The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-07
CHARLOTTESVILLE LETTER.
Tho Varsity Crew Prscticing for the
-Newsy Notes aud Personals.
IConospondonoe Of the TfNEs.I

roofing in Greek verbs or breaking
mathcmatic ground in squares or circles.
Certainly there is a renewed activity in
the gymnasium and increasing interest
in regaiias and like eXcitements The
Riyes Boat Club has good member.
ship. and will enter the state regatta,
which will be held in Richmond on the
lth OF July There are q dozen or more
candidates for places on the 80 crew,
and IL is the opinion of Mr John Red
wood. so well known N boating circles,
that there is excellent material i'm the
club. and expresses confidence in the
ability of the Riyes TO win the State re-
Qatta The Rives crew viii train down
10 an average weight OF isO pounds.
Nr. Spracue will send to Washington
for his she'll, the Lady Dundee. in which
iianion won many races, and will proba.
bly enter the State regatta. The Riyes
has ordered a new four-0ared gig, 10 be
delivered May lJ
The farmers held mass meeting here
Monday. which was largely attended by
whites and hlacks-that ls boy Demo-
crats and Republicans Colonel Robert
Beverly and Judge Grattan, the latter
Just returned from a trip to the north
west in the interest of immigration were
present and delivered addresses Lieut.
euaul Governor Massey. Senator Cor
don. Representatives Dahney and llar
ri5 and many others took hand i'm the
meeting Attorney. General Field came
TO the scratch as 20 farmer and his re-
marks indicated q somewhat dis
ordered digestion He held the
Democratic party responsible for the
defeat of she Railroad hiA in the senate,
and reiterated the charge after Nj Cor
don showed that every Republican had
voted against it except one. ltis thought
that the General would like tO get cor.
don's senatorial slippers The mass
meeting took very decided stand In re-
gard t0 railroads i'm theIl relations tO the
farmers and In their capacity OF tax
PAYERS I'm the matter Ot responsibility
Tor the failure of the Railroad bin there
was difference of opinion but
when the railroads We're reached
the meeting wos agreed -. The
ralcs we're denounced as unjuW and
injurious. and the 0piniJ IN was expressed
and applauied that the Inter state Com
merce law should moi only deal with in
eQualities and Determinations but with
tariff rates as well il is boldly charged
ihai the railroads were not paying taxes
in fair proportion to their earnings as
the citizen Is required 10 do The Ches-
apeake and Ohio was believed lO pay 80
per cent of what IT, ought t0 pay, the
Virginia Midland and the Norfolk and
Western 40 per cent. aud SO on 20 the
end OF The li-t When Amours 're-
frgeuied beef was mentioned there
was unanimous frOwn, as when
the hero n the play learns
for the nftieth time that the villain still
pursues her. The farmers look upon
this industry as deadly menace
to cattle raising in lhis state, and the
meeting took "a high stand in favor Of
"A law requiring rhe Inspection of beeyes
on the hoof within the state. The pur-
pose of the meeting to-day was tO begin
an organization looking 10 securing the
right sort oi candidates for the legisla-
sure By right sort is meant men who
win support the measures recommended
by the Famer- Assembly OF Virginia
The County Court is in session. and a
grand Jury has been at work, us several
indiscreet countrymeu have reason 20
know Several indictments were re-
turned one of these was against J.
Winston Garth tor felony Nhileon his
way home IN January. in q rather
hilariou. humor Nj Garth carved .
colored man with q pOcket-knile.
The Rev Collins Denny an alumnus
Of the University of \urinia, has been
chosen chaplain 20 the University, his
term 10 begin next October When here
Mr. Denny was student of the law, and
was known az one OF the bOy- certainly
no one would have thought of him as "a
future wearer OF the cloth. | remember
the large audience which greeted him
when. year or TWO after Lo left here
with bis degree of Bachelor Of Law, he
returned 90 preach sermon IN The col
lcge chapel
one of the old University boys Of that
dav-Mr b. ID. DibsOn-was in Char
lottesyille tie other day en r1Nte 10
Old Point He is not in the ministry
he is In politics. member Of the West
Virginia legislature
Although 10 is ten days until the hang
inr of the murderer Mu.cO, everything
rope .cal0d. etc-is ready for The
event The mln has grown more seri-
Gus and moody lately but j. still very
retirent about the crime win which he
IS CHARGED lle does not like TO have d d
subject referred 90 in his presence
am assured that he will confess at the
last moment either to q colorcd preacher
or on the ,caH0ld Although the con.
demned man family live ia Lynchhurg
about sixty miles distant. none OF them
have been here since his incarceration.
Mrs Mamie White, wife of Mr. Jerry
VI. White died suddenly Monday night
of paralysis OF The heart She retired II
apparently perfect health She was
daughter Of Mr. William sutherland and
was married 10 Mr White in 1876. ch,
was buried to-day at North Garden
4 mass-meeting of the Suuday-schooh
of the ciiy was held on Sunday ai She
PRESBYTERIAN Church and ProiessOl
Ormond stone OF tAc Mccormick Obser
yat0rv. and Me.srs John i Anderson
and James " D0lin were elected As dele
T LNIFH 100 INN .NAAN Z lANN lt'fAtt ttfNt %
+ SUNDAY school Convention 90 Dee held %
Richmond on the 18th. lglh and 2Oth o.
this month
A Swede named Olaf Carlssen,
/ bridge-builder in the employ of th
! Chesapeake and Ohio, fell from a bridg
near the charlottesville Noolen Mills ol
Saturday. and had both legs broken il
two places. tie was taken 10 the Cot
tage Hospital, where he has the best o
medical attention. bat Of course his con
ditiOn is critical
Apropos ot accidents. singular on
occurred at ihe reservoir of the Char
lOtesyilie water works during the recen
cold snap. A widow who lives near III
reservoir sent her little girl after th
COW. She found the animal, about th
head OF which was tied long rope. Tn
eirl tied the other end OF the rOp0rOun
her wrist ami saflrd home with IA
c,,c which took FRIGHT and dashed int