The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-31
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DxnAucrfsE SroHM I'VE learn from the Bed.
sord sentinel that the ncighborhood Of Forest De
pos. Con the Va. and Tenn. Railroad,) was visited
on Wednesdsy last By severe storm Of wind, hail
and rain. The growing corn in many places was
proatrafed - efectually % though Il had been sub
lected to the operation Of rolling
PuHcHAsx.--Ths lot upon which the Rem tavern
was burned. IN Liberty, Bedford county, has been
purchased by John R. stepfoe and Jesse L
toaries, who design erecting splendid hotel
HAIL Petersburg Express learns that !
very severe hail storm visited portion of Prince
i 1earse county on Wednesday last On soue
larms' the corn was literally cut to piecea
i ExrErsrvE sALE.-The valuable water power
ana factory property, at Harper's Ferry, Va, vas
soic on Tnesday last for ss5.0O0-A H. Herr. pur-
| chaser This property. including machinery, &c,
YET cotton factory cost the company about si0
HIGH PnrcE.-We learn from the YirQinian that
| hogshead of tobacco was sold in Lynchburg
Wednesday for sla6 per Hundred. 1t was por.
ton of the crop of Capt Lafayette w. Clement, of
| Pitsylvania county. and was sold by Mr. George
Steptoe to VIM. T Booker, for his celebrated "Pey-
tona Brand"
FOUND DEAD.-The Wheeling Intelligencer
states thatthe body of an unknown man was found
on the National road on Tuesday. jug of whis.
key by his side told significant tale
AccIDENr-on Tuesday last, an Irishman named
Lannan was crushed to death in tunnel on the
Hempfeld Railroad by the fall of heavy mass of
earth.
KILLED BY LIGHrNrNG.-We learn from the
Clarksville Tobacco Plant that on Wednesday las
| negro boy belonging to Mrs. Sarah Baptist was
killed by lightning at the house of Mr. Atkins, near
Boydton. The boy was standing on the hearth,
churning, when the lightning passed down tn e.chin.
ney
The came paper states that few days ago free
negro was killed by lightning near Christiansville
while walking in field. The fluid struck his head
passing down his body bursted pal of boots
| which he wore and tore them into a thousand
fragments.
Academia negro boy belonging to Mr. Crouch,
OF Mecklenburg, on Thursday last, fell through the
matches from the third to the first story of Mosss
Factory, in Clarksville, and was killed
KNow.NoTHrNas "A few days ago, an election
for magistrate was held in Bedford county In the
| course of the day poll was opened for q candi
| date of whom previously nothing had been said in
connection with the office, and votes were record
ed for him with such rapidity that he would have
been elected but for the great exertions of the
friends of his opponent. Perhaps there are Know
Nothingsin Bedford county.
Town OFFICERS. Hugh White has been chosen
Mayor ofLiberty, Bedford county; A. A. Arthur,
Recorder, and Benz Hawkins, Sergeant.
PosT.OFFIcE AFFAIRs.-The Postmaster Gene.
raj has made the following appointments
De Camps Postmaster, Wellsburg. Brooke county;
vice Harrison Cownell, resigned. John Buchanon
Postmaster, Amblersburg, Preston county; vice
George C. Chipman, resigned. William P. Jannan,
postmaster, Mediums Rum Albem.rla .or,tv,
vice VIM. Graves resigned.
CAsuALrY-We learn, from the Norfolk Beacon,
| that Mr.. B. Y. Walton, young man about twenty.
one years of age, and one of the crew of the schr
J. T. Corner, from York river, fell overheard from
the jb boom, on the night of the 23d inst and was
drowned.
DAMAGE TO CRoPs The Danville Register says:
1--WE understand, that very destructive hail
storm swept over portion of the upper edge OF this
county, on Friday evening last, doing immense
damage to the corn and tobacco crops over which
1t passed. The reports which have reached US from
different farms in that section all In the ser
ous damage sustained by the planters. The fall of
both hail and rain was unusually copious, accom-
| panied by wind travelling with tornado force and
| speed.
LICENSE IN HALIFAX We learn, from the DAN
| vile Republican, that on Monday last, the magis-
rates of Halifax, after listening to long and able
discussion, decided against the application of mer
4 l. L. -1--a ~ss. s,,Ht Tho
county, by vote of 16 in the afrmativeto to II in the
negative.
DRouGHT.-The drought in the immediate vi
ciniiy of Danville has been of a most protracted
and distressing character.
Su1crpE.-We have heretofore noticed the sui
eide of Mr. Tully Mckinney, of Jefferson county.
The Free Press says he hung himself while in
state of mental arrangement. Some years ago he
was an inmate of the Western Asylum, and had
beep il was supposed, restored to his right mind.
| We copy the following item from the Piedmont
Wing:
Easter. a negro woman, the property of Mrs. Eli
died on the l7th ine having attained the age of
hundred and forty! This is one OF the most re-
| markable cases of longevity on record.
FraE.-We learn from the Rockingham Register
that the barn belonging to the estate of Jared Pow
ell deceased, in Rockingham county, was destroy
ed by fire on Tuesday night last together with six
borses and 500 or GOO bushels of grain. There was
| no insurance.
The Charlottesville Advocate Of Friday last hes
the following:
| Mr.. Cleveland, manager upon 8. w. Ficklins es
tate had his hand dreadiully crushed on Monday BY
| The cogs of threshing machine. Two OF his fin
gers were taken off and his hand cut In twain.
The health OF ScottsviIle has improved very
| much In the last week. Only three deaths from
/ cholera have occurred since last Saturday, and
| those were on last Monday and Tuesday. Since
that day there have been no deaths, and only one
attack Of the disease Since the appearance Of the
cholera In that town there have been in a twenty
/ FIVE deaths.
/ Near New Hope in Augusta county there prevails
TO an alarming extent most virulent type OF dys-
entery which 10 90 rapid and violent 10 III attacks
as to lead the physicians to imagine II near sP-
/ proach to, il not altogether the cholera.
/ MARIETTA AND CINCINNATI RArLHoAD.-Ihe
v;e. rresident of this road has lust completed the