The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-01-09


YHE COLD sNAp-..AN Afusl ANT ICE cRor---A
| MERRY CHRISTINA HY Ms - AI4---A cH ApTEE
OF ACCIDENTS OBITUARY.
fCorrespond ence al me Richanond Dispatof.l
TfioRN HILL, January 3, 1879. s
This hes been one OF the finest Ice seasons
known In this county Tor MANY years, and
most or our farmers have awaited Themselves
OF the opportunity OF filling theiri ee-hou uses,
and still the weather continues immensely
cold Che thermometer this nlorning tndt-
eating SO only above zero.
Notwithstanding the cold weather this
has been an unusually gay Christmas with
the young people hcreabout. Parties ana
sociables have been numerous, and those
| who attended them seemed to have de-
tliobfsul time. This IS an old and ttme-ton.
ored custom, and It's revival is o cause OF
coneratulaeion TO our people. as 1t betokens
signs OF returning prosperity, and that
shirt OF genial and sociabie hospitality FAR
which our grand old Commonwealth has
been so long noted. The hymeneal altar
has been resorted 50 also by many happy
couples. - .1.s5 " .s9,sas
But as coutrasted with these enloyments
there have been number OF sad accidents
and narrow escapes.
Tn the first place, Mr.. Thomas f. Graves,
losing his lisc In attempting to cross q
branch OF the North Anna river at cow
| ford to visit neighbour. He was riding q
mettlesome and upmanageabie stallion OF
his. and the ford was much deeper than
WIS supposed. In attempting to gain the
opposite bank, which had been made. very
steep by recent heavy rains, the horse stinS
mn TO his tanks, and Sir. Graves. seeing
| that the horse was unable To extrieate him
self from the qnagmire ana qnfeksand into
| which he was rapidly sinking, sprang
| off into the water, and WINS Immediately
| trampled out OF sight in@a the fmire
by the fiery steed ia his desperate
and frantic efforts to gain "a solid
footing and free himself from thedangt rous
place. For few moments Mr.. Graves des-
paired Of life, but being man OF strong
and muscular frame and capable OF great
endurance, he succeeded after severe
struggle IN rising above the water and Tree
ing himself from the mire and from an lm-
minent death, and walked home, dis
lance of one and half milcs-the horse
having escaped and run of. Mr.. Graves
has since been suffering considerably from
| bruises received from the struggling and
| frightened animal.
| Again. Mir. j. e. Whitlock, noted and
well-known trader from Louisa county, In
crossing the same stream few hundred
wards below the place where the above acct.
dent occurred, bad his horse mired and
drowned. though he himself escaped, only
getting his feet wet.
In this same stream, short time before,
Mrs. Fannie Graves had tue misfortune to
, have one of her finest work-oXen drowned
while attempting to cross at the time OF
heavy freshet.
Another narrow escape from imminent
death was that Of Walter, ten-year-o!d sor
of Mr.. Graves, whose name is mentioned
above. W hlle riding colt with only halter
he was violently thrown to the ground, hi
head striking against u log OF wood: Fol-
some time he was unconscious, but by tht
: aid Of proper restoratives he recovered. and
after some days confinement, was enabled
to go out again.
We have also to chronicle the sad decease
on Friday, 9th unimo, of Mrs. r. G. Ken
dali, daughter OF Mrs. Francis Brockman
e of Orange county, who had been long ont
l patient sufferer from cancer OF the breast.