The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-07
VIRGINIA.

Bsl VIRGINIA.
r. AND P. RArInoAD.-The souihsids Democrat
learns that the next ten miles section Of the Rich
mond and Petersburg Railroad l. nearly completed
with the new rails, and that ii is expected the
whole road viii be re.laid BY the 1st Of July. So
mote It be. 7-g-1 -
tsroETusATE.-Ap poor emaciated Irishman ap-
Piled for an order for admission ID the peter,luru
Poor House on Thursdsy Ian. He reureserfed
himself to be the nephew Of Tyrone Power. the
comedian, and stated that he had studied med.
icine in Ireland.
Ex,PREsrDrNr TYLRn, 1t IL said. win de,xe, a..
closing lecture at the Petersburg Library.
hAnaoAn AccrDEsr.-Tuesdsy evening, ..ys
me alexander Gazette the train of cars was com.
ing rom Gordonsville, about three miles this side
u orange Court House, q man was discovered ly
ing on tne track but before the train could be stcp
ped ran over him. His head was cut nearly of
ne was q iaoorer ON the road-and, il is not known
now ne came in the situation where he was found
HEAVY RossERY-The Martinsbure Reuublican
| states that Mr. B. R. Boyd Of that town, was few
days since robbed of $1,000 In Baltimore He went
down in the night train to purchase his Sprinc ann
ply OF goods. He arrived there in the morn Nfg
10 possession of his money but soon after leavips
the cars discovered his clothing had been cut and
his pocketbook, containing the sum mentioned. ia
ken from sidepocket.
AccIDENr-On Saturday evening last about
| o'clock, Miss Lavina Baggs, of South Wheeling.
wnHe alone IN an upper room Of the paper mill at
Lagrange, had her clothes caught in the machinery,
py which she was forced violently against the floor,
SSteakng her skull, and causing immediate death.
Sne was about II years old. She was member of
Wheeling Int. =
4 3 !
sENTENcKp.-We learn that young Shrevea of
| opshur who plead guilty before the Federal Court
AZ Ciarksburg of robbing the mail, has been SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment In the penitenti
ary 1t is supposed that ere this other indictments
nave been found against the nsigators of the rob-
berry. 57
| OrHoGRApHY-We learn from one of our Vir-
ginia exchanges that the ladies of certain place
recently held fare and raised $5s, designed to be-
used in pailing in and paving around church
JOHN SNYDER has been committed in Norfolk
county of robbing returned Californian and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for four years. Hassell
has also been convicted of robbery and sentenced
| to four years in the same institution.
CHANGE.-We learn from the Norfolk Beacon
that the case of John w. Rand, for burglariously
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counsel, Hon. Henry A. Wise, has been changed
and removed out of the circuit of the superior
| court of Norfolk county.
| AFAsr RIDE.-We understand that six negro
men took fearful ride down the Eastern slope of
| the mountain, on the temporary track, few DAYS
/ ago. By mistake they seated themselves on a
| "hand car" without a lock, and pitched down the
mountain at wonderful speed Two of them
jumped off, to the serious damage of their teeth,
| &c. The other four remained on, and would pro-
badly, gone on TO Richmond, but for the timely in
| terference of some person who CHANGED to see
them coming, and arrested their progress by throw
| ing log of wood across the track. AL the ne
groes were more or less injured.-.StaHnt0n Spec
| tat0r. Sa.--4
| SUDDEN DRATH.-On Sunday morning last, says
the MonoDgalia Mirror, the "Monongahela BELIEF
not being able to reach this port account of low
water, landed her passengers at Jimtown, three
miles below-and they set out to walk to Morgan
town. They had barely ascended the steep bank
of the river, when one of their number, Mr.. John
Hoge, from Mercer, Pa, fell and instantly ex-
pred. a
Two TWIN CHILDREN of Dr. Watson Carr,
named Red Jacket and Black Hawk, died in
Wheeling few days ago.
Gerald Stith, printer has been elected one OF
| the Assistant Aldermen of New Orleans.
| Accounts from Western Virginia and Eastern
Ohio represent the fruit crop to be very promising
1t is said the sporting gentry of New York are
ranging for prize fight Il
| Mrs Judith Town recently died near Utica, N.
| Y, at the age of LOT years.
One hundred and nine hogsheads oftobacco were
sold in Louisville on the 18th ut at an average OF
| $76 per hogshead, equal to 81 $50.
| VIM. H. Scovill, of Waterbury, Conn, one of the
most wealthy men of that town, died few days
| since at Charleston.
G. v. Brooke, the tradegian. has Joined Smith in
the lesseeship of Drury Lane Theatre. London.
Lamarttne is writing book on Turkey; he calls
| it ''The Thousand and one Nights of History
Napoleon bed chamber at st. Helena, it is said,
| is now horse stable and the room in which he
died a granery.
| Mr.. David Hunt, planter, Of Mississippi last
wear gave away $4,000 to q college, 5000 to an
orphan asylum, and SO 900 to the New Orleans suf-
| ferers.
Prof. Richard McCulloch, of the College of New
Jersey has been elected to the vacant Chair of Ma
tural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry
| In Columbia College.
II is said that Sir Charles Napier told some one
the night of the reform dinner, that In three weeks
from that date he "woud either be in ST. Petersburg
or in Heaven" go ~
husband, describes pinch 70 be 1.-THE greatest
amount of power at wonan's command, concenfra'
| ted on sngle point"
PA1Nsv1LLE, O.. March 3l.-Dr. 0. Smith. an old
resident deliberately shot himself through the head
this morning with rifle pistol. No cause is assign
| ed for the act. ~
| Freeman Dexter, just returned from Caiifonis
With four ave thousand dollars, committed suicide
while Visiting his friends in Sheffield last week
cause, temporary insanity
"Isy your house warm ones, asked q man m
aearch Of tenement "It ought to be; the painter
eaye il two coats recently" was the reply.
IN New Jersey. during 1853, the marriage NUM-
hared xss the births, IL. l07, OF which the maori
tv were males and the Deaths 5Sai, o. Wn'cn osi
were from consumption
..,.l of Colossal statue Of Franklin, intended
n..ttsr 10 be executed in marble, and erected ID
Rosson has lust been placed on public exhibition IN
dat city. il is sixteen feet In height
The public prosecutor of Stockholm mas I, cG en-,
ci.v far having abandoned the Lutheran faith, and
i embraced that OF Rome.