The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-12
RGINIA.


RicHmoFD AND YoaK Rrvrn RAnaoAD The
contract TOR earth work aud masosry on the Rich.
mood and York River Railroad between the White
House and West Point. has bsen ct on reasonable
terms ,si. 70 Robert Harvey, Esq This finishes the
river - Es1:sF<
HEAVY Lofs-By the storm At Abingdon Sunday,
mentioned yesterday, Mr.. William Firlds OF that
place, lost 10000 new made bricks, which were
laid out Ia bis yard o
The FouarH- At Evansville, Preston county
vas ceiebrated by about ], 300 persons MsjGr w.
Zinn delivered su address, 6 sata3 8
AZ pie'pout, Monongalis, Il was celebrated by
| the Sabbath Schools. 7'sf
At UfHngton, In the same county. the Sabbath
Siegfried. Ell s. -
In Washington county 1t was celebrated In North
rork, an address being delivered by Rev. A. g
Garden. BY the Sons of Temperance and Sabbath
schools; aud at Moccssin By the American party.
RKnGszD Rev. John A. Kerr one of the pro-
fes:ors 10 tbs Female College of Petersburg, has
resigned. a.
Another PorsoSrso CASE The Southside De.
mocrat, OF Monday, understsnds that . gentleman
living near Nottoway Court House, nsmed Philip
q. Jones. was poisoned q lev days since, by hem
lock, mxed with his c4ffse He and several mem
bers of his family partook of the Coffee aud we're
ou uihuo etck rOTtunhS6tyy tueY OOCOV6feQ tu0
peculiar taste of the &C fee 10 time to save them
selves. Two negroes, man and woman, have
been arrested and committed to Nottoway jail,
charged With the crime s u .faeHg
MISSIONARY Rev. DR.. Sahon. Missionary Sec.
retary of the N. E church society, Il preaching 10
Lynchburs.
Oue of the Norfolk papers speak.
ing OF the conduct of the lren1eu there ct the
cent destructive fire, who stood by and saw the
property of their fellow citizens destroyed, with
out aiding until much of It was burnt, character.
ICES it as "digni6ed and freemen like" s-
DAMAGE BY FREsHRTs.-The freshet near
WytheviIe last week, washed away the Va AMI
Tennessee Railroad bridge over the Plet Creek
Several land slides resulted from the overt wv Of
the small creams 10 the neighborhood
RAILROAD DIFFrcULTY.-TheP Portsmouth, Couu.
ell has notified the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
Company to bay annual rent of $3.50 for the pro
perty at the end ofN street. which the Company
occupy for their depot and In of refusal tn y
were notiti I'd TO move the depot within 90 days
The Company having declined to pay the rent re-
quired by the Council, the latter have passed
resolution that the Company be notified to remove
the buildings at the depot; but In the mean time
are ready and willing to consider any proposition
which the Committee of the Board fthe President
and Moncure Robinson) may deem proper to sub
init to their confederation.
Quick Trip The steamship Jamestown, on
her last trip from New York to Richmond, arrived
at Norfolk In % hours-one of the quickest trips
on record.
ARRIvED.-The new tow boat w w Townes,
Capt Drew built In Philadelphia, and owned inPe
tersburg, has arrived at Nor folk She is intended
for the James River towing business.
Crops. The Abingdon virgiuian says crops
were never more promising in THAI region than
now. Oats are more promising than they have
been for twenty years; the corn is more promis-
Ing than 1t has been for half q dozen years and
grass will yield from to tons per acre nearly
everywhere.