The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-01

FIRE IN MADISON, GA-A FIRE occurred at III
Factory, In Madison, Georgia, on Saturday morn.
Ing last, which destroyed eight of the houses oc.
cupied by the operatives before is course wes ar.
rested.
PROFITABLE VoYAaE.-The schoolAr william,
P. Dollver Captain Bailey, arrived at Nantuck ct
Massachusetts, on the 24,h instant, from i've
months whaling cruise, with cargo of oil valued
at s., ,O00-paylng her owners more than 100 per
cent on their Investment,
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT L Rst Weduesdav
evening as train crossing a bridge over
stream, called Middle River near Stafford springs
Ct' me conductor, llr. Smith, was struck on the
head ~ ono OF the t.mbers, and so terribly Injured
that he died in less than two hours.
PAINFUL SUIcIDE-The Providence Journal
leatra that Mrs. Oliver Taft " widow LADY, about
forty years Of age hung herself to tree In woods
near Aar house IN Uxbridge, lass Friday night
She iet two children, age ard years, a girl and
boy No cause il assigned fo. this particular
ly, bu. she had appeared somewhat sad for few
days past Her husband died about two wears
since, and left her in very comfortable circum-
stances.
QUEER PLACE To PLANT OYsTERs A resolution
wsa-passedby both houses of the Connecticut Leg.
isaturo On the 23d instant providing that "Georee
Hoyt and Others of Norwalk, be permitted to en-
ter their petition for law relating to the planting
OF oysters IN the SecretGrys office any rule or law
10 the contrary Notwithstanding"
OPPosING THE PRoH1B1roRY LIQUOR 7, I,Ayv-The
liquor dealers in Chicago have subscribed S5 600
TO test the constui0naity of the law and supnort
journal advocating It's repeal and in Cincinnati
the DAILY Sum- has been engaged to advocate the
removal Of the oppressive restrictions laid on the
liquor trade.
THE MENoMoNEE INDIANs.-By the treaty Of NAV
II, 1854 the MonomOnee Indians have secured n
themselves twelve townships of land in the form of
q paraelogram, on WOlfs river, Wis, Intended as
their permanent home, "to be held as Indian lands
instead of quantity in the Far West as was con.
templated in the treaty of 1848
SUICIDE OF Deceived KANSAS E,r1cRASr -
An old man, deck passenger on the Golden Gate
ju nped overheard from that steamer eight miles
above Washington, Mo- on the 2lst and vDes
| drowned. The cthceTs of the boat did not know
his name, as he merely stated that he was from
Pennsylvania and had been deluded by the Ksneas
Abolition Society 10 60 to Kansas and when he got
there, had been duped out of his money by the head
men OF the Society, and turned out to make IL best
OF his way home.
KANSAS The Leavenwor,b rKansasl UaraI6
denies the report that cholera prevails Ia tb at
ritoTy. At Lawrence two saw mills are In Dro
gress OF erection one of which will be running ia
few days. An exploring party from Lawrence sd
made trip 800 miles west of that place and fCund
a good soil and well umbered streams
PROFITABLE BANKING. -Manchesters depositors
IN Cincinnati, have been paid two and one hall
per cent for every dollar they left with him for
curity. The bank owed $4,000, ard the assigueel
received $500 cut of the assets
Juuelneu' Vi @oUO mas Deen given IN Cincinnati
against the steamer Ohio, for an assault committed
npon passenger by her engineer.
James Thompson, who robbed and murdered
John Lynch, at Fort Smith, Arkansas on the I4lh
ultimo, has been arrested st St, Louis.
Nancy Jackson has been arrested In ST. Louis fot
the robbery and murder of Thomas Collins. one o.
her boarders.
Locusts, in myriads have made their appearance
in 81. Louis county, Mo.
The SDrino6 aid (ObioN PeDrhIic -.
of Theodore Frenghuysen for President Of the
United States In 1856.
There were large sums of money lost In Louis
vile Ky on the election in Virginia
Parodi and Strakosch are giving concerts il
Ceaveland, Ohio.
Over twenty acres of woodland In Woburn Mas,
sachusetts, were burnt over on Saturday.