Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-09
NEWS NOTES FROM MANCHESTER
Personal Points and Current Happenings.
To Rpbuild at Once.

| The revival services az Asbury chapel
! are growing IN interest. Rev. ". j. Hut
! bard breaches every night, the attendance
! being very large.
DR.. William p Mathews. and DR.. J. VI.
/ Whitfield have purchased from MessIs.
| Bowen X Bradley a handsome lot 81 the
corner Of Thirteenth and cambridge
! streets and will erect two pretty dwellings,
! thereon.
The Alert Fire Company has adopted a
resolution expressing its thanks to
! Mayor Maurice. Mrs. John Talley. Mr..
| Leroy NJ. Latham, and others for kind
! nessos extended the hremel at the recent
| cotton-factorv fire.
4 colored woman named Steward. who
! lives in Chesterfield. tell out of a Jumper
III Swansboro' Tuesday and broke her arm.
The February term Of the Chesterfield
| County Court begins next Monday.
Mr. W. ". Baker. Of Chesterfield, was in
| the city yesterday.
! The Chesterfield Cavalry Troop were 70
have had drill at Swansboro' TUESDAY
! afternoon. Only a few of the soldier boys
/ turned out on account of the bad weather
and the drll was postponed.
IL TIE POLICE COURT.
Mayor Maurice had quito busy session
| of hls court Yesterday morning, and the
Golfers of the city were slightly enriched.
| James Logan. John Logan, and George ".
Browder were charged with fighting and
creating disturbance in the street They
were fined s. each. Walter Nunnaly was
fined ~ for throwing rocks in the street
Jeff. Coleman. a negro, was charged with
stealing a watch. The case was continued
and the negro committed 10 jail.
Mr. Is. +. Johnson, Of Richmond, whose
country residence Is near Bon Air. is en-
! deayoring to organize q convention Of
the Baptist Sunday schools of the county.
to meet monthly or quarterly, for the pun
pose of encouraging the schools now IN
| existence and establishing Others IN desti-
tute places.
City-Ireasurer Bronaugh's report for the
year ending January 81, 1898 shows the
receipts of the city to be SCI, 1923 and
disbursements, S60.25LH. The balance IN
the treasury January 81, 1892. was S653.J} !;
the balance tins year was - ,5S2.07
There Is complaint among the patrons Of
the Richmond and Manchester Railway
COmpany's street cars AZ 10 the manner IN
which the conductors leave the car-dOOrs
OPEN 1t is suggested that the conductors
should be made TO close the doors when
they enter to collect IA fare. and that neither
conductors nor passengers should be al
lowed 10 pass through the front door
Rev. X. L.. AGREE preached TO IA large
congregation last night at the cambridge
street cNuTCn. MUCH Interest ~ manifest
ed in the meeting. and there were q num-
Der Of requests for prayer. The singing,
under the leadership of Mrs. A. @. Hard
ing, Is very fine and adds greatly 10 the
service. There will be preaching again to-
night.
TO REBUILD AT ONCE.
The Old Dominion Cotton-Mills people
have arranged with the insurancs-men re-
latlye TO the loss sustained by .he recent
fire at their works. Men are now engaged
in cleaning up the ruins preparatory to re-
building, which will begin "a soon as the
weather becomes favorable. About $50
women and girls were thrown out Of work
by the burning of the mills. and these
people are among the poorest in Manches-
ter. Ii was the original intention OF the
management to put the spinning depart
ment to work at once, as this building was
not hurt by the fire. but this has not as
vet beer done. IL is 10 be hoped that work
will shortly be resumed. An officer OF the
company told DIseAToH man yesterday
that he did not know how long II would
10 pafnPa work xuOuld haOip