The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-02
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Whife,rashing.-Yeeterda morning q white
| man named VIM. q. Gay, made his appearance
before the Recorder TO answer the charge of
getting drunk and lying dowa in the street
officer Bibb told the situation OF the prisoner
when found, and intima,ed that he was iipsy.
Gay, when his time for speaking arrived, de-
clared that so far from being drunk. he was
uncomfortably sober. He declared that he had
been whttewa>hing AL The morning-that
LOO king mp constantly had made his head
SWIM ana his eyes dizzy, and that he had laid
down to res them, when found by the officer.
He plead 90 earnestly, that the Recorder told
him to 90 in peace and drink no more.
Bound Orsr.-Zimmerman Davis, charged
win assaulting and beating Michael Moore.
appeared before the Recorder yesterday aud
was held to bail for hts good behavior.
RExARKABLE CRIMINAL TRIAL.-An extra.
ordinary trial for perjury reeen, ,ly occupied the
Central Criminal Court, in London, for nearly
week. The Rev. Mr.. Hatch was recently
iound guilty OF committing an indecent assault
upon two little girls committed to his care as
pupils, by wealthy and respec table paren IS, and
was sentenced to II long Imprisonment. In
PROOF OF MS innocence, he brought = charge Of
perjury against the eldest of the girls, Eugenia
Piummer, aged III years, ard she was found
gully OF the charge. The child is supposed TO
have been prompted by her mother. She was
sentenced to three weeks imprisonment and
v.
was supposed to be merely formal.
SINGULAR CAsK-In Washington county,
va, last week, VIM. W>OdSou, who is worth
Sl0o,o!W, was convicted OF hog stealing and sen.
fenced to one year in the penitentiary.
we cup the above paragraph from the Rich
mond Dispatch. Our friend has been led into
an error The trial Gee urred in2sce oOoaty.-
Woodson was con. icted but, from the large
preponderance OF evidence in his favor-we ht.-
lieve-prOving that the hogs " ere his properly
the Judge setaside the yeruict-AttngdoM( { (Va.j
Ds0tOc az.
ExcIrEMeNT.--Rev. Mr.. Cumming, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, North. in New
Glarxet, Shenandoah county Va, preached
sermon last Sunday, blaming the magistrates
for having sentenced 4 negro to be Whipped
VINO mao lnsulted white person. His church
held meeting and condemned his course at
the same time appointing a committee to in.
ves,igate the allegation that he was forced to
quit his church at Greenvilie Va. on account
ot being suspected Of abolitionism. There is
much excitement in New Market about tho
affair
A THORN FOR THE RosE.-At the late Wo.
Wans RiKnts Convention, an argument, de.
clueui' cOE{epT dc Rose, was advanced To provo
that the Oppressed SEX (this is probably an
allusIon to the female element of our popuia.
uon,l had the right of taking part in elec iions
ana OF serving on Juries. Perhaps Mrs. En-
nestine L. forgot that jurors are compelled to
SIT for hours, and sometimes days together
Without speaking word!
MONEY FOR MIss0URI.-The u. s. Attorney
General, ON Thursday, gave an opinion in ia
Nor OF allowing The State of Missouri about
Eloo,oVi, being the TWO per cent. arising from
the sales OF the public lands in that State
heretofore reserved by the Federal Govern
ment on account OF the construction Of u Ma
tional road, but which was never extended to
Missouri. draft for the amount Will b
issued in few days
meht' is engaging distinguished attention in
London. Lords GrosvenUr, Shaftesbury and
Elcho have each addressed the Times on the
xubJeci Grosvenor suggests that to give the
persons employed in stores time for exercise,
the ladies should resolve to do no shopping af-
ter = O'Clock on Saturday, ana wants an ussO.
citation formed for this object.
The APPROACHING CONFERENCE.-The CO.
lumbus (Ga.) Times publishes a letter from
Senator lverson, in which he says: ut is now
distinctly aseerfntaed that il the whole Con.
vention assemblies at Baltimore, u platform of
principles. satisfactory to the ssced,ag Stotss,
viii be adopted 10y majority OF The Conyen.
non, upon which all sound men, North aud
South, can e0rdiaHy uaits.''
DIED WHILE DAN NG.-A young man
named Frank Stanhupe attended Il dance III
Conway, Mass, few evenings since, and
while dancing and playing a flute at the same
time, fell dead upon the moor. The seiec tmeu
suspected foul work, and had his body disn-
teIIcu, Wucu II WIS iuuuu an artery Ha0 reeu
broken near the top OF the head which proba-
bly, caused his deah.
UNIVERSITY SOCIETY MRDALs-The gold
medals. annually given by the Jefferson and
Washington Societies OF the University OF
Virginia to their best dsbateyS, have this
zion been awarded hy the first named society
to Mr.. James NJ. Boyd of Iynchburg and by
the last to Mr.. William Allen, Of Winchester.
THE Pony EXPREss.-The War Department
ha al had.
Floyd, directing that adequate protection &c
sent from Salt Lake to Carson Valley, which
will etectually guard emigranis, the mails,
and secure the safety of the Pony Express in
future.
LrBERALITY.-Mrs. A Hoilins, Of Lynch
burg Va, has recently given SiI,0tU To HoI-
Inns Institute, Botetourt Springs, Va, which,
with her gifts in previous years, and the gift
of 50 800 ny her h US md during his Life, makes
the sum OF Sl7, 300.
A SicKLEs CAsE.-George S. Howe, a police
man Of New orleans, was shot and killed on
the 27th ult, by Joseph Williams an engineer,
whose wife he had seduced. Letters were
found in Nowe's room, written by the woman,
making arrangements for an elopement.
PRINCE NAroLEON.-The Prince Napoleon
is expected to saii forthwith in the French
vessel Cassard, for Canada and New York. He
comes at the direction Of the Emperor. and the
trip Is intended as seqnel TO Prince Napo-
Icons tour in the R,tne H0rtene
GOLD IN INDiANA.--In Morgan county.
lnd, on Seymour creek, from one days work
last week, Mr.. Joshua Cooper, shoe merchant
of Indianapolis, washed by means OF the
Long tom, 1910 in gold, including one piece
worth $3.50.
WARNING TO PARKNTs.-In Petersburg
Va, tew days since, u child OF John Davis,
about two years old, died from eating the COM
position Off some Lucifer matches which it
had been playing with.
APPOINTMENT.-Chas.H III. Smith, of Blacks
burg, Montgomery county, Va, is appointed
route agent on the route from Lynchburg,
Va, TO Bristol, Tenn, in place Of James Mil
Ter, resigned.
FIRE.-The mill of the Petersburg IVA }
Fertilizing Company was destroyed, yesier-
day morning, by fire, with large quantity Of
guano aud bone dust.
A meeting was held at Culpeper Court.
House, Va, last week, to ratify the nomina.
tons OF John Bell and Edward Everett, which
was addressed by Hon. Richard w. Thomp-
son, of Indiana.
The great modiste OF the day in Paris is not
= French woman, nor even Frenchman but
an Englshman; and he is more run after by
the fashionable ladies than any Of the cele.
brated French milliners ever were.
Mr.. Cooke, the circus manager, has offered
Tom Sayers an engagement for twelve mou tbs
at So week and ali expenses, to travel with
him. and appear in some Of the scenes in the
circle.
Mrs. j. T.. Smiles, passenger on railroad
train, died suddenly Al the Nswburgh, &. w.,
station Tuesday, from the bursting Of blood