The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-29
Petersburg.
correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch

correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
PgrERssuRa, July 2S, 1873.
A sad tragedy of self.destruction occurred
This afternoons ait City Point. Mr.. John
jackson, formerly assistant agent Of the At.
.ian,ie, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad COM
pany at City Point, shot himself through thf
breast at 5 o'clock to-day Mr.. Jackson had
been some time In state Of mental depres.
sion, Of which his melancholy and rash acl
of to-day was the deEoument. The coro
ner,s Jury is now holding its inquest. pend
ing the issue OF which ] refrain from making
any comments on the event. Dir. Jackson
leaves family to bereave his Toss.
The presentation Of gold medal 10 MISS
Bette Branch for proficiency in the class o.
Major L. q, Branch in the Sunday school Of
the First Baptist church took place yeSter
iay. The presentation was made by Rev
Nit, Hatcher, and was responded to by MIR.
Willie Lah,neyer.
A mysterious case of stabbing occurred
here on Saturday night. A young man BY
the name Of Emmett Browder, a cigar.
maker, residing in Fifth Ward, YVES badly
stabbed in the thigh, and has declined tt
give any further account of the affair except
his allegation that it was accidental. He !:
believed to be 10 critical condition.
On Sunday morning the ehgine.room o.
the steamer America, on Tabb street, was
entered by some unknown party, who
turned out the two horses of the company
creating much excitement and the suspicion
that incendiaries are about the city. !.
MI. G. +. Doggett, Commonwealth's at.
torney for the city, is stated to be studying
law under Professor Minor, Of the University
of Virginia. during the holiday session.
Judge Bate, OF the County Court O
Prince George, has refused to release the
sureties OF Collector Tatum Of their obliga
ton for the amount of money Isl ,20O) LOST
BY him few months ago, and asserted Il
have been taken by party Of highwaymen
The downward train on the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio railroad was detained FOL
an hour or two this afternoon on account o.
some accident to the machinery of the en-
CINE. The detention of this train is unu
sual, and caused some measure of uneasi
ness.
The excursion Of the colored Temperance
Society 10 Richmond to-day did not taxi
place as expected, on account of some mis-
understanding in regard to the hiring OF th'
train by the colored brethren, who failed t.
comprehend what each other Intended. Or
account of the failure Of the expedition Their
was little unpeasantness, the result of which
was the agiDg Of two or three OF the intern
perate temperates.
Mr.. w. w. Read, one of our most es
teemed young citizens, left to-day to estab
lish his home in Richmond.
Judge Mann, of the Corporation Court o
this city, issued an injunction few months
ago to prevent the recovery by the State OF
the sureties Of j. q. A. Barham, defaultins
collector of Iyor and Berlin township, 0
Southampton county. Judge Bate alter
wards refused to make the injunction per
petual; but Judge Urquhart, of Southamp
ton, has just so ordered, releasing the bonds
men of Mr.. Barham. The grounds CT tn
release are that the time of the sureties hat
been extended, and that thereby the con
tract had been varied.
There is no further talk on the streets to
day about the reported establishment of an.
new paper in the city.
Colonel d. q. Carr, formerly of the Con
venton and Legislature, and recently colec
tor ofcustoms at this port, is reported to b.
seriously i'll.
Colonel and Hon. Plat is in the city on hi
way to Lynchburg. More Of the other he
publican delegates will leave tomorrow
morning. There is considerable working
and wire-pulling in certain quarters relative
to the election of Conservative delegates to
morrow night. ROBIN ADAIR.