The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-22


;ssexssscSpsSs~ Q, vps sscascsr Many sssrsrea''
NcapssS March VI.
tscrsrsx Summevs held An ieQaest yesterday
vses~sne. en- IRE ecis u ore 81 tse hSh ss,s ue
es,,t. 80 nj, ss,sa her chair, Ga henss On Nee
~ i.r> saturday asSAt. aud expired instantly
NE verdict AZ che sury was that tae aeceSsed
xass> e. her death by tafemrcfsnce "nen the
sary ef snswcss catered she hense the nest horri-
HE ssa miserable spectacle met taem eyes, on
which Aaa fallen from its hinges, aud was used AZ
night 20 prop agAinss the aperture called door -
Amer passing up . pair Of fsesety STAIRS, the
Sery sac the ccrpse Of the young girl. where
rccm we're two or three miserable specimens
Of white humanity, Who looked more, iI.e
eAsicatuses Of woman. than Of the bright oeins
~s do 90 love TO cherish snd pIo.e' a..
In oee corner was the chair--the only one in ,nc
roou-from which the miserable wretch bad iAiien
the nisht before: in another was pile o, straw,
over which was thrown dirty quilt, when setvea
Ave women for bed: and nos vestige OF 'h'u'
ture ave this. was In that house. we nave seeu
many sights-we have visited ."9 n nauu' ba, ~.
-rty. Misery, Shame, Crime and Despair out we
h.ss vet 20 see such sight as here met the view
Of The inouest The wretched girl lay stretched
nr,on the noor, in the same dirty haoiiimeots In
which she had died; her feet, which bat moment
,.sore her DEATH had been keeping time, In dance,
90 the music OF violin in 40 adjacent house, we're
~. s,ns shoes, sans hose; her matted hair aud
male. hloafed eountenance ftled the spectators
Win siesly horror and as coon as possible they
retired, Anon the corporation cart came along,
aud without having her prepared for sepulchre, the
fody Of Ann Eliza Curiett was placed in a rough
CONN and taken rapidly to 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,
we're too much disguised with liquor TO follow her
remains to the grave hut remained behind to revel
IN their drnuken spree, and light over hoop
sirt which had heeu torn from the corpse.
Another one of the frail sisterbood, named Mes
linda Ross, living on Church street, was seriously
burned Saturday night, by the upsetsing OF mud
lamp. II appears that she was dressing for bal
and upset the lamp, by which her clothes took
FIRE aud before they could be tern from Der per-
,op she was horribly, Int not fatally burned.
To fill out the chapter Of accidents, We viii no'
tcs the destruction Of the Corporation Stables OF
the Aims House lot, by fire, last evening. The
horses, and q portion Of the harness. were gotteI
out, and the house, proveader, and part OF The
harness consumed. The Are was the Work OF 81
iacendiary, Is bat about fifteen minutes before
Mr.. Hawkins, the keeper, had passed by the STA
ble and there was no vestige ii fire to be seen.
One OF the new sioops OF war Is TO be iannchea
on Wednesday next.
A rockfish, weighing fifty four pounds, ard mes
anring four feet long, was caught 10 the wheel
house Of the steamship Roanoke, on Saturda
evening.
The slight accident to the Norfolk and Peters
burg Railroad has been repaired 81 nd all Is IN cor
plete running order, without having impeded II
the ieast the operations of the road.