The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-02

THE GREESBRIER DROWNING CAsE-AD-
OPTIONAL PARTICuLARs.-1he Richmond
lad who was drowned in the Green
/ brier river n week ago yesterday was p.
Burfoot Howard, aged sixteen, eldest
son Of Philip +. Howard, Esq, late State
librarian, and nephew of Robert Howard,
Esq, and of the late Nathaniel Z. Howard.
| The first information received by the father
OF his sons decaese was contained in the
paragraph copied in our issue of yesterday,
nnG full particulars of the sad affair are not
| yet ut hand.
| Young Howard was a lad Of marked in
telligcnce and amiable department, but
Wifhal possessed of an adventurous spirit.
Only 4 short time before he left Richmond
| to go to Grcenbricr he made profession of
religion, and his parents are comforted by
| the knowledge that he was prepared to die.
They have i'll this bereavement the sympa-
1 thy of the entire community and OF their
many acquaintance throughout the entire
State.
| The Erening Nc,rS Of yesterday contains
the following additional particulars of this
sad affair: "The young men were sent for
ward in Il boat to locate II camp, and on
Monday last they crossed New river above
the falls. After IN absence of two days, and
nothing being heard from them. parties
were sent in search, when their boat was
1
thereafter the bodies Of the two young men
were found upon the bank Of the river.
From the fact that both OF the bodies were
| stripped of clothing, and young Hammond
had his watch and other valuables folded In
| a handkerchief and fastened aroung his neck,
| it is supposed that when the boat was upset
the young men were lodged upon Il rock
that they then undrcsscd and attempted to
swim TO shore, when they were drowned.
IpmfnnnI 'nS 81 nf Nv tis,fr
don, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad. Their bodies, when found, were
buried on the banks of the Gauley river
short distance from the spot where found
ESCAPE OF A MEMBER OF THE CHAIN
GANG AND HIS RECAFTURE.--On Saturday
evening, after Captain Wilkinson had
turned over the chain-glng to the iailor to
be locked up for the night, Jim Brooks, 4
negro prisoner, escaped from the yard by
placing il stcp-ladder, which is used for
Fighting the lamps, against the wall, and,
having by this means reached the top OF the
wall, jumping into the street below. AS
soon rs he was missed Detective Daniel
Wrcnn and Policeman William l.. Pcasley
set out after the fugitive, and after long
search and hot chase brought him to bay
in the neighborhood of the Petersburg de-
not. i'm Manchester. The RichmOnd Off
GERS were u>SlSlcu ny SlllCt-oI-L ollCC rliiitll
Jones, of Manchester, and several citizens
OF that town. Brooks resisted stoutly, and
discharged all the barrels of fivc-shootcr
before he was taken. One of the balls took
effect in the shoulder Of MIR. Thomas
smith, and another graZed the temple OF
the same person, but neither Of the wounds
can be pronounced serious. Brooks was
brought back to Richmond and lodged in
his old quarters at the city Jail. He is a
desperate character, and VIII, when his
expires, have to stand trial OH four other
charges, both of misdcmcanor and felony.
He told the officers by whom he was recap
turcd that he had made up his mind not to
be taken alive. .-.--