Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-20
NEW CIRCUIT JUDGE.
.tpGE N. A. w. sE<EEN SUCCEEDS
JUDGE w. T. MILLER.
NO TROUBLE FEARED At WARRENTON
The Negroes Decide Not To Go Down
from Washington, ana the h"h-
rond Company Not to Give Lo"
Rntcs--CRpitoi Notes.

Governor Tyler has appointed Judge
H. A. w. skeen, OF the County Court OF
Wise, to the Judgeship OF the Seven
teenth Judicial Circuit. TO succeed Judge
w. T. Miller.
Judge AIllers health has been bad Tor
some time. Recently he has felt that X
was necessary for him to resign and en-
aeavor 10 regain by rest the health he
had lost. lie has made a fine record on
the bench.
Judge skeen has been on the County
! Court bench Of Wise for several years
and is a fine judge and an able lawyer.
Governor Tyler will not appoint sue
ccssor TO Judge Skcen. but has desig-
mated Judge II. r. Kane. Of Wise. 10
hold the terms Of the County Court untlF
the General Assembly shall have chosen
a judge.
The Seventeenth Circuit is composed
OF the counties Of buchanan, Dickinson
Lee. Scott, and Wise. a successor 10
Judge Miller Will have TO be chosen by
the next General Assembly. This VIII
make three circuit judges 10 be chosen
this winter. ii Is presumed that judge
! Skeen will be candidate for me behch
of the Seventeenth Circuit.
NO TROUBLE AT WARRENTON.
There is now apparently no prospect
| of trouble at WarrentOn on Emanclpa-
ton Day. as was feared by Mayor Spil-
| man and County-Judge White. of fau-
duier. in consequence of which the
former wired the Governor Tor nun
bred rifles and a piece Of artillery 70 DC
sent there. The Southern railway mas
tslfA
Emancipation Day, which would proba-
blv have prevented the colored troops
from Washington coming down. as they
had determined 10 do. The Washington
Post, Of yesterday, states that the ne
groes decided Monday night not 10 take
part in the celebration The Post says
"a Joint meeting Of the Butler Zouave
CORPS and the Emancipation Association
Of Virginia was held last night at Buller
Armorv. on Seventh street, northwest.
Magnus l.. Robinson. president OF tne
Emancipation Association, addressed the
meeting and stated that his name was
used without authority in signing an
ADDRESS published yesterday regarding the
WarrcntOn celebration. lie could NOT
in0crse the language referring 10 tne
white people as guilty of murder, Tor III
tho South there were numbers or Whlte
people opposed to lynch law. lie desired
TO inform the Butler Corps that IN view
MAYOR Spillman in regard TO the WASH
ingtOn military going TO Wdrrenton, the
Emancipation Association had COncludeu
10 abandon the celebration, and letters
had been forwarded to the local colored
committee at Warrent0n to cancel all en-
gaeements He regretted this action,
but an ounce of prevention was better
than a pound of cure, and he would al
wise all the cOlored people to remain away
from WarrentOn.
"Cartain Thomnson and Lieutenant
HeIrin stated that as undue eXcitement
was created at Warrenton, they WOULD
move that the Butler Zouave Corps re-
scsnd their former decision TO go 20
Warrenton. This was carried. Lieuten-
ant Peed stated that he wished TO place
the company right before the public, ana
moved that public mass-meetlng be helu
next week at Metropolitan Baptist
church. and that Lawyer Thomas L.
/ Jones, who was to be the orator at War
rentOn, be invited to deliver his Grafton
I on that occasion. Sergeant Winslmere
moved that a general call be issued Tor
a general outpOuring OF the people 10
give evidence of the goodwill they en-
/ terrain toward the veteran colo1ed mill
/ tary company Of the District"
NO NEED FOR THE ARMS.
| A telegram received at the Adjutant-
! Generals Office last night, from Mayor
| Spillman, brought the intelligence That
! the arms requested will not now be need
/ ed. Therefore they will not be sent.
! A special from the Dispatches Warren
ton correspondent says:
"The agitation Of the negro troop ques-
ton has been summarly settled by the
railroad. which has refused to allow the
excursion TO run, owing to the threat
made by the officers of the company TO
bring weapons in spite Of Governor Ty-
ler's prohibition. There was nothing like
the agitation here that some papers rep
resented, and the reports sent abroad
are greatly regretted The troops had
already been granted permission &c
| come"
CAPITOL NOTES.
The charter Of the Fremont Polytechnic
| School, Alexandra, was received at the
Office Of the Secretary of the Common
wealth for recOrdation yesterday The
charter provides for the maintenance OF
a school of instruction in applied science
and industrial arts in or near the city OF
Alexandria for colored people. The pres
ident is q. Wyman Fremont, of Wash
ingtOn.
Dr. p. p. May. the new Treasurer OF
Louisa county; Mr.. Jesse ]. Porter, ClerE
Of the County Court OF Louisa, ana Mr.
George Y. Hundley, Democratic nomine'
for the House of Delegates from Glouces
ter and Mathews counties, were at th'
office Of the Auditor and State treasure
yesterday.
Captain G. G. Rosser, custodian of th'
State Library building was out shor
time Yesterday. having been confined sew
eral DAYS by reason Of a folding-bed fan
ing on him. His head is still bandaged
and he lacks much of being well.