The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-19
Lead GRE has been discovered in Scott co.. Va

Lead Gre has been discovered in Scott co.. Va.
Thomas W. Cowne, old citizen of lower
| Fauquier, Va, died last week
The court of Scott county, Va, has refused to
| grant licenses for the sale of liquor,
There were 430 deaths in New York last week
| -66 Of consumption, and Al of scarlet fever
Passed Assistant Surgeon Horrer, U. s. N, has
resigned
Judge W. w. Dummond, late U s. Judge for
Utah territory, is in Washington.
Walter N. Halkermsn has been appointed Sur
veyor of Louisville, vice VIM English, removed
Edward S. Hough has been re. e.appointed collect
or of Alexandria, Va.
Senator Wilson is In Washington, en- route for
Kansas.
A drover named Patters on had his pocket pick
near Albany last Monday of 50 GOO.
Fifty two negroes were sold in Newberry, 8. G. .
on the 221 ult. at an average of $780,
There were 1913 deaths in New Orleans for the
week ending the 10Th inst.
James Elder, is the Independent" candidate for
Mayor of Memphis, Tenn.
DR. G.. Parmenter bas been appointed inspector
of drugs at Boston, vice Dr. Smith resigned.
Fifteen bales of hemp, the first shipment of this
article from Kansas territory, reached ST. Louis on
the 18th inst.
On the 1st of April wheat was selling at San
Francisco at five cents pound, which is eouiya
lent TO 50 busheL
William E. Burton has sold his new theatre. in
Broadway, New York, to Mr.. Marshall, heretofore
the proprietor of the Broadway theatre
Evans H. Martin was killed at Buffalo Greek.
Marion county. Va, on the 18th, by the accidental
discharge of his gun.
The Stuyvesant pear tree, in the city of New
York, which is 200 years old, ia now white with
bloom.
The furniture of the National Hotel, Washing.
ton city, valued at 800 000 is advertised to be
sold at auction on the 25th inst.
The attorney general of Indiana has given bis
opinion that Senators Bright and Fitch were duly
and consttutionally elected by the Indiana legis.
lature.
The sum ofs2 600 has been subscribed in South
Carolina during the past few weeks, to send emil
grants to Kansas.
J Jenkins of South Carolina, and John Robert.
son, of Hartford, CT, returned Nicaraguans, died
In the hospital at New Orleans, last week.
] Barton Breckenridge, one of the editors of the
New Orleans Courier Is slowly recovering from
the injuries received in his duel with Mr. Nixon of
the Crescent
The Georgian says that three gentlemen In Sa
vannah won % 800 In bets, by the acquittal of
Mrs Cunningham in the New York murder case
The Common Council of Boston have appropria
ted So 900 for music upon the Common, semi.
weekly, during the coming warm season.
u. s. Senator Adams of Mississippi died of the
sma pox contracted while travelling in the cars
at the South.
Rev Walter Powell late of Princeton Seminary
has accepted q unanimous call from the First
Presbyterian Church of Lancaster, Pa.
MIR F Peel, the British Secretary Of War, has
resieped and will probably be succeeded by Mr.
Massey. a new member of Parliament from the
borough of Stafford.
The Morgantown, Va, Star, Of last Thursday,
states that there bad been frost in that vicinity
every morning during the week.
The wife of Col Charles Thomas Adj General
u A., died at Jordon's Springs, Va, on Friday
last, whittier she had gone In i'll health.
Over two millions of trees were planted last
year in ireland, which were registered with the
magistrate.
About twelve thousand negroes left the United
States for Africa during the last year. More than
half of them were emsncipated for the purpose.
Glengary, Berkeley county, Va. VIM. Stanley,
postmaster; and Green Spring Run, Hampshire
county, Va, Thomas E. Day, postmaster, are new
offices established.
Surgeon George B. Mcknight, of the United
States navy, died in Washington on the 18th, 10
the sixty. fifth year Of bis age,