The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-03-08
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Tuesday Morning, Mnrch 8, 1883.

DEAR WIsE.-A quantity Of old Madeira
wine belonging TO the estate of r.. Buloid, was
sold in New York Friday at s3l rs per gallon,
equal to so cents per wine glass.
MORE VIcTIms.-A Mr.. Nichols of Lock.
port, N. Y, has lost his reason from having
communication with the spirit world, through
the mediums apropos." The superin,en.
dent of the Lunatc Asylum at Utica, N. Y.
states that the insanity is iearfully on the in
crease in that State.
The Delaware Reporter notices the death, at
Brdgetown, of negro who came to his death
suddenly by drinking camphine by mistake for
liquor. Liquor would have done the work as
efiectually, but not so soon.
Mr.. MEAGHER delivers another lecture in
Washington city this evening.
Carmalick, the Spaniard, who made his es-
ca pc in Jackson county, Miss, just before he
was to have been hung, has sailed for SPAIN
His execution is, therefore, indefinitely sus.
pended.
The Cumberland, Md. Telegraph states that
if the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal continues
for the season in its present excellent order for
navigation, the coal trade upon il will be double
what it was last year.
Mr.. Jonathan Pierce, well known furniture
dealer in Cornhill, Boston, died in an apoplec
tic fit in South Boston Tuesday last. He was
attacked and fell in the street.
The Savannah Courier notices the death of
Capt. Sawyer, of the brig Lyon, at that place
frankly adding "cause-iDtemperance." The
colors of the shipping in the harbor were dis
played at half mast.
Three additional volumes of the national
history of New York have been published.
Mr.. Robert C. Winthrop of Boston, lectured
before the Historical Society of New York
Thursday night, upon the life and charac ter
of Algernon Sidney"
On the 18th ult., Dir. Brown was shot by
young man named Gibbs, in Princess Anne
county, Md. Gibbs mother kept store. and
had refused to sell Brown liquor-an alterca.
ton ensued, and Gibbs shot Brown in the left
thigh, from which he died in few minutes.
ONE OF THEm.-The Greenville, S. c.. Pa
triot learns that Col. Bonham, who had been
, on a visit to President Pierce, is to have the
Office of Consul to LIVERPOOL.
Henry Burrell was held to bail in Boston.
few days since, in the sam of $4,000, TO an
swer the charge of abdactng a young girl of
sixteen years old.
Mrs. Pierce did not return to Washington
J with her husband Thursday, but remained in
Baltimore. This is, of course, important.
II During freman's riot last week, Young
man named Charles Crow was shot in the up.
per part Of tho thigh, and is supposed to be
mortally wounded.
s The Baton Rouge, La, Gazette notices the
suicide, on the 10Th Feb, of negro boy be-
longing to Mr.. Singleterry, by jumping from
. boat into the river. He had been heard to
say ne had rather die than be sold to another
man who was about to buy him.
young man named Charles Clark was I6s
overheard from schooner Ella Osborn. of Glou
cester, Mass, 10Th ult. The sea was too Tough
, at the time to lower the boat. Clark was abou,
IS years of age, unmarried, and a native q,
, Chester, England.
During the great earthquake in the island OF
Luzon, (Manilla,) of which we gave an &C.
coant some weeks since, il is stated that the
. large mountain of Ubaube, situated on the
plain of Subic, was sunk entirely to level
with the surrounding plain.
MIR. M. J. Clarke, contractor on the Cen.
tral Railroad Illinois, was beaten to death by
man named Walden, of Union county, som e
weeks since. Clarke was intoxicated at the
time, and went with Walden to his house by
invitation. Being little jocose with Mrs. W.,
both she and her husband fell upon him and
beat him so that he died.
A mason, named John Voorhis, of Mandus.
tee, Passaic, county, N. j., fell into the river
on Saturday, and was drowned-ths result of
intemperance or dizziness, TO which he was
subject.
VIM. A. Link was killed in New York
Thursday, by two bales of hay falling upon
him.
George McCassin, lad flying his kite upon
the roof house in New York, Friday, fell
| 10 Inc gOund anu was killed.
The Wisconsin Assembly impeached Judge
Hubbell on the Sd inst.
A stranger about thirty years ofage fell from
the top of the National Monument, Washing
ton, Friday, and was killed; had on black
coat. pantaloons, and check shirt sandy whis-
kers, and light complexion.
John Burnwood, an engineer on the Penn
sylvania State Road, was run over Friday
evening near Whitehall both his legs were
nearly severed from his body. II was supposd
he would die.
John Ward, watchman, on the New York
and Philadelphia Railroad, was found dead on
the top of ear of the train from New York.
when it reached Bordentown. His head bore
frightful wound, and il was supposed had
been struck by fridge.
Mrs. Philen, widow lady of Wilcox county.
Alabama, was killed on the 18th OF last mon th
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