The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-02
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I "A REPENTANT CRIMINAL-Toprhine Comics.
| sicn.-At Eimira, n. Y, las. week, one Philo
K. Daily 90 years OF age, who has hitherto
sustained u respectable character, pleaded
guilty 10 an assault upon a Miss Sawyer, and
was sentenced TO the State Prison for four
years and eight months. When asked if he
had any thing to say, he made the following
touching speech to the Court:
May it please the Court Il have 4 few re-
! marks TO make, though 1t may be useless, for
know this privilege is 4 m~re formaity.
desire the Court To take in 10 consideration the
dIfierence between what l have been, aud
what am now. In a brief space Of time 1
have lost everything An honorable aud lu-
cratlVe Office, friends, money, honor, good
name, liberty and health, all are gone. And
yet do not fear prison or punishment, and
Tor myself ask nothing. ! urge nothing by
| way of mitigation. l have lost SO much aud
suffered much that it matters little to me
what new becomes of me.
1t Is a sorf of qualification to me to be made
aware that am to have an abiding place any
where, and can only say for myself that /
am determined to do the verv best poss ible that
l can under all the trying circ ums tances which
my unhappy fate may present. But have
10 urge, and earnestly solicit the Court TO
consider the facts l now state in connec ton
with the length of time for which l may be
| imprisoned. l have aged parents who are and
have been for yeaIs entirely dependent upon
me for portion OF their support, and for that
protection and care which devol,es upon
only SON l have ever tried perform my
duty 10 them, and member of this honorable
Bar, now present, Will bear me witness that l
expended even 10 my last penny in performing
thai duty. Even more, NOR, gagged the last
piece OF property, down 10 small trlnkets of
little value save to me TO obtain money for
their wants Would TO God cou Id hav e done
more and bettor for Them. In view OF their
necessities and my du'y to them, ask and
spectfully urge the Court to Use that leniency
In lnflicting sentence which those circums tan
ees demand. For myself, l repeat, have no.
thing to say. shall be perfectly satisfied with
the sentence which the Court deems proper 20
inilict, and will endeavor TO perform it faith
fully.
MORE SUFFOCATIoN FROM COAL Cash
Bsd ,cith n Corpse.-On Wednesday evening q
report spread through town that citizen Of
Bethlehem, Pa, had been found dead IA bed
under very mysterious circum> tanc.s. The
particulars of this singular death are as toi-
lows 1t appears that William Woehler All
old citizen OF Beth chem, who had been in Iery
i'll health for some time past, took medicine on
Tuesday last, which seemed 10 relieve him
very much, and IN the evening, the Whole
family, consisting OF himself. his wife, and
adopted daughter, retired to resi- about ni!e
O'Clock, after Mrs. Woehier had filled up the
coal stove which stood in an ad joining room,
and thrown open the door leading into thai
apartment. The woman and her daughter
We're worn Out with waiting upon the sick
husband and father, and soon fel! into sleep
from which, singular TO say, they never awo he
thing over twenty-one hours. Mrs. Woehler
was first to awaken, and suppOsing it to be
nearly day, she jumped cut OF bed and COM
menced preparing Tor breakfast when neigh
Dor knocked at the door to inquire whether
they did not desire some is lance, the
(hear which they lived was rising very rapidly.
Mrs. Woehier here remarked how singular
it was that it grew darker instead of ignter.
when she discovered, by her neighbor's reply,
that 1t was evening, and thai she and her
family had slept the whole day. In The mean
time, the daughter had left her bed ana
dressed renarking, us she entered the room
where her mother aud the neigh bOr were, that
She was glad there was 40 school to-day, as
| ii was Washington's birthday" Mrs. Woeh-
Ter now ran III TO her husband, with the in
ten;Ion CT calling him up, but was horror
stricken 10 fiud that he was dead and had
been SO for some time. Il was supposed by
al that he must have died during the night
before, and The wife. of course, lay part OF that
night and the hole of the 22d in bed wi IN the
corpse. The Coroner rendered q verdict that
the deceased ca!ue To his death by gas escaping
from the coal stove III the adjoining room,
only Il few feet from the hed.-EastoR (PaO
Express, E5. %.
IMPORTS OF FOREIGN DRY (1oops AT NEW
York The total imports of dry goods at
New YORK. tor the last 1cur weeks. exceeded
those for the corresponding period last year
by 81 per cent, VIZ:
ENTERED r"F coSsr Nrr,oS.
Man tures Of Wool 81 ots 10 81 $50 o22 St7i9 ss7
:. - Cotton rs rs l:s y5'oo2e ?sso es5
Nlsos Dry Goods od s: 8! s.! So ss;5 5 ss ssss5 81
Total --- ....- ; ol9 $40 1913 452 I3loi7So
| Entered for warehousiug, S,.5,2y3; with
| drawn from warehouse. 81 l,l1o,7iG, the excess
showing that The import does not exceed the
demand. IL there be any excess In any por-
| uon of he assortment now the market, il
! is made up 10 a great extent Of miscellane us
stock, much OF ii very undesirable, and some
| OF II only Saleable At Il considerable sacrifice
| from cost.
| SURGEONS NEW CuAPEL.-Spurgeon, the
| English abo ,itionist, preached recently in the
| American Chapel at Paris. AT the close of h &
| adiress he said it had been his inten ton 10
| preach tor The benefit of The American Chapel
| in Paris, III whose pulpit he stood. but that
| the veStrY Ot the church insisted that the pro-
ceetls Of The collection about 70 be taken should
| be applied 70 the edfce in prol Of con-
| struction in London, for the >Cse of his own
| congregation, composed mostly OF p"or people.
| He added that twenty thousand pounds ster-
| ling had already been raised for the purpose,
| and ten Thousand more We're still to be OBJ
| tanned. He accepted the offer OF the American
| vestry, but would consider himself bound to
| return the favor in kind. The collection was
then taken up and the audience dispersed.
THE FIRST AMERICAN LocoMoTIvE.-The
| first American locomotive was built at West
| Point Foundry in 1880. 1t was contracted
for by Mr.. T.. l.. Miller, Of Chnriest.n, S. C.,
and used that same year on 4 ROAD i'll that
| Stare. II was called the PhuniX. II had four
| wheels, all of them drivers. The wheels had
| iron hubs and wooden spokes and felloes. TIE
| boiler was vertical, and the whole engine
| weighed about four tons and 4 halt. II com
| menced running in December. The second
| one built in the IA II of the same year, nd
| for road in South Carolina also Ii was
| called the West Poiut. The third was He'd
| IN. De Witt Clinton, and WAS buil' also at the
| West Point works, for the same road in the
| spring OF 1891.
| HEAVY BEoW AT NEW ORLEANS La
| About noon on the 2ist inst, ii blew terrific
gale 1T New Orleans, La, lasting about an
! hour. Several buildings in course of erection
were prostrated. and signs and shutters blown
| away, to the imminent danger of pedes strinns
On The river, several steamers lost heir noke
| stacks, and vessels OF every description were
| blown adrift, some OF which suffered consid-
erable damage by being driven against the
| wharves, or each other. II was rumorpd thai
| the engineer of the steamboat Relief was kill
| Ell, and that three men were blown off the
| Eclipse and drowned, but there was Ger
| tainly about IL.
| a TERRIBLE DEAIH.-Thursday afternoon
| says the Troy IN. " Wing, crowd of boys
! were snow balliDg each other on South street
| when one OF their number, dipping his hand
| into a bank of snow, was astOnished at touch
| ing human face. He alarmed his coInpan.
ions, and an investigation revealed the body
| of man lying in the snow. 1t was recog
| niZed AS being that of a tailor, named Freder
| ick kes, who lived in that vicinity, and hac
been missing since Saturday. The deceased
was man given to drink, and being under
the influence of liquor, had perished during
the cold OF Saturday night.
HORRIBLE OUTEAGE.-A painful event ha
lately occurred at Viareggio, in the Gulf o
Genoa, where the late Duke of Parma, wh'
was assassihated, is buried. 1t appears ih
| chanel and grave W here the body is dppoSitpt