Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-15

tho monrnfa cry for help was borne to u.s. not
long since, from far off New Orleans, we heard
ii and responded with our thousands; and now
when a dark pail of affection has gathered about
our own Virginia cities, and death and want are
abroad in their midst, there is no necessity for
urging our citizens 10 come to their relief.
New PROPERTY OF THE AILEGHANY WAITER
"A young friend of ours came home from the
Allegheny Springs few days ago suffering con-
siderably from an acute attack of iore. supposed
TO be the effect of drinking the Allegheny water.
together with that of pair of bcight eyes which
shone upon him there. This love'givng quHilty
is a newly developed property of that w"ter' and
ought to add materially to its already extensive
popularity. Wonder il our Alum don'1 possess
it
STRANGE PnENoNENoN. letter from n high
y respectable and intelligent gentleman Of SCOTS
vile, TO Il friend in this city, states that a egh-
borhood, not far from that place, has been thrown
into great excitement aud CONSERVATION by the
following remarkable phenomenon: About II
o'clock every day rocks commence fnltg and
fyine in every direction aroand certain II agro
quarter, and eoAtinne until about O'Clock in the
evening. The negroes huve, in consequence,
had to abandon the houses. y party of gen tie-
men had left Seottsyille to investigate the matter.
A minister who had been present voaches for the
accuracy Of the statement
ATTEMPT TO Kn1.-A correspondent informs
us that negro woman, the property of Mr.. ID. VI.
Hancock Of this county attempted few day ago
to kill his Whole family by putting clipped hair
in stewe,l tomatoes. The family partook of the
tomatoes, but no bad effects yet visible
Strange to say the offender, instead oil being Civ
on over to the law. was taken off and sold
Delegates were appointed. last Monday, by Il
meeting of the American purity of Campbell, to
the approaching Convention to be held in this
city.
DnLiaHrFuI. INvENrloS.--We learn from 1he
Richmond Dispatch that an ingenious German OF
that city has invented bedstcad which, III view
of the musqueios that are TO COME and, the hot
weather that has come, is one OF the most useful
inventions of the year. The frame OF the D"dNtead
contains machinery, at once simple end effective,
which being wound up, will put in operation a
fan or fans, suspended above the sleeper. When
wound up, the machinery will move the Ians from
seven to twelve hours with rapdty, regulated at
pleasure by the occupant of the bed, creating a
brisk and stirring breeze or gentle soothing Yep
hyr. The steads made at from - to SolO.--
The inventor has left for Washington. to procure
Il patent. which will, without doubt, prove prof
table, particularly in the Sosth.
BURIAL BY Moon LIGHT.-Ihe Petersburg
Express tells of the burial, by moonlight. of Il
highly esteemed young man who died recently at
Portsmouth of ~ elbow Fever:
As is the universal custom with all who die of
the Yellow Fever, the intement of fine body took
place in the evening OF the same afternoon that
the death occurred (about oclccE.) and. our
informant states, the most deeply solemn
aud impre ssiye scene he ever Witnessed. The
full -orbed moon shone with unwontrd brilliancy,
and the marble monuments and dreary looking
tomb stones of the cemetery retecting their dark
shadows around the uncovered grave, invested the
scene with almost painful soemn'ty. Added to
this deathly stillnes prevailed, liot Il sound in
truding to disturb the quiet rep',se Of the dead;
and as the minister Of God, in SLOW and mournful
accents, offered Yp fervcnt Invocation to the
Heavenly Father, that he would sanctify the mel
ancholy event To the good of the living, and be
a husband to the discansolate widow in the hour
of deep bereavement, big tears coursed down ma.
ny manly cheek, rs they stood around the
portals of the grave, and the pent-up grief Of
every heart found relief in loud and prolonged
sobs The prayer was finished the last sad
words of the burial service, "Dust to Dust and
ashes 10 ashes" were art cuated, when the grave
was filled. and withouta word being spoke, this
mournful train left the last resting place of the
dead, repaired to tber respective homes with
heavy hearts and deeply impressed, that the sad
dest scene they ever Witnessed, "5urinl by
moonlight.
kILLEp.-We leprn from the Charlottesville
j eilersonian that Richard, S. Philips, Esq, Prin
eipal of the malo Academy of that place. was
killed instantly ON the 9Th inst, by the acciden
tai discharge of gun in his own hand.
UNBumEp DEAp.-The Norfolk Beacon of
Friday says that the day before coffin,
containing dead body, was found on the Lam
bert's Point road 1t had been taken out early in
the morning, where it lay in the sun for some
time BY the exerions of young gentleman of
that city it taken up and buried.
CORPS OF INsPECTIoN.--Th South Side Demo-
GRAFT says the gentlemen who started few days
ago inspection tour up the South Side
aud Tennessee Railroads, are for the most par
at home again They express themselves highly
delighted with the trip, and with the courtesy Of
the people.
APPOINTMENT Directors Of the Central
Railroad met at Charlottesville on the Sd inst,
and appointed Mr.. Thomas Moody to fill the va
| oaney. as conductor on the Road between Staun-
ton and Richmond occasioned dy the death of
his brother, VIM. a. Moody.
Since the appearance of yellow fever in Ports
mouth, the Council of that town have expended