The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-29

big guns will 60 into action, II the Radi-
| Gals, wholnre without q leader In the county,
have done or intend doing anything they
keep their NOV ements profoundly secret;
but it is the opinion OF those likely to be we'll
informed that the party is hopelessly disor-
ganized. Is&
The National Democratic ticket, with
Governor Walkers candidacy for Congress,
will bring out the full strength Of the Con-
seryative party ,,g.rs ,s,f.a j. salts.
a Stolen Child.
REMARKABLE STORY FROM oMAHA-sCENE IN A
TELEGRAPH 0PFIcE-MR.. ROSS TALKS E1EH.
THE CHILD OVER THE; wIREs-A SINGULAR
COINCIDENCE. .3.it./<s .Ess
from the Omaha Herald, August 22d.l u
a great deal Of interest was created in
and around the Western Union Telegraph
headquarters on Sunday afternoon by JUS
tice Hale, Sheriff Burley, and several others
bringing UP a little boy to be identified,
through the medium of the telegraph, by
Mr.. Ross, in Philadelphia, as his stolen
| child Charley. The supposed Charley was
a little bright-eyed, curly-headed boy about
six years old, light complexion, and the
manners OF child used to better treatment
than that which falls to the lot of the COM
mon offspring Of humanity. He was dis
covered by Mrs. Bushnell, who
lives near Prospect Hill cemetery,
and was. living ut the time in a
darky family named Cotfey. Mrs. Bush
nell, who lives but few doors from the
place, had frequently observed the little
flaxen-haired boy playing with the dusky
scions of colored royalty, and became in
terested in the matter enough to question
him. She learned that he was making his
home with the coiored family, and that he
had no parents. He could not give very
clear account Of how he came where she
discovered him, but told about once living
in great city. She became still more in
terested, and questioned him further, and
| learned enough to convince her that he was
q stolen child, and to lead her to strongly
suspect that he was the long lost and univer-
sally mourned Charley Ross. The prospect
OF $4,000 reward led her to take imme-
date steps in the matter, and she consulted
Justice. Hale, and the two, with the assist
necessary information concerning Charley
Ross, including a photograph OF the genuine
bow, and on Sunday afternoon took him out
of the hands OF the colored family and put
him in the custody OF Sheriff Burley, and
took him into the Western Union telegraph
Office, and an instant after broke in upon the
4: Sunday afternoon meditations Of Mr.. Ross
| in Philadelphia with the startling announce
ment that g Your boy is hereE" Mr.. Ross
evidently lives very near telegraph office,
or else the unqualified announcement that
his little boy was at last found lent him the
speed OF hurricane, for but a very few mo-
ments elapsed until AN answer was flashed
back in the form OF a question, addressed to
the little wanderer: -
"What's your name!" "
The operator interpreted the message to
the little fellow, and he instantly replied:
eddie Ross, SIR"
'-.Have you any brothers and sisters?"
was the next query from Philadelphia.
Answer Yes, sir. have two brothers,
but haven't got any sisters.
Question: What are the names Of your
brothers and their ages s-st-.-.. .s..-A
Answer: Henry Ross and Gus Ross
They were bigger than am. ~ -.
The description OF MIR. Ross family was
partly correct, and the operators were
asked to compare the photograph OF Char
ley taken when he was three years old and
the present Appearances of the little boy,
and the gentlemen were forced to telegraph
| the fact that there was remarkable RESENT
bIance. The same curly, fiaxen hair, large,
expressive eyes, and broad, high forehead,
and intellectual appearance were common,
both in the picture and the boy who stood
at the operators elbow. MI. Ross was evil
IDENTIFY deeply interested; the very lines
seemed to tremble as they bore the query,
t'What is the color Of his eyes p"
The operator left the matter to the crowd,
and they decided that they were dark-blu-
ish gray. This color, Mr.. Ross declared,
did not correspond with the color OF Char.
lev's eyes, which were light hazel. All Of
| "a, NIL /,;x in, pc
colored eyes, and it was noted that the older
they grew the darker their eyes became, so
that Charley's eyes at present should be OF
dark-hazel color. ...
Whatever hopes the answers OF the little
waif had raised in the breast Of Mr.. Ross,
they seemed to have been dashed to the
ground, and he sadly ordered the sheriff to
| discharge the boy from custody, after pro-
fusely thanking him, Mr.. Hale, and Mr.
Knight, the chief operator, for their kind
| ness. ~. .-s..ni.l. ~. .. .a.l ...'., -...r.isr
The eager crowd piled the little boy with
a fearful array Of questions. lie remem-
bered being carried away once by man in
a buggy while he was playing with his lit
tie brothers. He also remembered OF going
| in q buggy to the cars, and going to an
other big city, where he says he saw the big
ships that came across the sea. Upon being
asked how long it took him to so to New
York, which he afterwards said was, the
place where he saw the big ships, he re-
piled that it took week, which, II the child
was really Charley Ross, would be in oppo-
sition to the theory that he was taken dl-
rectly to New York from Pbiladeiphia. He
remembers the people whom he stayed with
in New York, and whom he calls his pa
rents, very well. He says his father was q
cabinet-maker, and remembers how he used
to mend chairs and make tables in the shop
that was near the house. He was brought
out here from New York by q German fam
iIy, with whom he has lived until recently.
He says the family whipped and abused
him so, and would not give him enough to
| eat, that he ran away and went to- the house
of the colored man, whose name is Smith
Cofley.
The boyji is avery quiet, manly little. fel-
low. more than ordinarily intelligent, with
something about him, in manner and lam
4 guage, that will convince person in a mo-
ment that he was not born in the common
walk of humanity, and is without doubt q
lost or stolen child.S He corresponds pre-
/ cisely i'm age with Charley Ross, as little
Charley was three years old when he was
stolen. and three, more years have elapsed
since that event. aaIn his anderings thel lit
! tie fellow has had the painful misfortune to
! have had his arm broken, and In the reduc-
ton OF the fracture a bad piece 81 surgery
I was performed, Several of our Citizens
have been interested in the bright manly
little waif. among them General Strickland,