The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-17
VIRGINIA.

tnat town during the past week on their way 70
market. e-- - : I
WHIPPING IN NORTH CARoLrsA.-The Raleigh
star says that Abbott alias Hambin, who Il pow 10
jail In Richmond, charged with theft, was quite
summariy dealt with while the North Carolinisna
had him He plead guilty, and was ordered to the
whipping post Hew then sent to Richmond for
trial on another charge
e.,,Aas, aAsskNesn TRAvRL-The DanviIle Republican
totoogn mat town al $50 per week
Vfs1Tons AT THE WATERING PLACES The Wis.
nofs al ths watering places 10 The mountains are
leaving tor home rapidly. There are now l25 vic
nols a. the Healing Springs 10 Bath The number
AZ tsee Kockoridge Alum Springs 10 25O-sbout bali
the number thai there were 10 August, when the
receipts were 81, 400 per day
ExTRAoRIEARY PHENOMENA The Dsuvile Re-
publican, on good authority, says that there 10 q
woman named Roscoe, living near Anderston's
store in Caswell, c., who 10 1O9 years of age.-
For Inlriy years she was stone blind. and her hair
was perfectly white, but very recently she recov.
cred her sight and her hair became black.
MONSTER MELON. Mr.. John Nicholsop, of the
county OF Meckienburg, has raised watermelon
weighing Sc Id pounds.
DaowsxD.-Mr Joha Fog, living At Painters
Sulphur spriues 10 shsn.ndosh county, was acci-
dentaiy drowned last week. Fr r.
DAMAaEp-A destructive storm took ,,ace
few days since 10 Shenandoah county. Mr. Elias
Hottell lost barn. saw mill, &C., and had his crops
much damaged sssaz = re .-l-..-e- 80 =
LAND SALE IN WEsTRaN vIaerNrA.-The Rock.
ingham Register chronicles the following land
saIes In that county Tuesdsy: The lots of Mrs. E
stevens, near this place, were sold on Tuesday
iast as follows: -Four acres to Franklin Pence 1t
S225 an acre; four acres TO l. Hsrdesty ct S206 25
an acres three and half acres to A. e Ileueberger
az az sloS so an acre. and three and half acres to
the same a. Sl44 5O an acre; Theas lots are very
valuable. They were bought by E.. Stevens de.
ceased, 10 1889. for about 500 an acre. This shows
now greatly real estate In this town and vicioity
aas advanced .[ go - :. : -, -
STAGE UPSET stage from the Blue Sui
pur springs Tor Charleston, Kanswha turned over
last Sunday. All the passengers escaped without
injury save Rev. Jas. R. McF Farland, who received
slight cut on the head.
EMrGRATIoN.-Six or seven families left Aupusta
county. from the neighborhood of New Hope last
week for Illit ois -
-, NEGho KILLED "A negro man belonging to
Mr.. Prltchett near Stoney Point, In Albemarls
county, was killed on Friday last by Mr. Brown,
grand son>ln.law of Mrs Pritchett, He resi,ted
su order given by Mr. Brown
NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH We have the fol-
lowing particulars from the infected cities through
correspondence IN the Petersburg papars:
The Petersburg Express notices tbe sickpe.s of
u Holiday OF Portsmouth, but letter TO that
paper from Suffolk dated Friday, ssys both Messrs
Holt Wilson and Holiday, were seen on the
street that morning attending to the eir duties Win
IL.
wss lying Ill In Baltimore
Among the deaths In Norfolk are Miss A M
Wake and VIM Simington. Gustavus Beale was
dying at the Howard Hospital.
DR. Upshur and Thomas Hardy vera renortsd
worse.
Mrs Bray Walters 10 not dead
Young McEwan, aged Is an apprentice In the
Argus office, had drowned himself while laborinp
under n. of insanity. He had had the fever and
TIE steamer w w Townes OF Peter sburg, makes
trip on the 24th. to carry provisions to Norfolk
The E1press correspondent, speaking of busi.
ness, says:
There Is still another cause for apprehension.
Neariy alI our merchants and retail store keepers
have lett the city and In their absence their notes
and accepsances have been dishonored and protest
ed Inc protests have often amounted to forty
daily. How are these to be metz The banks h ave
been most accommodating and would willinsly re-.
new all accommodation and business paper, when
1t is possible But Ia numerous Instances the
maker or endors8r and in many, both dead
In these cases, payment will have to be enforced,
real estate disposed of at enormous sacrifices and
suffering and disress follow. II will take ten years
for Norfolk to recover this overwhelming blow.
The Southsde Democrat reports Rev Mr. Dew
lln, of Portsmouth, to have been dying on Friday.
Capt Harding has not been sick.
The Democrats correspondent, at Hampton,
ssys:
Owing to the yellow fever at Suffolk, there are
not to be seen In the streets of that place a half
most oil them have gone to York, Penn
There are some sixteen or eighteen persons at
the encampment. They are arriving daily. A great
many are expected to- morrow
1t has been reported that the small pex was ra.
ging along with the fever in Norfolk which think
Is so.
The letters of the Petersburg Intslligsncer con.
tain names OF persons dead which have not been
published, among them are: James 4. johnson a son
OF Eugene Robee, wife of Capt. David IL a,hias Mr
Butt, on Scott st Mrs. Goodridss, aged so
Mum Of savannah and Ws, .rs ,Svst and Dr'
Rev. Lewis Wake Is ill with the fever.
G. Holiday of Portsmouth wss taken down
with the fever Thursday.
The Inteligencer's correspondent saya.
The Lecture Room of Christ Church. on Frssma-
son st. has been converted into asy for the or
has been placed under the charge otLieut smes Z
Henderson of the Navy tof whose service in behalf
Of the .ick toe much sADnot be said) with Mrs
CoVinston from New Orleans as mstfon. There ara
now hirtythree little boys and girls In H. who arr
well cared for The di.posing of them hereafter
will be grave subject for the consd eraon of the
City Fathers on their return.
CRIMINAL-John Todd. a free negro, has been
sentenced to year in the Penite In Wvthe
vile, for stabbiog another negro. John Fosse.t hes
been sentenced to one year in the Penitentisrv no
mecklenburg Circuit Court, for feonious s.abbine
RAILROAD MEETIFGs -Rsilroad meetings have
been held in Floyd and Carroll, for the purpose of
portion of the State lying West of DanviIle, the
benefit OF some work Of internal improvement. which
would bring them into more intimate conrection
with the great system of Public Works now rapidly
advancing to completion in Virginia"
REsIGNED.-Rev. Henry II Paine, for ten Years
pastor OF the Presbyterian Church in Fncastle has
resigned his charge.
OUTsAGE.-fhe Clsrksville Tobacco Plant chroni.
ces the robbery of Chss. Scott, an invalid, by me-
gro desperado. named Henderson Shield Scott wa
badly beaten also.
The NAVAL BOARD REPORT The report of the
Navy Board Is the general theme of conversation
aud causes great excitement. Nothing official Il
known to who the officers set aside. but II is
generally agreed that the three captains dropped,
ara Zsntzinger, Levy aud Ramsey. Among the
lleutenants dropped Is Samuel Chase Barney
Those directly interested have been notified
through the post
Secretary McCslland ha. returned from vlsi;
to Pennsylvania.
ENGLIsH CONSUMPTION OF COTTON otWith
standing the war, the consumption of cotton 10
Great Britain this year. from the lst of January to
the 3lst of August, 10 449060 bales sgains, 269
200 for the same period In 1854 showing the large
increase Of 100. 760 bales The stock In Liverpool
on the 3lst ult was SGT 900 bales which 10 269 32C
less than on the 3lst August 1854. The imports 10
Liverpool for the eight months then ending are
1883 236 bales, being H. 132 bales less than last
year. The prospect OF q considerable reduction 10
the price OF cereals leads to general conviction
10 England that there will be shortly revival In
the home trade. The manufacturing towns o
nd