The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-27
VIRGINIA.

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excited considerable interest This il suit nstiiu-
led oy Mr. Maxwell for the recovery of shout IL !.
acres of land on part of which the little town
Oh Troy Is situated. The jury were unable to
agree, and the cause 10 to be reheard.
UNION AGRICULTURAL SocrETY-The Peters
onrg Express states that this Society assembled
last wednesday evening for thetransaction of busi.
| ness. About three thousand dollars were subscri
bed to the purchase of an experimental farm
AceuITTAL.-Thomas J. Snavory was arrested
~ rcterfburg day or two ago, on a charge of ha-
ving passed $40 counterfeit North Carolina note
| on a. Feldheimer. The Mayor ordered the dis
| cnaree OF the prisoner, deeming the evidence in.
sufficient
LARGE YIELD OF WooL.-Messrs. ]. s. w. p.
Brady, OF Brooke county, virgina write as follows
| to the Ohio Farmer:
We bought from J. D. Patterson of Chautsuoue
county, n. T., and imported French eve In 1850
her first lamb was buck. After breeding him. we
sold him to Messrs. Sharpneck and Berkley, of
fayette county, Pa, they cut from him at nineteen
months old 81 l2 lbs. OF fine clean, unwashed wool
and just year and two days from the first shearnQ
they took from him 25 4 lbs which last fleece they
sold for $l7, In Philadelphia, making in all Sc 34
m 'os OF wool rom one sheep at l.2 years old. the
weight OF carcass about 300 lbs Can any one in the
United States beat that if there is any one that can
| do it, we should like to hear OF it.
CHARIvARI.-The Norfolk Argus relates the fol-
lowing:
On Monday night at ten o'clock. companv of
young men and boys assembled on the upper part
OF Church street. and being provided with lin pans
nsn horns, jews harps tri angles, cracked fidles
tin keetles, trumpets, conchs rattes drums. flies
and SO forth and on, paraded in the direction oi
Ola FORT Harbour, making the most hideous and
terrific noise with their Instruments of torment
and uttering yells and screams that were heard for
mlies around. Wewere informed that the cause of
all this " noise and confusion was the matrimo-
NAL alliance of some ancient citizen of nearly sixtv
years, with young lady of sixteen or seyenteen-
the third wife ofthe venerable grandfather
SURVEYING. Seib, who Is in command of the
u s. surveying schooner Ware, has finished the
survey Of Norfolk harbor from Craney Island up
The Herald says
We have had the pleasure of examiniagfCaptain
Sel6 work In its unfinished state which we do not
nesl1ate TO pronounce superior to anything OF the
KIND we have ever seen. He has rectifed numer
Gus errors in former charts of tn harbor and from,
MIS- superior scientific skill in his department attes.
TED IN lnnumerable instances during his long con.
1ec,lon win the Coast Survey, there can be no
DOUBT that this chart will be the best ever drawn.
A Boston LADY IN TROUBLE One Miss O'Con
ner, who represented herself as Boston lady, tenn.
porarily sojourning in the Cockade City, has been
committed for trial in Petersburg on charge of
a'stracting $50 note from the pocket of Mr.. John
Tucker.
DIED IN PRIsoN.-Henry Craig, confined in the
penlt entiary at Columbus, Ohio for the murder of
Alexander Garden, of Wheeling, died short time
since OF typhoid fever
LONG TERM George Francis, who killed
Adam knaur, at Wheeling. has been found guilty
OF murder in the aecapd <ba oe;
sonment in the penitentiary being eighteen gears
The Wheeling Intelligencer believes that the gene
raj feeling of the community familiar with the facts
OF the case would have dictated even longer pc
rod for the imprisonment of this guilty person. if
the law pr escribed any longer period
FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE-A fire in Williams
burg, N. Y, destroyed considerable amount of
property. 1t commenced in the store of Mr..
Sharp, on F ish street, and consumed several build
ings. The msst lamentable occurrence connected
with the fire, however, was the loss of life The
remains of two boys, Thomas Cronley, 13 years of
age, and Patrick Rush, 16 years of age, were
found in the Sd story Of one of the buildings. The
parents of Rush resided in the upper part of this
building, and unknown to them the boys went to
bed at an early hour. They were not missed till
after the fire. and on search being instituted their
bodies were finally found in bed perfectly charred
1t is supposed they died from suffocaton before the
flames reached them.
DEATH OF CoLoRED PREAcHER.-The Lexing.
ton (hy) Statesman announces the death of Lon
don Ferrill, coored man, Pastor of the First Ban
fist Church OF colored persons in that place. He
was born in Virginia but after having obtained his
freedom he emigrated to Kentucky, where he built
up of the largest churches In the United States
his communicates numbering, recently, 1,eos.
He baptized, during his ministry, upwards of 5000
persons.
DEATH OF AN EDIToR.--Mr. Joseph H. Mayhall.
proprietor ofthe owensboro', (Ky9 Gazette, was
thrown from buggy a few days ago, and received
Injuries which resulted in death.
FIRE.-A fire broke out in the bark mill Of Hardy
g. o'Hara. atFrankfort, Ky on the 18th instant
and destroyed property to the amount Of 5000.
No insurance.
ARREsT FoR LIBEL.-A. 8. Willineton. proprietor
ofthe Charleston Courier, was arrested IN New
York for libel Saturday at the instance of Ruus
w. Griswold. The alleged libel was contained in
letter written from New York, touching Me-. G's
domestic affairs.
The Baltimore Patriot announces the death Of
Captain William Shredder, prominent cisizenof
that city.
Hon. Abbott Lawrence has arrived st his home
In Boston. in improved health.
Az AsTr-TExAs NEoRo-A negro belonging to
J. N. Bunton, OF Logan County, KY, committed