The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-01

knife, and that he would have shot Harran
could he have found any gun-caps.
The information that we have secured Is
very imperfect, and We will give something
in addition tomorrow. -N0rJolk Journal,
INeSday.
TERRIBLE AND PROBABLY FATAL Acct
DENT.-About 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon little child about three years of age,
son Of Mr.. 0rmsby, doing business Oh Wide
Water street next TO the custom house, was
run over by train Of cars, and severely,
perhaps fatally, injured. The circum-
stances, as We learned them, are these ::
Mrs. Ormsby had just put the little fellow
out Of her lap when he started to run
across the track. 4 train OF cars was being
backed down the road at the time, and the
mother screamed to the engineer to stop :;
but it was too late, and in another second
the train had passed, leaving the little in
noccnt bleeding on the earth. On picking
him up it was found that his right arm had
been crushed completely off above the
elbow, his right hip badly mangled, be-
sides other injuries. Surgical aid was i'm
mcdiatcly called in, and Drs. Gait, Brown,
and Ward, responded. They administered
chloroform TO the sufferer, and amputatcd
the arm at the shoulder joint. The other
wounds were also dressed by the same skill
full practitioners.
The chances, we learn, arc against the
recovery of the patient, the shock to his
system being very great, and the operation
itself being attended with great danger.
Another account of the origin of the &C
cdcnt says that fat was standing on the
track and the train was backing down to it..
The little boy was behind the fiat, and
therefore out of sight of persons on the
train. Upon striking the fiat it was showed
forward, running over the child Us stated.
This informant states that the fiat only ran
over the child, and that the train was stop
ped. All agree that the bell was not rung,
and that several parties tried to stop the
train before the accident occurred. Too
much care cannot be exercised in running
these trains, especially through such ave-
nues as lower Wide Water street, where
children abound.-NoJ0k It7yinian Of
1ucSdQy.
TIE TRIAL OF Mr. Cox.-The case of Mr..
J. NJ. Cox, charged with shooting Fayette
Reynolds some ten days since in Lynch
burg, was called in the Mayors court on
Monday in that town. Reynolds being una
bic to be present, the trial was postponed
until the eth instant. Mr.. Cox renewed
his bail until that day. Reynolds con-
tinues to improve slowly, and his recovery
is now confidently hoped for.
DEATH OF Mrs. PETERs.-We were panied
IL re Nov
garct Peters, wife of Professor William f.
Peters, of the University of Virginia.
Mrs. Peters died Sunday about noon, at the
residence of her father, Hon. james W..
Shelley, III Marion, Smyth county. She
was lady of great amiability and rare
intellectual power, full Of vivacity and
fascination, the very life Of the brilliant
University circle in which she moved
LpachJury Republican.
refreshing and copious-have
fallen in all the Piedmont and Valley
rcpions, as far as we have heard. They
have fallen gently, and have been readily
absorbed by the thirsty earth, doing all the
good that was possible to be done at so late
u period.
CoLD-BLooDED AssAssIHATloN.- MIR. Viii
liam King Heiskill, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of Washington
county, was waylaid on Saturday last BY Il
youth named David Rust, seventeen years
DID, and shot. From the facts, as we gather
them, it appears that the father OF Rust Is
tenant of Mr.. Heiskill, and some dlttl-
Guilty having occurred between them on
Thursday last, Mr.. Heiskill went to the
house OF Rust, and being unable to settle
the difficulty satisfactorily, Rust was in
formed that he must leave the premises.
Mr.. Heiskill then returned to his home, and
Oh Friday visited Bristol, twelve miles dis
tant. Young Rust was also in Bristol that