The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-11-17
9itl,mond pispatth.
WEDNESDAY,. ..NovEMBER IL 1880.
sTAIyNTON.


-. ,,rnuoxr AND ARLINGTON INSURANCE
r,sy coNpRoxIsep-AS ApRoT THikf-A
,.,x1srrR Axp oTHgRs RoBBED-A RICH
uoNp MAN IN DISTRESS, &C.
fcorsrspoudence OF the Richmond Disoatco.l
NovgNBER 10, 1880.
The suit against the Piedmont and Ar
urc,on Life-Insurancc Company, OF your
civ. nv the heirs OF Charles ID. MCCOY, OF
which | wrote you last week. has been set.
lied ty compromise. The company agreed
20 nav s42J0 and costs. The amount
oI.,ned was $4,000. and the company was
,nrresented by Messrs. Kelley aud Din-
,aer Of Richmond. and Major Elder, OF
,his ci,y. The other suit by the same plain
"a &c The Metropolitan will be tried IN
I"dse Riyes's court, at Harrisonburg, next
May. a..
or forty wears, who gave his name as W. A.
Eohannou, and says he Is from Richmond
ana SON OF DIR. X. l.. Bobannon, nov dead,
feII on the street here IN an epileptic nj
few DAYS ago and was cafed Tor Dy the po-
&C. lie Is entirely without means and
- no walked all the way from Chester.
Geld here in quest OF work OF some kind.
nv McChesney and Phillips, who were
spmmoned. sasd his CONDITION was caused
nv exhaustion and want. They thought he
would not live through the NIGHT though be
i much improved now, but bis fFiends
ouehi 10 know al his condition.
Last THURSDAY night at the old Stone
chntch parsonage, near Fort Defiance, MIS-.
Snrunt was awakened by bearing some one
In the room. BY tue dim light OF lamp
she saw a white man going cautiously about
the room. Being greatly alarmed she woke
Mr.. SpTuni, and the man, hastily gathering
nm the cleTgyman's clothing in bis arms,
bnrr,ed from the room. MIR. Sprunt fol-
lowed as rapidly "a possible, but the man
had disappeared in The darkness. In the
rockets Of Mr.. Sprunts clothes were gold
watch and pencil and a small sun OF mo-
money; all OF which, otter careful search
for he thief. was given up for lost. But in
The morning Cary, the mau-seryant, found
In a ienct-corner OF field near by The
whole suit OF clothes, with the watch and
pencil and other things in the pockets, and
nothing missing but the money.
The same night number OF other houses
in the ueIgbbOrhoOd were entered and
money only taken, while there were marks
about the windows and doors OF other
houses, showing that attempts had been
made 10 break in. Ii seems that about $40
was stolen. the ioll0wing-Damed gentlemen
being the losers: j. c. Roller, $40; DR.. Bell,
$40 Is: Rev. Alexander Sprunt, $3.50; and
Of. Allen, sl.75. i; would seem that the
work was an done by one man, who must
have been a most adroit thief, as he was
only seen al one place, and no clew to the
rohberies has since been discovered.
PinsfoIe will be exhibited here next
Thursday and Friday nights at the Opera
House by a Siauuton amateur company, as
sisted by CAPTAIN Daniels, OF Washington,
and Miss Haas, OF Woodstock. The pro-
ceeds are for the benefit OF the Stonewall
Brigade Band.
A sad funeral was bad here Sunday. III.
l.. Opie. Jr., Of Florida, a son Of ii. L..
Opie. Of CoviugtOU. Ky, formerly OF this
county, and nephew OF Captain John n.
Opie, Of Augusta, was drowned while boat
ing of the coast o. Florida on the 9th Sep
lember last. He was a handsome and pro-
missing Young man Of twenty years. The
boat i'm which be and bis friend were sailing
was cspsized in a sQuall. The other young
man managed 10 SWIM to shore. but young
Opie, weakened by Il recent spell OF sick
ness, soon became exhausted and was
drowned. The authorities at Jacksonville,
Fla, would not permit the body to he
brought through the place until cool weas
ther had set IN. But as soon as he was al
lowed 10 do so, tue devoted father had the
remains OF MS son brought home and buried
by his mot hers grave in Thornrose ccme-
terry. Rev. W. q. HuIliben, rector OF the
Episcopal church, Ofiicia'ed. large number
OF relations and friends being present.