The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-11-19


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seager. 81. s.ssss3
WAsHnaTaS GousrY fTEsss. -s~sA young mar.
son Of Mr. II. s. Roadnlasa, of sshugatfsyille,,
accidentally shot himself last week, snfiiotina
/ q severe but not dangerous wound.
Mr.. Jonathan LeatiI, who died recsntiy,
beaueathed $500 to King College Bristol:
$500 to the Stoyieysali jacssou irsstits,te In
| this place, and $500 10 the chrftcii at Old
| Glade Spring. stsft.' "a
The United Ssntes District Court sittifIa
at Abingdon has disposed Of the following
cases, allfor Illicit disabling - ll53
Evan Hodges, fined $1,000 and sentenced
20 SIX months Imprisonment in the county
!jail; Solomon Teeds, fined $3.50 and I'M
prisoninent two months In Grafsph, county
Jail; Hull and S. Bryant, fined S1e0 and
one month imprisonment in Carroll county
Jail; j. w. Edwards, convicted but not SEN
fenced. -A6ingdon Vfrgfn,an. @
TIE SMALL-Pox IN BRISTOL AND Coon
soN.--The Bristol Ne,cs has the following
items
Mr.. STATIONS infant to-day "wednesday
| has n case Of yarioloid. This Is now the only
case III either town. All the infected parties
| In Bristol hare been removed to the hos
pital, one mile from town.
The infected parties from Goodson have
been removed to the hospital, outside the
corporate limits.
The negro family, concerning which there
is doubt, is quaraptiued in Goodson, but
will, during the week, be removed to spe-
cial quarters, now being built for them.
In few days Goodson will have three
hospitals-one for whites, one for blacks, and
one for infected parties.
| We are informed that young lady living
| at Mr.. Walter Johnson's, six miles west Of
Bristol, has smallpox. She was exposed to
the contagion by being In Mrs. Caldwelps
millinery establishment during the earlier
days Of Mr. Caldweli's illness.
At the delayed date Of our issue we have
to announce that little Mollie Caldwell,
daughter of the late Fl. C. Caldwell, died
this Wednesday ut liz 4. 81. We under
stand that on Monday she ate freely Of raw
turnips and chestnuts. She died of internal
hemorrhage. ...-..
SAALL-Pox.-We learn that a case of small
pox occurred at Urbanna last week on board OF
vessel lying in the creek. Steps were imme-
diateiy taken by the proper authorities TO have
MI who had been exposed quaraptined, and
no apprehension is felt Of its extending Itself
further. The vessel has returned to Baltl-
more. -Tanrahannock Mder.
VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL
CoLLEaE.-W learn that this new college Is
firmly establishing itself, and hcalthiy grow
| Ing, Mt Blackshurg. Organized late In the
season, when the great body Of educating
people had already made arrangements for
their SONS at other schools, it opened with u
| smaller number Of students than sanguiDe
and hopeful public anticipated, and reactiou-
airy "public sentiment" so called, was ready,
thoughtlessly, to pronounce II failure,--
Lynchbarg Ttgginan.
The VALLEY OF VIReIN1A.-A writer in
the Shenandoah Herald, giving description
| of the Shenandoah valley, says: "There is
| no such valley in the known world, lying, as
| il docs, between two mountain ranges, with
| the climate go healthy and salubrious, with a
| soil so rich and diversified, producing all
! kinds Of cereals, vegetables, and fruits; with
| springs and living streams of the clearest
and best water everywhere; timber and
stone for fencing and building enough to last
| for ages to come, and mineral wealth surpass-
Ing everything that has yet been Uncovered"
| \ divorce from bed and board was granted
to the wife of Colonel George w. Carter,
of New Orleans, by the Circuit Court OF
Loudoun at Its recent term.
Custom G. Curtis, member of the Under
wood Constitutional Convention, died ut
Liberty last Friday. He was native of New
York.
General Wade Hampton will deliver lee
trre on the "Life and Character of General r.
4. Lee" in Alexandria on the 9th instant.
| Mr.. j. y. Ii. st. Andrew, Of England. hos
resigned the yice-presidcncy of the National
| Virginia Settlement Association.
Thomas Wartman, an old citizen Of Neck.
lenburg county, died last week, aged seventy.
| three.
A new woollen factory has been estab
lished in Snowville, Pulaski county.
Commodore Maury, who he's been i'll, is
better.
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PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF VmGINlA.-The
Synod Of Virginia, embracing the churches
in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
in connection with the Presbyterian Church
in the United States, will convene in this
| city at the Franklin 81 root rll,rnb op JVad