The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-09-09
THE Funeral,

THE FUNERAL.
A number of our citizens most of them Of the
business community, have suggested to us the pro-
priety of q suspension of business this forenoon,
during the fune raj ceremonies over the bodies OF
the Inflated dead who lost their lives in the Rein
deer. If the spirit and incnations of cur people
concur in this the bare suggestion will be sufficient
to ensure general acquescence in such an observ-
auce on the melancholy occasion. The vast des.
,ructou of human life by the carelessness of steam
bos, oficers-the wholesale murders of travellers
fr,m all parts of the country-demands an express
sion of the public seniimenti for the danger man-
aces ALL and the sad fate of our murdered neighbor
to day, may be ours tomorrow. The delicate
and lovely form of a townsman's daughter or
sister, may be scared and blackened and burned to
death to-day, and laid rudely out on some beach
before the coroner's jury. Your sister, mother,
or wife may meet the same pitiabe fate another
day: fate the narrowing and heart-rending cha..
ac.er of which ought to be enough to arouse
| whole nation Such a fate has been that of two
fair and lovely daughters of our city, and three of
our worthy brother townsmen, and es an express
sion well of our sympathy for their sad deaths
of our deep sense of the execrabe recklessness of
human life recently strongly and fatally display
ed by steamboat officers, it is deemed fitting that
this voluntary suspension of business should take
place during the funeral and we hope it will.
The CASE OF INFANTcIDE.-Lucy Randolph,
slave to Mrs. Judith Fore, of Chesterfield county,
and hired to John l.. Weymouth, was examined at
the Mayors Court on the charge Of killing her
newborn infant on the evening of the 25th August
John L. Weymouth was first called to the stand
He peposed that on the night of the 2sth ult, his
vile walked him up and told him she eyed Lucy
had had child and destroyed it. He got up, went
down into the yard found Lucy standing the
door, aud made her 60 up stairs He then went
after DR.. Parker, who verified his suspicious. They
both searched, and after long time, found the
child in an adjoining yard in barrel or hogshead
Lucy did no, acknowledge to him (Mr. W,) that she
had had child. She took great deal of camphor
and laudanum for pains that evening, and he be
leved that the girl out Of her right mind, from
the effects of what she had taken that evening"
She not quite Is years Of age, and had always
been most excellent servant.
DR.. J. Parker testified to visiting Lucy between
II and - o'clock Saturday evening, the 2sh of Au-
gust. Found her lying in her room on the floor
| very composedly. She at first denied having been
in child BIRTH but witness told her it would do her
no good deny it, for it She then said she
had killed it, and threw it into the sink. Found
evidences of the birth there, but child. Found
the child at last in hogshead in the next yard
vered over with straw and an apron. The head of
the child was very muca mashed and broken
fine healthy child Lucy said that she had killed
rat with stone.
Coroner Wicker stated that Lucy told him
the morning of the inquest that she killed the child
with brick or a piece of one.
Ann Willis slave, hired to c. Langley, deposed
to Lucy IS being very unwe Saturday evening, and
to taking considerable medicine. She heard the
child cry in the yard three times, and two three
blows given. Thought it was negro man killing
cat. Went out in the yard and saw Lucy going
out with something in her spron.
Peggy, slave, hired to Mr.. Weymouth, also tes
tilted to hearing child cry, but thought it in
the next house.
The examination then closed, and Lucy was
comm tied to Jail to await her trial before the Hus
tings Court on Wednesday next.
BURGLARV.-A slave named john, belonging to
Silas Shelbourne, and employed in Talbots Foun'
dry, on the evening of Sunday, the Goth August,
tha b1y