The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-04
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
nksaakAsLE MURDHR OF AN INFANT :

REMARKABLE MUaDra OF An IsrArT.-
Inc Baltimore Press Of Friday notices a
case OF infanticide Of a shocking nature if the
conclusions OF the jury Of inquest were cor.
rect. The body Of the infant, a pretty male
child, whose FIRST teeth had Just beeun.to nm.
pear--was found in carpenters' shop on the
corner OF Low and Aisquth street. The YER.
dict Of the Jury was that "death was caused
by the administering Of poison, puucture in
the side, and having the neck broken. ev;.
IDENTIFY by surgical hands,"
Itis stated that the bowels had been ripped
open and the contents emptied, in order, as
was supposed, to do away with the appear.
ance of poison, which from some sign or other
the jury concluded had been administered.
Ii is further assumed that the side of the in.
fant had been punctured with sharp instru
ment which penetrated to the liver; and to cap
the climax of this killing, the infants neck
was broken, and all evidently by Surgical
hands," A coroner Rountree held the inquest,
and he and his jury certainly exhibit rare
degree of acuteness in their investigations
and conclusions. What there could be in
puncture or breaking of neck to show the
surgeons skill we can't imagine. That some
skill might be displayed in ripping open
body and sewing il up is not improbable;
but other hands than a surgeons might do
that simple act with passable neatness. Inde-
pendent of whether surgeons hands did it or
~. ~ spfa h.
jected to three several modes of murder,
either of which would have completed the
work, is altogether improbable. Buff the
wise jury really believed surgeon had had
the body, we wonder it did not occur to them
that it might have been after death to make
an experiment or anatomical preparation of
it. They have certainly made the most shock
ing story they could out Of it.
TExAs.-The editor of the Marshall, Texas
Republican, speaks of cotton bloom sent
him few days before the 18Th of June, by
planter. The first blooms of his crop were
noticed on the 18th.
The Railroad fever was pretty high in
Texas by late accounts. individuals were
subscribing very freely to the principal lines
that had been projected.
An exploring expedition under Gen. Rush,
was about to set out with others on an ex-
ploring expedition via Fort Graham to Ell
Paso, on a mission of survey and discovery
relative to the Pacific Railroad project.
LOUISVILLE AND MEMPHIS RAILRoAD.-H
Taylo Esq, assisted by an efficient corps of
engineers, is now engaged 10 making prelim.
mary survey ofa branch of the Louisville and
Memphis Railroad from Bowling Green via
RussellvilIe and ClarksviIle to Memphis
The company passed through the upper part
of Russellville on Monday morning last.
Memphis Whig of June 23d.
This road is that Of which we have SO fire.
quently spoken and forms a part of the line
which with our Central and Covington and
Ohio Railroad is to place this city in Railroad
communication with Memphis. 1t is crafty
ing to see this movement towards the COM
mencement OF the work. We believe that un.
less Virginia pushes her works she will not
be in time for these western connecting lines.
rAdvices from st. Thomas to the 10Th
ult., state that the yellow fever was raging
fearfuly there, and that several vessels had
lost their officers and crews entire. Thirty
seamen were in the Hospital and four to six
deaths occurred daily
PREPAID ENVELOPES in pursuance of of
fetal orders, received from the city of Wash.
ington by Mr.. George F. Nesbitt, large
quantity Of the United States prepaid en-
veIopes were shipped from New York on
Thursday, by Adams & Co.'S Express, to the
postmasters of the principal cities in the
Southern and Western sections of the United
States.
U The people of Norfolk are going to
work in earnest in the matter of supplying
their city with water. They are about memo
rializing the common council to 60 right
about i,-forthwith, if not sooner.
DKArH OF Mas. FoorE.-Mrs. Fsote, wife
of the Hon. T. Nj. Fooie, lately charge daft ,irs
to Austria who arrived iu the steamer Baltic
on Sunday, died in New ork on Tuesday.-
Mrs. Foote has been in feeble health for some
time. Her remains were conveyed to Buffalo
Tuesday evsning.
GEORGE Law, of Atlantic steamer and Gu.
ban.difficulty fame, has Joined Mr.. Conkling
in the contract for the enlargement Of the Bat.
terry at New York. As Law is perfect loco
motive, it is supposed the work will be pushed.
H The Lynchburg Republican says the
wheat crop in that region is fair average; but
there is very little prospect for more than half
crop of tobacco. 1t adds that it learns from
Bedford and Franklin counties, that the pros
pect for the tobacco crop is worse than it has
been for many years.
A Mr.. GRAHAM, blind man, was murdered
in his bed at Stone Mountain. Georgia, on the
25th ult., by some one who entered his room,
and with heavy weapon, struck him on the
head. Money is supposed to have been the
object. A letter from the Rev Mr.. Richardson
Graham, brother Of the deceased, dated the
25th, says the murderer had been discovered,
and that he had confessed the deed.
II The Milton. N. c., Chronicle Of the 3Oth
represents the heat and the drought there 10