The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-28
TEXAS NEWS.

AeAas news by the Louisiana. The ;,ar. .el
chie' interest is the murder Of j. p. Fnl.s,san
Sheriff, at Port La,aca
Augustus Sharkey, the murderer :.
emigrant from Mississippi. He nrasaa.a la'e
quarrel with peaceable citizen "a I 2
and attacked him with slunp sho, Ta, TaSa,
weapon was wrested from him by bv s,.n.is. =. |
and placed in sheriff Fulkerson's hands ~ha
hadjust then arrived and commanded The peaes
Sharkey demanded II with threat that he
would have ''if or him." Fulkerson wen, 70
Justice Maulding for warrant, and Sharkev
Immediately got his rife, went TO Maulding's
Office, and without the least warning, shot
Fulkerson in the heart, remarking, with demon
like GOODNESS and an oath, that he was the best
shot IN the State. He then made an attempt
10 escape on horseback, but was seized and
Ironed. A town meeting was called to consider
the matter, and determined TO let the law take
its course. During its sitting and throughout
the day, while intense excitement prevailed
Sharkey manifested the most reckless spirit
told them he had killed three men in Misss.
sippi, and if he got away he would kill four
others in Lavaca-and in every way defed an
indignant and deeply afflicted people, while
the blood of the victim was yet warm. Under
such circumstances, in a community where
the deceased was beloved by all, the sequel
to the bloody scene, though an outrage, win
not appear surprising. During the night fol-
lowing, the guilty man was seized and dragged
from the hands of the officers, and in the morn
ing was found suspended TO the limb of tree
near by.
The following item shows that human life is
held cheap in Texas:
A few weeks ago young man namd John
+. Street, went to Victoria having in charge
a mulatto woman. A gentleman came on from
Alabama in pursuit of him, as negro thief.
Street had suspected pursuit and left Victoria
with the stolen woman, day or two before the
gentleman's arrival; he was followed by some
citizens and overtaken in Layaca county, when
he drew revolver and shot the woman dead
and mortally wounded himself so that he died
IN about two hours.
The steamer Camden, decending the RraZos
struck snag and sunk.
The Houston Telegraph has heard that
some alarm is manifested in Washington coun-
ty, owing to the conduct of the negroes on
some OF the plantations. 1t is suspected that
negro thieves or abolitionists have been tam
pering with the slaves in that section.
The San Antonio Ledger says. there is no
doubt but that the city and its vicinity is in
tested with as graceless set of horse thieves,
as the celebrated Murrel would have desired
to lead in his palmiest days.
Chauncey Richardson, presiding elder in
the NJ E. Church for the Houston district, is
dead.
The prospect for good crops is encouraging.
THE FLOOD IN THE RAPPAHANNocK.-The
Fredericksburg News says the amount of dam
age to the Rappahannock Canal will not ex-
ceed $500. From the same paper we ex-
tract the following items
1t gives US pain to learn that our old friend
Col. John A. Porter, of Orange, had his mill
swept off. Our friend Commodore Ellis, had
one of his boats with 700 bushels of wheat
lost. Capt Young Commander in Chief of
fleet of boats on the Rappahannock Canal)
lost one of his boats with -four. and his pocket
book containing $l00-himself and crew bare
ly escaped with life, after swimming long
distance and subjected TO several duckings. A
boat and lS0 barrels of -four were lost ON Ha-
zle river where serious damage, we learn, has
been done the canal. Two wagons carving
merchandise to Culpeper, camped near Ely's
Ford. When asleep at night, the water rose
above their encampment, and aroused them
from their slumbers not until they were i'm
mersed in the re1iriag beverage. With great
difficulty the horses fastened TO the wagons
were rescued, the wagons then floating, drawn
out by the drivers with all the goods seriously
damaged. We have many such incidents.
CURE FOR TooTH-ACHE.-Mr. James Beat
son, of Airdrie, says: Gum Copal, when dissolv-
ed in chloroform. forms an excellent compound
for stufing the holes of decayed teeth. have
US ed it very frequently, and the benefit my pa
tients have derived from has been astonishing.
The application is simple and easy. clean
out tae hole, and moisten little cotton with
the solution: introduce this into the decayed
part, and IN every instance relief has been most
instantaneous. The chloroform removes the
pain, and the gum copal resists the action O;
the saliva; and as the application is SO agree.
able, those who may labor under this dreadful
malady would do well to make trial of it,
Medical Times and Jour. Dent. iScence
THE TRAGEDY OF THE "NEw YORK AND
ERIE RAILRoAD."-We recently came across
the following affecting extract taken from. an
unpublished play entitled, death and the
New York and Erie Railroad, or forty miles
Ill l. IL.