The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-26
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
saturday N1ernins, January 70, 1885.
yIRuINIA iNTELLIGENcE.

18th
1IoMrcIpE--John Dickinson In an antsy ,,sr.
George Harris, son of the hotel keep .st,, kiIsed
boursysie, Orange county, Friday night ,,sr Is
him with . knife Neither party VS.
years of age
GOING TO EuRopE--The Lynchou pig ,h., Mae
says sha. Mr. Abraham lam ~ 3 Edwards Of Rich
20 =, ~ ssur Cor Europe. They contemplate
q six months tour.
LAM SaLrs rs SroTIsfLfAsiA Ootsi IL,
..,..ess T ~, owned by s. Chancellor, has been
.a,a 10 Mr., Frazer, Of Delaware TOT s5l3o JONI nn
49,, IN The same neighborhood, has sold 1oo
80. N his farm for sl5 per acre. Joseph San
go has sold his property at the Court House to
m = +. Chancellor, for 3.500. A number OF
northern men are purchasing farms in the county
DIFFICULTIES OF TRAvEL-The train which
left Richmond on Saturday morning reached r red
cricksburg about II A. M on Monday was SIX
hours going three quarters of mile through snow
Eve feet deep On Monday the boat on the Pote-
mac came 43 miles ia II hours through ice which
was one foot thick in the .hinnest places.
The carson the Contra. koao, Que IN stannfon
SUNDAY evening arrived there at A. NJ, Monday,
having been between Waynesboro and Staunton
the nisbt ureyious All tho available fences in the
vicinity were purchased for FIRE wood
JAMES BELL. Esq, for many years senior justice
of Augusta county, Va, died on Wednesday night
last.
D1sTREssrNe.--on the eth inst, In "the Cove -
Ii HARDY, tnFee houses were destroyed ny f1re and
three families driven out IN tho intense cold with
hardly their usual clothing on. Linthicum and
Saireman were the names Of the sufferers, who
lost everything, but their wearing apparel
PoIsosISa-Suspicion being aroused as to the
cause ofthe death of Elijah Stonestreet, who died
some weeks since in Hardy county, his corpse was
dsintcrred on the 5th inst, and 1t was discovered
that he was poisoned with strychnine. No person
has yet been arrested for the murder.
vrh~
on the I4th appointed committee of enquiry intn
ths propriety of establishing small pox hospital
on tho Southwestern part of the county. The
step was induced by the fact that citizen who re-
Gently visited Prince Edward county, returned
with the disease on him.
FROZEN TO DEATH.-The south-side Demo
crat states that on Wednesday, negro man was
found frozen to death on the plank road near Pc
tersburg and by him bis faithful dog nearly in the
same condition.
STRONG ARRAY OF TALEsT.-Among the gen.
t!emen who have consented to lecture in Peters
burg during the ensuing season are Right Rev
Bishop Atkinson of the Episcopal Church of n. c.
the Hon. Edward Everett Of Mass; the Hon. j.
Park Benjamin of Louisiana the Rev. DR.. Dog
rett Editor of the Southern Quarterly Review;
ths Rev. James Wilson of Staunton, Va; G. p. r.
James, ESQ., British Consul at Norfolk the Rev
T. G.. Kean of Petersburg, and some others.
THE ALLEGHENY TUsNEL.-From the recent
report of c. b. Flicker, the engineer, we learn
that the whole length of the Allegheny Tunnel is
s675 feet At the Eastern end $50 feet have been
penetrated at the Western end, 1906 feet, leav.
ing ], $50 feet to be completed, which, will be fin.
ished in ten months, if an appropriation is made.
Posi- OFFICE AFFAIRs.-Postmaster General
Campbell orders the following
Re-estab!ishes the post Office at New Kent Court
House, New Kent county, Va. and appoint James
C, Williams postmaster. Appoint w. Montgome
ry, postmaster at Green Spring Run, Hampshire
county, Va, vice John Daley, resigned.
RAILROAD SUBscRIPTIoSs.-Loudon County
(Va) Court has passed an order directing vote al
the May election on subscription of $4,000
$4,000 each-to the Alexandria, Loudoun and
Hampshire, and the Manassas Gap railroads
NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH AFFAIRs-The
cold weather has again closed the Dismal Swamp
Canal Tho Humane Society of Norfolk has been
recognised. John G. Hatton has been elected
President of the Bank Of Virginia in Portsmouth