The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-15
Vsrsinia Itcraas.

lss4s NEGRO ~
frairtt train at Mehefrin depot yesterday.
| had one oss iiif5 net badly mashed
Ar. owbridgn had three fingers cut from %
his right hand IN Danvilis yesterday VINE
working cut chine in the manuiac-
ture of smoking tobacco. H.
| The BAPTIST Church property on harket
street was sold at public auction on Satur-
flny to the Winchester Building Assosia-
ton for S2,025. - Winchester Times, 1870.
Old corn is now being sold at 1925. Fine
meal 10 offered on the raflroad at sixty cents.
THE nomination OF Major j. B. McPhail
for the Senate is highly popular both with
| white and colored voters Charlotte 3D.
zette.
mfr. w. Ficklin has some tobacco on
his farm near town with leaves measuring
twenty-seyen inches broad and thirty-eight
| inches long--seventy-eigh inches from tip
TO tin. sjack," the large Russian blood
hound belonging to F. B. Moran, Esq, was
cut in two at the depot on Saturday by the
cars passing over his body Chdrtottes--
uilie Jefcrs0nian Republican,. =: .,..
The fodder is ready to pull, the cotton to
be picked, and the. tobacco to be cut, in Me-
herrin parish. pl,E. 4a
i A very fat buck was brought to town on
| Saturday last. He was killed near Mr..
Wilkin Spencer's by q negro.
One hundred and sixteen are the number
of persons who have protested conversion
under the preaching OF the, Rev. d. NJ.
Wallace during the summer. 81,
Mr.. j. Ravenscroft Jones says that with
| the provisions furnished for the barbecue
on Saturday two thousand people can be
fed. Mr.. Jones is Of the commissary de-
partment. -BrunS,1ick Advocate.
A meeting OF the stockholders OF the
West Point and Hanover junction railroad
will take place here on the Goth instant.
The fishing season Is in its prime ana
there is any amount Of sport here for lovers
OF the "piscatory art" Trout and spots
are now large and fat, and are caught In
large numbers in our rivers.
The steamer Isis, which is now running
on the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers, IN
connection with the Richmond, York RIVER
and Chesapeake railroad, is doing thriving
business. She goes well frelghted ootn
WAYS on every trip, the heavier frelgnts,
however, at this time being on the Malta
poni- West Point Star.
The revenue derived from the tax on dogs
will hardly reach six hundred dollars this
wear. Last year the tax realized about nine
hundred dollars.
It is rumored that the Ossipee, now at
Hampton Roads, will sail next week for
Havana for the purpose OF receiving BOSS
Tweed and bringing him to the United
States.
The State Grand Division, No. 1, now In
session in this city, of the Grand United
Order of Vanguard OF Freedom and Tenn
perance, was chartered by the General AS
sembly OF Virginia in March last. The
Grand chief, secretary, and treasurer's re-
0orts show good condition OF the order.
r. r. Johnson, of Richmond, S. G. w. c.;
P. Curr, of Richmond, s. G. W. s.; Ihomas
Davis. Of Portsmouth, S. Sr. W. C.-PortS-
mouth Enterprise.
The Young men OF Berkeley and Norfolk
county are busily engaged in getting up
Grand tournament and ball, which is to
come off on the 10Th instant in Berkeley.
The ladies OF the Holmes Presbyterian
church, at Cherrystone, in Northampton
county, will hold Z fair at Eastvllle on to-
morrow for the benefit OF their church. Ad-
ditional attraction will be added to the oc-
caSion by the young men OF the place, VINO
will have tournament on the same day.
On Monday night last the store OF Mr.. 5.
Lewis. on Blackwatcr river, Southampton
county. was destroyed by fire. Mr.. Lewis
! in irving to save his books and papers was
badly burned about the face and hands. He
did n large business in his county, and is
also a PARTNER In the firm of Stephenson a.
Lewis, OF this city. His loss by the ire
was fully covered by nsurance.-No7JoE
Tiryinian. 14th.
General W. II. F. Lee says there is moth
ing in Rotherme's Gettysburg to which the
South may reasonably object.
We arc requested to say that 1T is not true,
as announced in a Fredericksburg paper,
that Colonel Mosby will speak there Friday
night. He does not intend to make any
speeches during this canvass.
The members of the Warrenton bar will
start for the Centennial on the oath instant,
and have invited Judge Keith and the men,
bcrs OF the bar of his circuit to accompany
them. They willrendezvous in Alexandria
on the evening OF the oath.
Dennis NARROW (colored) was sentenced
by the Mayor this morning to receive thirty
lashes, on conviction OF driving OIL some
body else's COW and selling her to milk
man in the western suburbs. The punish
ment was inflicted at the station-house by
Officer Drayton, the colored constable OF the
Fourth Ward.--Ale1dnttrid Sentinel, 18Th.
Judge Charles Frederick Tucker, OF Dali
las, Texas, arrived in Salem on the 18th
instant.
A considerable force OF hands is engaged
in laying new steel rail over portion OF
the railroad between this place and Big
Lick.
Among recent sales at Salem are store
house and lot adjoining the Conservative
office, to Mr.. L. G. Wolfenden, for 81, 100,
and the Barnhart farm to Mr.. William y.
Bird for S4,500. $50. ".@ - 49,
Professor S. c. Wells who recently re-
turned from Colorado, where he has been
spending several weeks, speaks in glowing
terms OF the country, and he thinks the
prospects of Tilden and Hendricks in that
State are very flattering. Mr.. D. virgil
Brown, of Franklin county,. was in town
last Monday. He is prominent TOBACCO
manufacturer, and wants factory IN Salem,
hence his visit. We trust he will succeed
in making satisfactory arrangements 1or
factory, and that the next season viii Wit
ness his operations in our mldst.-Salem
Conservative.
TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF GOVERNOR
VISA meeting OF several well-knoWn
gentlemen of Irish birth or lineage was last
night held at Shea's Hall, 632 Pennsylvania
| oyon,,o near Seventh street, to take action