The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-22
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~ NORFOLK, March 81
,.,a An inquest yesterday
Setoeet 49, bciy cl one OF tnc TN" 49, a..
s,,"S yso fell from hef cns..; n.n;,sd ,nstaptiv.
calf lane, SATURDAY, pssn'' .as that the deceased
1ne veII - ,cstb BY intempcrAnee. When tue
cane - ,nassst entered the house the most horri-
Gie ana miserable spectacle met .ae. ey y" ,oor
sten hsd fallen from its hiuges,snd was used At
~s.ht ~ prop against the aperture called door
attsr passing up a pair Of rsckety stars the
furv saw the corpse OF the young girl, wneIe
"a he'd laid all night. Cr0uched around tne
rcon were two or three miserable specimens s
OF white humanity, who looked more, ike
eArtcutures Of woman, than OF the bright oe,uk'
we do 20 love to cherish and protec.L
In oee corner vas the chair-the only one ga ta
roou-srom which the miserable wretch had ialicn
the might before; In another was pie o, s'Is~,
over which was thrown duty qaitt wh'ca NV"
Ave women for o bed: and not vesugs OF 'u.u.
sure save this was In that house VIC nav s..u
MANY stxhts-we have visited the haoots oi Ios.
st, Miserv. shame, Crime aud Despair, but We
have vet 20 see such a sight as here met the view
az the tnouest, The wretched girl 10! stte'chea
mon the hoor, ia the same dirty haoihments 10
nth sbe had died: her feet, which but moment
hssore her DEATH had been keeping time. In dance.
.o the nnusjc of violin in an adj AGENT house, were
ro. sons shoes sans hose; her matted hair and
male hloaSed countenance hted the spectators
With sicsiv horror, and az soon as possible they
retired Anon the corporation cart came along,
and without having her prepared for sepulchre, the
body Of Ann Eliza Curlett was placed in rough
CONN and taken rapidly 10 Potter's field; while
two of her companions in shame, who happened
20 be sober, followed on behind. Her mother and
another woman who occupied the same house,
were too much disguised with liquor to follow her
remains 10 the grave, but remained behind to reve
IN their druuken spree, aud light over aoop
skirt which had been torn from the corpse.
Another one OF the frail sisterbood, named Me'
linda Ross, living on Church street, was seriously
burned Saturday night, by the upsetting oil nuIa
lamp. It appears that she was dressing for ball
and unset the lamp, by which her clothes took
ire, aud before they could be torn from Der per-
,on she was horribly, but not fatally burned.
To fill out the chapter Of accidents, We will nos
tce the destruction of the Corporation Stables on
the Aims House lot, by Are, last evening. The
horses and portion OF the harness. were gotten
out, and the house, proveader, and part OF the
harness consumed The FIRE was the work OF an
iAcendiary, as but about fifteen minutes before,
Mr.. Hawkins, the keeper, had passed by the STA
ble aud there was no vestige II fire to be seen.
One OF the new sioops Of war Is to be launched
on Wednesday next.
A roctfsh, weighing fifty for pounds, ard ues'
suring four Get long, wss caught in the wheel
house Of the steamship Roanoke, On Ssturda;
evening.
The slight accident to the Norfolk and Peters
bnrS Railroad, las been repaired aud all IL ia cotu
pletc running order, without having impeded IN
the least the operations Of the road.