The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-25
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VIRGINIA..
ssornsa vxaDicr.-Thc jury Of the Circuit
CONT AZ Wheeling In the action for damages Of
Folly, Wood 4 Co., ". Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company. have returned . verdict Of damages
Ia the sum of els.Sss76. with interest on $l5,' |
i6l, 81 from December 4, 1852, until paid
tiAsx.-The Hardy County whig states that the
Dear and deer are abundant there, and all other |
kinds of virgizia game. few days ago. 'ou' gem
iaeuaeu bagged in few hours In some he'os cohu
guous to Moorefeld. where game h regarded a.
sGarce, % patridges, woodcock, adacks ana rao
bite.
IxpzprSpxsr RxiksoAr Legislature OF
Virginia granted charter for this railroad in 1858
Tbs road commences In WILLIAMSON, opposite
Marietta. and taps the Northw Virginia Rail
road In Richie county. thirty-nine miles from Par
ksrsburs, and Is itself twenty eight miles long.
portion of the work is to be put under contract AZ
an early day, ss the charter requiresitto be CON-
menced before the 2lst of March next. bridge
will have to be constructed across the Ohio, which,
1t Ia estimated, viii cost $4,000. .sr 4
CosrERxxcr.-Tbe annual conference of the NJ
T. Church, South, will assemble 10 Norfolk On
Wednesday next The sessions will be held In the
lecture room of the CRANKY street church. busl
ness of considerable importance will come up for
consideration, and large attendance Is expec'eo
FaEpEnYcKspuRa HoTELs-The Virginia Herald
announces that the u S. Hotel in Fredericksburg
,vAs foaIy sold on Saturday last, TO joint stock
company, for $4,000 It Is rumored that Mr. VIM.
y, -. .s,o lppSp the FarmpYf Hotel IN
the same town.
RxrrRxEp-Mr. Hall of Fredericksburg, who
has been in California for three years, returned last
week He was passenger ON board the iiEfated
steamer Yankee Blade when she was wrecked, and
lost nearly his entire gains
IRON AND CupPER-Two freight cars loaded
with iron from Floyd county, where the ore was
dug and smelted, reached Petersburg day or two
Ar. Those who are concerned 10 the prosperity
of the Virginia and Tennessee and the Southside
Railroads anticipated great business in the trans
portation of copper from the mineral regions The
estimate is 1000 tons for the current year.
HoGs.-A drove of Hogs from Rockingham de.
stined for Buckingham County, arrived In Omar
lottesville last Wednesday evening. The asking
price was Sc CD per 100 lbs while Sc 90 was all
that buyers offer.
Gen. MiIlson addressed the people OF Portsmouth
on political matters on Tuesday evening last.
Rev. G. w. Carter, of the Petersburg Female
College addressed the Library Association In that
city last night.
Observation-Disclosures free negro, has been
convicted in Frederick county of an assault on
Matthias Rut,er, and s6nteaced to the peniten,iary
for eight years.
SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1872 The soldiers OF
the war oflsl2, residing in Appomattox CO., have
called meeting to be held at Dec. court to appoint
delegates to the Convention in Washington city,
on the 9Th day of January next, for the purpose oil
pet,tioning Congress to allow all who were Ell
gagged In that war 100 acres of the public lands.
SALE OF Corros F AcToRY-The cotton factory
in the N. w. suburb of Norfolk was sold on Wed
nesday for the sum of four thousand dollars
Purchased by Messrs. A. B. MCLEAN, G. F An
derson, w. B. Sorey and J. G. Pollard.
STOCKHOLDERS MEErING.-The stockholders o
the Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road Company
he'd meeting in the latter place on Wednesday
last, and passed resolution to procure subscrip
tons for the purpose of extending the road iron
Boydton to the Roanoke river opposite Clarksville
Col. William Baskerville, jr., was elected Presiden
of the company and w. w. Talley aud DR.. Wm
H. Jones were appointed Directors. The salary
the President was increased TO 500.
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