The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-14
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURES,
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SEHHte.
THURSDAY, January IS!
Upon the verbal announcement of Judge Ca
,ell death, the Senate out of respect, adjourn
I'd.
House of Delegates.
The session of the House was opened with
nraver by the Rev. Mir. Deforest OF the N. E.
Church.
ADJOURNMENT.
A communication was received from the
Senate announcing the passage OF bill for TAX
ing "A vote in the county of Kanawha on the
question of repeating their system Of dis .ict
schools; agreeing TO certain amendments of
the House to a bill Incorporating the Bank of
Rockingham; and declaring the passage of a
resolution providing for the adjournment of
the Legislature on the 25th of February, TO
such dav as might be fixed by law for the
next meeting of the General Assembly
The resolution of the Senate fixing the day
ot adjournment. was then taken up and adopt
ed by ayes 81, noes II.
REPORTED.
Several bills were reported from the COM
mittee of Propositions and Grievances.
BRANCH RAILROAD.
A bill authorizing q branch 10 the North
Western Railroad after being verbally amend
ed, was ordered TO be engrossed and read a
third time.
An act authorizing Wm. J. Hubbard OF the
city of Richmond TO take casts of Houdon's
statue of Washington, was then taken up
amended and passed.
REVOLUTIONS.
A resolution instrucung the committee on
Banks } enquire into the eXpedlencY OF amend
ing the charter of the Bank of Wytheville was
adopted; also one requesting the Board OF
Public Works TO furnish statement OF the
number of votes which the State Is entitled TO
cast III the general meetings of the stockhoId-
ers in the various railroad companies, and in
the ]. Il. and X. Co.; and of the number Of
votes of which others than the State are entitled
to cast in the general meetings of the several
companies.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
On motion of Mr.. Rves, it was
saReSoired, That this House having just heard
OF the death in this city of VIM. II. Cabelt,
late President of the Court of Appeals, do
now, as an act of respec, for his public SER
vices, adjourn and the House adjourned.
FAhINE IN THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA-A
letter from the Island of Madeira, dated Dec.
5th, referring to the failure of the vintage
says:
The wine is the staple and almost sole pro-
ducrion of The IsIcnd. The annual vintage
has afforded for many years past an average
of twenty FIVE 10 thirty five thousand pipes OF
wines. There has not been produced this
gear one hundred pipes Of saleabLe pine on
the whOie Island. IL needs but the statement
TO afford you definite idea of the awful ca
lamity that has fallen on these people"
The letter further remarks that no man can
fore see how many months of misery, of agony,
of starvation, to thousand, are yet in reserve.
Without aid from abroad, death can alone ter
inmate the sufferings of the population.
The burial of the son of the President elect
took pace at Concord on Monday. A tele.
graphic dispatch says
The sympathy exhibited by our citizens
when the first news of the melt ne holy disaster
reached here last Thursday, seems TO have
broken out anew since the arrival Of the fune.
raj cortege this afternoon. There was an i'm.
mense gathering at the cemetery, which was
covered with nearly foot Of wet snow, and
the paths were very bad. Still, hundreds o
ladies and gentlemen thronged the western
border, where the corpse was deposited.
have never known q greater and more general
sensation existing here. The circumstances
are peculiar, and the sympathy for the be-
Teaved mUurners is intense.
We record this week death and maria &c
which took place in the same family, on the
same evening, and nearly at the same lime, in
Bottetourt county. The day for the marriage oi
Miss keffer and Mr.. Woods had been previous
ly fixed upon, and the company invited. Bul
a few hours previous to the ceremony, MIR.
keffer's little daughter an interesting child oi
years OF age, was taken suddenly ill with the
Group, and although every means were used to
arres, its progress, all proved unaviling, and
death put period TO her sufferings, an hour
or two previous 10 the performance Of the mar
riage ceremony. When the company (which
was numerous) arrived, it was to find corpse
IN one room, and to witness the marriage eere-
mony IN another,-Buchanan Recorder, 8tk.
The Boston Courier says that piece of plate
aas just been manufactured by Jones, Ball g.
Co., of mat city, which bears the following
simple, beautiful and touching inscription
which mr. Webster directed his son FIetcber
10 procure as dy ing testimonial, TO be given
to his faithful friend, Peter Harvey.
My son, take some piece of silver; LET il he
handsome, and put suitable inscription ON il
and give it, with my love, to Peter Harvey.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
MarshEeld, Oct. 23, 1882"
VERY PRETTY-There are friends for the old
maid-the universal aunt! Children love her
and kittens come and lie in the FIRE shrine a
her feet, and purr. There are pleasant homes
where her presence is welcome, and BY and BY
some poor soul whom she has comforted vii
pu! a flower on her grave. But for the ole
bachelor-heaYen help him, for man cares no
for him.