The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-06
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3 NAx<E VtlN ~ ! i11N s''.s
LOCAL aGAx4xTaA J rss
| .vioisat Assaai.. samuel Jordan ~ IS
raikned before the Mayor, yesterday mcsiiful
to answer fhe charge Of Violently nesaultirl
and heAtinG Addison Gaines, on the 1nkine4<,
Tho evidence showed that Gaines had psed Is
sultiqg Language u Mrs. Jordan, ON q formel
occasion. and that, on the evening u he oc
ssrrenee, q. was IN the street, In ffploFoH0.1 4
house, when ]. went out and struck hiuk en-
or two blows in the fsce with his nat. Game,
reLeated 70 The middle Of 18th Street, ans
piShed Up brick or stene, but thas pp3ppnel
.Siicwed him, aud repeated bis blows 20 heay)
fnat the might've fe1l In the gutter ana his nur.
suer jumped upcn him. Bysfanders inter.
~Ted In short time, and took Jordan oA; bui
Reaore they could get him out Of reach he eayc
asnss hraas two two NJ e. three heavy stamps IN q
good behavior in the sum OF A15D and res.oa.
nized witnesses TO appear; before the Grand
Jury nexe Monday, to have him indicted
Ripe Old Ags- One OF the oifiest fnhahffxntu 4
! of this Commonwealth that we have1 anv
knowledge OF, is a negro woman owned bv ~
E. Q. Watkins, of Chesterfield county She 8
said and believed to be enc AHadred and six wears
| Of age, and what is q little strange, ehjcvs ex
cellent health Our Informant states that her
/ mind is unimpaired, her memory Of the ssroofi
| old times" remarkably clear, and her TEMPER
! quite amiable. She has had three husbands,
| to the last of whom she was married within
| the past ~ years. This old creature has been
required to perform no labor for her owner
since 1914, but has always led an active and
useful life. In the winter and spring months
she accompanies her husband to their cabin in
| the woods, where he devotes his time to the
rearing of swine, and in the summer their re-
sidence is changed to the wheat fields. where
the swine are grazed. Mr.. Watkins allows her
to want for no comforts of life, and she an
pears more joyous and happy than many wo-
| men at sixty. 9s
To be Eaa5lished.--Thec committee appointed
oy Springfield Division, to enquire into abe
expediency of establishing an afternoon Sum
Day School in Springfield Hall, have reported
IN iayor OF the enterprise, and collectors have
Deen appointed to raise the necessary means TO
1lt up the Hall and procure q suitable library
Ihis school is to be established on the sunion
principle" entirely free from sectarianism,
and If the members of the various churches Id
the neighborhood will give it proper attention.
It's good results will be speedily felt. On Union
and Church Hills there are from ffye hun(i
to one thousand children, for whose benefit
this school is intended, and it becomes parents
and friends to give it warm and generous
support. The Division will furnish the hall
gratuitously, and its members will all feel 1t
to be an especial duty to labor with and for
the school. .
Wholesale Slaughter.-Some few afternoons
since, gentleman in Henrico county noticed
an unusually large number of buzzards feast
ing In the woods on the remains ofsa dead
COW, and as evening came on, they were OBJ.
| served to roost in afarge dead cedar tree near
the carcass. That night a storm came on rain
fell in torrents, and the thunder and lightning
were terrible. Next morning, the same gem
tleman, in passing along the road, observed
| that the dead cedar had been struck by the
| lightning, and on approaching 1T, found that
abeut one dozen of the buzzards had been
| killed by the fiuid and that five or six Others
| were hobbling about near the root of the tree.
| unable to fly.
The CARTS Peek is once more in thorough re-
pair, and will leave her wharf at Rockets
this afternoon at O'Clock, on an excursion to
Old Point, Portsmouth, and Norfolk return
ing here on Monday afternoon. The Peek Is
now in perfect order, and will res nme her
regular runs on the river at once. Her COM
mander, Captain VIM. Parrish is an aecommo.
| dating and obiiging gentleman and from all
we know of him, will spare efforts to make
his boat one of the most pleasant conveyances
known to the public. To those of our readers
who wish to enjoy pleasant excursion this
opportunity is an admirable one, in,lsmuch as
the round trip will cost but S. and only one
working day need be lost.
Snake Bite Cnred.-On Thursday morning
last, free negro named Moses Black. was
bitten by mOccasin snake, when near Curtis
Neck, in Henrico county, and becoming very
much alarmed started in haste to a DOCTOR
Arriving near New Market, his leg bacapaa so
painful that he found it impossible to 20 lar
ther, and had seated himself ON the roadside
10 Que, w.eh ,arne' ma man caille a!ong WIN
big drinks of bad whiskey, which counteracted
the poison, soothed the pain, and probably
saved the negro's life. Whiskey may be cer-
tain antidotc TO snake bites but its free use is
equally fatal to its yotaries.
NeighboYtv Spat.-James Gayen, n lad and
Misses Johanna and Julia Dwyer, appeared
| before the Mayor yesterday, to answer the
cnarge OF threatening violence 70 tue person
| OF Mrs. mary Donanoe, on the 4th inst. Tne
complainant testified that the accused parties
| had abused her IN the grossest manner, and
her violence, but that she had kept them back
! by arming herself with the bar OF the door,
and threatening to use it upon their heads ii
| they approached within reach. She had three
witnesses examined to sustain her charge, but
Us all of them testified against her, she was
reprimanded and the warrant dismissed.
Not Captured.-Oficer Seal has returned
| from North Carolina, after a fruitiess search
| for William Z. Parrish, the young man who
| swindled Messrs. Duke & Hutcheson out OF
dead. Parrish had entered an institute OF
| learning and but for an accident on one of the
/ railroads. would have been captured on Mon
| day last as he did rot leave there until thai
| afternoon. When the officer arrived on Tues.
| day. he found that the fugitive had taken
| flight while the teachers and pupils were q
| dinner. leaving his trunk and clothing behinG
| him. He is we'll known in North Carolina, anl
| NAV vet fall into the hands Of the law
| ----------
Ssftled at Laxt-James and Patrick Hanne
/ nance by purchasinr two loads of chickens. 8,
| the 27th Of July. was before the Mayor yester
| day. and proved that they bargaiLed for tn
| chickens in Hanover county. seven miles fron
| Richmond, The Mayor did not consider tn
sale consummated, because the chickens wer
not delivered and paid for: but inasmuch rs b
| had fined the parties $50 for a similar act
few days before, and hoped that lesson wonl,
be SUFFICIENT for them, he dismissed the sum