Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-12
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
ITEMS FOR VIRGINIA AND NORTH
CAROLINA.
PUBLICATION OF WAR RECORDS.
Appropriation for Continuing 1T
old Point Improvements--Nyt he-
Vile Fish-Cuiture statson--Per-
sonal and Postal Notes OF Interest.

ton OLA LOT the hScti year tliNthS """N
30. 1898, was reported to-day by sub
committee. consisting OF Messrs. . Can
non, Hainer, Stone, Sayers, and Lay
ton. to the Committee Of the Whole.
Among the items are the following for
Virginia and North Carolina:
For Wilmington, N. c.. for new fence
at Marine Hospital. 500 Appropriation
for 1896, 5000; for 1897. 1920.
An appropriation OF $4,000 for the
lighting OF rivers. includes York river
Va. and Cape Fear river, N. c.
For one superintendent Of the coasts
of Delaware. Maryland, and Virginia
$1,000
For one superintendent for the coast
OF Virginia and North Carolina, N,So'
For the nsh-culture station, at Wythe-
willie. Va: Superintendent, $1,000; fore
man. 500: ash-culturist, $3.50; laborer'
$3.50; in all, &.l2e.
For the maintenance and expenses IN
gliding pay Of officers and employees
of quarantine stations at Delaware
Breakwater. Reedy Island, Cape Char!es'
and supplemental station. South Atianuci
Southport thereafter 10 be known as
Care Fear quarantine station, Bruins
wick. Tortugas, Gulf. san Diego. san
Francisco. and Port Townsend $iShVVO.
FORT MONROE.
For the repair and maintenance Of
wharf and fender piles. $3.50; fuel for
heating waiting-Tooms. $50: electric
lights on wharf and in freight-house ana
waiting-rooms, ana cost OF maintenance,
$50: repairs. %0 repairs Of side land
ings. $3.50: wharfnger. 500; laborer. po-
licing wharf. $50; in all, $3.50; for one
half OF that sum to be applied, A,N0
Repairs and maintenance of roads,
pavements. streets, lights and general
police; for bricks for sidewalks. $40;
boards for sidewalks. sos; scantling for
sidewalks $3.50: cut-rails for sidewalks,
IS: rakes, shovels. and brooms for police,
$50: on driver Of police-cart $3.50; wire,
poles lamps etc, for lighting streets,
and cost of maintaining same, &,7l5; oil
and supplies for street-lamps. 500; one
lamp-hghter and cleaner, 800; in ALL
SLl4550; for one half Of said sum. TO be
paid by the United States. $2072.75.
Maintenance of sewer system: For
two engineers. at 500 each; two fire.
men, at 500 each; three laborers, at 500
each coal. $40; waste, oil, and pump
repairs. $50: sewer-pipe, cement and
supplies. 500; in all, $3.50; for one half
of said sum. to be paid by the United
States. 1886.
The foregoing expenditures for Fort
Monroe have heretofore been provided
for in the fortihcations act, but for the
next fiscal year they are estimated for
under the sundry-civil-service act.
WAR'RECORDS.
For continuing the publication of the
official records Of the Union and Con-
federate armies, and for the compensa-
90
in connection with the preparation, pub
lication, and distribution of said records,
and for the purchase of additional sta
tionery, not exceeding $500, S1l5000. The
Secretary Of War is authorized to fur
nish a complete set Of these records to
each Senator. Representative and dele
gate in the Fifty-fourth Congress who
is not already entitled by law to receive
the same.
SOLDIERS HOME
At the Southern Branch, at Hampton.
Va: For current expenses, INCLUDING the
same objects specified for the Cen
trail Branch $4,000; for subsistence. in
GLIDING the same objects specified for
the Central Branch. $4,000; for house
hold, $4,000; for hospital, S27, 800; for trans
portation of members of the home 81 900.
for repairs, ZOO: for charging ice
plant 5000; for farm, S12,OOO in all,
$4,000
POSTAL NOTES.
Edward Gibson was to-day appointed
q fourth-class postmaster, vice LAFAYETTE
H. Cave, resigned, at Mark, Rocking
ham county, Va.
Walter III. Tavenner has been COM
missiOned a fourth-class postmaster. at
Irene Va. and Madison K. Drake at
Ugal. Va.
The following order has been issued:
''Post-Ofice Department,
"Office of General Sup't r. NJ. s.,
Washington. ID. c.. February 10. 1897.
This office desires to call the attention
OF all who are interested In the use of
mailing cases for the transmission of
liquids in the mails to section 322, Postal
Laws and Regulations, as amended by a
recent order of the Postmaster-Gen
The amended regulation will be found on
page 94S OF the January, 1877, Postal
Guide, and prescribes just how such mail
ing cases should be prepared. This regu-
latiOn should be carefully noted by post
masters. and its provisions strictly en-
forced. If any mailing cases are offered
which do not comply with IT, they should
be rejected. JAMES +. WHITE,
General Superintendent"
Star service changes have been made
IN Virginia as follows;
Rockygap TO Gratton-Modify order of
January -. 1887 bulletin 5lfO, so as TO
state an increase in distance of one mile
by change of site OF Grafton from Janu-
airy ~, 1897.
Whitetop to Damascus-Permit post
masters at Whitetop and Damascus TO
deliver the mail to the carrier half an
hour I'm advance of schedule time, pro-
yided no connections are broken thereby
and no complaints are made.
Changes in star schedules have been
made In North Carolina as follows:
Greensboro 10 Rockcreek - Leave
Greensboro Tuesdays and Fridays at 1
y. NJ. arrive Lamont by p. M; leave
Lamont Tuesdays and Fridays at A.
NJ. arrive Greensboro by II NJ. leave
Lamont Wednesdays and Saturdays at
A NJ. arrive Rockcreek by 10 A. M;
leave Rockcreek Wednesdays and Satur-
days at II A. NJ, arrive Lamont by =.
NJ.
Dobson 10 Rockford-Leave Dobson'
daily except Sundays at A. NJ, arrive
Rockford by ~ NJ; leave Rockford daily
except Sundays al 7. NJ. arrive Dobson
by =. M.
Airbelows 70 Whitehead-Leave Air
bellows Mondays and Thursdays at $50
A NJ. arrive whitehead by 10 A. M;
leave Whitehead Mondays and Thurs
days at $50 A. NJ, arrive Airbellows by
8 A. NJ.
been made:
washington, d. c., to Norfolk. Va
Leave steamboat wharf at Washington
daily at p. NJ, arrive steamboat
wharf at Norfolk by 1880 A. NJ; leave
steamboat wharf at Norfolk daily at 610
A. NJ. arrive steamboat wharf at WASH
ington by p. NJ.