
Mr.. Sidney Weisiger, OF Petersburg, son
OF General ID. A. Weisiger, is III the city
visiting friends.
Itis understood that at the meeting OF the
Council Friday night Alr. J. Il. Perdue Will
be reelected president. He has filed this
position for number OF years with signal
ability and has made one OF its best repre-
seutatives. He is more thoroughly acquainted
with the city's finances, perhaps, than any
other member OF the Council.
Things now look very much like having
water. works In Manchester in the very near
future. The pipes and hydrants have ar
rived and will soon be placed in position and
the necessary excavation for the foundation
OF the tower which Will be OH Spring Hill
battery, has been made. Work on the pump
house Is progressing well also.
Messrs. William Walsh, Henry Fitzgerald,
and william CARRIER, trustees OF Dale
Lodge. Knights Of Honor, have paid to Mrs.
William Z. Kidd $4,000, for which sum her
husband, who died quite recently, held a
policy in this lodge.
The oppressive heat Of Sunday had thin
ming effect upon the congregations that at
tended worship at the various churches. The
usual services were held, however. Al the
Bainbridge- Street Baptist church at night
one person was received into the memOeI-
The seventh anniversary OF the Rosebud
Missionary Society IL the Central Methodist
church will be held on the second Sunday in
August. This branch OF the "Rosebuds "
is called the Woodward Society in honor OF
the gentleman OF that name who was once
pastor OF this church.
The regular weekly prayer.meeting at the
Bainbrldge-Street Baptist church VIII be beld
tonight at S:l5 O'Clock instead Of tomorrow
night, "a the pastor Of the church, Rev. L..
r, Thornhill, will leave tomorrow Tor New
York to sail on Saturday for Europe. After
the service the communion will be cele-
brated.
In the MAYORS Court yesterday morning
Bette Lacy (colored) was fined s. and costs
for assault, and Samuel Allen (cooredl
charged with assaulting Charles Taylor, was
made 10 pay costs and give security for six
months in the sum OF 500.
Mayor Attkisson's proclamation that he
intended to strictly enforce the Sunday law
and that any BARRIERS keeping their shops
open on the Sabbath would be fined seems
TO have had the desired effect. IL the shops
were open on Sunday the officers OF the law
were not cognizaut Of the fact. This Is in
deed new move In Manchester and one In
the right direction.
The train which left Manchester at $3.50
O'Clock Sunday afternoon on the Richmond
and Danyile railroad was boarded at Granite
bv Mr.. w. A. Neal and Miss Susie Jones, OF
Manchester, who went to North Carolina to
get married. The groom is in The twenty
first year OF his age. and Is brakeman on
the Richmond ind DanYllle railroad. The
bride is the daughter OF Councilman c. A.
Jones, and Il not vet fourteen years OF age.
They were TO change cars az Suthsrlin's. this
side OF Danville, and go on to Milton, y. g.,
over the narrow-gauge road.
Mr.. j. Wallace Snelings arrived in the
city from Washington on sunday, having re-
ceiyed n telegram there stating that early
that m0rning the large tobacco-manufac-
turing establishment OF Arnett & Snelings,
in Danyiile, was destroyed By fire. hr.
Snellings, who IS brother OF Mr.. Herbert
Snellings, member OF the firm, Is travelling
salesman for the house. lie VIII Visit MS
wife and child, who are spending the sum-
mer in Chesterfield, to-day, and will go 10
Danville in a day or two.