Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-04
THE COCKADE CITY.
HOW THE PEOPLE pRoposETo spENr
THE FOURTH.
a Series Of Interesting Entertainments
Prcridcsi-Persoasl and Political
Notcs-ISmitc<iIce supply.
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fcorrespondenoe OF the Richmond pispatch.i
Pr-rxsSBuRa, Va, July 3, 1889:
The Observance OF the Fourth will he
more general in this city than has been
known for many years. The citizens have
taken the matter in hand, and have in
terested themselves 80 far "a 10 provide
series Of entertainments for the bcnent OF
the public 10 be given az West~hnd PARK.
Among these are number OF horse-xsces,
the entries for which embrace the best
trottinR and running horses in the city,
q match game of baseball between the
police and the lefter-csrriers, y tub-rowlng
match on the lake, and sundry other
amusements. At night there is 20 be the
finest display Of frevorksst this park ever
witnessed in Petersburg. and thousands OF
people will attend 10 see is. There VIII be
no Grafton in honor Of the day. nor speak
ing or formal ceremonies Of any kind. but
the fra movement has been made towards
the first general recognition Of the day
since the war, and this may lead to better
results in the future.
TO 60 TO EUROPE.
Major w. Gordon McCabe leaves here
Tomorrow afternoon for New York.
whence he sails ON Wednesday next on his
annual trip TO Europe In conversation
with your correspondent to-day he sad
that be would spend most of the time
abroad Ia England and Scotland visiting
friends but would of course take IN the
Paris Expedition. Major McCabe says that
England is 70 him the most delightful of
all European countries, and that he num-
hers There among his acquaintance whom
he visits Tennyson, Robert Browning,
William Black. Swinburne, the Thac keray-
Ritchies, james Bryce, and other famous
people. He salts by the ocean grey
hound " City of Paris, said TO be the hnest
4 l.. a. 49, IL MA
Ger in the Cunarder Etruria when she
made one of her phenomenal trips two or
three years ago. The passengers were on
shore in Queenstown as late as half-past
9 one SUNDAY, and The next Sunday as
quarter TO ~ o'clock Mr.. McCabe WAS sitting
on his piazza in this city.
POLITICAL MOTIFS.
General MailoDe is expected home to-
morrow afternoon or Friday, the first time
since he went 10 Washington In the early
part of April. His friends are anxious to
see him.
1t is expected that the conference to be
held at his residence on the 9th Of July
will be largely attended, and will embrace
some of the most prominent leaders Of his
faction in the State. The meeting Will be
an all-night one, and Will, of course, be
secret.
A petition is bong circulated and very
mum srOuSlN Sl{sfftsl IN IAROf OF
ment Of General SGth Boiling as post
master. II Is also understood that Major j.
Arthur Johnson IS very strongly endorsed
for the same position. As the term of Office
of the present efficient incumbent does not
expire for a year hence 1t is hardly proba-
bic that an early appointment of postmaster
here viii beInaae.
There Is warm fight in progress be-
tween the MahOneand LangstOn people in
regard TO the poS1-office at Enporla, III
Greenesvillo county. hr. Weiss. an anti
Mahoneite, was appointed to the Office
some time ago, but such was the opposi-
tom manifested toward him by the Ma
hOneites that the appointment seems TO
have been hung up" and It is not now
known how the contest Will end.
The funeral of Mrs. Leila Waite, former
" Miss Leila Beasley, of Prince George
county, took place this afternoon from the
Tabb-Street Presbyterian church. She
was most lOvable and beautiful woman,
and her death Is lamented by wide cir
Gle Of friends and relatives.
There seems TO be no end to the rain.
There were copious showers again this
morning. The farmers throughout this
Eection are very despondent about the con-
dition of their crops.
The supply of ice IN this city Is so limited
that our dealers are dependent upon the
Richmond market for supplies TO furnish
their customers. No ice las been manu-
featured here this season. ROBIN ADAIR.