The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-13
VI GINIA.

e' residing IN Farmvilie, had bis leg broken Last
tuesday ~ kick from horse. He was dcipr
well at last accounts.
MAsoNIc.-In Petersburg, on the 23d of Octo-
Der Rev. A. okeson. P. G. c., win deliver an
euiogy on Edmund P. Hunter, deceased.
DIscosEnED.-.Two negroes probably from
nampton' were discovered Sunday last on
ooaro schooner loaded with wood, from the wa
ters OF Virginia, of the Delaware Breakwater
whereupon the captain put his vessel about and re-
turned.
SENrENcED-We learn from the Weston He
raid that Dilworth, who killed Bumgardner, in
Harrison county, few months ago. has been
round guilty, and sentenced to eight years servitude
In the Penitentiary. 1t is stated that the verdic.
viii be set aside for informality, a member of the
present jury having been member of the Grand
Jury which found the indictment.
ExrLANAroRY.-In regard to the wounding Of
Hill, by young Mitchell, the Rockingham Register
says:
We have learned more fully than we were able
to DO last week, some of the circumstances which
led to this unfortunate affair, and they show that
the cutting occurred in a regular fight between
Hill and Mitchell. Young Mitchell, we learn ex.
presses the deepest regret that the difficulty oc-
CURED F.; and his father and mother are also over.
wheimned with sffiction on account of the occur
renee. We understand that Mitchell has lett the
county OF Rockingham for the present but will
surrender himself at the proper time.
Hill is recovering.
MELANCHOLY AccIDENr.-On the 4th instant
little son of the widow Duncan, of CIarksbura
went to the kitchen for some purpose, when he ac-
cidentally slipped and fell backwards into kettle
0f hOilinu lpv irnr hia hole
his head and feet The little sufferer fingered
about 12 hours, and died.
HENRY MAssIE, the lad whose accidental death at
Waynesboro, Augusta county, by the discharge of
his gun, we noticed on Monday, was a SON of Ma.
thanie Massie.
Ma. SNYDER, baggage master on the Baltimore
AID Chic Railroad, was knocked off the train near
Fairmont on Monday last, but not seriously hurt
Two IRIsHMEN, named VIM Carney and John
Moore, were somewhat injured last Wednesday.
while engaged 10 pulling down the walls Of build
ing.
AFFRAY.-The Staunton Spectator reports an af
fray, In that place. last Saturday night between Mr.
Caleb Crone and man named Utzler. The for.
mer was slightly wounded in the arm with knife
Utzler also fired pistol withou: effect The atfray
grew out of an old quarrel.
DR.. P. c. levine, of Staunton, whose death we
have already announ ced, was native of Bedford
county. His remains were taken to Eastern V.r.
ginia isr interment.
MAJ. GEORGE EsKRIpGK, died at the Virginia In
sitution, Staunton, the 9Th inst. His father
was Capt William Eskridge, gallant officer ofthe
Revolutionary Army. Mai Eskridge held Lieu.
tenants commission In the 10Th regiment of the U
8. Army. during the war OF 1912, and served q
campaign on the Canada frontier. After the close
of the war he returned to Staunton. He was sub
sequently placed at the head of the Virginia Insti.
tut ion for the deaf and dumb and the blind, pcsi
tion which he held until his death.
A FALL.-A little boy, son of Mrs Ruth Mann, OF
Monroe county, fell forty feet out of tree; recently
and strange to say, without breaking bone in his
body. He was. however, seriously injured
Mr.. SIMEON HARNsBERGER, who was injured
week ago by being thrown from buggy in Rock
ingham county, is rapidly recovering. Miss Byrd
who also occupied the buggy at the time the acct
dent occurred, was good deal bruised, but nor
otherwise injured.
VIRGINIA Posr OFFICE MArrEas.-D David A. Din
ges, postmaster, Wardensville, Hardy county, vice
B. McKeever, resigned; VIM. C. Lutz, postmaster
Jacobs Church. Shenandoah county, vice Samuel
Rinker resigned. The ofice at Snow Hill, Nicholas
county, is reestablished, and Jane White appointed
post master.
CnARLEsTos.-Thcre were deaths from yellow
fever 10 Charleston on Monday last.