The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-11
Charles Cochran, of Winchester, hung
himself last week.

Charles Cochran, of Winchester, hung
himself last week.
The Androscoggin Mills, ct Lewiston,
Me-, employ 1900 operatives, and consume
5000 bales Of cotton every year.
There is but little doubt that Congress
will take long recess during the Christmas
holidays.
The name of Jefferson Davis is the first
in the book of visitors at the Massachusetts
Historical Society, and that of .. S. Grant
is the last.
The trial of Deacon Andrews has resulted
| in q verdict Of manslaughter. Andrews
was sentenced to twenty years imprison-
| ment.
The Maryland Court of Appeals has de-
cided that contract to pay a debt in gold
can be enforced in court Notwithstanding
the act making greenbacks legal tender
Case of Abel Us. Chesapeake Bank.
Deputy Sheriff William F. Barrett sold
last week the land of James Merchant, near
| Morrisonyille, as follows: The home tract
for $45.75 per acre, Michael Hunter pur-
chaser the house and lot for $3.50, Burr
Simpson purchaser the mountain land for
$1,000, F. Simpson purchaser.-Leesbrg
Mirror.
In conversation with General Williams
| G. Wickham, the present president Of the
! Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, a friend Of
ours received the most positive assurance
of the completion of said road to the cele-
brated Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
by the 1st Of June next.-Lea0is6urg Times.
By the Point of Rocks railroad (now
under construction in connection with the
Pittsburg and ConnellsVille line, the dis
lance is reduced to seventy-four miles from
Pittsburg and 12S miles from Cincinnati to
Washington, as compared with the shortest
lines to that city by the Pennsylvania
road.
A man by the name of Solomon Carver,
living near Warsaw, KY, was instantly
lzilled by his wife on Sunday, who struck
him over the head with a billet of wood.
They had been living very unhappily to-
gethcr for long time, and the fatal blow
Tas struck by Mrs. Carver while in fit of
rage over fresh quarrel. Carver was 8
ferryman al Warsaw.
There is rumor IN Chicago, said to be
we'll authenticated, that DR.. John McMul-
len, pastor of St. Paul's Roman Catholic
Church of that city, who left there some
months since to prosecute an appeal against
Bishop Duggan, has so far succeeded in his
mission that the controversy between the
Bishop and his clergy has been taken up
at Rome, where all parties concerned have
been summoned TO appear and be heard
before the Supreme Tribunal Of the Church.
A Philadelphia lawyer has been in Tren-
ton, N. j., pursuing investigations in the
murder case of Mrs. Hill, of Philadelphia.
When the house in which the murder took
place was entered on the night of
the murder but one gas jet was found
burning, and that had been lighted by a
piece Of paper torn from copy of the
Trenton Gazette. The paper from which
the slip had been torn was found lying upon
the floor, and part Of the printed name
and direction still remained, the rest hav-
ing been torn off. From the letters which
remained, however, the proprietors of the
Gazette, it is said, have been able to posi-
lively identify the person to whom the
paper was addressed as a resident Of Tren-