The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-30
LOCAL MATTE HS.

IMPoprANr TO CoUATRY RnADsHs.-Ws
are requested to state, thst some Of the Railroad
Companies have promptly replied to the request
Of the Executive Committee Of the Virginia Cen
trsl Agricultural Society, "that membefs OF thai
iSnciety, exhibiting their certificates of member
ship when applying for tickets to Richmond, will
be furnished with dotoa and up ticket, for the
usual doUn price; and that all and every article
Intended for exhibition at the Richmond Fsir,
shall pay freight down, and 90 back ree, II in pos
session of original owuerr' 30 soon as time has
been given to hear from oil the other Railrcsd
companies, the arrangement will be made pubic,
20 that all persons wishing to attend the great
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL Fam. to he held IN this
city in October next at hslf the regular rail-
road charges. can supply themselves with certif-
cates Of membership of the VIRGINIA CxETRAL Ao.
RIcULTURaL S0cRffY.
Tho Upited States Agricultural Fair, as our
readers are aware il TO he held In this city, this
fall, under the auspices Of the Virginia Central
Agricultural Society, the latter Society paying all
the expenses of the Fair, including tho $4,000
premium list. which is attracting marked atten-
tion throughout the Union. Under this arrange
ment, the members Of the Central Society and
their families can visit the Fair Grounds at pleas.
ure, free OF charge. Strangers who may with to
attend the Fair, aud save one half the regular rail-
road charges, can procure certificates OF member
ship to the Virginia Central Agricultural Society
by enclosing 81 to the .sDIsrAroH OFFICE" on the
receipt Of which certificate will be forwarded to
any Post Office in the United States, free of post
age. Those OF our readers, therefore, who are not
within reach Of an authorised Agent Of the Gem
trai Society, can write to the "bspetchs at once,
when their favors will receive prompt attention.
DIscovsRY OF DEAD BoDr.--The quiet
citizens of Union Hill. In Henrlco county, were
considerably excited last Saturday, by the an
nouucement Of the fact that the dead body of q
white man had been found In the bushes In rear Of
Fairfield Race Course, and that 1t was then in q
state OF putrefactoB. As soon as the discovery was
uiade known, Justice Baker, attended BY Deputy
Sheriff Gssrge D. Peasants, and q jury OF Twelve
c1tt2eo sePaired to the scene and discovered that
the corpse that of JosEPH TucKxR the keeper
Of small greggery near the tell-gate on the Me-
chauicsville Turnpike. Tucker was man Of
very Incorporate habits, and AZ he traded regu.
larry with negroes, and had frequent difficulties
with them, 1t was at once conjectured that he had
came to bis death by foul mesns. The body, when
the jury got to IL, was 30 much swollen, aud 30
completely purified, that they found great diff.
Guilty in making such examination ~ they believed
the case demanded They, however, stripped the
corpse, but found no cuts or bruises, save small
scratch on the back part of the head, which was
entirely too trivial to have produced serious con.
sequences. Not being satisfied with such facts as
they we're then enabled to elicit they adjourned to
meet again this afternoon at 5 O'Clock.
We understand that Tucker left home last Thurs.
day eyering about aundown, from which time no
thing was known Of him until his dead bocy was
found Ii fs possible that 10 crossing the woods
from the old Stony Run road to the turnpike, he
was wsyIaid and murdered; bat judging from the
character Of the man, the condition of the body IL
the place where it found, we think it far more
probable that being Intoxicated be fell down in the
woods, and no assistance being nigh, died In lit
Yesterday morning q number OF drors, rs vel
a. the Coroner and other citizens, were exertins
themselves to trace the whereabouts ofthe deceased
from the time he left home unt he died, and If hs
was fouly dealt by, We are almost confident they
will succeed in getting some clue to the perpetra