Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-22
TWO BIG. MEETINGS.
THEY WILL TAKE PLACE MONDAY
At LURAY AND ORANGE.
Turner VIII Meet Walker. and Mcrcditb.
McCaui and Mason-Rosnoke Pub.
lio Building Bids.

WASHINGTON, September 2I.-(Spe-
claL)-Bg political meetings will be held
on Monday next In the Seventh and
Eighth Congressional districts of Vir-
ginia. Representative Turner will meet
his Republican opponent, Mr.. Walker. at
Luray, on the day named, and Represen-
tative Meredith Will meet once more Col
onel Pat. McCaull and the Hon. "Steeny"
Mason, at Orange. II is expected there
will be a very large attendance at the
Orange meeting.
Candidate Walker, who arrived here
last night, has been In consultation with
some Of the Republicans at headquarters,
and while there is cold chance to get
any money out of the combination. there
is no trouble to procure advice in large
chunks. and all the documents he cares
to have forwarded TO his address.
MIR. Walker. from all accounts, .is con-
Quoting a peculiar campaign in the Sc
venth. His speeches are said TO be ex-
cruciatingly dry, for the reason that ne
reads more than half of the time from
documents and newspapers, with the nope
ne can prove 10 the VOTERS tldt tnt DehiN-
Gratis are wofuly divided among them
selves on the tariff and silver questions.
The Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee are still considering the
dispute between the rival negro candl-
dates in the Second District OF North
Carolina The Cheatham crowd are re-
garled as better politicians than the other
fellows, and If they should get the ad-
vantage. it Will be due to the strategy
worked Some time ago an enort was
made by the commltlee to nave DOM
Cheatham and White clear the field IN
favor of another candidate, but as tiie
scheme was to put white Repubiican oh
the track. the effort failed. a ilnal settle
ment of the question Will propapiy ho.
be effected until Monday or TUESDAY oi
next week.
ROANOKE PUBLIC BUILDING.
Bids were opened this afternoon at the
Treasury Department for the Roanoke
public building. Mr. Kemper, or Stauntoh'
Va. who is at present the acting super
vising architect. was In cnarge' ana qulte
q number Of interested parties were
present. making notes of the many bids
as the envelopes were opened and the
offers noted.
There were sixteen bidders for the
stou, work on the building. Among the
Virginia bidders were: Frank X. May.
Roanoke, s39.2S7 for limestone. and S29'-
Ol5. II for sandstone; l.. a. Barber. Roam
oke $4,000 for limestone. and So, iO5. .i3
for sandstone; Vaughan & Saunders,
Roanoke $40 4S5 for limestone, and sJl,9ll
for sandstone.
Frank Goodwin, of Washington, d. c., |
submitted a bid of S3,55S for stone-work |
(granite) and proposes 10 use the granite |
from near Petersburg, Va, sample OF |
which he submitted.
Other firms also submitted the Peters !
burg granite.
The Virginia bidders were not among |
the lowest.
The contract will probably go TO the
Minnesota Stone Company or a firm at !
Macon Ga, who appear 10 be the lowest
No Virginia firms made bids for the |
and gas-titting contracts when |
were also opened to-day.
The amount originally appropriated by |
Congress for the Roanoke building was |
5000, and some OF the money has been |
spent In the preliminary matters. but
there is an ample sum left to construct a
snug structure in the lively young city
Of the Southwest. The work will un-
doubtedly now be pressed vigorously.
CTVII~SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.
Civil-service examinations will be held
for the railway mail ana the lnuldh ser
vices at Lynchburg. Va. October nth'
and at Charlotte. y. c., october YIN
They will be confined entirely TO the
branches named
Nail-service has been established IN
North Carolina as follows, to last until
June 80. 1896: Rockingham, by Dockery'
Store and Malice, to Dudo, three times "A
week; Rockingham, by Roberden Glib
sons Mills and Ellerbe Springs, to Bos-
ticks Mills, six times week; Mount
Airy, by Shelton and Brim, TO Dan River
twice Il week.
Virginia arrivals: w. C. Armitage. p.
II. Cloves, Norton II. Goodman and wife,
Richmond. G. *. Griggs and wife, Miss
Anna B. Griggs, Danville; B. II. Jones,
John b. Ferguson, Elk Garden; i. a.
Ilovelock, Salem; Mrs. William d. Smith
and family Norfolk; Harris Hancock,
Charlottesville.