The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-27

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ing Denuys Curve. two miles from the civ IN -
tho passeagers observed woman come srt ~ ss =.
bushes about 20 feet ahead Of the locomosivs
ana aetoerateiy throw herself across tho tr.rt
with her face downward and her hapds ovAr s.ss
eyes she lay with her feet on the track o. which
the frsin was running, while her head rested 81
| the inner rail Of the other track.
The brakes were Immediately apn,ied mt 10
course IL WAS too late to stop the train The train
psssed over her body, cutting OF both her feet
| aud manelihg her limbs horribly. Az soon as the
| train could be stopped, the woman was taken up,
placed 10 the cars, aud brought to the depot,
whence she was taken TO the Western Pennsyiys-
mia Hospital She fingered 10 great agony for
three hours, when death terminated her suffcrings
Coroner Alexander held an Inquest upon the body,
when the above facte we're eiicited aud yerdict
returned In accordance Herewith
Wnas motive led her to destroy herself in this
horrible manner, We are not informed. She gave
her name a. Margaret Duff ard when she was ta-
ken up she said she was tired of life and wished to
die After she was taken to the hospital she ad.
mitted to her attendants that she intended TO de-
stroy herself, and threw herself on the track for
that purpose ifhsbsag Journal.
FALL ISpElD.-The Selma, Ala, Sentinel gives
the following particulars Of an unfortunate wo-
man who is now under bail in Montgomery, Ala.
for the crime Of infanticide:
I'VE we're acquaint with this woman In her
girihood, and no young lady In Wetumpka was
more highly esteemed than she. She was highly
hood married Maj. Townsend, then Senator frem
Tailadega county. Soon after his marriage, Mai
Townsend moved to Louisiana, and there died
leaving handsome property to his widow. From
the day OF Tewusend's death, tho widow entered
upon system Of debauchery and profiigacy which
has resulted as above stated. This woman is re-
spectably connected. and every means were adopt
ed by her relatives to turn her from the evil course
she had adopted but TO no purpose and the result
IS, probably an Imprisonment in the pepitentiary
for life"
SPREAD EAGLE ToAsr--At Prentis Centre, Mo,
on the 5th, the following was the second regular
sentiment:
Our Nation--Begotten amidst the storms of
the sixteenth century. his infantiie movements
were dim and indistinctiy seen on board the
May Flower, on the rock of Plymouth, at James
town, the plains of Monongahela, and on the
] heights of Abraham the "capricious squaiIs' OF
its infancy heard In the teaparty of Boston.
In Faneul Hail. on the plains OF Concord, IexiDg-
ton and Bunker Hill; in his boyhood he ran bare
footed and bareheaded over the fields of Saratoga.
Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth aud Yorktown
whipping his mother and turning her ont of doors
1 in his youth he strode over the prairies of the
l toundiess West, and called them his o~ n; paid
| tribute to the despots Of Barbary in powder aud
ball. spit in his fathers face from behind cotton
bales a. New Orleans, whipped the mistress of the
pceau, revelled in the halls of MoBtezuma, strai
| lied the Rocky Mountains, and with one foot upon
golden sand and the other upon Goldfish and lum-
| Der, de6ed the world; in his manhood, clothed in
Durple aud fine linen, he rides over continent in
| cushioned cars, rides over the ocean in palace
steamers, sends bis thoughts on wings ofiightning
| 10 the world around, thunders at the door cf the
Celestial Empire and at the portals of distant ia,
pan. siaps his poor decrept father in the face and
tells him to be careful how he peeps into any of his
,ickaroons, and threatens to make sheep pasture
| f all the land that joins him. What he will do
| in old age, God only knows. May he live ten
| thousand years, ''and his shadow never be less"
PAYING FOX A BLuspER.-A trial took place in the
tnn nf n.h MD tlx, sv,so
| taut in its relations to the commercial world
About this time last year the cashier of the London
| and Southeastern Railway Company telegraphed
20 the various stations along the line to the effect
that the clerks were not to receive any notes of
| he Lewes Bank which might be rendered as pay
| nent. as the bank had stopped payment. There
vas no truth in the statement which had its origin
IN misconception, but the result was run upon
| The bank, and to meet this the bank bad to
maintain its credit by selling it's securities at Sc
| rous loss. If the iptimation of the stoppage had
been confined to the servants of the railway the
action would not have been maintanabie, for the
| communication would have been held to have been
privileged, but the railway people went beyond
fhis,and publicly posted the stoppage of the Lewes
Sank at their stations, together with the stoppage
| # the Hastings Bank The last named had really
| 'aied but the former had not The jury awarded
| the bankers $4,000 damages; SO that the railway
has been made to pay smartly for its blunder.
| RAREYs CAREER BROUGHT TO An EsD-Mr. Ra-
| reys career has unexpectedly been stepped He
had cleared some f15,000 to 100000 by his horse
| 'amng secret, when suddenly R0utledge, the cheap
publisher, got hold OF pamphlet published by the
| horse tanner in America. and printed it. 1t con-
tans in small compass all the of boree.taming;
| aud the subscribers. WHO had bound themselves not
| 70 divulge the secret under penalty of $780, be
came furious, and Mr.. Rarey had to release them
from their pledge in letter in the Times In this
| etter he states that the pamphlet in question is
| 'ne he published in Ohio some years since, when
his system was not perfect, and that more will be
learned from Dis practical lessons in one hour than
| from the book in life time.
| INDIA sH.wLs.-At the last monthly sales by
auction of India shawls at London, the number OF
| purchasers was as follows Is French, English,
| 3 Americans, 2 Belgiaus, Russian aud German.
rhe stock consisted of 5000 pieces, OF which there
| were only 1900 veritable cashmere shawls. The
remainder consisted of Indian tissues of the value
f S. to SIS; it is only in England that these com.
| mon searfs find wearers. The sale brought al
most the sum of SSO0,0O0. The French buyers
cipai shops of Paris have their agents in Lahore,
and thus receive directly their goods from India,
| it is clearly proved that France possesses almost
/ monopoly in these articles of luxury. There is
| scarcely French lady, even of very moderate
fortune, who does not possess one or more India
| shawls.
The DISMISSAL OF MAI. DAsHI EL.-The dismissal OF
Maj. Dasbiel, as one of the paymasters OF the ar
my, for aledged defacations, is thus explained in
| tDe OF the New Orleans papers The Delta states
tuat MAJ u. I0st tWenty-three tbOuSAuQ dollars u
government money by the up-setting of skiff in
| Indian river, Florida, and that fifteen thousand
| dollars was subsequently, stolen from him at ho-
| el in Florida by "a negro boy. About four thou
| sand dollars of this latter sum found in the
| possession of the negro boy. When the Major wss
recently in Washiugton he stated to the Secretary
# War that be was worth fifty thousand dollars in
rezas, and he was on his way to that State to re
| tiiZe money on his posse ssions, when the tee-
| graphic announcement appeared that he had
| been dismissed from the army service
| CONFERENCE.-THE packet chip ueivetia, when
| )n her last voyage. spoken by a bark com.
| mapded by sou of Germany. "Vot ship is dal,
| 'sked Hans through his hang .trumpet. Tn e
answer came back, ''the Helve tia" TO h--li
| yoTse!f, tam your eyes," growed Hans In re
-ponse. The vessels parted, and each skipper
sent on bis way with very fattering opinion OF
| Zach other.
WHAT TO DO WHEN Boat UPsrrs-The mode
practised by the natives of the Pacific Islands
sheh their canoes are upset at a distance from
| The shore, and with whom it is an object to save
the boat well their lives, 10 thus: They sus-
ain themselves BY Joining hands across the bot
tom of the boat, and the other hand to paddle
| iome, changing hands when fafiyne prompts it -
| It is surprising how long persons can sustain
themselves in this way.
PRoaREss.-A young Shaker and Shakeress left
the Niskayaua settlement on Tuesday, rushed Ca
Troy, got carriage, got minister, and got
fied. The young lady appeared yesterday 10
crinoiine skirt eight feet around while the young
gentleman mounted pair Of patent leather boots.
| ordered up box of cigars and commenced shay.
ing tor a moustache. Think Of that-a Shaker
with moustache! Who says the world does not
move Albany Knick.
A WEATHER ITEM The court was called. There
was cloud upon tbe brow of the Judge. Silence
rdiaed. William Mailigan was hailed, but William
sss mist The juge thundered The prosecuting
attorney stormed The jury's lsbors iigatened hut
William Muiligan, the brave, the good had fled
from the oppressor into the land of the free and
aystne.
BLEEDING IN APoPLExY AND pSUSsrkoKg.-Dr. SAINT
Dickson, Of London, who Was formerly S1nedicai