Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-02-06
CIT AMI STATE NEWS.

SHOOTING AFFRAY IN ALEXANDRIA, EA.-On Tues
day morning, about eight o'clock, John 1. tad snot
James Welch, in the head, iniiictihg' II Is sup.
posed, a fatal wound. Edd had demonstrated Wil1
Welch for some %disorderly conduct WIEN ne nss,ed
him. THE offensive language beng repea,eo'
Edd fred upon him, the ball entering MS heao;-
Welch's brother was killed three years ago, W d ~
Gus ARRAY in Alexandria. Both OF me pa.en -
lust returned from a FIRE, where Edd had sa'eu q
child's life, and both were under the ihhue"'e %
liquor.
SUR FOR DAMAoEs.-A few days since we pub
lshed q notice of q suit for DAMAGES neh p.no' ~
in the U. s. Court, before Judge Haiyburton, III
which Mrs. Purnell claimed = $1,000 damages ol the
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, Tor
injuries sustained on that road by hersSii ana SON.
Thomas X. Purnell, and also for the loss ii q vGlua-
BILE servant. The argument in the csse waS closed
Wednesday, and the case given 10 the jury, who, a.
ter a brief retirement, returned into court and gave
a verdict in favor of the plaintiff Tor the following
sums: To Mrs. PurneH, S4,l5S for the injuries she
sustained; g., 40S for the I'M uries sustained by her son
Thomas r., and $3.50 for the loss of the servant, with
interest from the time of the accident, to the present
period Dispateh.
FIRE AT WHErLlSG.-On Monday q fire occurred
at Wheeling, Va, which consumed McNabb s. Co.'S
hay press aud feed store-los 500; and Ront'e plan
ing mill office-loss 500 or S3O0. Mr. Moffutt own
ed the feed store building. Hislo.s is 81 ,O0D. None
Of the parties were insured.
DEATH OF A VErKRAS.-Wm Buttrill, a native
of Brunswick county, Va, died in Butts county,
Ga, q few days since, at the advanced age Ut ~
years. He was a soldier of the roYo!u!ion, and
fought as q volunteer at the battle of Gullford {. H.,
North Carolina.
VIRGINIA POsT.OFFicE ArpoIsTMEyTs-Post.
master General Campbell has made the following ap.
p%ointmenfs:
Robert l.. Smith, postmaster at Danielsville, Spot
sylvGnia county, vice Joseph 5. ChGiing. Alfred
Anderson, postmaster at Laurel Grove, Pittsylvan,a
county, vice George w. Jones, resigned. Thos. j.
Burke, postmaster at Burke's Mill, Augusta county,
vice Gideon CARRIER, resigned. A. NJ. Dew, poet.
master al City Point, Prince George county, vice S.
The office q Cedar Fields, Isle OF Wight county,
is discontinued.
DEATH or A NOTABLE PERsoNAGF.-The Norfolk
Herald, in announcing the death of Mrs. Jane COL
Inns, nj the advanced age Of eighty.seren years, says
she was q native Of Ireland, and came Ia Norfolk, IN
the year 1877, with her husband, Phillip Collins, who
ives o butcher. Mrs. &. assisted her husband
shared ns tOiis, iats anu early, and ~ Ill seai.ers-
was never absent from the stall IN the market house.
He died in 1907, and she continued tfe business, &C.
cupying the same stall for fifty years. II adds:
She made and lost several fortunes. During the
war Of 1912 she had the contract for supplying the
,roGIs et this station with beef, and mace many sa-
critices TO fulfil il, often Going beyond her obligations
to forward the views OF the commanding general
Our uged friend was q perfect model oil Il true Wing
Of the Henry Clay school. lie was her beau ideal
CT a patriot, and it is pleasurable TO remember their
meeting together in :hs public ball room in Norfolk
in 1914. When introduced to the cage OF Ashland.
she wiped her mouth with her snow white haudker.
chief and kissed HIN with u 2est that fully electrified
the OLD sratesman, who tbereupon galiantly offered
the worthy dame his arm, and the promenade OF the
couple was interesting 10 behold.
Mills BuRSr.-The mills Of Col. Wm. c.. Knight,
in Nottoway county, Va, were DESTROYED by fire un
the night OF tn. 23d ul.. Loss, about $4,000. Thele
was no insurance.