The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-09
VIRGINIA.

sA' passing over this road Al present inatr.,..
sea' prosperity, and the Clsrksville Tobacco
'sn' 'n'nks that In view OF ts present succes. and
tue prospect OF considerable increa.s of u. 49,.
portanon' when steam navigation ON the n.n !.
established, the friends OF the road have yres,
son to be grated. ''..e' go
MAIL TO RoxBoRouaH. The oue.,,on cf 10Th
tioning the Postmaster General for stage mat,
from Clarksville to Roxboroueh. Ia being Dooo,.a
10 the former place.
FmE.-The roof Of the warehouse of Jane.
Gordon & Co., In Norfolk took fire Thursday from
sparks issuing from the chimney The damage
done was slight.
NoRFoLK AND PETERSBURG RAILRoAp.-A COM
mttee. consisting of the President, Directors, and
Chief Engineer, OF this road have, says the Demo
crat just completed inspection OF this road, and
report that the track Is cleared one hundred feet
wide, and being provided with deep bitches On
both sides, will be kept dry and sound. For some
distance the track progresses through the dismal
swamp, and so perfect is the work on this part OF
the line that the committee pronounced 1t the most
substantial portion of the road. As the road is a
most perfectly straight there being one section
In mathematical straight line of fifty y.two miles,
high speed will probably be obtained, and as only
about fourth of the capital has been expended,
while one half of the work has been finished, we
see nothing to retard the early completion Of the
work. -Four hundred men are now engaged on
tue line and this force will soon be augmented
ihe financial affairs OF the company are In fatter
ing condition.
NoMINArIoNs.-Wna T. Lundy was nominated
oy the Democrats of Sussex Wednesday, to repre-
sent that county In the House OF Delegates, and
w. w. Cobb received the nomination for the
State Senate.
STEALING BACON The Inhabitants of Farm
Vile are troubled with set of rogues who have an
irresistible desire for bacon. Their last operation
was breaking open the smoke house of Mr. w. J
Porter, Saturday night, and stealing thirty hama
RAN Orion Friday week, freight train on
the Southside Railroad, ran down an embankmeat.
Luckily, no one was hurt.
MONEY IN NoRyoLK.-In Norfolk on Tuesday
last, ten shares OF Exchange Bank stock were sold
at $l0725 per share; do at $107; 3 shares Arle-
rican Insurance at $102 So and $1,000 worth of
Norfolk city scrip at 800.
APPoINTMENTs.-Mr. Tho's 8. White has been
appointed clerk and ook.keeper of the Alexandria
gas works.
BLUE RIDGE TuNNEL-This work has proeres.
sed through all its difficulties 1850 feet the remain
ing l2oo feet will probably, offer no further difficult
ty than the hardness of the rock; and the progress
at about 10 feet per month will complete 1t short of
l8 months. We understand there is wanted at the
Tunnel from 100 to $50 hands, and the price paid
per day is ST on the flooring and Sl:25 on the head
ing.
BAILED OUT.-David T. Peace, who has been in
jail in Piedmont, for shooting his own father was
ried on Tuesday and the jury not being able to
agree ne was bailed>out to appear next fall.
John Wright was tried at the same court for
stealnG& watch from James E. Murray-convcted
and sentenced to one year In the penitentiary
FIRE ON A BoAr-The steamer Altamont was
partially burned while lying at her wharf, at Wheel.
Ing, on Tuesday last Covered by insurance.
KNOW NOTHING NOMINATION s. Carlisle
was nominated for Congress by convention of
voters Of the 1lth District which met at Parkers-
burg on Monday last. Mr.. H. J. Boseman of Par
kersburg, was nominated by the same party to
represent Wood county In the House of Delegates.
FIRE.-An old untenanted wood house In rear of
ti1C VI .. w 6st lIlDSTtYa
Ohio county, was burned on Monday last.
FA1R.-The Ladies' OF Trinity Church, staunton,
begin fair at Union Hall this evening.
SHOCKING AccIDENT.-Mrs Ann Coleman wife
of Jas. Coleman, residing 10 Mervine street, Pha.
dephia, was burned to death on Wednesday last.
Her husband, who Is dealer in marketing, went
home about O'Clock, but his knock failing to
bring any one to the door, he concluded that his
wife was at her mothers house, a few squares dis.
tant He went thither, and was told that she
must be at home. Returning. he saw through the
window that some combus,ibles lying on the cellar
floor were on FIRE. He then burst the front door
open, and going into the kitchen, found the furni
ture on fire, and his wife at the head of the cellar
stairs most awfully burned from head to foot, and
the fragments of her clothing still burning. She
still alive and her husband In the effort to ex.
tinguish the fire, burned his hands very severely
He then gave the alarru, and some of the police
coming, extinguished the fire. Mrs. Coleman was
dead when her husband returned. She was only
35 years of age, and leaves three children, who
fortunately escaped unhurt
BURNT AT THE SrAKR.-John Kinder, who ern.
igrated from Lawrence county, Indiana to Texas
was burnt at the stake by party Of Indians. Mr..
X. gotinto difficulty with one of the Indians and
shot him down, and then fed to fort for pro,ec.
ton. but the Indians came in such numbers as to
compel the fort to deliver him up to the stake.
OuTRAGE.-A man named John WATERMAN ws.
arrested in New York, Wednesday, while attempt
Ing to commit rape on the person of Mrs. Louisa
Frohome, of 165 Orchard street. He went 10 pay
visit to the house, and Mrs. Frohome's husband
having occasion to go out, Waterman seized her
and attempted to violate her person. Her screams
brought her husband to her assistance, and w.
was arrested.
ARREST OF AN ONO DEFAULTER-John M.
Throck, recently resident Of Holmes county,
Ohio, was arrested in Germany for forgeries com.
mitted In Ohio, and arrived at New York In the
steamship Union "wednesday evening. The for.
geries amount to $4,000. Throck Is an old man ,
&c pears OF age.
BURIED IN WELL.-While a man named Nc
Cormack was digging well Wednesday morning
In Newark, N. j., the earth fell n upon, and buried
him. He was thirty feet below the surface Of the
earth,