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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
Gas-works and water.wori.s.

II has become so common a habit in
Missouri and other western States for
furnishing and ambitious towns to con
tract with nonresident persons and COM
panies for the establishment of water
works, gas-works, aud electric light that
a little information on the subject will
not be inopportune. Professor Ely, OF
the Johns Hopkins University and one
OF the members ofthe Maryland Tax Com
mission, has made an investigation of the
waterworks and lighting contracts in
several northern States and discovered
that they are almost invariably costly,
annoying, and disappointing. He
saws: u have looked into the
experience of whole group Of
towns in New York, and they tell one
story. / have made special inyestiqa-
tion Of the water supply in several towns,
and / have yet to find one instance in
which municipal self-help did not work
better than the beneficent patriotism Of
private corporations. The experience Of
Randolph, Cattaraugus county, y. T..
tells the story for all" The town wanted
water-works, and the lowest bid it could
get was from n company that offered 10
put mp the works for 22S, 900 with the
added conditions that the town should
subscribe for stock, and households
should pay $40 for water, and extra for
faucets, closets. &c. The proposition was
rejected, and the Town Council putup its
own works at O cost of go, 300. and with
charge OF only Sito households, and the
works are yielding q profit Gowanda,
in the same county, and Fredonia and
Dunkirk, in Chautauqua county, fol-
lowed the example OF Randolph, and are
equally satisfied. jamestown, a neigh
boring town, tried the private corpora
ton plan. and the report from t. ere Is
&" As to jamestown, | have heard nothing
but complaints. A still worse report
comes from Galesburg, ILL.,, which has
private corporation works. "Ihey have
been 50 annoyed by failure OF the COM
pany to fulfil its promises and by per
petual litigation that they would now
gladly purchase the works. winch have
been idle for two years.
The experience with electric LIGHTS is
similar. Lewiston, Ne, tor several
years paid private company % to 90
cents a night for lights burning till mid
night but it invested Ga, 800 in a plant
Of its own, and now keeps its lights
burning all night at a cost Of il cents a
night. 1t uses water-power for gene
rating electricity.
When the private corporation that puts
up the water OK the lighting works I'M
derstands it's business it makes a large
profit. Professor Lily says: "a gentle
man who is attorney for one OF the large
companies engaged in supplying towns
with water-works told me that bis skill
had been taxed III assisting them to pump
water enough into their stock. 1t has
been watered again and again, aud it
WAS still Necessary to ada to 1t to conceal
the enormous profits
The conclusion which Professor Ely
comes to from his careful observations is
that when town wants woter-w0rks or
lighting-works, it had better put them up
itself.-THc Rcpudiical, 81. Louis.
Thera
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
LrferestiuC 20 All.
To the Editor ofMe Dispatch ,

To me razor Of the Dispatch e:
The Virginia State Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, with its contempla-
ted exposition ond prospective fair, riyets
to-day the attention OF the people of
Richmond. Tho appeal OF the presi-
dent. with his fitness developed for the
position, supplemented by names dis
tinguishod for personal worth and bust
ness qualities, seems to give a sure guar
sntee for the success of the contemplated
exposition and fair. Arecurrence to the
past points to success in the future.
Many years ago Richmond determined
that State Agricultural Society was in
dispensable to the prosperity ofVirginia,
and that appropriate grounds in the city
or its vicinity for holding its fairs could
alone I'LL the requirements OF the case.
After the most careful examination of
the suburban grounds the Fair Grounds
OF the society were selected rs not only
the most eligible that could be Obtained,
but a. superior 70 any other grounds in
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

HARD TO BEAT "A Buckingham letter
in the Farmville Journal tells of gen
tleman near buckingham Courthouse
who claims to have a sleeve which was
cut off of SToNEwALL JAcRsoN's coat
by his surgeons when he was shot; and
of another who says he went to Apo
mattox Courthouse the day LEE sur
rendered, and cut lot of twigs from
that memorable apple-tree and grated
them on his apple-trees, and every year
since has made brandy from the apples
grown on those trees, which is such a
splendid article that he calls it General
Lee" brandy.
These facts-if facts they are-were q
long time on their way to the light.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
ROCKINGHAM COURT.
Horse Saies-RepubItcan Meeting
KeIigiOus. DC.

htIlEiOU>s
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dspatch.l
HARRIsONBURG, VA, March 81, 1888.
There were more horse-buyers and
horses here on Monday (County-Court
day. than have been here for months.
About $50 horses we're sold. Prices were
higher than last court-day.
4 meeting Of the Republicans Of Rock
ingham was called on Monday for the
purpose of organizing county campaign
club for the approaching campaign. 1t
was the first trial of stro myth between the
Sherman Malone machine men and the
Blaine followers. Captain Warren S.
Lurty, the candidate of the Mahoneites,
received sixty-one votes for president OF
the club, and Captain A. W. Black, his
opponent fifty-fge. The previous sharp
wire pulling by the friends of the barrel
candidate achieved this small victory,
but, as will be readily seen, does not as
sure the county as unit for Malone and
his methods.
The Virginia L. B. conference,
which met in Dayton, this county,
on Thursday last, adjourned on Monday
to meet next session at Martinsburg, ".
Va. Rev. A. 2. Funkhonser, the politi-
cal parson editor, il unassigned, and can
now devote his entire time to politics.
The County Board OF Supervisors met
last week, but took no action On the new
road law.
i. l.. Kemper, in boring for manga
nese in the vicinity OF Port Republic,
bored through a vein OF brown hematite
ore forty-three feet thick.
Prospectors from Pennsylvania and
Chicago are visiting Brooks Gap in this
county for the purpose of locating a
steam taDnery and bark-extract works.
The telephone line from Timberville,
Broadway. Cowan's, Edom, and Lin
vile to Harrisonburg will be ready for
use in two weeks.
County Superintendent of Schools
George II. Hulvey will hold teachers
institute in HarrisOnburg on April 9Th
and 9TH.
Young Snyder, who killed Feddon,
has been sent on to the grand jury.
Misses Annie Sherman and Jennie
Smith, the celebrated railroad evan
gelists, have been preaching here.
Work on the extension of the United
States courthouse is progressing rapidly.
The Town Council of Harrisonburg
have rendered the grounds and an ample
supply of water to the committee having
in charge the selection of the place for
holding the annual conference Of the
German Baptists of the United States in
1889. On Monday last the committee
examined the location. They were much
pleased with it, but their decision is not
yet announced.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

much safer when the city owns aud ope-
rates at least one Illuminating industry
than they would il all our light had to be
bought from private corporations.
"Now, as TO the poor quality OF gas
furnished by the city that is something
that can be remedied. II private parties
can make improvements the city can,
too; and the city must give us better
gas.
"The gas department is source Of
large revenue TO the city, and this, OF
course, is a most important considera-
ton. If We were TO sell the works we
might safely predict that an increase in
the rate of taxation would soon be agi-
tated.
Hold on TO the gas-works for the
present at my rate"
Think of it, A city that spends we'll
nigh q million Of dollars on house, but
is unable to keep up its own gas-works
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
ARRESTED on SUSPICION
OF Having Committed TWO Murders
Discharged.
Especial telegram TO the Dispatch.l

Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
NoRFoLK, VA, March 22.-Detective
Prince to-day arrested in Berkeley a
young white man named William Jor-
dan, who halls from Edenton, y. c., on
suspicion of having killed a man and
woman in North Carolina about year
ago.
Fillippo Brueolio and Joseph Fiorie,
two OF the five Italians arrested on the
charge OF passing counterfeit money and
who have since been in the city Jail,
we're released from custody to-day, no
evidence having been found against
them. The remaining three have been
positively identified as having passed the
worthless money, but have as yet under
gone no investigation.
The British bark ZuIu, Norwegian
bark Bonito, and Norwegian bark Primo
arrived in Hampton Roads yesterday,
having been damaged at sea by the late
storm.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
The Proposed Exposition.

The first public meeting in the inte-
rest OF the Baltimore Exposition was held
in that city Wednesday night. 1t was
largely attended, and it would seem that
the success Of the enterprise is assured.
One of the speakers, in referring to the
experience OF other cities in which ex-
positions had been held, said
"St Louis during the first year netted
$4,000; second year, $55, 900; third
year, 5000; fourth year, s67, 900"
Here is the news from Chicago. The
Exposition has paid net profit of from
thirty-fve to fifty thousand dollars an
nually for fifteen consecutive years, and
last year the average attendance was
5000 persons daily for forty days. Gin
cinnati has Just raised 81 $50, 900 for a
new exposition building by popular sub
scriptions. In all her previous exposi-
tons the investment has proven very
profitable. Minneapolis. with a popula-
ton one third OF that of Baltimore,
erected building by popular subscrip-
tons costing $3.50, and the result
was an attendance OF 1888, 900 persons.
The receipts were $50, l41.67; expenses,
SCI, 329.S4 leaving net profits Of S2l,
Bliss. or more than per cent. on the
money invested. Atlanta, which has
population of one eighth of that of Bal
timore. held an exposition few months
ago, during which the receipts aggre-
gated Sl05, $50. The expenses were Si9,-
1881. and the net profits $50, l0412"
With these facts and figures before
them ought the people of Richmond to
hesitate about subscribing the compare
lively small amount necessary to carry
out the proposed Exposition enterprise
here?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

The next Democratic State Convention
in West Virginia is to be held i'll Hunt
ington on the 10th of August. Con-
gressional district conventions are to be
held on Tuesday, May Sth, 1888 The
places are First congressional district,
Wheeling; Second congressional dis
trict, Grafton Third congressional dis
trict, Charleston Fourth congressional
district, Ravenswood
AS no provision was made by the State
Committee for nominating candidates for
Congress, there viii have to be second
set of congressional district conventions
held this year.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
LOUISA ITEMS.
Farm News-8ries Mention.


Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspstch.l
TREvILIAN's. Va, March %, 1888.
For the last week teamwork has been
going on at lively rate Oats are not
all seeded by a great deal, though it is
late for them. Wheat promises fair
crop on strong land. The past month
has been very trying on it. The grass is
somewhat injured by the freezing and
thawing. \ Tremendous hard. beating
rain fell yesterday, benefting the wheat,
but suspending farm-wOk for some
days. To-day is clear and quite cold.
There was but "A small attendance at
last court on account of the blizzard
Mr.. Jarman Gooch and wife have re-
turned to their old home in this county.
Gordonsyille is stirred up at the pros.
spect OF the new railroad through that
place from Buckingham county and be-
yond on to Washington. Tw!G.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
uaU,neen-siduev Notes.

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
HAMPDES-SIDNEY, March u, 1888.
The Conservative Musical Club Of
this place gave last night a very enjoya-
bic concert in the chapel of Union 1heo-
logical Seminary. A large and brilliant
audience were in attendance, and we're
delighted with the successful execution
of the programme by all the parties par
ticipating.
The programme was as follows /.
Damascus Triumphal March, Costa,
chorus. 9. The Flower Song, linstru-
mental Miss johnson and Mr.. Barney.
B. Sweet Winds Of the South, (Emer-
son. male quartette. 4. Beneath the
Evenings Last Sweet Smile, Schubert
Misses Johnston. 8. Vocal solo, Mr.. |.
c. Ball. g. Sleep, Darling, Sleep, Mar
TIM double mixed quartette. Inter
mission. Z. Instrumental, violin with
guitar accompaniment. 8. Comrades in
Arms, (AdoIphe ADAM male quar-
tette. Q. Danses BoEgroises, brahms
piano solo, Miss b. Johnston. 10.
hallelujab, (Handel,J chorus
After the dreary weather We have had
III these regions and the detestable roads
which have Kept 80 many indoors. this
concert has como as great refreshment
10 the community. Tomorrow night
course of lectures will DO begun in the
seminary chapel by Rev. DR.. Worden. OF
Philadelphia, secretary of the Sabbath
school Board Of the Northern Presbyte-
rian Church He will be succeeded In q
a week or two by DR.. W. II. Harper, of
Yale University, the learned Hebraist.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
SuOOIk Nofes.
special telegram to the Dispstch.l

Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
SUFFOLK, Va, March pa. Allen
Darden, aged nineteen years, died to-
day after q short illnessof typhoid-fever.
He was the only son Of A. 5. Darden,
one OF orr most highly-esteemed citi-
zens, and this blow falls very heavily on
him aud his family. The young man
was q student at Kandolph-Alacon Col
lege, and was brought home from that
institution last Saturday. Universal
sympathy is expressed for the afflicted
family in their bereavement.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
Hold On %!
Under the above heading the State dis
courseg az follows:

Under the above heading the State dis
courses as follows:
admitting that Richmond uses gas
of an inferior quality, il is said to be bet
ter than that furnished by private corpo-
rstjons in many cities where the gas
company has q monopoly. And il the
city we're 10 lease or sell the works, no
matter how fairly the lessees or purcha-
sers meant 10 treat the public, the enter
prise would have a monopolistic tend
ency. The electric light is furnished by
q private corporation, and as we observed
q few days ago, the charges are now mo-
derate. Bot in this age Of syndicntesand
deals, who knows but what the electric
company and the gas company might not
some day be merged practically into
one? But whether there be any danger
81 consolidation o. not. the people feel
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

Consol coupons non-fundable are
worth only about 90 cents Of their face
value. A thousand-dollar bond yields
$50 of coupons worth about Sl2. The
consol bond of $1,000 might be ex-
changed for a Riddle Of $3.50, which
would yield $3.50 OF interest annually.
Why not fund, and have done with cou-
pom litigation?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
ATTEMPTED sUICIDE.
Court Items from WarWick-Im-
proving, &c.

proving. &c.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
HAMPTON, March %, 1888.
Some few days ago a negro woman,
Annie MAYO by name, who lives in the
country and works in town during the
day. had occasion to whip one of her
children, a girl about fifteen years Of
age. for not staying at home and taking
care of the smaller children while the
mother was at work. On Tuesday after
noon the woman was sent for in haste to
come home, as her daughter had taken
a quantity OF laudanum and was dying.
1t was found that the girl had swallowed
a large dose of said drug and was in a
stnpor, but was saved through the eX-
eruons of q doctor. 1t is seldom the
case in this vicinity that colored per-
son attempts suicide.
Circuit Court, Judge Gunter presi-
ding. commenced in Warwick county on
Tuesday. On yesterday the cases Of
Cauthorn's administrators rs. the New
port News and Mississippi-Yalley Com
pany; Hudgins, &C., as. same, and Stew
arts administrator ~. same were thrown
ont Of court on account of some infor-
maity in serving the process.
Mr.. r.. B. Tennis, who was so badly
hurt by falling scaffold some days ago,
is much improved.
Miss Jennie Southall, of Williamsburg.
who has been visiting here, has returned
home.
Patrick Henry Lodge OF Odd-Fellows
cleared about S400 by their recent fair.
PAIL.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
Damage.suit compromised.

Correspondence Of the Richnond Dispatchl
PAMPLE CRY, VA, March n, 1888.
The case OF Henry Mosely's executrix
rs. the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company and the Western Union Tele-
graph Company came up in the Circuit
Court OF Appomattox yesterday in a suit
for damages for $4,000. The plaintiff
was represented by Captain p ". Nc
Kinney, OF Farmville, and c. II. Sackett
and w. @. Franklin, Of Appomattox.
Major ThomasJ. kirkpatrick, of Lynch
burg, appeared for the defence. After
hearing evidence a compromise was
agreedupon by taking judgment rs. the
Western Union Telegraph Company for
$4,000. On the eth of November last
Henry Mosely, the deceased, WIS en-
ployed by the Norfolk and Western
Railroad Company as section-hand, and
while in the discharge of his duty was
standing near the track while a train
was passing, on which there was an en-
plOyee of the Western Union Telegraph
Company distributing cross-armsat each
telegraph-pole along the line. One Of
these crOss-arms struck Mosely on the
breast, killing him instantly. Hence
the suit and result.
The continuous rims are keeping back
teamwork aud the season for sowing
oats is rapidly drawing to close ana
very little work in that line has been
done.
There is much sympathy felt here for
W. W. Baker (who is well and favorably
known here in his serious loss III having
his large tannery destroyed by fire.
Yours, &c, 9.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

General Perrier, the most eminent
Frenchman in geodesy, died recently at
Montpelier. He was born in the Gard,
Of a Cevennes Protestant family in 1888.
and entered the army, reaching in 1879
the rank Of ieutenant-colonel. he was
then placed at the head of the Geodesic
Department of the War Office. Among
his scientific iabors were the trigonome-
trio junction Of the French and English
coasts, the survey OF Corsica and Algeria,
which included tie resumption Of the
measuring OF the grand meridian Of the
geodesic Junction Of Spain with Algeria
across the Mediterranean. la 1880 he
was delegate 10 the Berlin conference for
settling the new Greek boundary. He
was a member Of the Academy Of Sci
ences, and last year was promoted to
brigadier-general.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

In the course of some experiments
made under the direction of the North
ern railroad of France, it has been ascer-
tanned that soft steel plates can be cover
ed by process of rolling with nickel,
and so effectively as 10 render them as
valuable for lamp-rehectors as siivered
copper.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
BRIEFS.
SHOT HIS SON.
An Unfortunate Affair Oh the Eastern
shore.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispa.ch.l
ONANCOCK, March p, 1888.

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispa:ch.l
ONANCoCK, March q, 1888.
News has reached here from Wacha-
preague, on the seaside, of an unfortu-
nate family ARRAY that occurred there
several days ago. George Parker Har-
gis, well-known resident of the place,
and his son Benjamin. aged about TWEEN
ty-three years, got into a dispute about
money matters aEl finally came to
blows. The elder Hargis cut his son on
the arm with knife. The young man
ran ont of the house followed by his in
furiated father, who fired at him with a
shotgun, the load striking him in the up
per part of one of his thighs. A short
while afterwards the young man was
found in boat-house near the wharf,
where he had fallen exhausted from pain
and loss of blood. He was conveyed to
the office of DR.. George ". lie Cato, who
extracted the shot and dressed the
wounds. Both father and son are hard
drinkers, and both are said to have been
deep in liquor when the uuseemly fracas
occurred. Young Hargis has for some
time past been keeping drinking-saloon
at Wachapreague. His wounds though
very severe are not likely to prove fatal.
No arrest is reported to have been made.
A heavy southeasterly rain-storm
swept over this region early this morn
ing.
Mr.. Upshur X. Broughton, the newly
appointed postmaster at Onancock, has
executed the bond required of him aud
forwarded it to the department at Wash
ington. Dr. Oswald B. Finney, Captain
Henry L. Crockett, Captain /. Thomas
Finney, and Thomas G. Pitts, Esq, are
his bondsmen. KALLIAs.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH-FRIDAY, MARCH 90 1888
the vicinity Of Richmond for the pur-
t,naoa Of fhn aociafz

the vicinity Of Richmond for the pur-
poses Of the society. =,
The interesting fact in connection with
the present enterprise is that when these
grounds were found necessary for the
stability OF the society and the prosperity
OF Richmond and the State OF Virginia,
100 persons, in subscriptions OF 500
each, purchased the present Fair-G Grounds
for the use of the society. This subscrip-
ton was obtained with such facility as to
justify the opinion that Richmond, with
its augmented population and wealth, IS
able as well as willing to sustain the new
society in its request. Having been per-
sonally connected with the subscription
alluded to, / have thought that this brief
allusion 10 it was due to this community
at this time. SHERwrN MckAE.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

There are a few mono-metallists in the
Democratic party. There were few
Democrats in Congressman only a
few-whO voted against the silver bill.
Did they "betray" the Democratic
party? Or did they vote honestly and
conscientiously? How can any Demo
crat "betray" his party by o vote
against tariff bill which he dislikes !?
VIII the Republican congressman who
are expected to vote for the Minis bill
betray their party?
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23

"Senator INGALLS, is going to twist
the British lions tail next. Let's hope
lie won't twist it so hard as to provoke
the animal to turn about and swallow
him." No danger. It's said the lion
won't eat dead man.