The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-11
vIRa1NIA.

Hon. A. H. II. sruAxr eddres.ed n. r.or,. =.
stsunton on Saturday,
LAnoE snAxr.-A black snake was killed in
rsnerse' Augusta, on the 4sh Lost, BY Mr.. g. Life.
Measuring oieet fuches In length, and inches In
circumference.
FLouR-Flour III selling in ssaunton at from 40
70 sl2 per bsrrs. and buckwheat -four ss s5ss5 la
PAGE CouSrr.-Colonel Mann spier and John
McPherson, are the Democratic ca nd idates for III.
House of Delsgs tes from Page county.
The Caor rs RocKrNGHAm-The Rocklpeham
Register says that the prospect of a good crop of
wheat there Is not near so fattering as It was few
weeks ago. The recent rsins have improved the
appearance OF tb meadows and pasture fields
DKAD.-Mr. Thomas Lutz. an old citizen NJ
Shenandoah, died On the Goth inst.
ALUM WArER--A spring of the strongest alum
water in Virgnis has been discovered on the land
OF David Hanna, In Greenbrier.
SuRPsIsED.-The Greenbrier Era saws that the
Inhabitants of Lewisburs were rather taken BY
surprise at the eclipse of the moon, and MANY
were at loss to conjecture the cause of the dark
ened appe france of the bright orb.
SsPlsiu AUS was 70 address the
American nrty in Norfolk last night.
isDieNA1IoN MERT1Na.-A large meeting of
'he cHizens of Grsenbrisr and Monroe counties,
was neid at alestine church, on the 9th nit. to
take Steps In relation to James Graham who having
oeen acquitted of the murder of his slater. had
oeen burning the fences Of, and threa,enipp those
"Ao' 'es'ned against him ON the trial. genera,
eon'enuon &C. consider the matter was called to
meet on the otth of June. Resolutions were adopt.
ca urging upon citizens to have nothing to do with
James Graham or his fathers family.
SALE OF A TAvERN.-The Bell Tavern was sold
at Union, Monroe, last week. to Mr. James Stewart,
OF Baltimore, for So, 500.
CHANGE OF LocAr1oN.-The spacious hal, o
the Literary So cety in Portsmouth, to be used for
the meetings of the council and courts of the
mayor.
SALE OF srocK.-In Norfolk on Tuesday. Amer.
lean Insurance was sold at Sl0l, and city scrip at
Ses.
sAILRD.-The Revenue Cutter Joseph Lane, sail
ed from Norfolk, Tuesday. The following 10 lie,
of her officers:
Captain, q. B. Nones Cd Lieut.. and Extve off.
GER d e. Hunter; Sd do H. Key; do do John Ma
-
geon, De B. Kuhn; Boatswain, James Murphy;
Gunner, Peter Peterson; Carpenter, VIM. AsrriL.
VIRaINIAN IN KANsAs-Mr. H. Rives Pollard,
aVirginian, lie. the. editor of the Kansas Herald,
published at Fort Leavenworth.
DEMocRAr.-Mr. Darcy Paul, elected to the
Council In Petersburg, was Democrat, and not an
American. His vote was CTS.
GUN HousE.-Afine gun house, for the Artillery,
OF Petersburg, Is being erected on Tabb street
In NOPERAT1oN.-The new steam four mill of s.
B. Paul & Co., In Petersburg, has gone into opera
ton.
BuRGLARY.-The store of Mr.. Thomas Murray
In Fredericksburg, was broken into Monday night
and aquantity of of jewery, including twenty or
thirty gold watches stolen: The value of the arti-
cles stolen was So 900. An attempt was made the
same night to break into the store of Mr.. VIM. II.
White. negro boy, belonging to Mr.. Cash was
arrested for the burglary upon Mr. Murray's store
WHEAT Crop IN SPorrsYLvANIA.-The Editor
of the Fredericksburg Herald says that farmer
at Spottsylvanla G. H, on Monday informed him
that he had abandoned one field of wheat altogeth-
er; and another remarked that the ravsges of the
bug seemed confined to one corner of field, which
he meant to plough up at once, and thus prevent
their spread.
PAsTonAL CALL.-Ths Presbyteri an Congrega-
tion of Fredericksburg, without pastor for year
have called Rev. Thomas G. Peck, Of Staten 10.
land, New York.
LEcTuRE.-Rev. Thomas v. Moore, of ofRichmond,
lectured at Citizens Hall, Fredericksburg, ON
Tuesday night upon the Geology of words" The
Herald speaks of 1t a. the most pleasing it ever
heard.