The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-29
From Nottowa;y. ! County &

| :. JENNINGS nv ORDINARY, April 90, 1872.
| Deor Dispatch * Since Hast wrote sprinc
mas tul!y set In In every direction the f,r.
iners are planting corn: Some few have fin.
ished, but the most Of them ure taking od
vantage OF the fine weather we are nov
| having: The farmers intend to plant large
| crop OF corn this year, owing to the small
quantity of feed in the county, caused by the
severe weather we had during the past win.
ter. The farmers intend planting large crops
OF tobacco this spring. The wheat in this
portion oil the county is:looking very fine.
-. Yours, truly, 'aas isSE's airs B. &W.
NATIONAL RASK.-Theei citizens Of Danvi,,e
held meeting on "Wednesday last Mt fhe
Paxton House with view of ESTABLISHING
an Incorporated bank. Every interest in
| town was fully represented. The CITY O,
Richmond came generously forward and
| subscribed seventy thousand dollars to tho
capital stock, the minimumof which is SOS.
| 600, the maximum 81, 100000. That CITY was
| represented by John C.rsDavis, Walter X.
| Martin, and e. D. Christian.
The following gentlemen were elected di-
rectors-viz., j. B. Davis, f. D. Christian,
N. w. Wilson, j. B. Pace, John c. Davis
George G. AyreS, r. /. Hickson, John r.
Pace, A. G. Lindsey, W.. n. Shelton, and G.
| NJ. Sublett Theneed Of additional banking
facilities has long been felt, and we are GLAD
| to know that steps have been taken to put
the Planters National Bank of Danville i'm.
! medlately in operation, which we can fully
| rely upon being done, knowing the hands
| into which the enterprise has fallen.-Dan-
| yille Times.
1--WE learn by telegraph from Washington
han hoc how
hence may be in operation. Yankee enter
prise can't beat this =, <
TERRIBLE FIRE.-Our attentive corresponds
ent at Elmington. Nelson county, sends us
an account of q disastrous fire which broke
out at that place Thursday evening. In adj
oltion TO What he writes we learn that one
gentleman (John Powers) lost between four
| and i've miles of fencing, and had also II 900
| new tence-rals destroyed. We learn from
| the conductor OF the train who came up yes
| terday afternoon that the flames had been
nearly subdued, and no further material dam
| age is anticipated. Our correspondent saws:
son Thursday, about-A1 o'clock, fire
broke out at this place through the careless
ness of colored woman, which spread with
such rapdity that in the course Of Il few
| hours 1t had spread over IN area four or five
miles In length and several miles in width.
burning the entire forest in its course and
destroying miles of excellent fencing. The
loss is immense. The forest all along its
course was filed with quantities of cord
wood and tall-bark ready for delivery
to the railroad; at one point alone
several hundred cords ofWood were DESTROY
| ed. The greatest CONSERVATION prevailed.
Men, women, and children were all exert
ing themselves to the utmost to save their
property. At ono place we saw II poor widow
lady and her little niece putting forth vain
| efforts to save their little place. a half mi!,
further cripple and his son "a delicate boy
were struggling to eXtinguiSh the flames
| then consuming their orchard and garden,
while within few hundred yards might
have been seen some men idly regarding the
scene without an effort TO assist. Several OF
the students of the Ellington Military and
Classical School threw off their coats and
helped to the last. Among these the names
of J. w. Edwards and John T.. Turner are
worthy Of special mention AT last accounts
the fire had crossed Rockfsh river and was
raging furiously several miles beyond. So l;ll
as heard from no dwellings have been con,
Sllmed, for which our thanks are due mer-
cifur Creator and Preserer.-Lyachbur.
| NelrS.
HORRIBLE ACCIpEST-BoY Run OVER BY
THE CARs.-On Thursday evening, Il few
hundred yards south of McIyer's depot. ;
youth named Wise Priddy. son of Mr.. Johr
Priddy, was struck by the locomotive of the
north-bound freight train of the Orange
road, and so badly inju>A that recovery i,
deemed entirely hopeless. 1'he circumstance;
) of this sad affair, as we learn them from Mr.
5 Sidney Warren, on whose farm the famiI,
reside, are that the little boy was employed
by him to keep his cattle, which were grain.
in an adjacent field, from getting upon thu
: railroad track, and it is supposed that shor
: time before the train passed, the boy SAT dow
, on the side Of the tlackand dropped to sleep
5 and while asleep fell over ,with bis head OF
the rail, and, not being, seen by the engineer
] was struck by the coW-cafcher.U The blow
: crushed in the temple and fractured the skull
for the length of four or five inches. just abov,
Z the forehead. A piece Of tue skull al incl
G or more long by half an iuch wide was gone
and from the wound the brain zprotruded
S Unconscious of the terrible tragedy, the en-
| gineer proceeded on to the station, and it wa
not for nearly an hour that the accident wa
: discovered by younger brother Of the I'M
: fortunate boy who had been sent by hi.
father in search of him. The alarm was a
Y once given, and the Deighbors were soon Il
: the spot, and such reliefnfforded as was il
their power until the arrival of Il physician
l. The boy was still living yesterday morning
but no hope Of his recovery was entertained
The engineer and officers ofthetrain, witt
the passengers on 1t, left the station who'll
ignorant of the accident, and we learn N
blame is attributed to the engineer, as shor
distance from where the boy was found tb'
+ engine had struck dog, and the attention
: ofthe engineer and fireman are supposed t.
t have been attracted by this circumstance
+ and they were probably looking back to SCI
| whether the animal had been killed or not
The fact OF striking the dog was told MI
A Warren by the engineer when he got to TIL
t station, which goes to show that he was I'M
aware of the far more horrible deed OF bloot
by which human life is in all probabilit.
5 sacrifccd.- Neecs,
HUMAN DEpRAvITY.-Bristol,T Tenn, wa
I thrown into intense excitement OH Thursda..
by the arrest of James B. Lawson, of Haw
, kins county, Tenn, who is said to be loczi
BAPTIST preacher. The reverend gentleman
was charged with the crime of abducting ant
seducipg his own ncice, Il young girl of abou
eighteen years of age. The prisoner, we arr
informed, is n married man, and has on
: child. asgi
On Sunday the 21st, after preaching to hi
flock in the day, he departed the same nigh
, with his niece Sarah Il. SLawson. On Thurs
day they were ovcrtaEcn in Bristol by th'
outraged father, who :aswore vengeance
against the perpetr;ltor Of the foul wrong
The case was tried by his Honor Mayor
| Fowler at which time Sufficient amour