Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-14

=, the advertisement of the LIST Presbyterian Church
of th city, to be found in our columns this morning,
inviting proposals tor the erection OF 'heir he"
church
opgS TO ABSapoS The mail and Passenger train
If The " ( Tenn Road made its first trip 10 40
nglon Monday. The event was hailed by the cut
zeas Of that towa with demonstrations OF JOY. The
,rnas vii. hereafter 'cgularly to that point
The trae k-ayng beyond Abingdon IS going on with
all practicable dispatch and there exists no doubt
that the work Will be completed TO the Tennessee line
nring the month OF October. The Salt Works Branch
Is also nearly completed, having only about miles
Of track to lay.
r,r, Accrprxr-As the Virginia and Tennessee
trim WAS proceeding West through the county of
Smythe Saturday a Willie after dark, it passed over
The o5as of II named Hiram Roark, mangng It
areadfaily and killing HIM instantly. An inquest was
held SUNDAY morning when it was ascertaincd that
Roark when last seen alive, was drunk to n degree
that rendered him unconscious what he was doing.
G l. Parker, the Engineer of the train, testified as
follows. .. The first saw of any object the track
was when was in about fifty yards of it could
not distinguish what it was and thought that IT was
stick of wood or shoat until the train had passed
over it, But observing the dust to rise between the
locomotive and the tender, returned to what 1t
was aud found that it was the body OF "A man IT /
had seen the full size of a man was close upon
him before observed him that ! could not have
stopped the train in time TO save him. lie appeared
to have been lying across the track us | suppose,
upon his back, with his feet drawn up between two
ties where the ground is dug away, so that most OF
the body would be hid from view. | think the oh
iect saw first was his knees, drawn up and projecting
above the Track. was running ut the rate OF from
fifteen to twenty miles an hour 1t was Impossible to
have stopped the train sooner than it was stopped
Another witness testified that the deceased appeared
to have been dragged under the train some twenty
five yards. His skull crushed and his limbs were
broken. His brains were scattered along the cross
tie The jury rendered "A verdict that they were
satisfied that negligence is imputable to the
engineer. conductor officers of the company.
A sister OF the deceased buried on the day of
the accident
lloN. T. 5. FLouRNoY addressed the citizens OF re-
tersburg Monday night, and Hon JoHN NJ BoTTs those
OF Richmond Saturday night.
\ Mass MEETING OF the friends OF fiImore ana Don
olson will be held in stanton the 29th, ZS'h ana
crs who hnye promised to attend are Hon Henry
Winter Davis, OF Maryland, Hon. lhoS. . flournoy,
lion. John ;. Pendlcton, Hon Jas f. Strother non
John s Garlic, Hon, john NJ. Bolts, and Alexander
RiYeS, Esq. OF this State. Our Valley friends expect
n rousing time.
rneastle, Va. to the Philadelphia Inquirer says;
There many suggestive topics TO one who is
able trace and contrast the stages OF progress in
Virginia for the last ten years In point of agrcnl-
ture and material development, this Commonwealth
is making rapid and general advancement Inc
knoxville, and soon to Memphis, on the Mississippi
has but gaps to he finished and by another year
the line will be complete Passing through such
rich healthy picturesque country, it will probably
be the great artery for the flowing tide of trade and
travel from the States of Tennessee kentucky Geor-
phia, and New York.
STAMPEDE OF NEGRofs-flVe negroes H'ely r"i