The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-30
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WEDNEsDAY NoRNING. AUGUST %, ls54.
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NuaAl " lho shtiaBt 1Tuxt0n, won 1Or our navy,
whe In It's earliest infancy. imperishable laurels );
and continued 70 be while she lnated, a .crack
snip In the navy. Some of her timber has been
worked In the new ship.
DIED-at his residence In the town of F Falmouth.
on the 24th inst, Capt. Duff Green. He was ma
i've oi Cupeper; but in early life settled in Fall
mousn' and was extensively and fayorably known
a. merchant and manufacturer of high character
and standing.
CAR buRNT-We learn from the Southside De-
mocrat that portable car used for cooking for the
hands on Mr.. R. Bardells section, about Is miles
from Lynchburg, was burnt up on Saturday last,
and that a laborer had $500. which he had saved
from his bard earnings, burnt in the car. E
FLOYD INrELLIeENcER Mr. r. w. Duke has
purchased an interest in the Intelgencer, publish
ed at Floyd Court House.
The STAGE AccrDENT-It appears from the
Lynchburg virginian's account of the stage acct
dent that city last Saturday. that Dr. Caring
ton, of Halifax had his thigh fractured, which,
although painful accident is not so bad as having
both legs broken. See account published 10 yes.
terday's Dispatch. @
DISTRESSING DSArH-Some days ago we pub
lished notice of the death of little daughter of
Mr.. John Britt, of Fincastle, from cut inflicted by
falling upon broken saucer. It appears from the
Valley Wings account of the affair that trowei was
found by the side of the child which it is supposed
she had in her hand, and in falling it probably
pierced her throat.
MYsTKRIous DIsAPPEARANcE.-We learn from
the Valley Whig that Curtis Wooster, carriage.
maker, left his home in Newcastle four weeks since
to go to Montgomery county. When last seen he
was going in the direction of Blacksburg. Fears
are entertained by his family that he may have been
taken suddenly i'll and died some where in the
woods.
NARHow EscAPE.-On Saturday last, as the steam
ferry boat Union was about leavin. Norfolk for
Portsmouth,, 1t was discovered that there was an
insufhciency OF water in the boilers, which were
greatly overheated The safety valves were imme-
diately opened and an explosion prevented
RETuRNED.-Rev VIM. Jackson, pastor of St
Paurs Church in Norfolk, who has been travelling
In Europe, returned to the scene of his pastoral
labors on Sunday last
SEVERE SToRm.-The upper end of Dinwiddie
county was visited by severe storm on Sunday af
ternoon last, which the Petersburg Express thus
describes:
In the vicinity of Rocky Run Church. where a
very large congregation were in attendance at Re.
ligious worship, the storm ragged with unabated
Jury, for more than an hour. The rains descended
In torrents, and hail stones fell of an enormous
size. utterly annihlating the growing crop of to.
bacco, and literally cutting the corn to pieces
AT the Church, the carriage of Mr.. Edward A.
DAVIS, OF Dlnwiddie was standing, filled with the
at q ohar reDfh1 do Ia
ing alarmed, the driver left his seat and took hold
of the brdle that he might be the better enabled Il,
control them. While 10 this position severe stroke
OF lightning struck the horses, killing them instant
and burning the boy so badly, that the skin peel
ed entirely off his legs and one side of his body but
strange to say, he is now doing well. That he did
not share the fate of the horses is matter of uni
versal surprise. The ladies in the carriage were
much shocked but escaped entirely uninjured, as
did the carriage. Ef
1t is thought that the storm was quite an extensive
one; and that an immense quantity of corn and to-
bacco has been destroyed.
WASHING OuT.-On the evening of the 21st inst,
Fire Company No. 10, OF New Orleans made an at.
tempt to ''wash our the Recorder of the Second
District because in the exercise of his official du-
ties, he had fined the foreman ofthe company for
some misdemeanor. They formed in procession,
and were preparing to march to the Recorders
residence, when the police made sudden attack
on them and arrested twenty.six, who were each
sentenced to pay fine of Sl00, and give bonds in
the sum OF 81 900 to keep fhepeace for six n1onths
failing in which they were all committed to pri.
son for thirty days.
The interesting operation of washing out" az we
Ing the house of any who incurs the dispeasure
of the row dies.
STARVATION IN SOUTH BosToN.-On Wednesday
last police officer was called into house on Sill.
yer street. South Boston, Mass., where he found
five starving and destitute children, who had been
deserted by their inhuman father, Barney Harvey
The mother of the children died last week, and the
miserable wretch thereupon left them to starvr.-
Four of the children were sent to the overseers Of
the poor, but the youngest, helpless Infant, had
become % emaciated, when. found by the officer,
that 1t could not be removed and death Terminated
its suffsrings during the night
CrsA.-The Captain General has recently issued
proclamation to the people Of Cuba, declaring
that the administration Of the government of tho
island would be 10 no wise affected or influenced
by the state of politics In the mother country and
assuring them thatthere would be no alteration IN
the policy OF the Governments, under whatsoever in
cumbent.
DEATH OF AN AcrREss.-Mrs. Sarah Lewis, In
former years well known star In the theatrical
world, having been connected with the stage In the
principal cities North and South, died in San An
Like many others Of her profession fortune did mot