Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-12-29
CITY AND STATE NEWS.

Srw YIAR's Glrrs.-MoIday next, tue beginning
of the lew Year, is the appropriate time to nos'o"
Gifts: and as money j. scarce, We will unite WIN CO.
.,muurary in recvinncnd;n. something a. II suhsfi'
tut., worth more than trinkets purchased with gold
The hest thing To give your cn.lny is forgiveness; ID
rnur oppnnent, tolerance: to Il friend, your heart; t.
your child, II 4nol example; To iathtr, Difference; Ia
v,ur mother, conduct that will make her proud oil hci
Am. TO yourself, respect: 10 all men, charity; 10 God
obedience. After YOU have done these, yon raI be-,
stow as mnnv more gifts az your lncllnailons ant
means will allow.
Tur RELIEF lIousEs.-The Relief House, oil
l7lh street, is now furnishing over two hundred per
sons with good henlthy fool twice n da". The poo
pe receive soup and roasted or boiled beef and breat
in tho morning, and beef and turrips, or pork ard
beans, or lamb and veal, with n suiiiciency ot brcnt
in tho afternoon. The expenses do not exceed Sl6 PEI
day, we are told, and we have reasons To believe tina
they will full short of that amount.
The Relief House for Monroe Ward will open. We
understand, this morning. The house will be located
on Brond, between Sd aud 18th streets, aud has
through the kindness Of many dealers in cooking ware
in the city, been furnished with q stove, thirty gallons
boiler, and a quantity Of tin ware FREQ of cost.
The committee have secured the services NJ Mr..
James Bolton, NJ superintendent, Ia conduct the dis
tributiun of the victuals. The building is rented nj
$50 for three months, and the salary OF the superia'
tuuCH lie uACu III - l"I Dll. SblIipGiCht SOVh'
will be procured, and the food bestowed will be well
cooked, uud of good quality.
The amount of funds in the hands of The committee
has reached tho sum of $jSl II, and it is supposed,
that besides the cash already in hand, there ia II sulli-
cicnt quantity collected by members of tho soliciting
committee, 10 make IN the aggregate over : 400.
Out of the lurty-siX persons appointed Ia solicit con.
tributions for the Relief House, only five have re-
ported, SO ii will be seen that tho prospects are most
encouraging.
SCDnE. DEiTH.-Wc learn from the Petersburg
lntolligencer, that carly Oh Wednesday evening last,
Mr.. John T.. Meade OF Prince George, died very sud
denly. Mr.. Meade was perfectly we'll on the day pre-
vinus. Me was in Petersburg, on Tuesday and was
taken with atit Oh! the following morning before break
fast. A physician WIS sent for imiich,ntc.y, but be-
fore getting there Mr.. Meade was dead. This il II
very melancholy dcs;h. Mr.. Meade leaves n large
family to mourn his sudden departure.
ACCIDENT on THE RICHMOND AID PETERsBUEG
RAIL RoAp.-Wcdncsday morning, about 9 O'Clock,
us the cars were nearing Roseland Bridge, about half
Il nile from the Petersburg Depot, Mr.. Glenn Roth
we'll, one of tho conductors of the road, got upon the
passenger coach to SEQ If all of the train was coming
on. While on the coach, the engineer not Knowing
that he was there, ran tho engine under this bridge
with great speed, knocking Capt. r.. oil aud throwing
him some ten ur twelve feet from the cuach, iniuring
llll Z ' llllNl ~ oul " Ahl-' Vb|l no NlhNiA f"N
stopped liz coon rs they found THAI Capt. X. WIS
Knocked of. lie was placed on the eur and brought
baci to Petersburg. Drs. Niche and Whitehead
were immediately called, ind pronounced the wound
very bad, but not III any way dangerous. Wcdncs-
day night, the Petersburg Democrat states. Capt. X.
was much better, md expects in II few days Ia be ut
bis post. The bridge is on the farm of Mr.. Jno.
Sturtiivant, and not lar from the new Sulphur Spring.
MoNOyGALIA BRlDGE.-Tho new wire suspcn-
sion bridge across the Munongahclu river, At Morgan
town, Va, has been finished and lcasci for one year
to Mr.. Michael K. Clla!ant, for the sun Of Il ,32O.-
This sum, says tho MonUngalia Mirror, will ensure to
the Stockholders un interest OF about three per cent.
OH its cost. The State is a SHAREHOLDER.
THE OLDEST SuABIrAsr.-Thcre il now living in
Washington county, Va, a lady who il perhaps tho
oldest person in Virginia. Mr.. Mary Collins, resi-
ding about seven miles from Abingdon, beyond tho
Middle Fork of the Holston river. the Abingdon De-
mocrat says. is certainly not less than one h"nirrd
and trcnty years old, and is believed to be near on"
haadred and thirty. Although Mrs. Collins has reach
deal of work about the farm of her son. with whom
slio resides, aud orr informant stntes that Il short
time back he saw her carrying Il hoavy bucket of
wator up a steep hill.
ELECTION IN RuSsELL.-l;ichar II. Lynch, Esq ,
was elected Clerk of tho Circuit and County Courts
of Russell county, OH the lith lust. by the following
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