The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-02
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIJI TY YEARS AGO
FROM THE TIMES-DIspATCu
FILES.
No Liquor Licenses in Virgins,

wv iStCcnSCN virginia..
The law recently enacted by the Leg
islature OF Virginia prohibiting the
granting Of licenses to persons 10 keen
ordinaries went into effect yesterday.
INC county and Corporation Courts
therefore, have no legal right to grant
10 any person license TO keen n bor
room or 10 sell by retail anv liquors
whiskeys, wines beer at any place
IN Virginia TO be drunk where sold.
The law. If carried out is n very Good
one especially here in Richmond
where there are, or were, several hun
drcu barrooms. kept mostly by Bal
timoreans and other FOREIGNERS who
are among us temporarily, having no
interest whatever In the welfare of
the city or State, but dispensing their
| POISONOUS drugs and concorticns. we
trust the Mayor, police and other au
,horitieS VIII execute the law and rig
IDLY prosecute all violators But viii
the law he enforced? There is the
rub,
North CarOiinn's Ship.
The correspondence between Presi-
dent Davis ana Governor Vance. of
-Hortn carolina, concerning the steam
cr Advance. owned and operated by the
! State of North Carolina, has become
SPICY. The President demands that
the Advance shall be used partly I'm
the interest of the Confederate .oy-
ernmcnt. and shall transport supplies
lor Inc government mt cost On the
other hand Governor Vance Claims
that fhe steamer is owned and was
Dough; and paid for by the state to
run between foreign ports and a North
I Carolina port to bring in supplies
| bought by state agents i'll foreign
lahds Tor the North Carolina troops in
the Confederate\ army, and the row
inn
with it's management or control He
also claims that, by the operations OF
this steamer. he is enabled to clothc
and equip North Carolina troops as
Well as the troops of massachusetts
or any other Northern State arc
clothed and equipped, and i'm addition
he is making money to pay OF North
Carolina'S Indebtedness and creating
II surplus In the treasury. The Adj
vance runs between Nassau and Will
mington.
Benst mtier WANTS to Stay.
Beast Butler evidently likes his
quarters at Fort Monroe and his dis
graceful work there ana in Norfolk.
lie has vigorously and viciously de-
MED having written u letter threaten
ing TO resign on account of the an
pointment OF General Smith to com
Inand the Army Of the Peninsula lie
also denies that he and General Grant
49, ST N"''' anu mat tncE are
on the best Of terms. all stories to the
contrary Notwithstanding
Career of General Hokc.
Major-General Hoke. the hero of
Plymouth. is Il North Carolinan, who
came to Virginia as Il lieutenant in the
First North Carolina Regiment. under
the command OF General d. III. Hill.
General Ioke has filed successfully
every grade from lieutenant to major
general
Swcct-Scenfed Yankee Omciai.
colonel Fish, former .provost-mar-
shall OF Baltimore, has been tried bv
court-martial In that city for rcceiv-
ing bribes, etc. He was convicted and
sentenced to he cashiered and dismiss
ed from the service; also to pay n fine
of $1,000. and be confined one year In
Albany Penitcntiary.
General Scott Receivers
General Winfield Scott, now resid-
ing in New York. has recovered his
recently impaired health, and Is ns
busy as bee whiting up his life and
Times" which lie expects to have ready
for the press in the course of few
weeks.
For Soldiers Children
Nearly 100000 has been subscribed
III Montgomery, Ala. to provide edu-
cation for the children of Confcder-
ate soldiers killed In the war
Famous Isrnclitc.
John Simon. an Israellte. OF the Mid
die Temple, London, has been created
sergeant arms. the frat of his
religious belief who ever received such
an honor in England
General Mercer Transferred.
Brigadier-General Mercer, so long in
command OF Savannah, wos yesterday
ordered to report to General Joseph
70. Johnstont at Dalton. His place Is
TO be filed ut Savannah by G4neral
John Is. Jackson.
General Hill.
General ID. I'll Hill is now acting as
volunteer aid to General Beaur}gard.