Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-08-18

and breeches His last climax was u.
uvered amid deafening shouts' ~ ,,
"Afy honorable antagonist has toia you.
fellow-citizons, that VIZ %.
ut person 10 De ,sSs
because had cafried p'a
on my head This IL true anu = 10"
afterwards put the mastor-masons touch
ON bricks thus carried. j glory III Tue
skill that enables me 10 do H. but' al
the same. | resent. with all the liulsna-
tlon of an honest heart the SUR mus az
tempted TO be cast on LABOR / "ou't
thousand times rathcf carry bfrhs GA ~!
head than in my bat, as my opponen.
does" Ne dless 10 say, LipsS""'o ""'
elected. -. ,.o,,.
Gus offices among them that OF Ndsol,
I'm ISIS. when he received 100 votes 10 ~
cast for Joseph Mayo. Since the war. IN
ono az his canyassfs for Governor or 'oh-
cress. IL Is forgotten when, MS opPo"'"s
for the time being was so FAR fOrse1iuI ot
the prouTleties as 10 declare thht 10 I'a
made himself scarce on the teh'eu ~
in the late unpleasentncss, That no 'un
kee scalp-locks dangled from his beit' anu
mat otherwise he had not materially IN
creased the number Of widows anu
orpbans I'D North. LpscOmb regarded MN
with pit,. for u few seconds, una ieplIeu'
s'AIv fellow citizens. while may not H"fS
attained TenOwn along the shhsuihaly
lines - loved by my opponent h'dy
remark that during the late war ourisu
more Yankees than either be or one thon-
sand like him did" This reply was worm
a hundred votes for Lipscomb. but 90
not ensure HIS election. lie was contractor
nj Richmond for burying the FederaI uehu
during the war. lie was one OF la1e'
Tuctts opponents in the last cohs'cS
sionaI election. ana was not hthIu 70 hlch
either against the Australian bdIot-D0N
system or Walton law. His only reinon-
STRANGE uttered In his KIM an" ai''ap..
way) was against the plainly apparent
scarcity Of votes Tor Lipscomb when The
count was made.
II Is fifty years ago this summer since
q gentleman came into the Oiiice or tho
Clerk az the Hastings Court Of this city
and asked fora marriage license. His de-
nianI was supplemented by a note from
the intended bride, authorizing the pro-
Cecdiug lis application was made 10
Young deputy clerk and he got tho dOcu-
mcnt- The then young deputy, now an old
man. was at the Clerks office few days
since and was shown the bond snd the
note authorizing its making. lie remem-
ber,d the occurrence perfectly, more So
perhaps. from the fact that whsn the
license was handed over, the groom pre-
scented the astOuishcd young scribe thrts
tcn-dOillr-C 0ld-peces. These We're pre-
s-nted - the Clerk next morning. VINO
took out a dollar. the lvgal fee. ana re-
turned go 90 him-a big windidli IN those
DAYS There IS a tradition handed down
in that Clerks office from each occupant
of the office that the example set IN the
summer OF 1875 has not since been follow
nj with any alarming regularity. me
gentleman obtaining the license was theh
a LEADING member u the Richmond biF'
afterwards member ~ Congress from TINS
district and subsequently Secretary on
War Of the Confed r4to States Of Ameri-
G..
An OH Mason states that the basement
az the Ausons Hall. ON Franklin street,
built by lottery IL years ago, George
WASHINGTON being one OF the projectors,
was Huel vi Ia salt belonging u tho city
during tn War Of 49,. u VAS thus saved
ND. for fear Of British invasion, lhe
that which befel Washington. -. G, H.
ll4 Oyster-shell lime was used IN plas-
terlng the walls and ceiling. and the dis-
!utaaratlug effect IF the salt may be
imagined TIE ceiling o. the basement
story stin continues 10 peel OF IN spots
even TO this day. 1t IS the dining-nall OF
r. A. Chapter. No. 3. and Of iichlnyna-
Randolph Lodge. 10. =. and Chiec-of-
Police Howard runs sunday school
therein every LOrd' s-Day, with marked
success. g. g u.