The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-03
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DRowNED.-Wm. MuIholland, driver OF a bag.
gage wagon belonging to the McLure House,
was drowned last Wednesday night.
while end eavoring TO reach the steamer Prsirie
City. led, recently from. Ireland was drowned
in the creek nearthe railroad bridge, Wheeling on
Tuesday evening
AccIDKNr.-A lad named Charles Ellington was
thrown from cart, in Petersburg, on Friday, and
seriously, but notdangerously injured.
AecEvTED.-Welearn from the Petersburg Fx.
press that Jas. C. Bruce, of Halifax has accepted
tue Presidency ofthe Union Agricultural Society
OF Virginia and North Carolina"
SUs SrRoKE.--On Wednesday last, Bonita An
dros, native of Manila, was overcome BY heat
while working on board the brig Ciudad at Nor
folk, and died in an hour. The mate of the brig
was also seriously affected, but recovered
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.-Some idea of the
enormous quantity of vegetables and fruit shipped
from Norfolk to Northern ports, may be gathered
from the following statement furnished by the Nor
folk Argus:
On Wednesday the U. S. Mail Steamer James
town, for New York, received on board one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty barrels potatoes
apples and cucumbers; and on Saturday, one thou
sand seven hundred and thirty-four barrels were
shipped by the Roanoke. Yesterday four hundred
and thlrty-one barrels potatoes and apples were
sent by the steamer Virginia to Philadelphia besides
a number of baskets OF tomatoes, &C. About eight
hundred barrels OF potatoes, apples, cucumbers and
cymblins were sent yesterday to Baltimore by the
North Carolina This amount is sent daily, be-
sides number of barrels from Portsmouth.
SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEET1NG-A meeting was
held according TO notice, in Ashland Hall, Norfolk,
n1,,.;,.
adopted, approving Of the course of the Federal
Executive and the Boston authorities in the late
trial of Burns
ORDINATroN.-On Sunday, the 10th oil July,
(says the Jetfersonian) Mr. George b. Taylor a
student of the University of Virginia. is to be or
dained Minister at the Gospel by the Baptist
Church in Charlottesville, after which he is to be-
come the pastor of the Mountain Plain, or Eschol
Baptist Church in Albemare county. He is son
of the Rev. James B. Taylor, of Richmond city.
SAD AFFLIcTIoN.-Some four weeks ago, Mrs.
Vaughan, widow lady, residing in Halifax, lost
her two youngest daughters and ON the Goth of
June, Miss Maria w. Vaughan, another daughter,
was taken from her. Truly, her house is house
of mourning.
TYPHOID FEvER.-The typhoid fever, in its most
Malignant type, has made its appearance in Halifax
within the last three or four weeks In several
cases it has proved fatal The Danville Register
says:
Various neighborhoods have been severely
scourged by its rayages In several instances il has
also proved fatal in this county. So far as we have
been able to learn, in almost every instance it de-
velops itself in the system of the patient after
severe attack of diarrhua, when it is least pre-
pared to withstand the ravages of such malig.
nant and viruent disease.
I.IcENsE-The Justices of Halifax, at the July
term OF the Court, will take into consideration the
propriey of granting license to certain merchants,
to sell liquor by retail. By resolution, adopted al
the May term, no merchant Is allowed to sell it
The Danvie Republican gives the following from
the remarks of the Commonwealth Attorney, in
his recent charge to the grand jury
He had good reason to believe that as much Ii
quor had been sold in the county in a clandestiue
manner since that time as ever had been before in
legal way. He disapproved the course of the
county court, and attributed the anti LIQUOR farai
cism, now abroad in the State, to the failure of
courts and juries to enforce the law as it exists
RAscALLY-We learn from the Guyandotte Her.
aid. that Frank Wood, one of the railroad contrac
of that place, recently drew $500 and sloped
leaving the poor, Woodworking laborers without
their pay.
HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANs.-The following is the
report of the charity hospital New Orleans for the