The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-10
COURT MATTERS
IN PETERSBURG
Attachments Against the Barber
Asphalt Company Dismissed.
BIG TOBACCO DEAL RENEWED.
All the Exporters OF Tobacco i'll the
United States viii Be Affected.
Work Of the Home for the
Sick--Peterabur.cr WEEDS
,spcc,a, Dispatch to The Times

pETERSBURG.s VA. Nov. 9.-Upon q.
melton by the Barber Asphalt Company,
Judge Mullen this evening allowed them
to furn.sn bond an the sum of $500, and
dismissed III. attachments issued by
;sham Graves and DR.. Jno. II. Claiborne
restraining the city from paying the
Barber Company certain money &ptil their
suits could be tri>d
The .Amerrcan Union Trust Company,
OF New y ork, was accepted by the court
as bondsmen for the Barber.
HOME FOR THE SICK.
The annual r>port of Mrs. Calender
president of the Board of Managers OF.
the Homo for the Sex. was submitted
yesterday. The total receipts for the year
have been S,,S6l ~, expenses. Sz.ill.4 leaV-
ing 4 balance Of 5000.
The total numb~r of cases treated We're
17s. OF which ll7 were cur~d. 2a relieved
s whose condition Is unchanged. and IS
deaths.
LEATH-SNIITH.
a telegram just received announces
the marriage of Mr.. Robert II. Leath, in
Aberdeen, Tenn. yesterday TO Miss Lucille
Smith, Of that cits-
A1r. Leath was in The employ OF Luns-
ford and Company, in Pet rsburg. tor
nine years, and q few weeks ago accepted
:, position as travelling salesman with
Stokes 4 Co, of Richmond
BIG TOBACCO DEAL.
The negotiations between tobacco e1-
porters in Petersburg and the Continen-
tai Tobacco Company. which created SO
much interest about four months ago,
have been renewed. according to the best
information that can DE obtained. Tho
Continental Tobacco Company, it is stat
ed, has renewed its option, which option
was contingent upon the election OF Nc
kiniey. The deal is now under consid-
Grafton again, and should il be effected
this time, 1t Will enable the Continental
Company to control the export trade Of
manufactured tobacco in this country.
Petersburg exports four-ffths OF the
manufactured tobacco sent out from the
United States. The option OF the
Continental Tobacco Company is upon
the four largest manufactures in this
city, and if the deal is contaminated, it
will have the effect Of closing all the
smaller exporters OF tobacco in the United
States.
SENT TO JAIL.
James Mallory tcolored) was sent 10
jail for three months, this morning. for
stealing a buggy and harness. the prop
erty of j. r. Jones. Mallory took the
ubove articles on September3d, and was
arrested In DinWIddie county yesterday.
running for a number Of years as pas
senger conductor on the City Point branch
of the Norfolk and Western railroad. was
painfully injured at the depot, in this
city. to-day. He was in the act OF get
ting on his train. when his foot slipped
and The wheel OF the car crushed off one
Of his toes. He was thrown on the plat
form and received other slight injuries
City-Attorney George Mason has decided
to take an appeal from the decision OF
Judge Mullen. in the case Of w, G. Dun
nington, on an application to correct an
erroneous assessment. Judge Mullen he'd
that the taxable sites Of the Huntington
property Is in Prince Edward county,
The Commissioner of Revenue OF Peters
burg assessed the applicant on s600Da as
the amount OF capital used and employed
by him in his business in this city and
not otherwise taxable. Tue total tax
on which was, Stnte. s24o; city, $3.50. Judge
Mullen decided that the assessment was
erroneous.