The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-27

:. iNs 'icToRY.-The municipal elec.
.'oh ID norfolk took place last Saturday. 8 s.
a'uoos' 'he hnowNothing candidate, was elected
mayor oy ABOUT 300 majority over Hunter Woods.
the present incumbent.
"HEAT.-Ihe Southside Democrat is Informed
mat the wheat crop in the county of Dinwiddie ia
suffering from variety of evils Rust smu, and
thejoint worm have pitched indisc riminatelv into
lhe growing crop, in many places almost comple,e.
ly destroying it,
ABANDoNED-The contract for the deer.,;,r os
tue Appomattox river has peen abandoned bv Mr.
Trowbridge.
fiRE.-The engine house OF the Old Street Fire
NohPany IN petersburg was sent on fire Saturday
nlsht' but not a materially damaged
CIRCUIT Court OF WHEEL1sG.-In the case of
Lafferty vs. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Comma
ny, motion Tor new trial spending The cases
Vi FOX q Erskine vs. same defendants and Polly
WOODS d Co, VS.. same, have been continued at
the cost otthe defendants until the next term
ADDREss-Mr. Alexander R. Bates. of Jefferson
county, will deliver the annual address at the Az.
ricultural Fair in Wheeling, in September.
WooL.-Mrs. E. S Berkeley of Fairfax county,
raised sheep, now about two years old, which
lately sheared ten and half pounds of wool at one
clipping When we state that the sheep was Of
common stock, it will readily be seen that the yield
was quite large
HARvEsTING.-The Staupton Vindicator says:
number of farmers in this county have com
menced gathering their crops. In some instances
the yield is very heavy, and again it is light. or
total failure. The crop of grass is heavy and there
will be an abundance of hay made in this and
Rockingham counties.
VIRGINIA APPoINTMENTs.-The Postmaster Gen
eral has appointed Mr.. John T. Kern postmaster at
Green Spring Run, Hampshire county, vice John
c. Heiskell, resigned, and James B Sanders post
master at Seven Mile Ford, smythe county, vice
John F Baugh, resigned.
THE FIRST SECTION DoNE.-We learn from the
Guyandotte Herald that Messrs. Hagan and Butfing-
ton have completed their contract the Covington
and Ohio Railroad, which is the first section grad
ed.
CsBELL CoUNTY.-A meeting of the Citizens of
Cabell County is called at Barboursvile on the
26h nst to take measures TO be represented at the
White Sulphur Springs Railroad Convention next
August.
The people of Monroe and Fayette have appoint
ed delegates
Wecopy the following items frem the Frede.
rcksburg Herald, of yesterday:
The alarm of fire this morning, at l o'clock was
caused by the burning of several small tenements
in the rear OF Haase's Bakery djoining the Ex-
change building. 1t was the work of an incen.
diary.
In the vicinity of Charlottesville hail fell On
Saturday afternoon for half hour, to the great
injury oil the growing crop of corn.
JOSIAH HoLBRooK.-Rev. J. E. Edwards makes
proposition to the people of Lynchburg, through
the columns of the Virginian, to which we have no
doubt they will at once respond. 1t is that sufi
cient amount of money be contributed to disinter
the body of Josiah Holbrook. and place it in pri
vate lot in another part of the graveyard also,
to place a marble slab over the grave Mr.. Ed
wards says:
We shall be held responsible before the public
for ugly oversight il this is not DONE Mr. Hol.
brook was well known in the scientific world He
is great public loss. He was one of the purest
christians, and most disinterested philanthropsts
that have lived in our country. Let us burn him
0ofr again, and perpetuate the memory of the spot
of his nterment by suitable monument and epi-
taph