The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-15
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MoRNINo. .......... MARCH IS M
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very suddenly at Ms residence on Thursasv a.,
UP 70 the moment OF his dissolution, he VIA. 4,
the enjoyment Of usual good health and had No.
complained, we learn, Of the slightest ipdi.po.;.
tion As the fatal moment arrived, he ex ner;ancaa
painful sensation about the heart and excls;r,-
ing to his wife Il am DYING fell from chair 70
rise no more. "
FATAL AcorDENr.-A iamentable accident. oc
CURED on tho sth uit, In that part of gus,eIl
county known as "The Loop" which rem,ted =,
tne death OF good citizen, Benjamin p. prIce bv
name. IT appears he was In the act of fe,lino q
tree IN O woodland near his house, when ,;mh
some iouf or FIVE feet long broke from tree ,eor
py, and came down on his head, breal;pe ,ha
skull bone in several pieces and spatteriug the
brains Upon the ground. lie expired immediately.
PETERSBURG FIRE DErARTMEsr.-Tbe com,ro,
council of Petersburg on Friday evening took in.
to consideration the Of the Old Street and
Virginia fire companies in pledgiug themselves
not TO do duty so long as the present captain oe
police RETAINED In office. The Council Determines
to consider the companies disbanded, and accor-
dinghy took steps towards organizing others in
their stead.
MARROW EseArE.-A little daughtsr Of Mr.. L. A
Bosgs, Of Spottsylvania, was reclining on pallet
HN'st uio, =" 10" uoye oeos "Hcu hci etotHfuR lg<
nited, and she would probably have been burned
to death, but for the presence of mind of gentle
man, who folded his shawl around her aud extin-
guished the flames.
sHooT1Nd.-0n Wednesday night last, party Of
youths went to house of i'll fame In the neigh
borhood of Wheeling. and demanded admittance.
The keeper Of the house, named Mitchell, dis
charged load of buckshot into tho party, severe
ly weuRdiBg VIM. Hainss and John Burns.-
Mitchell, it is said, shot a man In WelIsburg not
long since.
VIRGINIA CATTLE.-Forty-nine cattle from South
Branch, Va, are on their way to New York, weigh
ing as follows: The largest weighs $500 pounds,
| and more than half of them weigh over 1000 lbs
and the whole lot weighs over 81 $50 pounds; be-
ing an average Of .s67 pounds. and cost 81 e2-an
average of $s5.55 cents per bead.
DISTRESSING AccrDENT.-,Ir TazeweII Waldrop.
| Of Pittsylvania county, was killed last SATURDAY.
week, by the accidental discharge of his gun.s lie
was in the act Of mounting his horse for the pur
pose of proceeding to the pigeon roost, not far
distant, when the gun was discharged lodging
| the contents In his abdomen. He lived but a few
| minutes after the accident.
MINER KILLED.-A miner named John Hassetop
was crushed to death in a coal shaft at West
Wheeling, last Tuesday, by mass of soap stone
| which fell upon him.
MiLfTARf.-The yosng men of Danviile are max
| Ing an effort to get up volunteer company
| They've got to muster any how, and may as well
come out in good style.
| ARREsT.-Daniel d. Haston, charged with steal
| ing horse from Guy FEELING, of Parkersburg, Va.
| has been arrested 10 Baltimore
| NoHINATIoN.-It Is stated that Jefferson T. Mar
tin, Esq, has been nominated by the President for
reaPpoiDtment as district marshal for the western
district of Virginia.
| NEW PosToFFIcE is established at Pine Spring.
Russell county, Va, and John II. Gambler appoint
ed postmaster, directly on route 5,196, Bickley's
Mills to Hansonyilie.
ErEcros.-The municipal election in rredericks-
| burg takes place to-day.
| Mr.. EvERErr.-Hon. Edward Everett will deEy
er his Grafton on tile character Of Washington, In
| fredericksburg, next Friday night.
| SHAKspEARIaN READINGs.-Miss Lizzie Petit read
"Much Ado about Nothing to large and intel
lgent audience, in Charlottesville, last Thursday
night. The Advocate says.'
1t was her f1rst appearance 10 public as reader:
| and the sery marked atteHtioh Of the audience
and their frequent applause attest the fact that
she fully sustained the high reputation she had
| won in the North as an accomplished and inter
estng drawing roohi readet.
PARDoNED.--we understand that Dick, boy.
| the property of Chas. t. Mosby ESQ.,. of this cjty
recently condemned TO death upon a charge of
| having fired the tobacco factory of W. d. Miller
has been pardoned by Gov Wise.--Lysch6arg Vir.
ginion
New EDITION OF THE sIAMEsE TwINs.-In the last
number of the Virginia Medical Journal, Dr. VIM
B. Ball, of Chesterfield records the birth ia that
county. during the latter part of last month, OF
pair of boys (colored) something on the order, If
not the exact counterpart of the Siamess twins -
rhey were about the same size, seventeen inches
and half iD length perfectly formed and weigh.
| ed eleven pounds twelve ounces. The part of
union begins at enslform cartilage (the end of the
hreastbone, in cotiimOn parlance) and continues
down the middle line Of the body to the navel in
| which it terminates. Neither child was alive
They have been sent to the Medical Faculty of
Richmond, for dissection.
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FIEsDlsH MbRDER-We have heretofore noticed
the murder of James e. Shaw, tobacco trader and
| WAGNER, in Columbus county, N. C. The father
and three sisters of the murdered man resides In
Virginia. The facts brought to light have impli-
Gated white man, named Bythel Mitchell, and
| three free negroes, who have been committed to
| Jail for trial. The circumstances attending the
tragedy are thus narrated bya correspondent of
| the Wilmington Journal
Mr. shaw was trading in that portion of the coun.
| ty known as the Green swamp cotntry. and while
Of Mitchell on the hight Of Fat fesrnary sqss
and was murdered and robbed that night. From the
wounds on the head he NUT have been struck three
Mitchels yard buried some three feet under ground
On the thirteenth day after the murder is alleged to
land in the Green swamp, about two % miIss r. from m
Mitcheis house The spot selected by the foul per-
petrn'ors OF this crime. as the last resting place of
poor shaw. s dreadful to contemplate; II is In a
cret and almost inaccessible retreat of the
most terrible swamps in our State. in this dismel
hiding place, with naught but the wilds Of the will
dernets, and the howlings of rapacious animals
around him. shaw was sccreted one foot under the
ne woa While hey ywon Be-
cure with their ilgattea booty. Shaw's money the
only cause for which he could have been murdered
MURDER or WHOLE FAMILY IN CANApA.-Yeeter-
day morning, the appalling intelligence reached
town that wIiele family had been murdered tho
previous evening" about two miles from Dublin
making inquiry, we found the intelligence but too
true, as IL appeared man by the name of Thorn
SOD, his wife and a hired man had been brutality
murdered by some unknown person
1t appears that the murdered body of Thomson
was found lying on the bod fearfully mauged. The
body of his wife was found chair, drcadfully
cut, while the body of the hired man was found in
the barn, literally cut to pieces These are all the
particulars could gather before going to press.
-Brocitilts Recorder, Jforch 4.
FROZEN TO DEAfH.-A man named Elijah Hub'
bard, residing in the town of Conesville Greene
county, N. Y, while on bis way from Conesville to
Potters Hollow. sat down by the roadside in the
snow, and when fonnd on Sunday last was frozen
to DEATH He Was missed on the sth OF February,
aud had therefore, IL is supposed, been dead about
three weeks.
A CASE OF HYDsoPHoBiA.-A gentleman by the
name of Wise, living at Hammondsport, in this
county, was last Wednesday attacked with hydro
phobia. 1t appears that last year, In the month
Of October, Mr.. Wise was In Buffalo, and was at
tackled, together with two ether gentlemen, who
have since died, by a mad dog. which bit him just
above the knee. He had partially forgot the oc-
currencs until the forepart Of last week, when be
was very seriously attacked with the symptoms
OF hydrophobia, and on Wednesday was raving