The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-01-25
TIL E DISPATCH.
MONDAY MORNING. JANuARy ;; :,

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hSornEa c.sE OF "vESsRascr"--A young girl
nshca smith, employed by A. Kemp, dealer in
eA'es' Iruit, &C., IN Philadelphia, was lately the
'"h"ceh' cause OF a very serious difficulty It is
stated that she Is an intelligent and well behaved
yo""s ~oman' bat recently, having had some
disagreement with her father, she LEFT home and
n'sea room. On Wednesday last, her father hav.
iag Inquired her location, went to the house and
made inquiries into the circumstances
The woman who let the room revealed tbe fact tba.
man, whom she described had become securitv
ioF tue rent. This, Ii seems, was considered proof
positive that criminal relation existed between
ms daughter and the man, and he determined with
his son, TO seek him out and take sutnmsrv ven.
geanee upon him. Accordingly. he armed bimseIf
WIN pistol aud in company with the woman who
naa let her the room, went to Mr. Kemp's place
NO lay, Cedar street, aud called for Mr. Edwin Col
Inns, the foreman Of the establishment who best
answered the description. Mr. Collins came down.
onhlth and his son were concealed from view be-
nina screen. As he entered the ROOM the wo-
man thought she recognized him as the person who
hred, or became security for the rent OF the rooi
AT once the elder Smith rose from hts conceal
ment, and aiming pistol at the head of Collins.
hred Collins lodged, but the ball from the pistol
passed through his right ear into the scalp, and
running round the base of the skull passed out on
the opposite side OF the neck. Collins fell to the
floor, and i'll a moment Smith and his son were
seized and further violence prevented. Mr Collins
is about 40 years of age, and has family in Phila-
delPhia. He is spoken of by Mr. Kemp, whose
foreman he has long been, as an exemplary man,
against whom he has never heard auy evil. Col
Inns denies all improper knowledge of the girl and
she, also, 1t is said, exonerates him.
The ICE TRADE OF NEW YoRK-The remarkably
mild winter We have had thus far, is creating con-
siderable alarm amongst the ice traders and consu
mers of New York. The Herald says:
Siuca he Eny
tnuance OF warm weather at this season, and the
winter OF that year was SO exceedingly mild that
the dealers were unable to procure the usual sup
ply OF ice. 1t would seem from present appear
ances as If this to be made remark
III the same way, for according to the telegraphic
reports, the weather has been unusually tempo
rate all over the country. Ice to the depth of
eight and ten inches has formed on Lake Chain
plain and on some of the ponds in the vicinity of
Troy and Albany, bit at Rockland Lake and 9TH
er points from which New York has hitherto oh.
tanned its supply, the indications are very unfa-
vorable. 1t is feared that of the two hundred and
hfty thousand tons required for the New York
market not more than .one hundred and twenty
i've thousand can be procured. The deficiency in
the supply will of course be attended with rise
in the price, which, it is believed, will be more
than doubled. All this however, is at present
merely speculation, as the month of February NAV
be cold enough to afford crop sufficient to fiji the
storehouses TO repletion. Urder the most unfa-
vorable circumstances, however there is no cause
for serious apprehension, as enough can be OBJ
tained to supply all the wants OF the city during
the approaching summer.