The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-18
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MuRpEs TRIAL The trial Of William Arlington,
for the murder Of Michael Kieginge, commenced in
Alexandria on Wednesday. II will be recoliecsed
that Kgsings was = watchmsn, employed OF the
Alexandria Cotton Factory, and was killed In July
last, by being struck on the head with billet OF
wood, whilst watching 10 the yard at night.
MAsoHrc.-The annual meeting OF the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Virginia will meet In Lynch'
burg, on the second Monday Ia December IL Is
expected there will be a very large attendance OF
the fraternity.
LEWIS AGAIN IN THE FIELD Some person,
writing to the Weston Herald, boasts of a pump
kin raised 10 Gimer county, measuring four tet
eleven inches in circumference and weighing fifty
pounds. Whereupon the editor of the Herald in
PRODUCES another OF the pumpkin family raised in
Lewis, weighing sixty>four pounds, which grew
on a vine sixty eight feet In length. This pumpkin
grew ffty-eight feet from the roots, and probab
Intended to grow to ten-footer; but quit on &C
count OF the dry weather. Lewis is still ahead.
DEATH OF A vnGINIAN-Mr B. F Somerville
a native OF Orange county, Va, died In Nueces
Valley, Corpus Christi, on the Odd ul. He was a
young man of great moral worth.
BANK OF KANAwuA-It will be well for person
who receive the notes of the Bank OF Kanawha, to
see thatthey bear the name of the State Treasurer
J. B. Stovall.
JUDGE BECOME CLERGYMAN.-JudgeE Edward
p. Willis, of Sacramento city, California gradu'
ate of the University Of Virginia, and formerly
resident of Charlottesville, Gays the Jetferso
miami ordained Minister OF the Gospel, on the 2oh
of last September, at the request of the First Bap
list Church in Sacramento.
SOUTH SIDE RAILRoAD.-The sittings OF the ar
nual meeting oil the stockholders OF this road tar
minated on Tuesday night, at which time Captain
Pannill was unanimously reelected President.
Mr. DANIEL A. WooDsoN, now Secretary OF the
Kansas Territory has arrived OF his destination
and entered upon the discharge of his duties.
RAILROAD THIRF-John Long has been commit
ted to jail in Charlottesville charge of stealing
goods from the cars of the Central Railroad at
Greenwood tunnel.
Connection. The statement that freight train
on the Petersb lrg and Roanoke Railroad ran CT
the track, day two since, smashing the engine,
&c, was error.
AN uNGovERSABLE TEMPER.-The young man
Nelson, who stabbed Fuqua, in Petersburg last
Saturday night, was, it appears, printer, who
served his apprenticeship in the office of the Lynch
burg Republican. That paper says his only fault
was a most uDgovernabe temper-that when irrta-
ted could not distinguish between friend and foe
harsh word would cause his face to blanche with
rage and his body to tremble like aspen. If he
escapes punishment this time it is hoped the cir
cumstance will be telling lesson to him for the
future. Nielsen has not yet been arrested
Nh. II. MARCKLEY, carpenter, of Alexandria, was
apassenger by the Yankee Blade, when that steam.
or was wrecked The Gazette says he was saved
being good swimmer, although he lost several
hundred dollars, his earnings while in California
MORE FANTAsTIcs-A company, on the Rough
and Ready principle, paraded the streets of Norfolk
on Wednesday last. gave the people something
10 laugh at, and turned their attention for time
from the gauge question.
DIFFIcULTY.-On Friday night last Mr.. Elisha
Huddleston, OF Cumberland got into a difficulty
with young man in Farmville, blows were ex.
changed, and on some persons interfering to part
them, Mr.. II fell or was thrown to the ground and
had his leg broken.
RoBBERY.-The store of Messrs. Wheeler & Aus.
tin, in Farmville, was robbed, last Monday night,
Of some $500 and some papers. The store was
open at the time and persons were going in and
out.
THANKsGIvING Day in Alexandria on the 23d