The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-12-13
THE RICHMOND TERMINAL.
MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS FOR
ORGANIZATION.

The meeting Of the Richmond Terminal
directors was held today for organization,
oil the members OF the board being present
except Mr.. II. b. Plant. Mr.. Jay Gould,
Mr.. Dillon. Mr.. Hewitt, and other new
members were present, showing marked In
terest in the property.
Besides other important business which
was transacted, the regular dividend OF ~
per cent. on the preferred stock was de-
clared payable as usual in January 10th.
The old board Of officers OF the Richmond
Terminal Company was reelected.
| IRISH ENJOYS MOVEMENTS.
Two of the Irish ENJOYS and Mrs. O'Brien,
| William O'Brien, and Thomas u. Gill left
the Hoffman House this evening TO embark
| on the steamship OLDHAM, Of the Neither
lands line, which will sail for Europe at an
early hour tomorrow. Messrs. UBrien.
Dillon, O'Connor, Sullivan, and Gill we're
| In private conference for long time to-
day at the Hoffman House, and kept busy
with writing, delegations, and exchanging
cablegrams With their friends i'm Ireland.
| Mr.. OBrien saw the Times correspond
ent, and said "Tbe preponderance OF public
1 opinion in our favor is overwhelming. In
| q very short time all sensible men Will
come over TO our side. Mr.. Parnell has
been making deplorable imputations OF
mutiny against us and treachery on the
part OF Mr. Gladstone. These imputati0ns
are absolutely baseless. They are unreal
side Issues raised for the purpose OF divert
ing the judgment Of impulsiye lrishmen rom
the real issue. II ParDell continues IN his
present course there will be u helpless
and divided Ireland. There will te dlsas-
a. oil md blank homo
Ilessness after it. With divided Irish party,
Mr.. Gladstone's party irrevOcably estranged
from the Parnellites. and the whole British
people angered by deplOrable insults TO
their leaders, picture the result. Be
| fore leaving this country i wish to
thank the American people for the extra
ordinary kindness they have extended to me
everywhere during my visit. In regard 10
/ the trouble over the Dublin paper, United
Ireland, Mr.. O'Brien repeated that neither
i Mr.. Parnell nor his lieutenants had a
i shadow of a legal right for their action In
taking possession Of the plant of the paper
Il FIGHTING FOR THE FUND.
II The clergy and Irish Americans ofmoder'
ate views here are advocating the SURRENDER
of the contributions TO Dillon and OBrien,
but most of the Clan-na-Gael people aud
other advanced Nationalist want Parnel
10 have the money. This disposition of the
funds is causing much discussion among
Irish societies.
IN Favor OF SUSTAINING PARNKLL.
Alta meeting Of the members of the Clan
na-Gael Irish National League. held las
night, resolutions were adopted assertini
that the popular sense of the League in Thu
city was in favor ofsustaining Parnell.
delegation gave these resolutions TO Mr.
Harrington tonight at the Hoffman House
He will sail by the Aurania in the morn
ing.
TO CONTEST HER HUSBANDS WILL.
Mrs. Lucy Fayerweather will contest thu
, probate OF the will Of her late husband
! Daniel ID. Fayerweather, which bequeathet
, 81, 100000 to the Virginia University ant
other colleges.
1t is understood that a contest may b'
made of the clause - the will which make
the executors residuary legatees. She viii
carry ont the intended legacies TO tn
colleges.
II UNITED sTATRs CIRCUIT COURT.
; The December term Of the crimina
branch OF the United States Circuit Cour
! has commenced its work. Judge Benedic
2 10 on the bench and District-AttOrney Johi
e o. Mott represents the Government. Tn
, case Of James A. Simmons, charged will
aiding in wrecking the Sixth Nationa
( Bank, will be tried on January l.
INTERFERING BOOK.
i An interesting seizure was made yester
= day by the customs officials attached 10 tn
!. New York pOstOftice. 1t consisted Of an OLE
, quarto volume printed in Italian and emit
tied, "Le Tragedie Oh Giovanni Delfno
o senatore Neneziano poi Patriarca d Agnicia
. T. Cardnale di santa Chiesa Cioe in Padov ,
4 CICICCCXXXllI"
II was hook of tragedies, written b.
Cardinal Giovanni Del1no, who was appa
rently also Venetian Senator and patri
arch Of Aguicia. The tragedies consiste,
OF a. La Cleopatra" La Lucregia," q"
Creso," and /" Ii Medero."
. This old volume was addressed TO Judg
{ William Allen, Northampton, Mass. AM
}, came from Italy. When the book wa
j opened it was found TO contain a linsey
Z woOlsey head dress, such as worn by ltalia
peasant women, and in order TO smuggl
this article (probably valued at twenty-tiv
cents) through the mails the inside Of th
main portion of the old book had been Gu
: away by some sacriligiOus hand. The vol
!. ume, thus mutilated, formed a sort OF box
! into which the head dress was packed. A
. the book was "printed in language othe
. than English" nnder the new tariff ii wa
u admissible free of duty. The old volume
= finely printed, and contains IN admlrabl
i steel engraving at the beginning, which wa
. Judged TO be a portrait of the Cardinal al
thor.
This plan Of smuggling is a very old one
and rarely, il ever, succeeds. Ii was est
mated that the duty on the head-dress Nigh
!, be about 10 cents, and for this volume
G said to be possibly worth 500, was sacr
d feed.
REV. DIR. DAVID GREGG.
q The Rev. DIR. David Gregg, DIR. Cuyler'
/ successor in the passionate OF the Lafayette
q Avenue Presby terrain church, in Brooklyn
o will begin his ministry on sunday. III
goes TO Brooklyn from Boston, where h
succeeded d.. John l.. Wlthrow In Tn
> Park-street Congregational church thre
/ years ago. Before that time he was 70
seventeen years pastor Of the Third Re
, formed Presbyterian church In this city
He WAS born in Pittsburg, Pa, on Marc
IS, 1916, and was graduated from Washing
a ton and Jefferson College. His studies 70
the ministry were begun in Allegheny Sem
mary and completed at a seminary nea
Belfast, Ireland. His salary has been Ike
at $4,000 year. DIR. Gregg will preach II
hin new pulpit on Sunday morning, and il
the evening the Brooklyn Presbytery will
install him. DR.. John ID. Wells will pre-
| III. JOuu wiz pifaIus III L hto
: dore l.. Cuyler will charge the pastor, ant
, DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hall will charge th'
,, people.
I'll MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATION.
The committee who have under consider
, alton the municipal consolidation hay,
, been earnestly working towards bringin.
about satisfactory result. A long paper
by MIR. Green, showing the necessities and
advantages that would accrue from the con.
solicitations OF the many adjacent cities and
} towns un der one municipality was read al
their last meeting and occupied more than
an hour.
The writer went over the ground very
, thoroughly, and dwelt particularly upon the
objection raised against the plan because OF
the East river and the North river being ap.
parently such we'll defined natural barriers
lie argued that ali the great cities OF both
, this country and Europe were divided by
rivers. All Of these cities he specified. and
gave many interesting facts relative there
, TO.
II CENTRAL AND PERSONAL.