Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-01-22
TO LIGHT THE CITY.
POINTS SELECTED FOR THE LocA-
TiON OF MANcHesTER'S LAMPS.
Three Convictions In the Hustings Court
Operations to He Resumed on Bell
Isie-PersouaIs and Briefs.

The Council Committee on Lights-Mr.
J. X. Perdue, chairmsn-held o meeting
last night and determined to place the
twenty-five street lights to be furnished
the city by the Richmond Railway and
Electric Company at the following points :
Third and Hull. Fifth and Decatur. Seventh
and Stockton. Seventh and Hull, Seventh
and Perry, Seventh and Semmes. Eighth
and cambridge, Ninth and Decatur, Ninth
and Porter, Tenth aud Stockton, Tenth and
Hull, Tenth and McDonough, Eleventh
aud Bainbridge. Twelfth and Decatur.
Twelfth and Perry. Thirteenth and Hull,
Thirteenth and Semmes. Fourteenth and
Stockton. Fourteenth and Porter, Fifteenth
and AcDonough, Sixteenth and Decatur,
Seventeenth and Hull, Seventeenth and
Porter, Seventeenth and Semmes, Hull and
Railroad. After. several corrections are
made In the contract Chairman Perdue
will place his signature thereto, and within
thirty days Manchester will be illuminated
by electricity.
HUsTrNGs-CoURr CASES.
jim Brown (colored) was tried in the
Hastings Court yesterday for housebreak-
ing. and the jury, after being out q few
minutes, brought in verdict Of guilty
and fixed his punishment at two years in
the penitentiary. This is Browns second
conviction.
The next case called was that of Thomas
Williams (colored), charged with being
implicated In the O'Brien robbery. The
Jury also gave Williams two years.
William Crump (colored was next tried
for taking the stolen goods to Richmond
10 be pawned. He only got fifteen days in
Jail.
Brown has four months to serve in the
city Jail before being taken to the penIten-
tiary.
TO RESUME OPERATIONS.
The horseshoe department on Belle Isle
will resume operations Monday, after
having been closed for about two months.
About l50 operatives who are now idle and
have been out of employment for two
months will resume work. The differences
between the employees and the company
have been amicably settled.
The resumption of work OF this depart
ment of the Old Dominion Iron and Nail
Works Is hailed with delight, as it viii
have the effect of making business in this
city much better.
AWARDED GOLD MEDAL.
Mr.. r. Il. Owen was presented with O
gold medal at the meeting of the Alert
Fire Company on Wednesday night. Last
spring Mr.. III. s.. Bradley. superintendent
of the Manchester Water Works had o
button placed In the engine-house. at the
corner of Tenth and Hull streets, which
rang bell at the power-hou to give the
signal OF fire so the engineer would know
when TO commence pumping water. and
offered gold medal to the fireman who
rang this gong the greatest number OF times
in a year. MIR. Owen was the recipient OF
the trophy. There is not member of the
company who deserves this more than
MIR. Owen.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY BILLS.
The bill chartering the Chesterfield
Agricultural Society has passed the Senate
with the House amendment. The amend
ment proposed by the House made 1t
more clearly appear that it would not be
compulsory upon Manchester to subscribe
to the stock of the company. 1t was not
the intention of the society to frame the
bill so that it could be construed as
making 1t compulsory for Manchester to
subscribe to the stock of the society, and
as soon as this objection was pointed out
by Delegate Toney to the friends of the
bill the Objectionable feature in the bill
was stricken out.
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Mr.. G. II. Shortt, OF Ettrlck, is quite
sick.
Rev. L. II. Thornhill preached at the
Seyenth-Street chapel last evening.
MIR. X. Benson Jones. of Matoaca, Ches-
terfeld county. has been quite sick with
the grip.
The ladies of the Christian Band of Cen
trail Methodist church gave sociable in
the lecture-room last evening. lce-cream,
Jelly, cake, etc., were served.
The pretty miniature house and yard in
the window of the White Elephant saloon
year-old son of Mr. w. B. Bradley.
Cadet Bransford Cox, of this city. who
was accidentally shot in the arm last week
at the Blacksburg College while cleaning
his gun, is getting along very well.
Mr.. j. Il. French and Miss Rosa w. Cot
ton, both of this city, were married on
Wednesday in Halifax. N. g.