Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-03
VERY LONG TICKET.
THAT TO BE VOTED IN STANTON
WILL MEASURE THREE FEET.
Multiplicity of Candidates for
County and city Omces. and a
Merry War Expected-Wcafher
Conditions I'm Augusta-NOtcs.

sTAUNTON. VA. April 6.-tSpecial)-
The ticket to be voted at the May cleo
ton for county officers will, indeed. be
formidable looking paper. Candidates
are as thick as leaves In Nailambrosa,
and. as the Walton election-act provides
that the name of each candidate for
every Office shall be printed ON the same
sheet. County Court-Clerk William a.
Burnett says that the ballot used by the
voter this. election will be three feet long.
The multiplicity of candidates even for
the small Offices whose salary or emolu-
ments are but a trihe, show both the
stress OF hard times and the political
disquletude and unrest affecting the
country. Though candidates have nearly
month In which TO advise the County
Court Clerk OF their candidacy, as re-
quired by law. already there are fifteen
nominations OF gentlemen who wish to
be commissioners OF the revenue; nine
wish to be supervisors. fifteen would like
to dispense justice as magistrates, and
sixteen have an ardent desire TO serve
their county as commissioners of roads.
Twenty-three are anxious to wear the
badge OF authority as con-
stables, while seven kind-hearted candi-
dates ask of their fellow-citizens the
task OF overseeing the poor.
County-Treasurer James n. MacFar-
land has no opposition to his reelection;
John a. Alexander. Esq. covets the Com
attorneyship, so long and
ably filed by Hon. Meade Fitzhugh
White. and j. Newton Wilson, Esq.
wants to wrest from Sheriff Newton &.
Watts the arduous duties of the
shrievalty
The election promises to be a merry
war all around.
WAYS AND MEANS.
At conference OF the members or
the stanton Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION held for the purpose Of de-
visng ways and means to lift the $500
hoatng-debt lowering over the associa-
ton, il was resolved, on motion of Con-
gressman ii. St. George Tucker, TO divide
the city into four parts for the purpose
of canvassing for subscriptions to the
relief fund.
Captain Garnet G. Gooch was made
chairman of the General Canvassing Com
mittee. The chairmen of the four sub
committees are j. ~ mcfarland. II. ID.
Haislip II. w. Henry. and Alexander r.
Robertson. the members of those sub
committees being j. ii. Bader. r. Edgar
Timberlake, c. G. Berry, b. Frank
Hughes. C. l.. Wilson, Henry ID. Peck,
and Harry st. George Tucker.
Mr.. W. G. Hedrick, the weather
sharp of the Western State Hospital,
which is a government weather-signal
station, gives the following recorded data
OF the weather for March, Mean tenn
perature. u degrees; total precipitation
during the month. 1853 inches; total snow
tall inches.
Twelve of the thrty-one days were
clear, fourteen partly cloudy five cloudy.
The prevailing direction of the wind was
west. with frost on the 22d and 23d The
highest reading or the mercury was Y
degrees, and that on March list, the lowest
reading reaching IL degrees. on the 2lst.
NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY.
Judge William Mclaughlin, sitting in
vacation. has granted a charter to the
Middlebrook and Lexington Telephone
Company. The principal Office Is TO be
at MiddlebroOk, Augusta county. and the
company's object is TO build and operate
a telephone line from Stanton to Lexing-
ton via Greenville and Middebrook with
collateral lines.
Already without Incorporation the
corporators of this company have been
operating system in Middicbroo< and
are: John II. Bowman, president; J.
Frank Clemmer. vice-president: II. 4.
Sheppard. secretary; W w. Sproul. trea-
surer. and j. Frank Clemmer, ". W.
Sp.oul, II. a. Sheppard. william No
Comb, II. VI. Clemmer, d. S. Condor, and
W. c. Bosserman. directors.
Augusta is being rapidly interviewer
with telephone systems. running from
farmhouse 10 farmhouse and to village.
a oil - L..
work of projecting Central avenue from
its present northern terminus-l}al1Sin
street-to Churchville avenue. a. NJ Naiz,
of stanton, is the successful bidder
and the cost Of the extension is put down
at tl5.OCD. The avenue when completed
will be the handsomest stree; in the city,
and Will prove of great value in relieving
the congestion Of travel on Lewis and
Augusta streets. between which Central
avenue lies, paralleling hem.
CODIFY THE LAWS.
TIL city ordinances. by the process OF
amendment and partial re-enactment,
have become so intricate that II - diff
cult to tell what are The ordinances in
force. To the end OF bringing order out
of chaos City-Attorney a. c. Gordon las
been instructed by the Council TO revive.
rearrange, and colfy the local laws in
force.
William a. Turk, Esq, OF Washington.
general passenger agent os me southern
railway. is here visiting friends at his old
home
DR.. Carter Berkeley, who has position
in the Senate chamber. at Washington. is
quite sick at his home. here.
Mr.. James +. Graham has just returned
from Florida, whore he spea: The winter
at his orange-Sfoye-
THE WARM SPRINGS VALLEY.