Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-05-21

recommendations submitted, and has fixed the time
OF visiting 10 be during the working hours aud the
lee for Adults twenty cents esch children half price.
Certain public officers, editors of newspapers &C.,
are exempted by law and the regulations of the
Institution.
CoRREcrloS-NiRGINiA CESrRAL RAIL ROAD
In the comparative statement of receipts for pAsse.
gers for lSJ7'S it should be :-Passengsr fare tor
April, 1897, Sl2,23l 6ii tor April 1858, SliO56 0S
The STORM ~ GOoCHLA.n.-A correspondent
writing to us from Goocand, the 18th inst SAYS:
I'VE had quite a severe storm here this afternoon
about tour O'Clock. Mr. I. James Deane had lie.
gro woman killed by lightnn., while ut work on his
farm
SUICIpE.-R. G. Balm, a native of Virginia, died
in New Orleans on the llth inst, of overdose of
opium. lie was in dying condition when discover.
ed and expired in short time after.
The ROUTE To THE SpRISGs.-The Mountain Lake
and Salt Sulphur Springs Turnpike Company have
received ald from the Montgomery (Va) White Sui
phur Springs Company 10 the amount Of IL 100, for
the completion Of NJ l.. and 5. ). 5. Turnpike
Hands have been engaged for the work, and it is
p-c,cd that ons hundred will be on the road next
week, that it may be speedily completed. 4 line
of sages will run over the road this summer, from
the Salt Sulphur via Mountain Lake and New River
White, TO the Montgomery White.
FIRE AT PETERsBURG.-On Monday morning lsst
fire broke out in the extensive Tobacco manufacto
ry Of Messrs Lancaster Il Roberts, on Washington
street, nearly opposite Jarratts Hotel Petersburg
The factory succumbed rapidly, before ths OF its
contents could be saved. About 40, 400 lbs of tobac
co we're consumed. The stock aud fixtures were
!ued at about Sl00DO, the building 81 500. The pro-
proprieors insured to nearly the full value of their
property in the Quaker City tPhiladelphiaI and Al
bsmarle Insurance offices.
STANDARDIZATION A. Weatherford at the late
term OF Monroe IVA Circuit Court WIS sentenced TO
two years imprisonment in ths Pententiary, for cOun
rerteting. Henry A. Donaldson tried for the same
crime in Brsxton county, Va, has been committed.
FIRE.-A fire broke out, al an early hour, in Page
4; Aliens mill in Gosport, which WAS destroyed.
Loss S2,50n-no insurance. Great efforts were made
by the !remsn TO stop the progress OF the naInes
-INOrjoN ArgnS.
ARMY WoRM.-We regret 10 announce that this
destructive insect has appeared in immense quantities
in the wheat and other fields this city. On the
beautiful aud productive farm Of Col T. H. Herbert.
there millions Great efforts will b- made 10 get
rid Of these unwelcume VISITORS .NOrtOk drgns.
PEsrESrnRY CoNvICTs.-Our citizens were II
vored Saturday evening last with view OF fifteen
negro convicts from the Virginia PenltrDiiary They
were hired by Col. n. b. French OF Mercer, road
hands. They Were dressed in their striped suit and
their appearance in our village created quite a 'arn
sation among the boys Pear'sbnrg 'a) :SoHM
West.
VIRGINIA POsToFFICEs.-A new Office is estsb.
li-hed al Long Run station, Doddrdge county, and
Daniel +. Randolph appointed pos'maser-on the
Northwestern Virginia Railroad. The 'ihce NJ
Friendship, Fa!rihA 10 ost"L :iS .od and
William Payne appointed postmaster. Appointments.
Mary l.. Stump postmaster at Gerardstown Berkeley
county. vice j. ID. Gordon resigned, j. L. Gibson
postmaster ut Bowman. Marshal! county, vice V. P
4 ~ v sera
Olympia, Smyth county, vice U. l.. Cox, reaigned.-
Oscar r. Barry postmaster at Maiden Spring, Tsze
well county, vice J. Z. II ':glnbotham resigned.
SHOOTING AFFRAYIS ALhIANDRIA.-On Saturday
afternoon Miss Davis, formerly of Loudoun county
Virginia, made an attack Mr.. Pope, an employee
on the Orange and Alexandria railroad, for alleged
slanderous language used towards her. She fired
QUE shot, which passed through the clothes OF Pope,
between the arm and body. The parties were then
separated.
RASDoLrH MACON CoLLEGE.-The commence.
nent at this institution will take place the 2d OF
June next Bishop Pierce of Ga will deliver the
address before the Literary Society and Rev. John
G.. CRANBERRY, OF Va that before the Alumni
Eleven students will receive the degree OF Bachelor
of Arts. viz:
Rd Ferguson, of Dinwiddie; X. b. lIolstesd, o
Franklin; w. NJ. lrby. No'toway; K 5. lsbel, Meek.
lenburg; Alexander Mallory, Brunswick; Rober;
H. Thaekston. Farmvl-; Z. K. Venable Prince
Edward; X. o. Wyatt, Albemare, Va.
PRIScE GEORGE CIRcUIr CouRr-CoSyIcTIoS OF
.JSo. 5. HoBRs-The Circuit Court OF Prince George
commenced yesterday with the case of the Common.
wealth We. John 5. Hobbs for shooting Elisha NJ.
Newcone several months ago. Peter 5 Bate, Esq,
being very much indisposed. w. H. Watkins, Esd,
acted rs Prosecuting Attorney. Messrs. r. h. and 4.
f. Collier and Thomas III. Daniel Esq, appeared for
the prisoner After patient hearing Of both sides,
the Jury found the prisoner guilty anu ascertaned the
term of his Imprisonment III the pententary at one
year. Petersburg Express.
A SEVERE HAIL STORM fredericksburg was Wis
tied with another severe hail storm on Saturday at-
ternoon last, but not so terrible In lts character
a. that of the let OF July, 1897. The Herald states
that little after four o'clock, Saturday, threaten
ing cloud WAS seen 10 rise in the Southwest which
was borne along with great speed until within a few
miles of town. when it burst forth with all tsfury, de
s,royiDg and damaging growing crops ana dong IN
csculabe injury in both town and country. So SUD
den was its approach that many OF our ctlZena we're
'taken by SURPRISE" and large amount of glass
broken which might otherwise have been saved
We suppose the gla.s broken in town cannot be re-
placed for snm much short OF S6OO or SSoO. Among
the largest sufferers in this respect may be named the
Corporation which loses i5O panes in the Court
House. and 2DO in Jhe Old Town Hall. The
Presbyteran Church was supplied with shutters,
but they had been left op7n and most OF Inc gass on
the Western side destroyed-lID The glass IN the
windows in front of the Baptist church were all brok
en-about $50. The Episcopal church escaped with
little less loss. John +. Scott l0st about JVo IN the
foundry, &. &. Wexford about 430 IN MS owelhg'
green house. &c. Almost every Western exposure
suffered more sss, aud IHos oi our cliizens win
dwellings thus situated, have lost from do"eh 10 Il
hundred psnes of glass each.
The gardens good deal injured bnt not 10
any comparable degree with that OF July last year:
TIE hail on Saturday was generally "i the siZs OF
partriigs eggs We saw H. large ~ guinea fowls
egg and others they saw hastones fully as
large a. hens eggs. We hear ot ole man who had
two pigs in pen at the upper END OF the town. one
OF which killed, and the other had hn eye knock.
ed out by the hail.
Among the suif-rers along the Plank Road ia
Spotaylvana. next to Fredericksburg, may be named
George Guest. WIN ) Williams, Moses Morrison, j NJ
Lnck. A = Rowe. DR. WIN NJ Smith, j l. Stansbury,
w + Bowen, J p Hepburn. DR. X Taylor, John l.
Maryp Sr. and farther up, on the Rappahannock,
Daniel Du-rsom, John Decker, &c.
The growing wheat crops on the fsrma ot seme OF
the gentlemen named totally destroyed. and IN
other cases vastly injured. Above the Old Furnace,
W-llfords the hail did little no damage but We
hear that perfect tornado swept the country, RUN
ing the crops of the widow Rowe, VIM Lewis, and
othrrs in the same line.
Mr. Guests loss il put at - 900. Like many others
named. his whole wheat crop has been totally DE-
stroyed-Dot enough lett standing from which peck
If grain nigh; be gathered. The fine crop OF MIR:
Bowen is said TO look as though reaper had pa-Hsh
over it followed by rakes, nothing standing bu' 'ne
s:ubbla. Mr.. Luck who would have made 81 bush
els to The acre. has had his beautiful crop utterly us
stroyed. The oss, lar a. We are adviser, hi't's
to tens of Thousands of dollars in Spo-y'ahia a'"he
Th. storm se-rns To have swept over aIes''n Vi
country some FIVE or six miles IN WIDTH out IN ms
ron,a y;sit.d with more or less Jury various Vlcn
8ge9. -, ,x,,, ,,-.,o. |,,.
H., sar, =, ,n- ,,ac.. where tnssslve fores; trees
torn no by their roots and fences ievelled by
80 fury ni The .urrn. In other places whole acres
Of timber stripped oi their o'iage looking Ike
a. many decsying and dead trees.
ri. howe Sheriff of Orange county, lost nearly
hi. entire crop OF wheat.
4 letter from Beaver Dam, in Goochland county
save The corn. wheat, tobacco and irut crops are
entirely destroyed--beyond redemption"
The damage in Stafford is small in comparison with
that done in other quarters. Mr.. Lacy loses about
500 panes Of glass at his residence across the river
knns5n a. nChsthsmn W. understand that he -ui