The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-14
VIR GINA.

| LIQUOR LIcENsE.-The court of Raleigh county
va nae refused to grant licenses for the sale of i,
dSor. In Greenbrier county, the court has granted
| licenses to Lewisburg, Frankford, Blue SULPHUR
aud White Sulphur Springs.
VIRGINIA RUNAWAY IN CANApA-Tbe por,s.
| NOUN transcript says that a letter has hesn 70
| III tnat place. from runaway slave In
Hsaaoa' VINO, hnding bis delusion, now writes n
"''o"her' expressing many regrets for the course
"s "spursued, and asks permission to return 70 r il
Old and better home.
NHiS'-ihe rain fell copiously In Greepbrier
| la'' week, aud the weather turned colder. which
"as rather unfavorable for crops.
Town iAusTEKs-JohnA. North, Samuel Price
samuel Ghkerson, James Wiss, John L;pns VIM
~'h ana j. H. Nesn,ih, have been elected trpstaes
oI Tue town OF Lewisburg, Greenbrier.
EAfhhihENTING.-Speci of King Philljn md
Lee oorn have been received In Floyd county fror,
the Agricultural Bureau, in Washington. for ex.
perimenta ant ng.
RAILRoAD CARs.-Several passenger cars have
just been finished in the Piedmont Works. at
Lynchburg, for ,thes Richmond and DanvilIe, and
Southside Railroads.
The TELEGRAPH WEsT.-The Lyrchburg Viz
sinian learns that, the project of extending the
Lynchburg and Abingdon line has been very favo.
rably received in towns beyond the. place. Bristol
subscribed $500.
SENT OvER,-Hamilton alias Young, sentenced
TO the peni;entiary from Petersburg, was sent ever
Tuesday.
OFFICERS ELEcTED.-George NJ West, of Pc
tersburg, has been elected Treasurer and Secre.
tary of the Aqueduct Company there, and Capt.
Joseph V. Scott has been elected Secretary of the
Union Agricultural Society.
LADY LEcrURER.-Mrs Eliza A. Thomson. of
Ohio, Is to deliver lecture 10 Petersburg on Tenn.
perance.
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-A writer In one of the
Portsmouth papers tells the following romantic oc-
cnrrence, alleged to have taken place there:
singular and rcmautic .ffiir In real life has re-
Gently come to our knowledge Some tventy.six
years ago. Ia this State, there lived hsppy married
couple. They entered upon life with prospects as
bright as the unceudsd sun. They lived in effiuence
ana prosperity; hut two short years rolled around
and he who had plighted his faith 20 love and pro-
tect the sne he hsd loved in youth, by course of
dissP .ion led to the infatuations OF the sam-
lag table. He soon squandered ali bis worldly goods
and wa, reduced to penury snd want. Reflection Of
his former prosperity and new reversss drove him
an exile from bis home, a wanderer in foreign
land and he left the former partner Of his joys to
the world. He roamed stranger in every iand--in
every quarter of the globe his prosperity and ad
versty were varied his abode His wife thus
left destitute, with two young infants with a wo-
man's true and faithful nature, and with that love
that only mother knows, struggled aud toiled
under Disadvantages which only those who, under
similar crcumstances can devise divine; and by
her untifing energy to hsr needle, and with the
sfictest frugsty and Industry, succeeded In making
| ssufhciency to support and educate her destitute
children
Years rolled on. The wife had given up all hope
OF the safety return OF her dear and only tie
She absndoIs the thought of seeing him again
friends weep and mourn with her, and offer the
sympa: hies of true affection Year altar wear pass
3D. and still hope of bis return She has accumu
lated competency, and by the persuasion of friends
8 privilege and duty due TO herself, she ap-
plies to court of justice and is diyorced-lef
free to marry er act as she may think proper.
Her children have grown to maturity, one
chooses the profession of medicine and graduates
with honor afters few years devotion without sue
in his profession, he gave it up and sought SINE
other employ He married with happy pros
pect, and is now employed in of the cities OF
Virginia clerk, and ia receiving the highest
wages in his branch of busipsSs Twsptythree years
have passed away amid ten thousand vcisetudss
and the roaming husband and fstber returns give
peace; happiness snd abundance to his family He
has returnad with riches, and seeks the wife and To-
we'd one OF his early DAYS