The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-12-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.
y,etter from New Kent.

letter from New Kent.
rco-,osnondance OF the Richmond Dispatch.I
NEW KENT c. g., VA, Dec. 9th, 1917:
A MOTION to set aside the election IN This |
county will be made before Judge ben}.
" Lacy. in a few days, upon the GROUNDS
that the REGISTRATION books were not opened
in accordance with the election law, nfteen
DAYS anterior to the dag OF voting. me
POPULAR impression is that the couFo VIZ
t,rant the petition, and that the Sonserva.
lives will have another shuihe ana oea.. III
the Radicals only triumped by very small
majority in the late contest. The result |
woulG have been otherwise but lot the |
almost criminal apathy on the part OF Inc
Conservatives, many of whom renamed
onietlv at their homes while others were |
battling nobly for political disenthralment. !
Much has been said about the Hon. Jos. |!
Mayo allowing himself to be run on tne
Radical ticket for CommonWealths attor-
new. The platform upon when tnis gen
tleman stands is not erected OF kadical OF
Conservative timber, rs ne DENIES nls pon'
tical position, for he declared TO your cor
respondent Immediately after the election
that he was not identified with either par
tv that he had been solicited by both SIDES
tn become a candidate. Be this as it may,
it ia known that he did formally accept the
nomination of the Radicals, and was elected
The quarterly term of the county court
has lust closed, Judge Lacy presiding.
negro man was found guilty OF larceny anu
sentenced to imprisonment III the county
iail, but the negro having the electlon De,
tween this and the whipplng-post, preief'ssee
the latter, and became the recilhent o. W. III,
teen STRIDES, properly administered by tne
sheriff I'm this the negro evinced WISDOM,
for it is not half so painful as q protracteue
incarceration, particularly ut this season Oh
the year. o,,,d
From the late census retarns one Wouid
readily perceive that the populatlon mas
been greatly depleted in this county WltmI
the last decade, and one sees the decline Oh
industrial resources in every nelgnpofnoou'
1t certainly cannot be an lnolcatlon OF lu-
creasing prosperity Of county OF stn.e
when there is such an alarming loss III 'n6
neonle az there has taken place here in such
= short period. Numbers of young. men
have gone out to seek their fortunes IN dh-
ferenf portions of the Union since the war;
and will likely never return. But we can,
not think country Astounding Win every
natural resource for greatness can long re-
main in such depressed state, ana we De-
Iieve that in the course Of the next oecaoe
a new era will dawn. &c..
A party consisting of five gentlemen from
your city came here week ago VIII Ins
view of hunting, and in lew DAYS hlllgu
fifteen deer, among them some as heaylly
antlerad as were ever seen In an American
forest.
MIR. W. 4. Pollard, most worthy ana
enterprising young man OF Baltimore, VINO
died ut the residence or his brothers, IN
your CITY, was brought to the country 1or
interment to-day. He was a gallant Con
tederate, and bore himself heroicallT ID the
war, and received q most painful Wounu,
from which he never wholly recovered.
OLD HICKORY.
SAD Academia Young Lady Killed oy
n Horse.--The family of Mr.. John Wits,
of this place, We're greatly shocked yester.
dav morning by the news OF the deatn Oh
his daughter, Miss Alice Wits, at the resi- .SI
dence Of relative, at or near Sprlnghlll,
in augusta county. AS far as we nave
been able to collect the particulars we give
them to our readers: On Sunday MISS
Wits, in the company OF several irle4us,
started to church on horseback. lhey nau
proceeded but 4 short distance "hen Tue
horse which she was riding became un;
manageable, threw her to the ground, ana
tramped her. She did not long survive
Har17sonburg Enterprise.
SHOOTING AFFAIR.--As Mr.. James Easton
was going from court on Monday, and mad
gotten as far as MIR. Byers's house, about
| three miles from town, he stopped ana
asked Mr.. Vim. Byers to keep him and his
horse all night. When this was refused,
| angry words passed between them, which
finally resulted in the firing of a pistol-shot,
which wounded Mr. Byers in the side, for
tunately but slightly. Mr.. Byers came to
| foy ,ocfor q warrant r.
Easton.- Charlottes lille Chronicle.
OF all the outrages that ever were com.
| mitred by despotic power on an unarmed
people. the recent arrests IN this county
and other parts of the State are the most
| fragrant. A notorious adventurer comes as
| United States Marshal into an unsuspect-
| ing community, and proceeds to arrest old
and respected citizens, totally unconscious
of having committed any crime. To be ar
rested and carried off from their families, TO
the great injury of their business, is bad /,
but the Radicals make bad worse by choos-
ing the dead of night for their yillainous
deeds. Nobody appears in these arrests ex-
cent the officers but there can be no doubt
that they are put up to it by parties here In
| the county and town, and they are the men
| who are really responsible for these horrible
outrages.
It Is understood that the warrants or
which the recent arrests were made are IS
tsued on che complaint on oath of the officers
making the arrest, and none other. In Other
words, this man (Grahap, we believe, Is hi
name) makes the complaint, s1cearing K
pretended facts of which he cannot possibly
have any cogniZance, and then proceeds tt
make the arrests himself. He is certainl,
. earning we'll his fees-acting, as he is, in thu
double capacity of officer and witness
! Charlottesville Chronicle.
TIE BEST GOVERNMENT TIE WORLD EvEl
. SAw.-In Cumberland county, as we Learn
{ from the Farmville Commonwealth, Messrs
John D. Jenkins, Edward Coleman, AM
James Dowdy have been arrested on war
) sioner, who was candidate for the clerkshi]
D at the election in which these violation
5 were alleged to have been committed.
seems that these gentlemen had opposed
Beuter actively in his canvass for the clerk
) ship. In this state of the case Beuter ha
: these gentlemen arrested, and has then
, dragged to Prince Edward county, twenty
five or thirty miles from their homes, to b
examined before him upon has o,cn charges
YESTERDAY, Mr.. James Il. Hosier wa
; riding along on horseback on Union street
, when his horse stumbled and fell, and i
rising, MIR. Hosier endeayored to get hi
Z feet out of the stirrups, but only succeeded
in disengaging one of them. The horse ral
. of as soon as he arose, dragging Mr. Hosfe
I after him by one foot o long distance dow
) the street, during which he received severe
I and it Ia feared fatal, injuries.-Nor7o!
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