Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-23

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FIRrs SATuapAY.-There were three fra, IN
town Saturday. afordins active employment for
<,v. H"se ami the lI"ok and Ladder Companies
Z, was at small house across the branch
! .-sn 18th Street, near the hrdge. and consisted
in the burning Of he'd Or two Loss slight.
No. 2 wa, the burning on Of the kitchen chin
ney attari ri - Mr.. I'm. A Strnthers residence
IN Church Street. M damage.
NJ. 3 occurred ai the rc,ilonce Of Mr. George
\. Kinnear, near Mr.. Ssr"ther's, where n small
back building was discovered to DO on fire, but it
was extnguished before much damage was done
From the signs of the time.. incendaries must
he about. Keer sharp look out.
BLL,ARDs.-rhs gamo is very popular and
very muc' rayed in our city, For the benefit oil
thuse who Indulge in it, we publish the following
rem from the Memphis Enquirer:
Large run Of Billiards. The Argus say. that
Yesterday forenoon. at the Eidorado Billiard Sa.
loon. Mr.. Fred Myers male run Of twenty three
hundred points leaving the ball. spotted" for
another trial. when he may run the game much
higher This il said to be the largest number of
points made in single rnn."
THE RIcuaoND MURDER CAse.-The following
are some additional particulars IT the murder OF
Miss Thorn, in Richmond by her brother in law,
Wm. d. Tot.y, noticed in the Vi-ginian of Satur-
day:
For some time previous to tho shooting Totty
and William rhom's family. with whom he lived,
had had frequent spats. and on the very day be.
fore the murder Thorn had forbid him his house
and Totty wns seen to have pistol. with which
he said he intended to shoot tho old man, at tic
same time calling him hard names. On the NOR
ming of the murder. between the hours of and
o'clock. Miss. Thorn, Mrs. Elizabeth Adams
and child and young man, named Pleasant Or
ange, went into the kitchen and the Indies took
seats at the breakfast table. They had been Sit
ting there bnt short time when Totty came in,
and drew up q chair between them. Miss. Thorn
asked him to have breakfast. lie declined, and
asked her if she would not go AWAY with him,
She replied that she would NOZZLE then drew
two pistols from his pockets and placed then,
the table, and on her declining again to enye home
with him. he told her to take Of the pistols
and shoot him, and that he would shoot her with
the other. She told him no. To lie % foolish, and
on seeing him pick up the pistols and aim ut
her, she attempted to seize it, at which he fired.
the ball entering her stomach about hree inches
above the navel and passing through her, lodging
in the musces Of the back the spinal column
from which place it was after removed by
DR.. Lewis. Totty then fed. and had not been
rested yesterday morning.
Miss Thum stated to DIR. Lewis that Totty shot
her. She said there had been trouble that he
had been trying for three weeks to induce her to
go away with him, but that she had steadily re-
fused to do so-that he told her he would kill her
il she did not go-and that Mrs Adams knew the
fact. She said he come to the fence on Tuesday
night last and repeated the proposition and the
threat.