The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-10-24
/ Prominent Grocer Filed a Deed Of As
Sisnment Yesterday.
l. TALK TO THE MEN III TIE R. R. SHOPS
By One % the Ladies of tho ". G. 4. IA
Nuisance-Two Human skulls FOUND
Brief and Newsy Notes.
MANCHESTER BUREAU RiCHHoSD TINES.
Cornnr E,ftk md Hnrter sfrects

OF the most PROMINENT ripcciN III 'Hc |4'9
closed his doors yesterday and filed in the
clerks Office n deed of assignment 10 Judge
William J. Cloptou trustee.
The deed conveys al Of the fixtures aud
stock in the store at the corner of Twelfth and
Hull streets. together with two horses three
wagons. &C., and 500 in cash
The preferred creditors are Herbert Stiles.
500 Edgar Holt. $500. md Francis NJ. Holt
1900 all tor borrowed money and evidenced
by negotiable notes.
The total liabilities are about e., 800 and
the assets are estimated at about 5000.
Messrs T.. 4. Saunders a Son. Writ +.
Taylor and other principal creditors nro
anxious that Mr.. Holt continue the business.
and have offered substantial AID in this line,
and IL is more than Likely that his al airs can
be so arranged that the store will he reopened
vt once II this IL done Mr. Hollis friends
are confident that he Will pull through oil
right.
The cause of the trouble was TINT many of
Mr. nOlts customers are workers on Belle
Isle and ct the Danville shops. These places
have lost so much time the past summer that
the customers are behind IN their accounts
and few of the creditors have been push
ing Mr. Holt so hard that II has forced him
60 the present action.
Miss Jennie Smith. superintendent o. the
railroad work Of the Nat ODal Woman sChrls-
tan Temperance mon aud assistant secre-
tsry Of the Baltimore and OHIO branch of
the Young Mems hr.stian Association.
accompanied by Mrs =. H. Wemple. State
superintendent OF tie juvenile apartment
of the Woman ; Christian Temperance Union,
Mrs.. 4. X. Bancroft Miss Minnie Curds.
Miss Lena Shepherd and Miss Nettie Spald
ing. the latter Eve from Norfolk and dele
.,stes TO the mestinE in Richmond.
visited tho ranylle shops Yesterday
md during the dinner hour Miss
smith spoke 10 the men. About 200 OF
the men assembled IN the carpenters shop
and listened with the closest and most polite
attention 10 the remarks of the speaker
Hiss Smith is a fluent. rapid aud easy talker.
and bad the entire attention aud sympathy of
ler hearers. She spoke for twenty minutes
the speech being principally made up ol Incl
cents III connection with railroad work. Some !
Of the stories were sery touching. indeed |
and moved TO tears many of those present /
After the remarks Of Miss Smith the ladies /
dsllvered tracts TO the men and talked per /
spDally 10 very many of them
In conversation with a TINES man Miss |
ninth said she Lad been actively engaged in
this kind OF work for twenty years. She said
she had no maDped-Out rule to work by but /
tied 10 adapt herself 10 the circumstances.
{ at her time is engaged every day but one
J. ON now till February.
Miss Smith has made this her Network
size has talked e. men IN their shops all over
the country. and says she has never met with
single rebuff ia all of her work She talks
very encouragngly about the great good be
in accomplished by the Union. Nj IS Smith
Is from Mount Lake Park. Maryland and left
lat night for Trenton. where she will speak
to-day.
After the speaking Mr. John ] Bailey. mas
ter machinist Of the shops took the ladies
through the works which they seemed highly
appreciate. The ladit spoke in high terms
Of the kindness and courtesy of Mr.. Bailey
sld the consideration paid them 10y the en-
rioyes Secretary Il. l.. Michaels was pres
elt and accompanied the ladies back to Rich
mond.
THOSE DODGERS.
THE TINES yesterday morning had an nc
{ cunt of the distribution of circulars by NJ.
X. Lloyd. Billy Mahones candidate for the
Senate from this district. These circulars have
been thoroughly distributed Mr.. Thomas Ds-
Wis. ex-member of the Legislature and the
author of the BILL had the following circular
printed and distributed yesterday:
I'm reference to the circular signed by the
Republican candidate for the Senate (Mr.
Lloyd, III which he claims much credit for
tie Passage OF the law known as the Ten.
Hour law" | would respectfully say to tho
Democrats of Chesterfield that ] WIS the au-
thor of the bill: that it was offered AS Demo
cratic measure and was passed by Demo-
cratic House and Senate and approved by n
j emocratic Governor. The Democratic party
is therefore responsible for the law Mr.
Lloyd was member of the Senate two years
before was "a member of the House and in
all that time he intrc luced no measure Tor the =
relief OF the labOring people
BRIEFS.
The hastings court was in session yesterday :
afternoon. Judge John II. Ingram on the
bench, hearing argument on ademurrer in tho :
case OF Henry Heath. surviving trustee &c ,
Il ainst the Manchester Paper Mill Company. ,
Colonel Macon and Mr.. ". Hay Gnrnett rep
resent the plaintiff and Mr. Edgar Allan and
Mr.: j. samuel Parish the defendants.
Mrs. w. 4. Pitt IL quite sick Mt her resi- q
dence on Eleventh street. =
Mr. aud Mrs b. I. lilson have returned
from Baltimore. p
Messrs. Drank Robinson and II. j. White r
now claim the Leaf in partridge shooting. {
I hey ba2ged thirty one IA few days since IN Y
four hours n
\ numbet OF conversions are reported from .
the revival seIvic e. now going on II the West 2
End and iiith-strcet Methodist churches. q
n lch interest Is being III anifested and large y
crowds nightly attend the services ~
Che funeral OF Mr. IL. j. Gooding was @
pr 'aehed by Rev Mr. Lauehon ut Fifth G
street church yesterday afternoon al O'Clock q
Mayor A. {. Atkinson had a short docket
iol his attention Yesterday A few ordinance
yiOlators were fined and discharged and
Moses Lee Clairborn. negro frequonter of Z
Iolce court circles, was given one hour in T.
" lch 10 leave the city. !,
There is ali exceedingly disagreeable nuj u
sauce on Porter street between Sixth and 5
"a
road tonpany have built Rt this point a very &
llgh trestls and placed on top two lurce i,
turks which they keep fun Of water for their .
uTo IL the shops During windy weather the o.
water IS blown out of these tanks from ~ :,
- one hundred feet away entirely across
Porter street. Driving down Porter street a,
We terday necessitated an umbrella or top NJ
vehicle TO keep from getting wet. and from al
near Seventh TO Fifth the street presented
tho appearance Of country road after n hard
ran. The trouble could be easily abated bv
keeping the water sufficiently low from the >,
Iop to prevent being blown out or by putting +
top on the tanks -
a deed OF bargain AID Saie was recorded IN 81
tho clerks Office Yesterday whereby Mr.. y,
Gorge VI. Holt eonyeysto Mr.. Charles Keller L.
Ihc natures and stock in his store IN Reattio I
lock y
While force Of hands under CITY Engineer -
N".son were al work yesterday on Eighth ~
rect, near Semmes two human skulls and q ~
nnmber OF human bones were unearthed =,
some nineteen years ago when digging was .,
b. ng done near this spot 70 got dirt for tie -
100 bridge embankment a half-dozcn orinors
% ies We're found. IL is unknown when or
how they came there "a,
the Operetta "FOur-I eaf Clover" will be N
pi scented by n company OF amateurs NJ u,
, loDs pera-house next Monday and 1ues cl
!. y nights. The proceeds will 20 TO the NJ
" o GA Memorial church organ fund Major M
~, ~ Mathews VIII be musical director. of
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