Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-31
AUTHORIZE A LOAN.
MANCHESTER COUNCIL PROVIDES
p.yuEyTs on OVERALL FACTORY.
HOW STAEARD WOODSON ENLISTED.
He WAS Nearly Two Years 'hder
Age, But Passed MANIFESTATIONS
,ord In select School Books
Meetings of Committees.

The Manchester City Council met IN eN-
t,aordinary session last night and passed.
, resolution recommended by the Finance
Committee. providing for loan OF WV
o., meet the cost Of construction OF the
overall factory. The meeting was briei'
bpt 70 the point, and the resolution was
odcnted without argument and without
dissent. the session lasting scarcely more
than three minutes.
Members present at the meeting were
NIessrs. John OBrien presidenO' D. H.
Green. w. 0. Randlett, 5. 7. Jones W.
X Pool. l.. NJ Nunnally, II. L. Patram'
l. r. Abbott, and W. b. Bradley.
The resolution authorizes the finance
Committee to borrow the above-nameo
sum. and to give the city's notes TOT the
same which the president Of the Council
and Citv Treasurer are a---orized 10 pro-
perlv execute and deliver for said loan
and TO renew, according to the UNDER
s,andine with the banks that have agreed
to make the loan.
The committees on Street. Ordinances,
Finance and Light have been called 10
meet on Friday night between the hours
OF 7 and S15 o'clock.
Members OF the Streets committee tndue
cursory inspection Of the Cowaroih-
avenue bridge on Monday nlght' Dut no
solution OF the yexed question was E1dSh-
ed and the body adjourned on account
Of the Indictment weather, 10 meet asa'"
September 7th.
HOW sTANARD WOODSON ENLISTED
An interesting feature In the story Oh
Stauard Woodson, the youthiul kousn
Rfder. who was so generously harbotlcl
and nursed through the last stages Oh me-
disease by Manchester iaoy' anu
who died at the Old Dominion hospltal
Is~t saturday as told in the Dispatch,
-, -, a., baan developed Woodson did not
desert his troop, as was thouSht ny
so,rc but was honoraby discharged.
Hls martial spirit was so fired with zeal
,t tpe outbreak of hostilities between
mt country and Spain. that ne deter
mined 10 go 20 the 'front.'. lhere were
rvro obstacles in the way, howeyer-his
nother's wishes and the facl thal ne
us inst over l6 years Old ana oniy
,,l,,,s, men Of Is years and over were ac-
centable. He Overcame the oDJecuohs vi
bis narents, and being particularly wen
favored In physician SENSE nc e@7"S
passad muster for Is. lie wouid nave
been II Years old, had he lived unth next
November. . ,,o,orsh,,-.,
an sunday and inferred In the family
varIt Of his grandfather Captain John
Craighead Griffin.
Young WoOdson was linear descent
ant oT Sir Edward Sandys, OF England.
who rose in the Church to be Arehoishop
OF York. .
Will, ADOPT SCHOOL BOOKS.
The school Board will meet at O'Clock
to-morrow night in the bainbridse-Ssreet
school-house TO select the books tnat shai
he usod for the next four years. Inc list,
4, h expected. VIII be practically the
same as that adopted by the Richmond
schoo, Board on Monday last.
The LAY Council. Daughters OF Liberty,
gave a trolley party last night for tho
Renedt Of their organization. The under
taking was successful. socially as well as
financially. -
who underwent an operation on Monday
Tor a confusion In the knee joint. caused
by a fall in barn, Is progressing favor
ABLY.
AN AWKWARD PREDicAMENT.
The only untoward circumstance that
happened 10 mar the success OF the pic
MIC OF the First African Baptist church