The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-09-14

~ Ii, 1901.
The FAILURE or REEVES, AHBorr 4 Co.-It \. .,,a
the failure Of Reeves, Abbott 4 Co ana p..,..
Buck Co, extensive manufacturers of iron a.
Ph@nixville and that vicinity, in peunsylvan;a
though involving liabilities to the amount of $soo
o0o is not likely to prove so disastrous a. wa. AT
first supposed. Of the $4,000 named 1900. .0oo !.
represented to be secured by good and sufficient
collateral securities, leaving only half million To
be provided for from the large assets of the firms
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
1t is the expectation that the works will gn on
and that the two thousand persons employed nv
them will be continued in their places As an
evidence of the magnitude of the business of these
we are told that their payments for
a considerable time have been $40 600 per day. and
to show how strenuously they exerted themselves
to meet their engagements, they, week or two
ago. entered the market and raised $4,000 at "a
81 per cent. a month, to meet the demands of
their operatives, who had become somewhat i'm
Fortunate, by srumor put in circulation that the
irIIs were in failing condition. The liabilities
to work Lien are now only for ten or twelve days
labor, whereas the payments usually are thirty
days behind. Within the last year the firms have
paid over $4,000 in interest, and the day before
suspension three per cent. q month was offered,
without being able to procure the requisite
amounts Beyond this offer il was felt to be unjust
to their creditors to 20. 1t was giving the proper
y, justly liable to the claims Of their creditors
the money-leDders. The immediate cause of the
suspension. we believe resulted from non compli-
ance of engagements on the part of the New York
and Erie Railroad Company.
INDICTMENT oP Mas. CONTAMINATION Thursday,
the grand jury of the Court of Sessions of New
York brought in true bill for feloniously pro-
duclng a false heir, against Emma Augusta Cum
nngham, alias Emma Augusta Errdell. There are
ten distinct counts The frat count states who are
the legal heirs of the late Harvey Burdel in ac-
cordance with the recent decision of the Surrogate
ana charges that Mrs. Cunningham fraudulently
and feloniously produced heir, falsely alleging
that she and DIR. Burdell were its parents and
which child was, in truth. born of Elizabeth Ann
Anderson. The court further alleges that If the
cbha iad been born as she pretended, it would
have been entitled TO inherit the estate of Dr. Bur
dell.
The succeeding counts all charge the same of.
ence One refers particularly to the attenpt to in
tercept the inheritance of DR.. Burdels property in
bona street, IN Uerkimer and elsewhere: another
relates the production" Of the child to one John
de la Montagnie and divers other persons as the
lawful child of herself and the late Harvey Burdell
ahother charges the production as a felonious Of
fence against the statute; another char, es an in
tent to defraud the several legal heirs of the Bur
dell estate; still another accuses her of falsely and
felonlously pretending to George W Dilks and 9th
ers That the child was the lawful heir of Dr. Bur-
dell. She is also charged with producing the baby
10 Ann barnes, the ''nurse,' to one Samuel L. Cat
lin and others, all of which is alleged to be against
ths form Of the statute in such case made and pro
yded. -
Soon after the indictment was presented. Mr.
STAFFORD ifer counsel applied to Judge Peabody for
All order to remove the indictment to the Court of
oyer and Terminer. The district attorney con-
senShS' the order was granted. Mrs. &. will pro-
babiy be arraigned on Monday next
After the adjournment of the court Judge Pea
body proceeded To the Tombs with MIR stafford
where Mrs Cunningham, after risning the bail
pond WAS released from custody. She took her
departure III carriage. 1t is rumored that Mrs
phia, MS her counsel
STRANGE CASE OF PoIsoNING.-The Warsaw Or.
H. Telegraph publishes the following:
family residing in South Garden, Mass, were
recently poisoned by eating meat after il had ba.r
stung bya wasp. The particulars are as fnIIows
The lady having boiled piece of corned beef
placed it in the window to cool 1t had been there
but few moments when she observed a wasp had
lit on the meat and was making every exertion IA
escape, but in vain, the meat being so hot a. 10
burn its feet and legs so that it soon died She
thought nothing more of the event, however until
TWO or three days afterwards, when her family
consisting of herself, husband and three dauyh.
terS,) after having breakfasted off the meat were
taken with violent vomiting, the sickness lasting
one hour and half, with the exception of one OF
the young ladies' who partook of the meat spariug
iy, causing a slight nausea The sickness was 20
10.
thinks when the meat burnt him he must have
stun8 1T by way of revenge, and thus impaired sui
iicient poison 10 occasion the sickness.
FATAL RAILROAD CAsuArY-A fatal acciden,
happened yesterday, p. NJ. at Iiohokus, n j.
which shows the necessity of preventing people
from hanging about Railroad platforms. A boy
| named Warren Williams, about ten years old, son
oil II farmer was subject to monthly epileptjc fits
in couss a-nce of fall from horse about one
year ago but like all country boys liked To stand
On the railroad platform to see the come in
As the four O'Clock train from Jersey City reached
the depot he was there, and it is supposed that he
was attacked by this terrible disease, for he fell
from the platform directly in front of the locoIno
tive. He was shockingly mangled one wheel
cutting off foot. another passing ever the thigh
| and q third crushing the abdomen. lie lived some
forty minutes, repeating he gaZed into his faith
er ) iace, Dear father, dear father.--N. J.. Post
BOIL WoRMs.-The Dallas (Ala.( Gazette of the 18th
inst, says: I'VE have been Informed by severa
planters that the boil worms have appeared, alIl
| are worse than they have been since Io4S. These
destructive insects appearing at the close of bae
season, pretty well finish the crop. We belle it
there will be early frost FROM the signs of the
weather; if So the Dallas planters VIII hardly pay
expenses"
The EFFECTS OF WAR-Durng the Mexican war,a
company 60 of los effective shipped from De-
Irot. The company went to Vera Cruz. OF these
five more perishcd afterwards. The small remnant
Of so returned from the campaign, and went into
quarters at Detroit. OF these 10 have since died;
and of the 10 living, not one is capable of doing
hard labor.
RESULT OF THE NATIONAL FAIR.-It is stated that
the total receipts of the national fair lately held
Louisville, wilt exceed 81 900. This sum. 1t is
thought, will be amply sufficient to meet all the
expenses incurred.
ocTat says that the real ASiatic cholera has made
its appearance in the lower sections of Bucks
county. In the vicinity of Falls, Morrisyille and
| Bristol townships, several persons have already
died Of the disease
Tnr BooK TRADE AND THE HARD TIMEs.-At the
trade sales of the publishers i'll New York this
week, the money pressure is felt with fatal effect
priCcf rule lower thsu they hayo reached before
in many years, and the sales promise to be very
| light. ...-
PosToFFJcE AFFuRs.--A new postoffice is estab
| Iishcd Mt Cherry Grove, Rockingham county, Va
md .Tacob A. Mitchell postmaster; directly tht
route fr'm IIarfis"nburg to New Market. The site
of Franklin depot Southampton county, is changed
TO tho railroad station; X. J. Neclv, postmaster
vice tIexandtt W Nnrfieet.
| THE NEW SIoors OF WAR.-Secretary Toucey
! writes to Senator Mallory, of Florida, that th'
! Navy Department has decided TO build the huh q
one of the new slonps of war at the pensacol'
yard.
ANOTHER STAMPEDE OF SLAvEs.--On Sunday wecf
no less than eight slaves, belonging 10 F. NJ Car
! ter, Margaret McCarty, Joseph Isden, DR.. A. Glib
| son, VIM. Dodd and Thes. HOge, made tracks from
| Loudoun county, Va.
To ascertain the weight Of horse--put your to-
| under the animals foot
! To secure room in crowd-carry q paint rot II
| each hand,
| U. ). ship Congress, Conn., Breese. was to leav,
| Smyrna, August IL, for Constantinople. All we'll
| Six ship carpenters were drowned nc Milwaukee
on the 7th inst, by the upsetting of boat.
Rev VIM. Mitchell died in Harrisburg, Pa. OF
Thursday, at the advanced age of so years.
| To-day Is tho anniversary of the capture Of th,
city of Mexico by the U. S. troops.