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

Sun SSux.-The Wytheville tya) Telegraph
says that upwards of loo rattlcsnake5 and cop.
perheads were killed during the season, in the
Rich Valley neighb0rhood in Wythe county, with
in a boundary not exceeding three miles. Several
of the rattesnakes measured upwards of FIVE feet
i'll length.
PREsENTATToY.-The passengers who were on the
steamer Illinois, when she went ashore near Cuba
have presented the commander of the Spanish man.
of war LesO, who rescued them, with silver tea
service. They also gave $500 TO the Spanish men
The tobacco crop in Roanoke Valley, Va, is not
ysry good.
M d. Bates, a native of Louisa connty, Va who
moved to Louisville Ky, when the site of the city
was forest died on the 18th nit, in Missouri.
Dr. John G. Brown, late a delegate 10 the Geuer-
al Assembly of Virginia, from Rockingham county
died at Bridgewatcr last Sunday.
Ex-Governor Ramsey, has been nominated by the
Republicans for Governor OF the state of Aiinneso-
Ia.
II is estimated that there ~iil he 100 niatricu-
lstes at Washington College, Va, the ensuing
sion.
MA Hoxie, prominent merchant Of Columbia,
s. C., died on the 7th inst
A complimentary dinnor viii be given TO Senator
Toonbs and Hon. A. H. etePhehs ~ W WOODSTOCK,
Ga, on the 18Th inst.
Capt Pope's expedition, all well, we're nt Fort
Clark Texas on the jth nit, and expected 10 reach
I
| the Pecos in IL lays.
Eight hundred mechanics have been thrown out
of employment by the closing OF three large man
| ufaoturing establishments at Buffalo.
| The Maine state Fair commences IN Bangor on
the 29,h instant and will hold fonr days list Of
| rremiums is offered on trotting horses, varying
| IRON $50 to 500
earrat King. CHARGED with harboring a runaway
sisye the property of Geo Dencale, in Rockingham
| county, Va has been acquitted
| W " Adams whose jewelry store. in Alexandria,
was robbed in June last has recovered large p0r.
| ton of his goods in Philadelphia.
| Gvvn Page a lawyer of San Francisco. died on
the lat inst at the Greenbrier va White Sulphur
| Springs.
Tco formed 10 the thickness Of window glass, a.
| Goodspceds Landing, near New Haven, Conn, a
| few nights since
Tbos II. Lane has resigned his position Of tran.
| nortation agent on the Wilmington AMI Weldon
\. c., railroad.
kman calling himself Jas. johnson has been ar
| rested in Savannah, Ga, for negro stealing.
Anson Burlingame is engaged stump-speakin;
| down in Maine prior to the state election.
Mr. Fillmore, special correspondent of the Lon
| don Times in this country, has been spending th
| last FIVE or six weeks In New Orleans.
| Two valuable cows belonging to Wm. Grossslose
| Wythe county, Va, were killed by lightning las
week.
| The earnings Of the East Tennessee and Va Rsii
road for the months ending with August weI
| $44.6 G6.
| VIM McMullen has sued Geo. Barrett, barbe
! at Media n. Y, for so damages, for cutting hi
| hair in the ''New York fighting style Verdict 10
| defendant.
Hon. H. VI. Yerger Is the candidate OF the Mis
slssippi Americans for Governor
| A mineral spring, supposed ta contain arsenic
iodine and iron has been discovered between iy nca
| burg and Amherst Court House, Va
Ed. Moore. lats sheriff Of Wetze. eouhty, va
tried In Wheeling for forging land warrant ma
been acquitted :.
Henry Dixos. for shooting Thos. 7. Ms.aaa, ~, =
fine OF $500, and be imprisoned "A hours
The Jonesborough vindicator notices the ...s Wv
that a large number Of yirginians are snigfahh'
10 that section Of Tennessee.