The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-24
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Wednesday Morning, December "a, 1SH6
Norfolk.

The DAILY DISPATCH
Wednesday MorninR, December "a. 1886
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The Philadelphia American has the foowin,
notice of project which, If true. must he nrodpc
tive of important benefits to our sister CITY;
SINGULAR PRoJEcT.-We have heard. we know
not how truly. thateome of our northern capitslis
have organised project for the NJ IN,
city of Norfolk, Va, which is of a comnreban,;v,
aud enterprising character 1t Is proposed 10 mak,
norfolk the great city of the southern seaboard
tue centre OF its trade and the metropoan nont fo
whatever of commercial activity the Son,h m :,
contain. The numerous conventions bald os /. ),
years at the South for the purpose of gtjmnI,,irr
the growth of southern trade and the eenera
commendat:on of all movements looking 10 tha
END, which has been uttered by southern nerrsna
pers, legislatures etc, has doubtless d;-ectad .h'
entefpTise and capital of the great and populou,
North TO this matter as likely to prove a cbanc.
Tor profitable investment. Every ayenue of hrei
ness ana speculation in the free States is now az
filled, that the restless spirit of adventure cenrot
find development at home. Hence. we shorId no,
wonder if this project were to prove substantial
one. That it is feasible 20 one can douht who re.
CARDS the splendid commercial location of Norfolk
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RAILROAD ACCIDENT. - FIFTEEN PERSONS
HURT--We learn from the South Carolinian. Of
the 2Ist instant Sunday that on Saturday. 20tb
the Union and Spartarburg train, few miles
above Ashford's Ferry, met with serious accident
A car which was out of order in It's running gear
was the cause. The passenger car was thrown
from the track down embankment some fiftv
feet, rolling over three times and becoming a to
TAI wreck. Of fifteen or eighteen passep GERS
most of them were more or less hurt, Mr.. Price.
OF North Carolina, is considered dangerously in.
jured.
DR.. Wright ard Mr.. John Henderson are in.
Jured, but not seriously. Miss Sims and brother
were both severely cut
A Eurse Of Mrs. f. Elmore of Montgomery had
her mistress baby in her lap and when she found
the car falling over she clasped the child TO her
bosom and cried out IL will live or die with YOU,
my baby"-and faithfully protected her charge
another child Of Mrs E. was saved by the kind aid
OF gentleman whose name is unknown
Every attention was given to the passengers and
those who could not continue to Aston, were left
in the care of some of the workmen on the road
until they could be removed
THAcKERAY ON AMERIcANs.-A letter from
Paris, says:
''Mr. Thackeray, who was here lately, but who
is now delivering lectures in Edinburg, has con-
tract from publishing house in London, for the
writing of volume of certain length. at &6 600.
Mr ThackeTay was calculating lately how much
this would come to per line and estimated it at 3
shilhngs, (Englisb.) And yet he was SO lazy that
he had held the contract several months without
writing line. 1t is a romance, and as he intends
to kill off his hero in America, you may expect a
certain amount of criticism on American manners
and customs
THE COMMERCE OF MILWAUKEE, VISA
correspondent of ahe New York Post, writing from
Milwaukee. says:
The commerce of our port for the past year has
amounted to S00,000,00O. The bay of Milwaukee
offers the best advantages for the construction of
harbor Of refuge of any point on Lake Michigan
Our city has expended over 100000 in the con
structon of harbor; this needs extension and
completion. The Board of Trade have petitioned
for So, 600 to complete it
THE NEXT FEDERAL APPoRTIoNMENT-T
the popular vote in the northwest, and estima-
ting the increase for the next four years. the Bos,
ton Atlas estimates that Wisconsin, Iowa Michis
gan, Indiana and Illinois will be entitled to 55
representatives in Congress, in place of the 90
which they now send TO the House. The present
House contains 30 members from the slave States,
and l46 from the free States. Under the next ap.
portonment, the free States will have about two
to one.
SUPPOSED KIDNAPPING The abotionists of
n. Y, have been on wild goose
chase ever since the 18th of November after a
negro, named CRANKY, who was supposed to have
been kidnapped from that city some two years ago,
AID passed to servitude in Louisiana. Commis.
sioner was dispatched by Governor Clarke to hunt
him up, who, after fruitless search in which he
was aided by sundry Louisiana officials as led to
the conclusion that he had either been misinformed
or imposed upon The Mayor of New Orleans and
other prominent gentlemen, including the Judge
and Deputy Sheriff, are acknowledged to have
rendered the Commissioner every assistance, but
TO no purpose.
GIGANTIC SCHEME-A scheme is under the
consideration of the Metropolitan Board Of Works
for. carrying the main drainage of London 10 the
German ocean Sir S. M. Peto has offered to ex-
ecute the plan for fixed sum, and if the commits
soners will pay four per cent on it, and let him
have the manure from the sewerage, he will guar
antee the carrying out OF the scheme. The puri-
hcation of the Thames will then have been &C
complished.
A DlsCOyERY.-A party hunting in Angelina
county, Texas, found in cave two human bodies
entirely petrfed, dressed in style neither Indian
nor European. The features and dress were ad~
mirably preserved garment which must have
resembled hunting shirt, seemed to have been
worn by each,and partly preserved by petrefac-
cation, was distinctly visible especially at its
seams and folds. On the waist of one was a
buckle or pure gold, almost three inches in dame
ter, securely imbedded in the body. The features
were not much shrunken, the ewes were partly
closed, and even traces Of the eyebrows could be
seen plainly.-N. o. Bee
IN ORDERS On Sunday, the I4th instant.s IIor.
ace Mann, formerly member of Congress- from
Massachusetts, and now president of Antioch
College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, preached at the
Unitarian church n Cincinnati TO very full con.
gregation.
ANOTHER RREC0MMENDATl0N.-Th Electoral
College of Alabama on the occasion of casting
tt cir vote for Buchanan and Breckenridge, unan-
imously recommended the Hon. VIM. L. Yancy
for position in the Cabinet.
RAILROAD COLLISION.--A collision took place
on the railroad between Havana and Union Oh
Friday, the l4th inst, in consequence of the pre-
valence of dense bog, by which young man
named Shipley, from Philadelphia, was instantly
killed.
THE SHORTEST DAY-Suuday. at TO- A NJ,
the attained the longitude of 270 degrees and,
of course, It's greatest Southern declination The
interval, therefore, between the rising and setting
of the sun on Sunday, was tie shortest in 1856,
throughout the northern hemisphere.
TAxEs OF MONTGOMERY CoUNTY.-The taxes
paid into the State Treasury by Montgomery CO,
Va, this year, will amount to the sum of SIT 500.
This is an increase of over y times as much paid
hv the same county in 1912 Under the present