The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-07
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WIScHEsrER PRRsBYrKRY. Winch ester
.. ve'Iytery met In Washington. Rsppahsnnock.
-, iast month, aud ordained Rev. Mr.. Withorse
9 = pastor of the Church In that place. Rev. DR..
AAif'son, OF Alex andria, preached.
-. STAGE QUARANrrNED.-At Elizabeth City, N c.,
~ nave declared quarantine against Norfolk and
t.noutn, for every sort Of conveyance coming
.noee places. Last week stage load OF healthy
u.norines OF Elizabeth city, and compelled to re-
~ 10 NORFOLK mo remonstraDce having any effect
ou tne lever frightened authorities
ANoTHER FLcop AT HAnRrsoNBuRo The Rock
lngnam Register records another destructive food
narrisonburg, on Thu stay evening last Black
.a.s, 10 consequences OF heavy rains, overfowed,
soy so,aou,ly damaging efarm OF Mrs. Reherd and
several farms near Cupps mill This time the
'o~n OF iHarrisouburg escaped serious damage
sAD CAsE.-A correspondent of the Petersburg
pnApress, gives q melancholy case of fatality In
,. mouth, since the beginning of yellow fever
Inere. The family of Mr. Alexander Goodwin,
nicn consisted of himself his wife, his daughter,
NJ NJ Hienn and her husband. his son + frederick,
Ion.. Drewrey. his sister and her son, and Mrs.
~. = cousin. have all sickened and died save
a., uoo~in, who was dying on Saturday.
saoLksT Dem oNsrRArro N.--The Petersburg Ex.
n learns that North Carolina people living cons
saoua 70 the Seaboard Railroad, are very much
- and have threatened to tear the road up,
~ az 70 cut of connection with the infected dis.
'licts OF Norfolk and Portsmouth.
LARGE CARGo.-The new fast sailing schooner
Surprise, Captain w ]. Cole, arrived al City Point
IIon New York on Saturday, and brought to sundry
merchants Of Petersburg the following list Of
L; scles; 1919 boxes of assorted merchandise, 1896
osss OF Coffee l35 kegs and half barrels $40 bar.
.e 81 tierces, 81 hhds, 90 bales. iron chests, 80
oendes of chairs, 131 trunks, 25 crates % baskets
OF wine l726 assorted packages 1l3s bars of iron,
Log bundles of iron. a.a-
This 10 the largest cargo ever brought to Peters
ourg at one time BY one of the New York packets;
RAILROAD AcoIDENr.-Lsst week, as cart and
two horses belonging to William Simpson, ESQ
wss crossing the City Point railroad track, the
driver did not hear. the train coming, and neither
did the engineer blow his whistle Just az the
horses got on the track the locomotive came up and
struck oRe Of them, aud pitched the concern COM
pleteiy round. Only one horse was killed, but the
other lad very narrow escape, and q minute
later mlshthsve smashed the whole affair to atoms
LIST OF THE DEAD Since the arst report pub
lished CT the names of the dead in Portsmouth the
following persons have died Of yellow fever Ro-
bert Webb, of Petersburg; Elizabeth Glenn,
daughter oi Alexander Goodwin; Mrs Caleb Cush
Ing, Soloraon Bricquet, McEsddin. Mrs Con-
ner, - Lyons, Mark Wall, John Flood, Mrs
Arnelia ,1es, Cat Alexander Godwin's) Patrick
Cooke al wife, Mrs holland, mother of Ellen,
who lived with Mrs Pegram Michael Dsrnigan,
John Tierny. boy who lived with DIR Williamson,
Zosr Grant Virginia King John Herald Patrick
o'Conuer Patrick Flaherty and wife, Brien Fla
herty, Hugh O'Rourke, Patrick Leyle, Mrs
O'Shaugh 1essy, George Marshall Gunner U s Ma
W, Joshua A Grimes, (poice officer.) C Bowling,
Mr. C FL Bemitsh, a druggist Mrs l. Cooke, wife
of the former postmaster of the town. Master John
PendetOn and Mr. Alexander Goodwin, making q
total of 46 from fever.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS authorities of
Weldon, N. c., have established quarantine against
Norfolk and Portsmouth, at 0Grysville, N. c., for
all passengers coming up by the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad from Portsmouth.
The Seaboard and Roan6ke Railroad down ira In
will connect with steamer at Suffolk, in Nanse-
mond county, where passengers will proceed down
the Nsnsemond river to Chesapeake Bay, aud there
connect with the Baltimore bay line of steamers.
Passengers from Baltimore will also connect with
steamer near Old Point, and proceed to Suffolk,
where they will take the cars tor Weldon. Suffolk
Ia some II or 1s miles distant from Portsmouth.