The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-02


son.
The same writer gives some particulars relative
to the great Alleshany tunnel, about fmiles from
the White sulphsr:
Iu length IL aaout 400 fest There are two
one of l4o feet dfath, and two entrance shafts
There win be abcat one hundred hands at work
upon the tunnel AID entrance shortly, and Major
Ellison informs mr. II be completed long before
Il will be needed. The estimated cost is sixty dol
lars to the foot 1he material 10 the most favora'
BILE that could possibly be for the work, being .
soft slate just hard enough to make walling unne-
cesssry, and soft ecough to work easily.
The work on ths road will be suspended at
Christmas, as heretofore stated. There will be
about $4,000 remiining, to be expended on the
eastern line, after TINT time. Forty miles of the
eastern line are under contract, and eighteen are
being worked upon, and forty miles OF the western
have been let
The Danville Republican states that the work on
the Danville Railroad now goes bravely on, and
says
The cars are now running several miles beyond
Clover Station, and as fast approaching South
Boston, on Dan river. rhis deserted village ia
scarcely memorial of itS former greatness, it Is ex-
pected by many, will again spring into life, and if
it do not realize the godsp visions of its founders,
will become place of vssy important business, as
the depot for large, we1lthy and thriving COM
munity.
10 stated that iron emo Ugh has been received to
lay the track to South Boston, and the confident
opinion Is expressed by one familiar with the sub
ject that the grading and nRsonry upon the whole
line may be completed. without some unforeseen
accident, by the end Of the present year
We learn from the Prunt, own CTaylor county,)
Gazette that the residence o. Mr.. George Davidson,
in that place. together with Fis carpenter shop and
an assortment of tools, was destroyed by fire few
days ago. Loss estimated 1t some six or seven
hundred dollars.
The jury in the case of Winn ct Lexingtop
stood as follows: eight were in favor of sending
him to the penitentiary, and our in favor of impr
sonment in the county Jail or six months. The
case will be tried again in Bata county, during the
present month.
The Danville Republican sa J. that the crop Of
tobacco in Halifax county ID kn unusually large
one, though it has been much (njured by the horn
worm. The complaints Of this worm are universal
the tobacco region. They have been
more numerous this year than hey ever were at
any former period.
Welearn from the Bedford Ssstinel that reviva,
is progressing in the Baptist Csnrch, at Liberty,
and that much excitement exists on the subject of
religion. About Is have profess,d conversion, and
many mourning souls" are mailing inquiries into
The way of salvation.
At the recent session Of the Giro It court in Page
county, the grand jury brought id ,eventy-two in.
ictments, one Of which was for p@ty larceny and
he remaining seventy-one for selling liquor with.
out license. st
new Masonic Hall was dedicaed In Mounds.
rille, (near Wheeling,) on Tuesdas last. On the
'ame day a monument to the memory of the late
Alex. H. Smith, was erected.
The Southside Democrat learns th;t the irst ON.
nious ever seen In Lynchburg rolled over the
streets of that city last Thursday, drawn by four
horses.
The Grand Jury of Harrison county have found
true bill against John Dilworh, and said that
chances look gloomy for his acquittal.
Theodore Craft fell from the top o. a house in
Wheeling last Wednesday, and was severely in.
ured.
The tournament at Cluster Springs, Halifax
county, which came of on Tuesday last, vas yery
pleasant sff air.
Some eight or ten families, from Rockingham
ounty, passed through Weston, Lewis county, a
lew days ago, on their way to Iowa.
The fall races over the New Market Course, Pc.
Eersburg, will commence on the l1th of Oc.,ber.
VIRGINIAN MURDERED AT SEA-Tbe raxvD.
partnient have information that Charles Smith. of
Loudoun county, Virginia, aged "a, seamen of the
rigate st Lawrence In the Pacific, was murdered
while on shore at Payta, near Panama, Aue1st 70,
1854.
PROLIFIC during his recent visit to Virginia
(says the Alexandria Sentinel) President fierce
was waited on by citizen of Fauquier, to whom
had been born few days before, his oenty.s centh
child
RoBsERY.-The Rockingham Register state that
a valuable trunk belonging to Mr. Pitman, of Vim.
chester, was stolen on Wednesday morning last
from one OF Burke's stages on the Valley Turn,ike
between North River and Naked Creek.
DRowNED.-On the 22d ult., youth named J,bn
Shoots was drowned in the dam of Taylortewn
Mills German Settlement, Loudoun county, willie
oueoa'oi HAs W save younger brother from he
same fate. The two were riding on horseback
when the horse stumbled and fell, throwing then,
both into the water.
DEAD.-The Clarksburg Tobacco Plant announce.
the death OF Weathertord, who was injured bv a
man named Fossett, at Dedman's grocery. in Meek.
lenburg county Fossett is In Jail awaiting bis trial
Posr OFFICE Matters Postmaster General
Campbell has made the following appointments. .
Oscar Wiley, Postmaster at Sinking Creek, Bot.-
tourt county, vice John Saver; Whitfield w. Spain,
Postmaster at Randolph Macon College, Meckler-
burg county, vice Ephraim BouIdin; George
southall, Postmaster at Jetersvile, Amelia county
vice James c. Moore-all resigned. Samuel w.
Carnahan, Postmaster at Saltville, Washington
county, vice A. T. Litchfeld.
OIeccs Dtscontinued.-Arnoldtop, Campbell co. !,
the Glades, Carroll county.
MORE ABOUT JANE GaAHAm.-Tbe I.v;.h,rr
Chronicle has the following:
We learn that at the September eoun,v .o,-. g..
monroe, an instrument Of writing purportins m hs
the iast VIII and testament of Jane Grshon v..
presented to the court of probate. She hannss,hs
her property, we understand, to John NnisnS,s
children, the children Of Archibald RsIengsr IoL
Ballenger's daughter, Mary Jane Baliensar .na
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