Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-09-24


las Jaily expected It will, landed be
1T ,broarh to Bristol. We presume other cargoes
m shortly follow. We earnestly hope some ~ miles
hi Road may be in operation On the Eastern end
Sr Christmas, thus reducing Stage travel to KNOX,
vile 10 30 inltes.
a7ar TOPPLES AND THE RENDEZVOUS two most
,ta-tainlug aud amusing pieces viii be produced 1t
i Theatre toni ght-togcther with the pleasing Va
riey Of Singing aud Dancing
sf4rr Paoyrrs ASH Dmecraas.-The tol!oHiag ap-
i3falanfs of suite PROVES and Directors made
= he - ard 81 Pablo Works on SATURDAY last
N4rtalt and Pgersbprg R4iroad Company -Then-
a4 H. Daniel Charles II Shel. aud james 4. Johns
ton. proxies \. I. Leonard, John B. Whitehead,
and George W Camp directors.
Orqa5e and .i}.raniria Raarogd Compang-Nathl
/ WEIGH B. Il Berry. and EppA Hunton proxies !;
Inman Honer, John Willis and H. Shae keltord, di-
Richmond and Daarlle Railroad company-Asa p.
Dickinson, Lewis H. Crenshaw and George Hairston,
proxes: J. b Stoyall b. II. Jones and Lewis T. IIar-
South Side R4il,oaa Co,apaay Thomas Wallace,
Timothy Riyes and I f. Cheattam, proxies; DR. Jos.
r Cox, Vim. &. Birehett a.d Robert j. Davis dree-
Virginia Central Railroa3 Company YIN. L. Cor
don John b. Baldwin and Christopher J, Beirne,
proxies; Nm. oYerton, Samuel Carpenter and Jacob
BAYLOR, directors
Jirgiaia & Tennessee Rairoad Company Benjamin
Wilkes, Gordon {. Kent and DR.. Thomas VI. Tate,
proxies Thomas l.. Preston, Dexter Otey and Nm.
\ Read directors
James Ripcr and hanatrha Company. i. Tall
alerro. Samuel McCorke and John y Clarkson. prox-
les; James Lyons, John NJ. Speed and James g. Pax
tn directors.
MELANCHOLY Esq TWO EplroRs-We panied
70 hear of the sad and unimey end of our esteemed
coneres OF the Petersburg la83encer anl Democrat.
The Express gives the distressing particulars OF their
destruction:
1T is our melancholy duty to announce this morn
iny the sudden and sangunary end of two most es
Unable citizens of Petersburg-onr brother editors
of the L,.e}tyeace and the Sotth-Sde DcHocrdt-
These gentlemen mutually destroyed each other in
political discussion at Phoenix Hall on Saturday even
~ last in the presence OF the largest audiences we
have ever seen asscnhledin that spacious building.
Meeting by previous agreement and in accordance
with notice given in the columns of their own JONI
mails aud those of the Erpress they proceeded, soon
after the company had assembled, to the awful work
Of reciprocal de- rucon, and successfully this
accomplished, that when our reporter left the scene
ri the fatal renconntre, ycstige of either to be
frInd. The fabulous end of the Kilkenny Cats
5Hy too sally realized. Both were eaten up, the one
n t4efil egor and prime the other in the flower of
I1anl5aa. aud disappeared from mortal sight alto
ether. \ rumor indeed circulated shortly al
Ter the raeica finale Of the discusson,and obaineda
partial credence that Il few fragments OF the lament
ed editor of the iafeh9eHcer in an undigesed state
had been discovered under the table upon the plat
form and it was asserted with some boldness and
confidence that portion of the coat tail of his an
t1gonist Mr., Banks picked up by Que of his on
;5 fr;ands y Int we feel bound to state that there
", a,.;d, ,rbot o,or for sncb rnnorts W. have
-. ;,1ortirahle in onr efforts to ascertain the ex
,ri,iJ, yit6 reference to thi, unbappy affair and
w It tbn evacntors Of ,he parties need mt
i,os =, ~, sort Of troube in looking atfes their
-
TAI roay.-We have had left at the Office. by Mr.
p,, Xo4 ,r Dr. r,,i, in mis- county q snerimcn of
& tai'ost corn we have ever seen, it measured II
fi i'm, hes and but for the dryncss of the season
,I,I4 baqa crown nj least ? f.at morei Mr. Ncn~s
1r,pobt IA the otir seemed IN lac tho fullest he could
fnl Rocljoo5o1, Reqjs,sr
=Boto TpIrF-Some thief entered Can't. J y Hills
h4iroan, Harrisonbprr ON Thursday NIGHT last
while that gentleman was nseep and took iron, hi.
mutations pockpt his poeket-book containing S37l
banl, potns beside. cheeks and other valuable ma
6er, 10 the amount of about $500.
dent offbe Baltimore Snq writing from Alexandria
5adpr d,to of FRIDAY afternoon last says:
understand thai for some time nasi ,anfi,I nppre
tensions we're entertained that the mind of Can't Ben
fImin Thomas \ citizen of his place had become
somewhat eufcebled and he WAS held under the pri-
l4arnino he arose from his he'd cut his t6roat in \
I5rrid manner and then leaned into cistern where
Ire wasdiscoyercd dead Captain Thomas was well
known AS soap manufacturers a man of strict prob
i iooa4,t attribnps This rash act TO mental aberra
tial This sad occurrence produces deep sorrow
wherever deceased was known.