The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-16
TO GIVE BARBECUE
TO HIS FRIENDS
Mr.. SouthaII to Be Host at Fern
dale Park.
GENERAL. BOILING NOT TO RUN
He Will Not bea Candidate for Cons
gress-Registrars to Meet on
Monday-PersonaI and
Other Notes.
(snecia1 Disnotch IN Tho Tfn.s ,

| Especial Dispatch to The TfmeS.)
| PETERSBURG, VA, August 15-Mr
Robert G. Southall, the Democratic can
didate for Congress from this district
will give a big barbecue at Ferndale
| Park, near this city, next Wednesday
During the canvass Mr.. Southall prom
! ised the people of this city that he woulG
| give a big barbecue to his friends in Pc
| tersburg in the event of his nomination
and he is but making good his promise
! The affair will not be exclusive, how
| ever, as many of those who opposed Mr.
Southall in the primary have been in
| vited- 1t is expected that Governor Mon
| tague and Major LassIter will make adj
| dresses on the occasion.
General Stith Boiling, when asked to-
| day if he would be Republican candidate
| for Congress from this district, smiled
and said he had no such idea; that he
| had too much business that required his
attention. General Boiling has for sew
eral terms been postmaster in Peters
burg. He is one of the most popular men
in this section of the State, both with
Democrats and Republicans.
The new registrars for Petersburg will
meet in the Corporation Court Of this
city Monday. It is presumed that the
new registration books will be in hand
by that time. It seems now likely that
the registration in Petersburg will begin
dDOOt TIE 1Ztll Ol SeplSIilbSl
HAD TOO MUCH JEWELRY.
William Evans, colored, was in the
Mayors Court to-day for having in his
possession large quantity of jewelry,
which he says was given him by Mrs.
Jennings, of Bluefield. w. Va. The negro
was committed to Jail for five days to
await the result of an investigation.
Henry Coolie and Helen Wills, two ne
groes, were arrested in Petersburg to-day
on a warrant issued by Justice Dunstan.
of Chesterfield county, charging Coolie
with assaulting and beating the girls
mother. The girl, sixteen years of age,
says she left home Wednesday with
Coolie at the direction Of her mother.
and that since then they had been Sleep
ing in the woods They came to Peters
burg to-day to get something to eat and
We're arrested
THE FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL
The street fair and carnival under the
auspices of the fire department in this
city. will be held during the last week
in this month. beginning August 18th.
More than half a hundred novel features
will be presented, including the great
midway of the Cincinnati Carnival Com
pdny. Ferris wheels, high diving, electrf-
cal displays, will be among the attrac-
tons. This carnival company is now Civ
ing street fair in JohnstoWn. Pa. The
papers of that city comment very favor
ably on the shows. and specially COM
mend the Jerusalem
Engineers are still surveying the way
over which it is proposed to carry the
freshet water of the AppomattoN River.
1t will be several days yet before they
will complete the work. The principal
work now being done is locating the
boundary line and ascertaining how
much land will be required for the pro-
posed work.
The Naomi and Eureka Lodges. knights
of Pythias. and the Petersburg Company,
Uniform Rank, will go to Richmond
Labor Day and wi give an exhibition
drill on Broad Street. between Third
and Seventh Streets. about 8 o'clock
that evening. This is one of the best
drilled Pythian organizations In the
State.
GENERAL BATTLE DOING WE'LL.
: General Cullen Battle, who was bitten
last Saturday by DR.. Battles pet dag,
which was suffering with hydrophobia.
is getting on very well. He is in excel
lent spirits and anticipates no serious
results from his wound. He goes to
Richmond every day TO take the Pateur
treat ment.
Messrs. J. E. Barrow and J. NJ Tucker,
OF Brunswick county, suffered consdera-
BILE loss Of tobacco fom a hail storm this
week.
The plant and good will of the Mitchell
Manufacturing Company have been pur-
chased by Mr.. John Mes. Buchanan,
jeweler of this city. The plant has been
in operation for twenty years. and is
one of the best job printing plants in the
South. Mr.. Buchanan will continue to
operate it.
Contracts for the improvements at Cen
trail State Hospital, authorized by the
last Legislature, have been awarded.
The most important Of these improve
ments is the increased water supply .or
better fire protection
Mr.. o. c. Woodward. agent of the
Southern Express Company in Peters
burg. has been on a visit to his family
in Knoxville, Tenn. He has returned to
this city.
Mr. James ". .,alker, of Washington,
general organizer of the Endowment
Rank, Knights of Pythas. is in Peters
burg in the interest of the order.
Mr.. w. H. II. AIcF.wen, of Philadelphia,
is visiting relatives in this city
Mr. R. z. Gill. who has been sick. IS
now much better, and able to be out