Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-11
WILL THE BOSS RUN I
or WILL THERE BE TWO REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATES AGAIN
peiItieai Outlook I'm the Fourth District-
Petersburg's Numerous Manu-
featuring Industries.
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fCorresponfence Of tho Richmond Dispa'ehi
PETERSBURG, Va, May 10, ~.
IL IL stated on good authority thai lneIe
are fully ono hundred different m4 ~ !a..s
/ turing industries In operation III os.it
burg. Some Of them Of course are siitait
and do business in a limited way. Du'
nevertheless they are paying irousti. ~
and give promise Of better things ~ :no
future, according as their capitai Il ID
creased and their manufactures becoule
{ better known. OF the large factories mere
nothing need be said. They are Known
for their products throughout the coaH.TI,l.
+ Tho fact. however, OF the existence on iuliy
a hundred active industries III the "Iu i
Cockade CITY is one Of importance az
showing the varied interests OF tue con-
munity, and one that is not gehefalIf
/ known.
REPUBLICAN POLITICS
/ II Is not believed here, as hns been ihti;
mated in several quarters that Heheia !
( Dahone will allow himself 70 be nominate, u
/ for Congress IN the Fourth district hoAt
fall. The defent OF bis party. ~ recent
campaigns. especially the signal defeat II
met with last fall. will probably Keep nm
from coming directly before the people as
q candidate for any position. lie wiz nave
no difficulty in securing the candl14cy OF
one Of his friends in this district. lie Is a
power in his party yet, and VIII exercise
/ that power. though he has the, same enc
! mics and organizations within his party 30
( contend against that fought hun with such
vigor last year. There is no DOUBT tnaI
| there will be two Republican conventions
1 and two Republican candidates again thls
( year.
MUNICIPAL TICKET.
There are vague rumors that q Repu bill
| can municipal ticket Will yet be put IN the
/ field to be voted for at the May election.
/ Probably registration-day Will settle the
matter.
Mr. Joseph Bevan, the independent can
/ didate for mayor, IS making an active can
/ vass.
The Democratic ward-meetngs TO noml-
/ nate two candidates for the Common Coun;
chi and justices of the peace in each Wafd
! will be held on Monday evening IN
! the Fifth Ward. where, at the request Oh
/ the people, the City Executive Committee
! has directed primary to be held 10 make
/ the nominations.
The steamship Old Dominion is expected
I'D the river the first Of the week on her
| first trip since her repairs. She has beeh
/ furnished with new wheels at cost OF
| $40. 0O0 and has otherwise been put IN
| hrst-class condition.
/
of this city, have engaged accommodations
on tht Old Dominion steamship hne, Tor
| New York. They will leave on the 22d IN
slant, and Will take part IN the tederal
memorial ceremonies on the 3Oth III New
York.
TO BIZ ENTERTAINED.
The Massachusetts editors who are
coming 10 Virginia on an excursion VIII
pass through this city over the Norfolk
! and Western railroad 10 the Southwest on
! Monday evening They expect 10 return
here about the 18th, when they Will be enter
tanned by the Chamber Of Commerce.
The Excise Board has mad only an occa-
| sional application for q liquor-llcense 70
act upon since the 1st of May. The num-
| Der Of licenses issued this year falls con,
siderably short of last, but in the retail
| line no taxes were paid in coupons.
| MINOR TOPICS.
| The work on our street Improvements is
going on actively and many of our thor
0ughfares now present q handsome and Ct
tractiye appearance. The record of the
! Democratic Council in this respect IS one
of which it, as well as the people, may feel
proud.
| with PARALYSIS, said to-day that within q
| comparativey recent date six citizens had
been more or less seriously paralyzed, two
| of whom had died.
yesterday morning, so slight, however, Us
| to do no damage.
/ The grippe has not entirely left our city.
| Several citizens who escaped during the
/ prevalence Of the epidemic are now suffer
/ ing with severe attacks. IL IS sad that
number of horses are suffering with siml.
/ lar disease.
F1sH STILL DYING.
| Reports from the county represent that
! fish are still diving in large numbers, not
| only in the streams but in the ponds. In
! the Blackwater swamp and III the streams
| leading thereto numbers of dead fish, even
! the tenacious catfish, are seer floating
upon the water. No one has yet been able
/ to account for the cause of what IS op-
parently an epidemic among the fish. \
! party Of experienced fishermen who went
| TO favorite pond in one of the adjacent
| counties thus week examined some OF the
! dead fish they found floating on the water
| but they were hardly experts enough to
discover the cause OF death. They found
ulcers upon the gills and supposed they
may have been caused III some manner 10y
contact with the rank growth of grass IN
the pond. But this theory hardly holds
GOOD, as there is little or no grass III the
| running streams where so many more hsl
There is a Petersburg in West Virginia
| one in PENNSYLVANIA, one in Tennessee, one
in Virginia, and probably some towns Of
the same name in other States. The result
is that postal matter and express matter
not very plainly marked. 1t may be, as t.
the State, not unfrequently comes 70 thu
| virginia toWn--as the best known of then
all. Recently lot of freight intended fol
| the PENNSYLVANIA Petersburg was brought
here. and after some delay had to be SEN
back.
RAILROAD SUITS.
Judge Hancock at the next term of thu
Circuit Court of Chesterfield county vii
have several interesting suits for damages
TO try. Among them is one brought by ID
! f.. Wood aud wife against the Richmond
and Petersburg Railroad Company fO
| "a. 900 damages for the burning of timbe
caused, it is alleged, by sparks from an en-
CINE. Also one brought 10y Thomas {. Nc
| Dowell against the same company Tor SoU
damages tor the killing Of three fine
| blooded COWS Judge K. II. Jones Il Son
| of this city, arc the counsel IN oOth cases
Mr.. John Wells had his right eye nearly
destroyed to-day by a very singular acct
dent. He was watching some gentlemen
practicing with air-rifes. The cartridge o
| one of the niles exploded at the hammer
and piece of the cap struck him in tn
right eve, cutting the lid, and it is feare'
injuring the ball.
| SAD DEATH.
Mrs. Lou Grigg Barham. wife OF Mr.; r
II. Barham and daughter Of Mr. L. X. Farley
died at EmpOria to-day. She had beef
married about twelve months and was onl.
nineteen years of age. This is the secon'
married daughter Mr. Farley has lost, sine
the LIST of January. The deceased wa
much beloved and her death causes grea
sorrow in the village. ROBIN ADAIR.
FlFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
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