The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-01

9Th. Heavy rain and wind-storm. The
river was. up, and trees. and fences were
uprooted and blown down.
18th. Heavy snow-storm In the afternoon,
during which the grand celebration of the
arrival of the first through freight train from
Huntington took place. Terrible disaster at
the Free Bridge. The river was very high,
and when the span fell In, four Of the work
men were plunged into the roaring torrent
and persisted. A boat going out to the bridge
from the northern shore was capsized and
two lives lost.
14th. The boiler Of the yard.engine Fury,
at the Danvllle depot, bursted at night and
killed the fireman.
18th. Recent heavy rains caused rise In
the river, and the water was ten feet above
its usual level. The water in the reservoir
gave out, and the steam FIRE. engines were
employed for day or two in pumping water
from the Basin into the street pipes and
18th. Conference Of the bondlolders in
the Senate chamber
9th. Escape Of three prisoners from the
penitentary by boring the wall.
March.
goth. Escape of a penitentary convict. At
this time three Others made the attempt, but
failed.
zlst. Fatal ARRAY between two Italians
about pair of shoes, during which man
by the name Of CastronoYo was killed.
23d. Wind.storm. Houses were unroofed
and blown down and the crops injured.
April.
5th. James Hall found drowned in the
dock.
18th. Assembling of the Supreme Lodge
of the World, Knights Of Pythias.
10Th. Nenophilus Frayser killed near Shaft
p in the tunnel by falling earth, and William
Cousins severely injured.
May.
4th. The Seventll-Street Christian church,
having been completed, was formally dedi-
Gated.
5th. Heavy frost.
9Th. Meeting Of Richmond bar to pay tri-
butte of respect to Hon. S. p. Chase.
9th and 10th. High water in the river.
The canal injured. The ire-engines were
and plugs. Duel on the York River road be-.
tween Page McCarty and j. d. Mordecai, in
which the latter received wound from the
effects of which be died a few days after
| wards.
14th. lakewood Memorial day.
2lst. Hollywood Memorial day.
22d. Mary Holmes murdered by Horace
| Venable BY being thrown into one of the
cana-locks near Tenth street.
Goth. Body of Edward Taylor, supposed
to have been murdered, was found in the
dock. Hebrew Memorial day.
18th. Semi.centennial celebration of the
Virginia Baptist General Association.
| 10Th. Refinement of 1913 bodies of the Con.
federate dead from Gettysburg in Holly
| wood.
3Oth. National decoration day.
18th. Catholic Benevolent Union met here.
! 18th. One of the conyicts escaped from the
| penitentiary.
18th. Sentence of death passed upon
| Horace Venable by Judge Guigon in the
| Hastings Court.
18th. Negro named Frank mashed to death
| in Shaft No. q Of the tunnel by being caught
between the cage and the lining of the
Shaft.
22d. Pullman palace-car on night express
train on Chesapeake and Ohio road thrown
from the track near the city. Several pas
scngers injured.
30th. Explosion of boiler used in the dry.
ing-kin OF the Tredegar Works, instantly
killing Samuel FL. Saunders, the fireman in
charge.
9Th. L. J. Gray, of Caroline county, caught
between the cage and the side Of Shaft %
Church Hill tunnel, and Instantly killed.
7th. Christen Pierson. Il sailor Of the Nor
weeian bark Leopoldenia Froude, fell into
the dock and was drowned.
| Sth. Severe rain, wind, and thunder
| storm.
9th. Three hundred and fifty of the Con
| federate dead from Gettysburg inferred il
Hollywood with military honors.
18th. Severe thunderstorm. Peter Dick.
inson, an aged colored man, struck by light
ming and instantly killed. During this storm
the house of Mr.. Thomas Wheeler, neal
Hollywood, was struck by lightning. Seye
raj OF the fine locust trees. about one hun
dred yards of the fencing, and one of th'
sheds at 1he FAIRGROUNDS were blown down
18th. Alexander Purcell, bricklaycr, fel
from the rear of st. James Hotel, on Twelfth
street near the Dispatch office, a distance o
forty.ive feet, and only had his arm frac
tured.
oath. Ward-meetngs held to elect dele
gates to the Conservative State Convention
for the purpose Of nominating Governor
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, aud Attorney. General
25th. Radical ward-meetings for the same
purpose.
goth. Alexander B. Lithgow fell from th'
steamer John Sylvester while on al excur
sion down the river and was drowned.
August.
9th. Assembling of the Conservative Stat
Convention.
18th. R. A. Craddock, a nonresident, fel
from lighter opposite the sugar refinery
In Rockets. and was drowned. Writ OF: er
ror and supersededs awarded by Judge Mon
cure to the judgment of the Hastings Cour
of this city subjecting DR.. Cullen to fin
and Imprisonment for refusing to testify II
regard 10 the duel between MeSsrs. Mozart.
and Mordecai upon the ground that his ties
timony would criminate himself.
10th. Organization Of the Journeymel
Tailors' Union.
10th. George Freeman, negro prisoner
escaped from the chain.gang.
18th. A slide at the Church Hill tunnel
on Twenty fourth street between Broad ant
Marshall.
Dist. Robbers attempted to enter the store
houses of Messrs. SPOTS & Gibson, jenkins
Capers & Co., and A. Y. Stokes & Co.
22t. Narrow escape from death of Captain
Wilkinson and two members Of the chain
gang from caving earth while making an eX
cavatiu.' on Cary street near Tenth for th
new city culyert. Grand Conservative rail-.
at the Theatre, and speeches by Governor
i'll Yy- - TTYs II.