The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-12-01
LOCAL EATrERs.

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LOCAL MATTERS.
SHOOTING CAsE.-John Hunt, charged
with unlawfully shooting William FIckeustein ON
| the 18th of November, was arragned before tbe
Mayor yesterday, for examination, and q large
nnlbef OF witnesses were sworn and testified in
e cause. Not having the necessary space for
,o.sning ,n!g tne evideace at length, we append its
substance as briefly as possible:
hunt, it seems, had been in the employ Of Flick
ehsteln Johan, as an agent to sell toy balloons
ana anu hao been discharged. Feeling aggrieyed with
fhc kensteii, he mad called him hard names behind
ms back, aud eEen talked Of shooting him; but on
being confronted by r., he denied having said any-
thing On the evening of the affray, Hunt and
fliekenstein met in Roeketts, and Hunt began to
abuse n. with this, Il. pulled off his coat for q
hght, seeing which, Hunt took to his scrapers
notwithstanding he had knife I'm his hand and
ran nome. Flickenstein, it seems was going in
the same direction and when he passed Hunt Mt his
door, IL called him hard name. With this II. ad-
fahced upon him and gave him blow with cane
IL. then run iuto his house and closed the door y
throwing three stones at him and striking the
house Ii. immediately procured his n,sket. load
ed with small shot, and returned to his door
opaned 1t. As soon as r. saw the mnsket he
jumped into the street and stopped to got rock.
at which time HINT fired the musket and deposit-
ea ITS contents in the right hand feet and legs of
n, inhicting several painful wounds. Two of the
'"hVoato kootlHeu tudt tncy lh0 heard Hunt
ne would as soon kill Rlickenstein as rat ant; one
OF them swore that he heard the prisoner declare
several days before the occurrence that he had
big knife and q gun, and that he intended to kill
s'ihe one. Hunt was in his boHse when he fired
the mIsket, and three witnesses testified that
Fiickenstein had stoned the house before he was
snot' The Ma, or renanded the prisoner for fur
ther examination at the next term of the Uustings
Court, aud admitted him to bail for his appear.
ance.
BURGLARY.-The dry goods store of
Mr.. A. Noses on Main near 18th street WA. an
!ere1 last Sunday night and robbed of about 300
IN money. The thief effected an entrance tv
forcing the rear cellar door, which admitted him
into the apartment where the furnace for heating
the building was kept. He then removed the
pipe conveying the heated air into the store room,
holsted the grating and ascended through the amer
ture into the store. Once In the business mart of
the mouse, he rifed the money drawer discovered
the key OF the iron chest, and unlocking the door
renewed 1t OF all the money it contained. Mr.
Moses is unable to say whether any of his goods
we're taken or not. Since house breakers have dis.
covered this new method of entering stores il
might be well enough for our merchants to see
lhas their furnace sratings are properly secured.
lsCESDIARIsM.--About 0 o'clock last
Sunday night, the torch Of an incendiary was ap-
piled to the premises CT Mr. L. W. Glszebrook on
the south side of the Basin, and in a few minutes
thereafter the immense heaps of lumber piled in
Scarcely had the fire made its appearances before
the alarm bells called the remen to the scene and
they labored industrously to extinguish the flames
but hhally succeeded in doing So after long fyht
surprising that their enemy was thoroughly con-
quered, the iremen returned to their engine
houses with their apparatus, but in short time
the bells again summoned them to the same place
the flames having rekndled. This time they
drowned out every spark, and thereby saved a
great destruction of lumber. Mr. Giazebrook esti
mates his loss ut s.. 800, on which he had an in
surance in the Richmond Fire Association of
$1,000.
FALsE REPORT.-A rumor was circulated
on the streets yesterday. that p. P. WINSTON the
Sheriff of Richmond had resigned his Office. On
enquiry, we found that the rumor was false aud
that the deputies were about to resume the colec-
ton of taxes, which they would paw over to the
Trustees, to whom everything had been assigned
by the Sheriff, TO enable his securities to make
good their bonds. If Winston does not resign be-
fore the Grand Jury term of the Hastings Court,
which meets next February, he will then be in,
dicted and dspossessed Of his Office; but until then
we know of no power by which he may be dis
possessed.
TRINITY CHURCH.-Th congregation
worshipping at Trinity church ara highly delight.
| ed with the appointment of the Rev. j. A. Duncan.
as their pastor made at the late annual session OF
the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South held in Elizabeth City, n c.
He is young man of fine talents, and said to be
one of the most eloquent ministers Of that persua
sion lie is expected to enter upon his duties about
the LIST of January next.
HARD TO CoNQUEa.-Clinton James. a
free negro, and the keeper of disordery house in
Pink Alley, was again before the Mayor yesterday
charged with permitting an unlawful assembly In
| his house last Sunday night. Lieut. Truebart sta
ted, that on entering the premises, he found four
separate apartments-a grocery, barro0m, dining
room and cook hop, and that he arrested nine ne.
groes at the place and took them to the cage. AS
Clinton is old offender, aud troublesome one
t. the police, tie Mayor ined him for the unlaw.
ful assembly and for keeping q cook shop, and
then ordered him to be soundly lashed. Such dens
are ruinous to servants, and the police should
b eak them up at all hazards.
DEAR TURKEYs.-William Walls, an ex-
PEELED huckster. appeared before the Mapor yester-
day, to show cause why eighteen turkeys belong
ing to him, and offered for sale i'm the first market
should not be forfeited to the city Walls, it seems
had been expelled from the market, for buying
poultry and selling it again in violation of the or
dinance, and this occasion had purchased load
of turkeys and sent his mother to sell Them there
| by hoping to eyade the law. The Mayor informed
him that henceforth he could sell nothing in mar
ket, and after forfeiting the turkeys TO the city,
fined him go. A few such licks as this on specu-
lators in the necessares Of life, and they would all
| seek other vocations.
GONG uP.-Mr. Joseph G. Watts, the
contractor for the brick work of the Mechanics
Institute Hall, has begun to run up the walls and
| if the weather proves favorable, the job will be
pushed forward to completion with all possible dis
patch The Institute needs means to complete
this edifce, aud notwithstanding the scarcity OF
money. we do hope that all who feel interest in
the education of the working classes will contr;-
butte literally to the enterprise.
STEALING WooD.-Thomas Foley and
bis wife Mary, were arraigned before the Mayor
yesterday to answer the charge of hayingin their
possession quantity of wood stolen from John d.
Quarles. The prisoners live the brickyard of
Mr.. Quarles, the southside of the basin. and
both of them asserts their innocence with much
| warmth, but Mr.. Blunt swore positively to the
| wood as being the property of Mr. Q. The par
ties held to bail i'll the sum of 800 TO
an indictment by the Grand Jury in February
next.
Nor HRARD.-Yesterday, was the time
appointed for the examination, before Justice Ba-
ker, Of Henrico county, Of VIM. j. Dunn, charged
with stealing four tons of pig iron from the Messrs
Jordan of Rockbrdge, in April last but owing 10
the non-srrival of witnesses, the investigation was
postponed until Saturday next. The accused has
retained Judge Crump and Col. McRae as his coun-
sci.
AMIcABLY ADJUSTED Higgins
| made his appearance before the Mayor yesterday,
to answer the charge Of assaulting and beating
Timothy Collins: but when the was called,
Tim faced his Honor and informed him that the diff
entity had been amicaby adjusted and that the law
might release her iron grasp on the accused Tim
was thereupon mucted for the costs of the prose-
cution, which he readily paid, when the warrant
was dismissed.
AccIDEyT-0ne Of the workmen en-
gagged in raising the Washington Statue upon its
pedestal accidentally caught his left thumb iu the
stone door to the Monument while shutting 1t yes
terdsy, and got it cut off.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CouRr.-The U.
s. Circuit Court will not be in session again until
Thursday, in consequence Of the death of Judge
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