The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-21

WIZ near fcCeISuuiS SOHie 'tiUle f8SL flOllLE,
and sentenced to the penitcntiary for six.
teen years. John Thomas (colorcd) was
tried for house-brcakins and larceny ut
Reams's station, and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for six years. Both cases were
very aggravated, and ably defended by
counsel. TN ~. a
Registration Il" about finished. The CO.
lored men have about four or five hundred
majority.
The Board Of Commissioners have made
their report, and Dinwiddie county is di-
vided into the townships of Rowanty,
Sapony, Darville's, and Namozine, contain
ing the following yoting-places Dinwiddie
Courthouse, Reams's Station, Cherry Hill,
White Oak, Pools Store, and Sutherland's.
Yours, PAT.
ACCIDENT At CAMERoN's FAcToRY-GRRAT
EXCITEMEST-SEyERAL PERSONS INJURED
Messrs. Cameron & Brothers TOBACCO fac
tory, situated on the corner Of Brown and
Perry streets, was yesterday morning the
scene of an accident which caused the
greatest excitement among the hands en-
ployed therein, and indeed throughout the
neighborhood, and resulting in the serious
injury Of several persons and the slight
hurting Of number of others.
About halc-past six o'clock band on
some of the machinery en- the first floor be-
second floor to yibrate considerably. The
colored hands on this floor, some sixty in
number, became frightened, and some be-
Gan to cry ire and others that the house
was falling in, and amid tho greatest confn-
sion they rushed pelfmcll for the Windows.
The Superintendent seeing what was to
nav, and Knowing that there was no dam
ger, used every exertion to prevent any
one from jumping out, but they heard him
not, and expecting every moment to be
crushed beneath the falling walls aud tiAi-
bers sought safety by jumping from the
windows, breaking in many cases through
the sash and glass.
Tbs alarm spread through the neighbor-
hood, and In q tbW moMeRts hundreds OF
persons HAD congregated at the spot, all
anxious TO Know what was the cause OF the
excitement. .H
Retwcen fifty and sixty persons lcaped
from the windows into the factory yard, q
distance of some fifteen feet, ard ] Number
were injured, most Of them only slightly.
A colorcd woman named Susan Mumford
was badly injured internally, Pleasant Jack
son had lis hand and arm badly cut, George
Banks, injured in head and arm; Matthew
Boiling, an ankle sprained; Rober Bailey,
cut on the hand; Charles Field, ankle
sprained. -
The engine was Immediately stopped, and
no damage was done to the building save
the brcaEing Of the window-sash. The
wounded were taken 10 thsir homes, and
the excitement soon subsiding, the hands
returned to their. work.-Petersbury Cou'
rIer.
A WONDERFUL CURIosITY.-In our last
issue we gave IN account of i petrified
snake whiea had been left with us by a
friend from the country. 4 more minute
examination of his snakeship reveals the
fact that the petrifaction is not one, but
many snakes. Several distinct heads are
visible, and it is evident that the snakes
were thus bardoyed while coiled together
and sleeping. The weight OF the mass is
about four ounces, and it measures some
one and half inches in diameter. Those
OF orr friends who are in the habit of "sce.
ing snakes" as we'll IS those who are more
fortunate, can see the curiosity by calling at
we conclude that these must have been OF
the horned species, one Of which kind gave
sucb exciting chase, years ago, to Dick
Mays, or AmiErst. - T9 ATTEMPT to print
the story as he himself tells it Woutf ID DC
equivalent to an editor trying to borrow a
dollar without security. Tom Goodwin
will tell you the anecdoJe it you will wait
until he RECEIVERS from Ills snakebite =
WytheulVe Dispatch. ....
ACCIDENT ON THE RICHMOND RoAD.-A
polorod man. named Henry Walker, en-:
plovel as brakeman OH The itichmund
and Petersburg railroad, where he has been
for only short time, met with an accident
xnrIi mil nllnh Ix
t,rove fatal. He was on the top Of the
freight train coming from Riclmond, and
when the train passed under the Roslin
bridge he attempted to stoop low enough
to pass under, but made misealculation,
and the bridge STRUCK him on the right
temple, badly iraetpring his sl{ull. He was
taken back to his home in Manchester on
the accommodation train.-PeterS6ur9 Cost.
rter.
SUDDEN DEATn.-B. III. Shackclford, Esq,
died suddenly OH the 18th at Salem, Eau.
uuiGr county, lie was considered the ableSt
lawyer at the Warrenton bar, and was 4
candidate for the House Of Delegates in the
place of Judge Keith. = Fredericksburg
NetoS.
To THE CONSERVATIVES VOTERS OF FRED:
ERICKsBURG.-Not haYing received a'major.
ity of the ballots cast ut the recent primary
election, we take this OCCASION to return
our thanks to those Of our friends who gave
us their support, and IN retiring from the
canvass would urge upon them ali to vote
for the regular nominees ofthe Conservative
party. ...
J.J. Berrey, Jr., late candidate for mayor
q. b, Pearson. late candidate for sergeant
G.. W. Pearson, late candidate for clerk
William L. Kelly, late candidate for com
missioner of the revenue; William J. Moon
late candidate for Commonwealth attor'
ney II. A. Hoomes, late candidate for con:
stable; M. r. Embry, late caAdidate for tax
collector.
p. Stree lunch postponed until the
election in 1871. Fredericksburg Net0s:
LAND SALEs.-To MIR. Timothy Usher,' Of
Philadelphia, 80 acres OF l.. 9. F'rosts
farm, known as GrantWood," for $40 pei
acre, including small share of the crops
one-haIf cash, balance on time amount
$4,000. Also, 1870 acres in SpOtsylyania
connty. eleven miles from Fredericksburg,
the property OF p, B. Pritchett, to ]. B.
THOMPSON, of New York, for 81 200, cash
Fredericksburg Herald.
BARN BURNED.-We learn that the large
barn of MIR, Joseph Dyerle, near Salem, in
Hoapoke county. was burned on Tuesday
night last, We did not hear the extent Of
the loss or the origin Of the tre.-Ly'lch.
bury Neaes.
APPOINTED CLERK.-Judge G. A, Wing:
field OH "Wednesday appointed hrkWood
Alexander, Esq, clerk Of The circuit court
for Campbell county,
THE WHEAT CRoP.-From all parts OF the
South the growing crop OF wheat IS repre-
coptad ap pivinp DrOmiSa OF an abundant