Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-23
RESTRAINING ORDER
AGAINST ALANp COMPANY IN PRINCE
GEORGs COUNTY.
ux.,.r,or. Death OF q Coiorcd Youth
Mossrs. McIiwaine and Clements Ca"-
didatcs-Pcusion Papers.
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PrrrRsnrso, VA, October 22.-Judge d.
NJ. Bernard has granted an injunction re-
straining the officers and directors OF tho
CITY Point Land. Improvement and De-
veiopment Company from mortgagihg'
selling. or otherwise disposing of the iahus
and property OF that company in Prince
George county. The petitioner in the case
Is Mr. @. d. Tinsley. who conveyed tne
greater portion Of the lands in question 10
the company. and who has brought suit 20
have the deed of conveyance annuileu anu
the title OF the property reconveyeu 70 Nun.
officers ami directo Of the company are repui',i
cauitalists OF Massachusetts, who apparently ie-
signed great things IN the development Oh thls
property.
POUND DEAD IN A krD-PrDpLR'
The dead body Of colored youth. apparently
about fifteen years old, WAS fouhd SEVERN ut's
ago In a mui-puddle near the Boydtoh pihpe
road IN Dinwiddic county, seven miles irom tnie
city. The body was nearly naked ana ihe eaus5
of death could not be learned. Inc coroner VI
the county had IL buried at the pubic eApohse'
DEATH or A VENERABLE LADY.
Information has been received Of the death ~
her home In Brunswick county yesterday OF mis'
| T. II. Riggan, widow OF K. IL. hegan, who some
| months ago was 30 b:utally essa-sinh'ca W
negroes at his store. Inc laUlhg u Vi' VI WV
| best known and most sspectcd ia the county,
CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED.
I, resnonse 10 the nufnerousiy-signed petit
| tions presented 20 them. Mossis Nllham ID:
McIlwaine and y. NJ. Clements have announcer
| themselves as candidates for tho House OF DeIe-
| gates, subject 20 the Democratic primary el.-
| tion TO be held on the 29th instant. Mr.. Mcli-
waine ~ one OF the most prominent ana success
full members OF the bar OF this city ana Is UNI
yersally popular. Mr.. Clements Is the owner
n ho Mil ITOTrfie,
was n member OF the last House oi Delegates,
| He is a young man Of sterling character ana
qualities, and Is acceptable 20 all classes OF gu,
people. IL Is not yet known "hethet tne.o wan
be any further announcements OF cahulubten.
SPECIMEN PESsl0SIR.
wel-known and responsible citizen Of one Of
the SOuthsido counties who was In the city 10
day saws that party who represents himself as
an authorized agent has recently been gong
through the count 81 distributing pension papers
among tho negroes and filling them out ior
them. lie thinks there IL little "political
mouse i'm the scheme, and says that re;ently
negro man who had been living Tor great many
years OH his farm brought one OF these appnca-
lions TO hin TO sign for him. Tho paper had
already Deen filed out, the negro being maze 10
appear rs q member Of an OHIO regiment a
pension Was asked for on the ground that thc
applicant was infirm by reason OF rheumatism
aud heart-liscasc, and stated that MS eye
sight was almost destroyed. Tho gentleman
refused 10 have ANYTHING 10 do VIII Inc paper.
lie told the applicant indt no illu'N ttN 0'iiN
else 20 do the lying for him; that he knew nm
to be q hale and healthy fellow. free OF rhelina-
tism and heart-isease, and that be could Kill a
equirrel a. far as any other man. lie says that
number OF these pspers have been filled out
and sent 10 Washington, the applicants never
having seen service ia the Federal army and
never having seen any Federal soldiers except
| those who rai1ed through the country.
uTTLEDAMAGR.
Tho recent frOsts did not iniiict serious damage
F, I'm this section. great many Of the farmers
| have not yet finished digging their peanuts, the
! bulk Of which they to a large extent depend
upon for proyendcr.
| The Farmers Tobacco Warehouse has recently
| been very much enlarged and improved by
| two-story brick addition, which greatly adds to
| the facilities for business.
| The receipts OF loose tobacco are as yet very
| light. The market for new tobacco will hardly
| be well opened before the LIST Of November. 1t
| /. expected that the offerings OF fiue-cured to-
| bacco will be much larger this season than ever
| before.
| Only one or two cases OF diphtheria, and those
| OF a mild form, have as yet been reported IN
| Petersburg. but these have been sufficient to
| induce the strictest public and private sanitary
| regulations.
A cold, steady rain has been falling all day.