The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-04
VIRGINIA.

Williamsburg, Va on the 9Th OF September 1926
Although not of very ancient date, we have bet
most foreibly impressed with the changes that have
been wrought in the art Of printing since the issue
of that paper Tnirty years since, newspaper
publshed but twice week, so diminu,ive ir size
that it contained scarcely half the mater OF daily
nowadays. cost the subscriber more than those
which we give them in 1885, but the Typographical
execution of the old paper is it's most remarkable
feature Place by the side of the paper of to-day
ana the oddity OF the comparison would make
s'oie laugh Yet we ind in that little, soiied, and
almost iliegibie sheet, much to interest the reader
u true, the power Of condensation was not 30
great as 1t Ia now, and that perhaps was fortunate
for the sources of news were few and diff cult The
latest advices from Portsmouth, N H. Ohen sea-
port Of considerable importance) were dated Au.
gust ga fortnight old-giyiug an account of a
| sword fish, taken with harpoon off Mount Desert,
and brought 40 by the skipper of fishing schooner
which was ten feet in length, and which On being
cut up nearly hiled two barrels The sword de.
| tached from the fish was about seven feet long.
| The same paper contains what regard a
model marriage announcement and as this Is pecu.
| larly the season Of matrimonial alliances, copy
1t for the benefit OF those who contemplate entering
| the state of double blessedness:
| MARRIED In Waroick County, on Thursday,
| the lst instant, by the Rer. B Bullock, Captain
THOMAS WADE, OF James City County, (the parti-
cutdr friend OF General Lafdyette,) to MISS GIBBS
| OF the county aforesaid.
Come all ye stale Maideps Of state
For soon We must be out of date,
With prudence attend to this plan:
| Never let 1t be said
There goes old Maid
But marry, Rs last as you can"
DEcLINEs-Mr. w. R Weaver will not be can
ddate for reelection to the Legislature from the
counties OF Greenville and Sussex.
A SMALL BUs1NEss.-There were but 76 msr.
riage licenses given out in Petersburg during the
year 1854. Considering the far famed beauty of
the Petersburg ladies, we may safely say that the
matrimonial business has thriven but poorly there
of late
WooD.--The price of pine wood in Norfolk Is
~ per cord. These who afford TO buy but a
small quantity have to pay 81 % for quarter Of a
cord. This is distinction Nth difference.
THE STEAMER AUGUsTA.-The Norfolk Herald
states that Captain Smith having obtained sui,a-
BILE pump for the purpose succeeded in getting the
Augusta aioat, and by keeping the pump constant
y going was enabled to get her safely into port on
Sunday last. She will speedily be In order to re-
sumo her run.
FIRE.-On Tuesday night of last week. dwell.
| ling house owned by Mr.. Fariss, on the Campbell
Court House road, near Lynchburg, was DESTROYED
by fire, together with the kitchen and smoke house.
Fully insured.
KNOW NoTHIHGISM IN VIRGrNIA-For the infor
maticD of persons interested we will state that the
Washington Organ has received a letter from
San," who has recently travelled through several
counties in the valley of Virginia. and has sscer-
tanned that Know Nothingism is progressing with
rapidly which is truly wonderful, insomuch that a
majority OF the voters of Virginia have adopted it
Farther than the information thus impaired, we
know nothing of the matter
HoMrcIDE.-A young man named John Limbrick
was killed In Stafford county last Monday eveniu g
by Harris Hill, who was at the time on his return
home from Fredericksburg, where he had been to
hire out his negroes. The Enquirer stated that
Hill was attacked by party. of which Lmbrick
was one, and who, in the atfray, received some
stabs from dirk and died from tie wounds in a
short time thereafter. Hill is said to be man OF
inofenslve disposition, making it probable that he
| acted in selfedefence. He returned to Falmouth
and surrendered himself into the hands OF the eff
| ces OF the law.