The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-20

John B. Davis, banker, of Richmond, Va,
brother OF United States Senator Davis, OF
West Virginia; Colonel II. T. Douglas, SUI
perintendent of the Richmond and Peters
burg railroad; and Hon. Benjamin Wilson,
representative in Congress from the First
West Virginia district, were at Barnum's
Tuesday, where they held q conference with
others, rs is understood, in reference to
coal interests. Mr.. Wilson has been absent
from his seat in Congress for some months
because Of severe illness.-Baltim0re San.
Much more than all the ground now va
Gated by the Southern and Atlantic Compa-
ny will be speedily covered by the Atlantic
and Pacific Company with new and i'm
proved lines, running from Washington
and from Cincinnati to New Orleans and
Galveston, when, we are assured by Gen
eral Eckert, his company will make even
larger reductions in the southern rates Of
tariff than have been made at the East and
West.-Graphic.
In NeV York on Monday the price Of ice
was advanced to seventy-tiye cents per one
hundred pounds at retail and sixty cents at
wholesale. The advance has been agreed to
by all the companies, most Of whom are said
to be using supplies drawn from New Eng
land at an increased cost for transportation.
The available stock on hand at present is
said to be comparatively small.
1t may not be undressing to mention at
this time that the hero Of the Hamburg mas
sacre, General N. C. Butler, is son of that
South Carolina Senator Butler with whom
Charles Sumner had so many encounters,
and OH whose account Sumner was assault
ed by Preston Brooks Graphic.
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Mrs. Emily Mills, the widow of the late
Joseph Nightingale, as keeper or sexton of
the Penny Hill graveyard, which belongs
to the corporation authorities, and where
the poor OF the city are buried.
A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
says Mrs. Annie johnson was murdered on
Monday night by Louis Earlemein, man
whom she had several times refused to
marry. The murderer escaped.
At Seaside Park, n. j., the new Baptist
resort, Rev. j. f. Welch, Of Missouri, was
taken sick Tuesday while bathing and died
in half an hour afterwards. His body was
taken to Burlington, N. j.
A press dispatch from Philadelphia says
three bales of the finest cotton from Mary
land, Georgia, and Texas have beebreceived
and added to the collection at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
Sergeant James McGovern, Of the New
York police, was fatally stabbed Tuesday by
Henry King, whom he had under arrest for
stealing watch.
Mr.. George Harris, OF Louisa, an old man
more than eighty years Of age, committed
suicide by hanging himself with white oak
split attached to q nail in the wall last Fri
day morning.
The western portion Of the town OF De-
mosville, KY, was burned Tuesday morn
ing, it is supposed by two roughs who had
threatened to destroy the place.
A fire Tuesday at Nos. 80, 80, and "a
South Fifth avenue, New York, occupied
by number Of manufacturing firms, caused
various losses, aggregating $4,000.
A colored man is superintendent OF the
poor Of Louisa county, and is pronounced
the best superintendent the county has had
for'many years."
h Bud Lane, a deputy marshal at La Cygne,
Kansas, shot and killed John Morton for al
legged intimacy with his wife, sg