The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-11-03
VIRGINIA.

REcovERiEe.-Mr. James A. Lufsey, of Pocha.
hontss, who eeriously injured by the upsettinc
| of stage between Lynchburg snd Farmville, on
| Saturday las., is recovering.
MURDER TRrAL.-James Sulser is on trial In Alb
| ingdon for the murder OF man named Hicks in
Scott county some Is or le months ago The rnur.
der was the result of yht ari ing from dispute
| about old blind bride Truly, trivial causes
| sometimes ha We serious efects
AccrDENr.-The Abingdoa rfrgiuian learns
from friend al Lebanon, Russell coun' 3, that on
the 2ist inst, young man named Price Edwards
was killed near that place by being thrown from a
| wagon against tree He was shockir gly man.
| glsd but lived several hours after the accident
Alexander Purnell, who was arrested in Ahing.
don recently, charged with committing an unnatu-
| raj crime, hiss been acquitted. J. NJ Smith, free
negro, in the county of Russell, has been sent on
to the Circuit Court for trial for rape Theee items
| we ind in the Abingdon Deusocya., which paper
also he's the following
AN ORD WonAN.-Harriet aneyro worren aged
lu2 years, the property of Capt james p. 3trotber
Oh tLiS county, died at that gentiemaus resi- lence
On Tuesday last 1t Is worthy of bcng mentioned
az most remarkable fact, that this old lady. Dot
USF ADVANCED age, 0Sd
era! Washington; nor oas she in Ike eigh5or1ood
a'een the battle Of Yorhtoaoa s1s joxgkt!
Major General Winfield Scott arrived in Norfolk
on Sunday in the steamship Princeton. and left in
the same vessel for Washington the next day,
FIRE IN EoRFoLK-The Herald gives an account
OF the Ere in the Bacon effce on Sunday night
last of which we have already bad brief notice.
The flames were subdued by the prompt attendance
Of the FIRE department, with but slight injury to
| the building. The unavoidable upeeaing caused
by the operations Of the fremen, OF course result
ed in some inconvenience to the publishers but
their prudent forethnught in locking their cosupcs
Ing rooms se"ured their printing department from
the mischief that might have otherwise arisen from
the con!ulion Of the moment and instead OF hav-
ing to dges. whole haudtuls of pt, their workmen
| went to work mex. morning as usual.
HAsPpEN SYDNEY CoLLRaE.-The Rev. DR..
Jesse H. Armitead has consented TO net as the
agent for securing an a,iIi i0nal endowment OF
thirty thou and dollars for Hampdeu Sydney Col
legp, Virginia Sixty thousand dollars raised
on the scholarship plan, few years since, and Dr..
Arnisteac il fanguine that the additional amount
required can be obtained wiLlin few mouths
INqUEsr-An inquest was held in Alexandria on
Monday on the body of Thomas Gilber4, an Irish
man. from Greene county, Pa, found tn the canal
ycrdict-acci1ental drowning.
Archibald Vickers from Carroll coOny, nd,
has boen comm itted for iel in Alexandria On a
charge OF stealing ten dollars fforn John King.
Ganego and LfaxaH flea sasest Etasc,sco
for ciy use to tho exclusiba Of shicsts all other
brands. A correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce dating San Frarcisco, Oct, I, advise ship
pers to ship no -four but that manufactured in
Richmond. There is something peculiar TO tho
wheat grown in this dist io coupled with the man
ne- of packing, and the superior manner Of manu-
featuring, with such very great uniformity and quai
ity as to have stood the test Of many long royases
for succession OF years.
EAvAL-The U. g. steamer He:zd, Lieutenant
John A. Almy commanding, arrived at Norfolk
Sunday evening from a surveying expedition Of the
| coast OF Virginia
| Goodkop, the forger, was arrested IN Suffolk On
Monday last and taken back to Portsmouth,, the
scene oil his financial operaiiona
| Extensive deposits of iron ore have been dis
| covered on the land Of Henry Former. In Pagc
county.
Robert Taylor has been re-appointed Flour In
| speotor for Alexandria
| yIRoINIA AND TENNESSEE RArLEoAp.-At the
recent meeting of the stockholders in Lynchburg
resolution was passed recommending the con
struction of branch Of the Virginia and fennes
see Railroad to the Salt Works and Plaster Ban k'
in Washington and smythe counties, and also 4
branch from peint OF the main stem at or neal
Chris. iansburg 10 the Coal Fields on Thom's Greek
in Montgomery county, and not exceeding ter
miles in length each. John r. Mcdaniel wa'
| chosen President of the company for the ensnin.
year, and Henry Davis Of Lyuchburg, and Georg'
Stuart, OF Wythe, Directors.