Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-04-26
RICHMOND THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 2e 1860

now 2S6 5O copies Ofwhch the daily paper has 40 OOo
aud the weekly 2l70OO.
Isaac B. Dashie was crushed on the Philadephin
Railroad near Westchester last Wednesday morning
and died in about Que hour thereafter Deceased was
well known in Richmond and Petersburg as an actor un
der the management OF hessrs. kunkel Co. His pro.
fessona name was Mortimer
A tornado passed over Carenville, ILL.,, on Monday
evening, unGoofing and blowing down houses. barns
trees aud fences The roof Of the Lutheran Church was
blown some distance, and the walls we're much injured
The roof of dwelling carried nearly mile aud a
half through the air Children we're picked up by the
wind and carried considerable distance stock was kill
ed in every direction man named Lowe was killed
BY lightning many persons wounded aud the des-
ruction of property very great similar storm Wis
tied Louisiana, Mo-, on the same evening. doing much
damage to property and injnrng several persons
The Memphis Enquirer, of the 9Th inst reports that
the town of Lewisburg, Conway county, Ark, was en-
rely destroyed by fire several days since No particu.
lars are as yet received
The Lawrenceburg Bank of Tennessee has supended.
The cashier says will be all right again in few days
In the suit of Mary f. Coyes against the Boston and
Worcester Rliroad Company for $4,000 damages for
personal injuries on the road the jury of the Supreme
Court to-day awarded the plaintiff $4,000.
Hon Jonn F. Potter and family have efl Washington
for Wisconsin COL f. Lander has left for California.
portion of the Female College at spartansburg, s.
c., with fourteen pianos, burnt on the 4th inst
Milk cans if covered with cotton cloth soked in salt
water will it is said keep milk in the middle of
summer, while jotng over a railroad to market.
As specimen of the awful results of polygamy it is
related that Young English woman was recently sold TO
a man in Salt Lake City for a load of pumpkins.
Cicero it is said, was os low birth Meteus was the
son OF a ewd woman Mctellus said to Cicero one day
'Dare you tell your fathers name.' Cicero without
scratching his head instantly asked " Can your mother
tell yours Cicero had him there.
1t is expected that the Mobile Ala and Great North.
ern Railroad will be opened through in time to take OIL
the crop of 1861 The total is estimated at 800
OOO The object of this enterprise to unite the city of
Mobile with the Alabama and Florida road and the Ala
bama and Tennessee rivers road thus to secure to Mobile
direct and expeditions route connecting with the gene
raj railway improvements of Alabama and the commercial
centres of the North and East.
A correspondence is published in the New Orleans
True Delta explanatory OF IAN affair" which nearly oc-
cured between Col S. A. Lockridge and Gen VIM Wal
kerr Lockidge met Walker on the street and denounced
his late book on Nicaragua as totally false so as as re-
lated to the former informing him also that he should
hold him responsible therefor at an early day. To which
Wake- answered "Whcn you please sir" Col Lock
ridge then sent note by his friend r. II. Purdom,
which note it appears, withdrawn for explanation.
In answer to another note Gen. Walker replied that in
his book he abe did intend to npugn the honor or
courage of Col Lockridge' and so the affair ended
without appeal to pistols Capt. Fayssoux Wal
keI's friend
correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing
from Tucson, Arizona, on April ls states that Mr..
John Page, the who was stolen by the Apachcs
aud carried into captivity had been recovered by party
Of her friends. 1t would appear she gained sight of the
pursuing party aud refused proceed farther when the
Indians rather than give her up, aud suppOsng them
selves closely pursued anced her in several places aud
left her for dead She recovered aud binding her
nd ui,sis an al IN
drag herself TO her friends III the pinery. Capt Rws
who had come in for supplies left the lst for Arapy
no Canon to effect the release of the little girl who was
stolen with Mrs Page.
A Chicago correspondent OF the New York Tribune
writes that the Burch divorce case which has already
rIcted considerable attention, will probably be pressed
10 trial during the present week The paintf in this
suit Isaac H. Burch, ESD is one of the most wealthy and
prominent citizens OF Chicago and owner of the bank
known as the Bank of l. II. Burch Co. His wife whom
he married in May, 1885, is young handsome and ac-
compshed woman the adopted daughter at Rrastus Cor
ming ED, of New York aud mother Of two interesting
children the eldest eleven years OF age and the young
est but nineteen month. Old. The ground Of application
for divorce is the alleged adultery Of the defendant
with David Stuart Esq, formerly a Black Republican
representative Of Michigan in Congress but for several
wears past resident OF Chicago The proofs of the crime
said to be abundant Though the wife backed by
the ampc OF Mr. Corning will stcnuously resist
the application, though more upon the plea OF her hus'
bauds guilt than her own innocence.
We regre, to learn that sad scene va. enacted in
Columbia county, Georgia Monday. A crazy negro
man, belonging to Mrs. Pace went 10 the neghborug
plantation owned by Col T. Clanton and brually mur-
dered four negroes. One was an old woman and the
others were children Mr. Whittiugton, Col Cliuton's
oyerseer hearing the disturbance promptly proceeded
the spot aud the crazy negro made desperate a.
tempt to kill him The shot the crazy negro,
aud in that way arrested farther destruction of life
coroners inquest held the dead bodies and the
jury rendered verdict in accordance with the above
facts The jury also after hearing the evidence in tie
case, declared that Mr. Wilmington, the oyerseer, was
fully instihed i'm .honfinp The ncrro.