The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-01-24
THE DAHL Y DISP ATCH.
! 2auEsDAY MORNING. JANUARY .. 1854.
VIRGINIA.

- IaTIzES's BANk.--We learn from the Stsunton
sdicator that the stockholders of the Citizens
Bank at Harrisonburg, met on the liih inst, and
.efteed their officers A. B. Trick is President aud
.sS.'w w. Sirayer Cashier. On Monday the books
were opened for an increase of the capital stock
OF $50 900, great part of waioh was Immediately
ossbscribed
sssDEAn.-Mr. George Hizea. the stage driver who
badly injured few days ago 10y the falling
/. of a bag OF meal. is dead lie leaves wife and
several children.
IA CAPITAL SYor-Mr. John J. Martz, OF Rock
inaham county, recently shot grey eagle at a dis.
tance OF rs yards. The bird measured feet
/ iaches from tip to tip of the wings.
O. THE CoSFEssroNAL-A watch which was stolen
several months ago, from DR.. WIN. S. Green, OF
DanvlIe, has been recently returned through a
Catholic priest in Augusta, Ga, who said he obtain
: ed it from an Irish pedlar.
KASAwHA The winifrede coal company OF
vkanswha improved the recent rise in the river by
making their first shipment OF coal They sent So
900 bushels to the Cincinnati market.
Great complaint is made ia some of the Rich
mond papers about the high price OF coal there
1t has advanced to S575 per oad-about as definite
rs piece of chslk-Kaad,cha RepNb
'Chalk down" IS bushels for load. aud you will
hit the Richmond meaning of the term
SMALL Pox.-A passenger who reached Char.
lottesvillc in the ctrs few days ago was attacked
by small pox The council Immediately establish
ed a hospital near town, to which the patient was
removed.
SALE OF SrocK.-Five shares o. the Monticello
Bank were sold at Charlottesville last Friday for
Slia.50 each, cash.
AccIDENr.-One of the cars OF the gravel train,
in passing through the tunnel Friday, tilted, by
which an Irish laborer upon it was thrown oil
and his LEFT arm badly mashed. The injury was SO
severe that amputation was deemed necessary and
s. the operation wac performed. -Lyack6urg Virgin.
ian.
SLJDES.-Two slides have recently occurred ON
the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad The first
was not serious. OF the second the Lynchburg
Espresso sys:
We learn thata very extensive slide, aud one
which well mig proved fatal, occurred day before
yesterday, on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
about FIVE miles beyond the Big Spring. aud be-
tween thetwo tunnels But few moments after
the cars had passed. an em5anknent gave way,
leaving the track suspended eight feet in the air
II the cars had been little later they would have
been precipitated some hundred feet down into the
river. Ii Is said that it will require the labor OF
thirty or forty men Tor mouth to repair the dam
age.
AGRICULTURAL. The farmers OF Fairfax are
taking steps for efficient reorganization Of their
county Agricultural Society
Mrs. DoUGLAss.-A handful, headed "a Lady in
Norfolk City Jail" and attacking Judge Baker and
others, has been circulated in Hurfolk. The Mayor
has issued warrant for the arrest of the persons
who rcuiated it,
FREE scHooLs,-The citizens of Halifax are con
siderng the proprety Of establishing free schools
10 that county meeting was to have been held
on Monday 10 discuss the subject
WESTERN LUSArIc AsYLum-The follow. ing is
brief extract OF Dr. Stribling's last annual re-
port:
There were in The Hospital during the last year
400 patients; OF whom 2ii Tnaies and I99 fe
males. The annual support of the institution re-
quires SO, 900; OF which amount the state appropr
ared $3.50 900, and the balance is derived from ia
patieuts who pay their own expenses. The per
centage OF cures effected since the establishment OF
the Asylum is 1891. The report petitions for lee!s
iatiYe aid the amount of $4,000 and suggess the
propriety OF establishing another Asylum west of
the Allegheny mountains.
j. r. a. K. CoMPANY.-A call appears in the
Charlottesville Advocate for meetin. of the,
county Stockholders in the James River and Kama
wha Company, ON the 18th of February, to consi-
der the expectancy rendering to the State trans
fer Of their several shares aiu the stock of said
company.
MeRE EviDENcE.-A carpet bag and several ar
ticles OF clothing have been found in Kanawba
county. belonging to thu. man murdered by Patton,
alias Whalan, on tie 4th of July last. They are
said to furnish stronger chain OF evidence against
Patton. who is still in jail, the question of granting
him new trial being before the judges of the Court
of Appeals.