Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-08
NEGRO PENSIONERS.
pemoaAL,zlNo EFFECT OF WASTED
GOVERNMENT MONEY
yies-Prsssdeut wortIey's Answer-Ths A.
al. r. r. Co. Insolvsnt-bond OF s"e
Recsivers--Prospectis smuggling.

,corrsspondssco Of the Richmond pispstch.l
NoaroLx, January z. 1891.
Ahe scandalous waste OF the puonc
mopev of the Government through the
nens;on channels is forcibly illustrated IN
tb;a section. An employer in Portsmouth
savs that the negro pensioners employed
on his yard are as strong and nearly Us
anv that work there, and as regularly as
thew draw their monthly pension money
thew knock OF work and get drunk ana
STAY 80 until every cent Is gone. ms
class of pensioners are actually lnJureu py
the Government instead OF having tnen
condition improved. Yet the appn nyaass
for pensions hereAbouts steauly ineio"o0
ss the months roll on.
TIE CHARGES ADMITTED.
vice-Pres,dent r. M. Stuart; Wortley, OF
the Atlantic and Danville railroad, IN MS
yan,v To the bill of complaint says that the
statements in the bill as to unprontaoie
oneratIon of the road and insolvency OF
the COMPANY are true in all particulars.
The receivers give $4,000 bond before
entering upon their duties. 1t is said that
the employees have been paid up to Decem-
Der and the company has comparatively
few open accounts.
Rev. DR.. J. Lansing Burrows will leave for
Richmond next week, but Will return 10
Norfolk to stay awhile at least
The coal exports from Lamberts POINT
for the year 1890 amounted to 1,lb2,oUI
tons.
TO TIE WEST INDIES.
II is now said the United States steam
er Kearsarge will have very little done
10 her at the yard. and that she will leave
here with the Atlanta about the 20tn or
2Ist and return to the West Indies. She is
now making up her complement OF men
and will take on provisions and coal LOT
the cruise. :,
The negro desperate Marcellus Williams
alias RED Horse" wanted for long time
was safely lodged in jail last night by the
police. Mr.. Brock recovered from the
stabbing. but is still a sufferer.
CAPTAIN William II. Murdaugh. gallant
officer of the old and Confederate navies
and DIR. Kane's polar expedition, was elect
ed a harbor commissioner by the City
Council of Portsmouth last night.
Virginia Division. of Norfolk, and Allan,
tic Division, of Portsmouth, will attend
the meeting of the Crane Lodge, knights
of Pythias, in Roanoke next month.
THE YACHT AZTEC.
The New York steam yacht Aztec. with
owner and q party on board for fIoriua,
sailed this morning for Jacksonville. She
made the run here from New York In
twenty-five hours.
W. S. Capps, charged with cutting the
throat of X. r. Taylor just before Christ,
mas, was sent on for trial yesterday and
bailed in 81 900.
The sporting fraternity of Norfolk con-
template fight near here next month be;
tween William Young. of Baltimore. and
Jack Monohan, of Brooklyn, hghtweights.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
George A. Etheridge. an engineer. while
oiling in a shuck-. hacking, and shelling-
factory at Wallaceton. Norfolk county, to-
day was caught in the machinery and
shockingly torn and crushed.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
At meeting of Freemason-Street Bap-
fist church tonight theresignation of Rev.
DIR. ]. l.. Burrows was accepted. Appro-
pirate resolutions we're adopted by the
meeting.
TWO MARRIAGES.
Mr.. William d. Outten and Mr.. j. W.
Abdell, of Northampton county, Va. were
both married in Norfolk to-day, the former
to Miss Mary T.. Rocks, and the latter to
Miss Cassie Underhill.