The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-02-04
VIRGINIA. NEWS.

Church. I'm buckingham. after addresses from Rev
Ms.sr, Fox. Henson and Dickinson, collection
Of f,praups,rcd and teenty dollars was made for
thu support of the eolportage work In Virginia.
The nexs day the young ladies Of the flnvanna
Female Institute held meeting. and determined
TO raise SI25, for the saa,e cause.
Tos,too.-some Of the farmers In fauquier are
10 favor Of changing their staple crop from wheat
to tobacco. The same (says the Fredericksburg
Herald may be said to be true in both Stafford and
Spotsyivania.
PLousHrNa.--Many Of the farmers IN the neigh
borhood Of fredericksburg a. we'll as in other por
tions Of Virginia, have made good progress In
ploughing for their spring crops.
Tue STATE FAIR,--At the last meeting of the
Common Council Of Petersburg. a communication
was read from the Secretary Of the State Agrcuitu
raj Society ernbodying proposition 20 hold the
next animal fair 10 that city.
ELECTED OsAToH-Mr. W. wa!lsce Bird Of Wash
| ineton city, has been elected anniversary orator
Of the Columbian Society Of the University OF Va,
| to address them on the 18th of April.
TIE ALEXANDRIA RIFLEMEs intend visiting Rich
mond on the 22d of February.
TEE suIcIpE op JoHs II sRAraEs.-The staunton
Spectator states the circumstances connected with
the death of John II. Seayres, formerly OF Rich
| mond,) as follows:
| On Monday morning last he called at the drug
store Of Dr. r. III. & J. c. Kinney and purchased an
ounce of laudaDum. after procuring "nich ne pro-
| ceeded ND Main street aud entered the store oil
Jno b. Antoni. Mr.. A. supposing him 10 be IN
| toxicsted (which WAS probably the fact took him
| into the back room. where he remained unti
| evening In profound slumber. coiored boy
| belonging 10 Mr.. Antoni we arp Informed, saw
him take something out Of a small phial. which
/ unon examination was found to be labelled lauda
| nun Information having been given to his friends
| Mr. Sesyres was conveyed to the American Hotel,
whore be died on Tuesday morning
NORFOLK Irrss.-The body of Peter Moran. one
| of the persons drowned by the upsettIng OF boat
| near the railroad bridge on Monday, has been re-
| covered.
| Mr.. VIM. T. Smith. formerly reporter for the
Norfolk American, died of consumption Monday
| night.
The store Of Messrs. Frank Marx, on Water
| street was broken open Monday night and robbed
| of goods to the value of 5000.
| The Irgly Club of Norfolk propose to come to
| Richmond on the I'D. We haven't the slightest
| idea what the ugly Club is composed Of.
CcRiosrrIEs OF DASviLu.-We copy the following
| brace of items from the Danville News:
| There is a lady in this town. who is nearly sixty
years of age. who is now cutting tooth. She in
| forms us that this is the ffM tooth she has cut
| within the last fifteen years.
We learn that there ia man in our town, whose
such like. Such being ought to be banished to
the Cannibal Islands, where he could indulge his
| appetite to his hearts content
MURDER BY A WOMAN We learn from the Jeffer-
| sonyiIe Advocate that man by the of
| Sanders was killed in New Jfarden, Russell CO.
| on the 18th ult., by the wife of his own son. It
aupears that there was a general row among the
| two families and amid the fight, Mrs Martin San
ders gave the father of her husband several severe
cuts with a weapon OF some kind. winch put an
h IA flor aip h1r for al
DAVIS IL was suspected that he had been murdered
| The body disinterred and an inquest held,
which resulted in verdict that he came to his
| death by wounds inflicted by Mrs. Sanders. She
has been arrested, and is now confined in the Jail
| Of Russell
APpEsT-It is stated that man has been ar
rested in Kingwood. Va, for the murder of Daniel
| Chisholm, in Cumberland Md. 1t appears that
| Mr.. Chisholm had two guns in his possession Mt
| the time he was murdered, one single and the
other double barrelled. The single barrel, which
was also a shot gun, was found after the murder
to be empty, and the man arrested has but recent
ly received discharge from gun, of shot, In his
| back, upon which circumstance he has been ar
rested.
| SELF-ToRTuRE-Tn Front Royal, Va, On Tuesday
morning last, VIM. Martin. a young man of about
seventeen years of age, took an axe and cut him
self severely in the head, throat and one of his
feet and had he not been arrested would have
killed himself. His recovery is considered doubt
| full being very badly hurt
PosT OFFICE ArrARs.-In Virginia, to fill vacan-
cies created by resignation the following appoint.
ments are made:
James ". Frazier, postm aster at Spabrook sta
ton, Patrick county, vice Martin s. Spencer; kiah
>moot, postmaster ct Ballardsviie, Boone county,
vice VIM. g. Chandler; Henry C. Wood, postmas-
ter AT Estiyle. Scott county, vice James l.. Shoe
maker W. T. Wicert, postmaster at Glenville
Gmer county, vice Stephen L. Ruddell.
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIoN.--The Petersburg Me-
chanics Benevolent Association celebrated the
thirty-second anniversary of their incorporation
last Tuesday evening" in their Hall on Tabb street.
on which occasion Major Daniel Lyon delivered an
address. After the address O very fine supper was
| served up in the Hall, which was partaken of by
the members of the association and their invited
guests.
CRUSHED TO DEArH.-0n Thursday last mason
named Hugh Campbell, employed in Board Tree
runDell near Wheeling, was almost instantly kill
| ed BY the fail of An immense rock. He was Il so,
der in the late Russian and fought all through
| the Crimea.
BROKE JAIL Two men, named James Ferguson
| and William Wingfedld. who were confined in APP.
Domattox Jail, On the charge Of stealing, effected
their escape on Thurday night last.
REMAINS OF CHTLD.--In Ro bingham county,
last week, a dog was found with the leg and foot
Of child. supposed to be those of child lost in
that neighborhood last fall. There are sus picions
of foul play In the matter.
KuIEp-A man named Tuswiler from MI
Crawford, killed at Mler's Iron Works, Rock
| ingham comfy one day last week, by being run
over by wagon.
| RoDBsRY--We learn that two men, with faces
| BACKED, robbed man named John BeckIin of
81 900 one night last week. The robbery occurred
near Piedmont, and the men have not yet been
| arrested L. Wheeling Times
| DECLISED.--Iion. Henry Winter Davis has de-
| clned delivering the address before the Literary
| Societies Of the University of Va.