The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-23

a member she would be seen with. her chill
dren, seemingly as afectionate and kind to
them rs mother could be.
When told In Jail that the remains Of her
other children would be taken up for exami-
nation, she did not object, but simply re-
marked that she hoped they would put them
back and leave their graves as pretty as they
are now.
The body Of the little girl Annie, when
disinterred, displayed in her beautiful and
taseefully -arTaDged burial apparel the EVIL
dences Of that touching affection of mo-
theirs love so frequently shown in the early
morning visits to those little graves, and the
unceasing care for the flowers and evergreens
which adorn them. A beautiful gold chain
encircled the neck of the little sleeper, and
her arms were tastefully orDamented with
gold bracelets, while the doll, which was the
idol Of her childish fancy, was carefully
dressed and placed in the coffin beside her;
all showing that sweet and intense affection
which comprised even the smallest things as
ISOLATED with the child's happiness while liv-
ing. With such evidences, mute but un-
mistakable, Of mothers love, it borders
upon the morally impossible to account for
their murder by her hands, only upon the
theory of a deep-seated monomania upon the
subject of poisoning. If guilty in the true
meaning of the law, she is unequalled if
innocent, it is the earnest desire of all that
she shall be fully acquitted and exonerated
from all suspicion.-LeesJurg Washingto-
niGn.
The GRANT OFFIcE-HoLDERs CONVENTION.
The Loudoun Republican, Radical paper,
says:
"White, the internal revenue collector for
this district, who was appointed by influence
outside the State, attended the Richmond
Convention on Wednesday, accompanied by
all his clerks and deputies. He informed
some of the ring in this county that if they'd
send delegates to the Convention pledged to
send him to the Philadelphia Convention
he'd attend to paying their expenses. But
this little arrangement could not be made,
and nobody went. Great Indignation is
manifested against White among the Repub-
licans in Alexandria, some of whom claim
and charge that he bought his place as del
egate. We think it's time for something to
be done to get loose the grip these men have
on the throat of the party. If the Admins
tration don't do something here, and that
soon, the State will 60 against us this fall by
about 100000. No one has any heart to
work when men are kept in office to the de-
triment of the party and the cause"
MURDER AND ARsoN.-From letter re-
ceived in this city on yesterday information
was derived Of the murder, in Fluvanna
county, near the Middleton Mills, of very
worthy old colored man named Archer
Brown. The attention of his neighbors was
attracted one day last week by the bursting
forth of flames from the cabin in which he
lived alone. Before the fire could be eXtin-
guished the house was nearly consumed. In
the ruins was found the half-burnt body of
the old man, with marks and wounds upon
his person leading to the belief that he had
oeen murdered, and the cabin then fired to
conceal the crime. Suspicion fell upon one
of his own SONS, Il worthless, bad fellow, who
had been heard to make bitter threats against
his father. He has been arrested and lodged in
iail. His supposed reason for killing his
father is that the old man had been trying to
compel him to go to work.-Lynchbarg
Neus.