The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-28
Virginia items.

DanviIa Is giving Literally 10 tue yelio"-
fever sufferers.
Mr.. J. T. Rogers, while riding through
panviilc few days ago, was thrown from
his horse and badly injured
Mrs. Jerry Martin, Of Coresdale, Abe
marie county, died very suddenly few
nights AGO.
An attempt was recently made by negroes
10 assassinate Mr.. Andrew lehman, who
lives near Lynchburg. The assassins were
driven off by Mr.. lehman and his brother.
The house occupied by Mr.. Horace Finks,
or the farm OF l.. P. Nelson, three miles
southwest OF Culpeper, was consumed re-
Gently by fire, together with all the furni-
ture, beds and bedding, wearing apparel, &c.
The Howard Association OF Portsmouth
held meeting at the Council chamber
TUESDAY night and donated $500 to the Sa-
yannah sufferers. This makes $1,000 from
Portsmouth, with the canyassers yet to be
heard from. . ...
Recent rains have greatly injured the
James River and kanawha canal. The Gull
vert over Bells creek has been broken IN.
Navigation will in consequence ut that point
he suspended several weeks. The boat OF
Captain Il. f. Wright was washed into the
opening and broken to pieces. ~ ,,a".
The post-oftce at Allegheny station, ALE
rhany county, Va, on the route from
Richmond, Va, TO Hinton, West Va, Is re-
established. with p. J. Rowan as postmas-
tcr. William T. Harper is appointed post
master at Miller's Camp Branch, Raleigh
county. West Va, uice. Henry Il. Harper,
resigned -,-..si-.E .r.,.. IL .
Which was the equinoctial storm, the
food Of Sunday week, or that OF Friday
night? We regret TO learn that the dam OF
Mr.. II. 7. Holiday was washed away by
the first. Otherwise, save that the corn and
tobacco were considerably tossed to and
fro, We have heard Of no special damage
Grd0nsuiile Gazette. 81.
At Green Springs depot, Chesapeake and
ONO railroad, there was smash up OF thlr-
teen boy-cars last Thursday, laden mainly
with Petroleum. Two brakemen We're hurt,
one OF them badly. The accident was
caused BY what is called g break-up,"
Which We understand to mean o iostling
apart Of the cars owing to inequalities in
Tue road-bcd.- GordonScaLe Gazette.
VA "A vote was taken on the steamer Mary
aahlngton on her trip up from Mount
Vernon to Washington Monday afternoon
10 indicate the preference OF the passengers
among the candidates for President. 1t re-
suited: Tilden, Ill Hayes, 81; Cooper, 4.
ne crowd was composed mainly OF west
ern men.
Mr.. Chinn, the mail agent on the Manas-
sa' ROAD, upon arriving at the Junction
Monday morning, and finding connection
Win thls city broken, took the maii-pouch
upon his back and walked to Union Mills,
On THIS side Of the break, and distance OF
Aine miles from Manassas, delivering the
liaE here late last evening. Alexandria
Gazette 20. y,
The rain-storm Of last Friday night did
considerable damage in Amherst. 1.-The
county bridge across Rock creek, and Jen-
hlngs's mill-dam, ON tue same stream, and
also Mundy's mill-dam, on Aliens creek,
were all washed away 49, Ill,
l he canal bank ut Walkers Ford, as else
"here stated, was washed out, and the to-
pacco and corn crops in that neighborhood
%fiously injured. ~ 49,. gs sr
ne streams aboye-named were probably
Neus. -, -
Villain b. Brown, the superintend OF
pollee, was again before the Mayor Tuesday
uofhlng charged with being drunk and dis
Y.uefiy. After examining the case the Mayor
aaaa'ptnded him frem Office for Afteen days,
" "bu appointed Dir. William Bartle TO dis
ruAfse the duties Of the Office for that
p pta. Two friends of the deposed officer;
f ING Went to the station-house to intercede1
ryr MN were themselves locked up on the
, n"nse OF drunkenness, and though one of.
n |aEll was shortly afterwards released the
r v'heF was held for examination. The one
a "ne was released asserts his entire sobriety,
sa na HaS entered iitagalpst the corporation
ao ot iaise Imprisonment - Alexandria Ga
~efte. '.'>si.r4 ~ i, 3aE1a9 II