The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-12-06

William NJ. Moody has been appointed
Temporary keeper Of Jordan's Point light
house. In James river, In place OF Il. d.
Bland (colored), who takes his seat In the
Legislature from Prince George and surry
counties this week.
The Lynchburg Ne,cs says Major john
W. Daniel has returned home from WISH
IN the Valley and to friends In Baltimore.
The Major Is counsel In an important civil
case TO be tried at the present term OF the
Corporation Court.
On Saturday. in New York. an inquest
was held in the case OF Forrest Weinmul-
Ter. the Young student who was shot nj the
st. Omer Hotel. All OF the facts went 10
show that Weinmuller accidentally shot
himself, and verdict to that effect was
rendered.
We understand that a Mrs. Poff, living
near LAFAYETTE, In this county, committed
suicide by hanging herself on Sunday last.
She left the family and went up stairs, her
husband soon after going up stairs FOUND
her hanging to one OF the rafters OF the
building dead. Cause is supposed to be
mental derangement.-M Montgomery NeS-
Senger.
An old man named Eldridge Hager was
assaulted near Cross Roads, in Wythe
county, last Wednesday, and has since
died from the injuries inflicted on nm.
The assaIants are named Picket and Mol
fett. The fiendish act is said to have been
perpetrated because OF a refusal OF Hager
to accept their draft for drink. SO says
the Enterprise.
The receipts OF cotton at Petersburg dI-
ring the past two or three wee6s have been
large. For the week ending Saturday the
reccipts were over / 300 bales, being over
double the receipts for the corresponding
week Of last year. The total receipts since
the 1st of September were about lI,0OO
bales. or some 1000 bales in excess OF the
receipts for the same period last year.
Mrs. Gcorgeanna W. Tucker, reict Of the
late Abraham Tucker, died on saturday
night about Q O'Clock, OF paralysis; aged
fifty-six years. Her illness was only OF a
few hours duration. She was paralyzed
about / O'Clock in the afternoon ut her
home. corner OF Boiling street and Virginia
avenue, being stricken sudden while in her
usual good Misunderstanding Idder-Ap-
peal.
At meeting Of the Virginia Republican
Association held In Washington saturday
night the following resolution was adopted
ReSoired, That the election OF Republic
can to succeed Senator Johnston to the
United States Senate from Virginia would
be a grateful acknowledgment to the So
600 Republican voters in the State who sup
ported the Coalition at the November cleo
ton, 1881; that this Association, as l,epuD-
licans, request our friends III the Virginia
Legislature to urge a Republican for that
position.
On Sunday night, while our citizens
were at preaching. Benjamin Pugh, charged
with the murder OF Shilings, and -
DObbins, charged with breaking into anil
and stealing flour, broke Jail and made
their escape. There being no stoves in the
upper rooms OF the Jail the iailer has been
Keeping them in one OF the lower rooms in
the day and putting them in an upper
room at night but when he went to their
room OH Sunday night for the purpose OF
taking them upstairs he found they were
gone. They cut the wooden door in two,
and in that way got into the hall, and then
had no trouble TO get into the street. The
taller OF the counts offers So reward for
the arrest and delivery to him OF Pugh.-
rtOyu htpoIttT'
NEWPORT NEws.-The following items
are taken from the Hampton Monitor:
Mr.. Huntington has ordered that no
more piles be driven until some remedy
against worm-eating is adopted, although
the reports sent to him Of the damage done
by the worms, he discovered on examine
ton, had been exaggerated. Ii is thought
that creOsote Will be applied to the piles TO
keep of the worms. The machinery ne
cessary for this process, we are informed,
will cost fully $4,000.
Passenger trains now leave Newport
News for Richmond on Mondays, WedneS-
days, and Fridays at $3.50 \. NJ.
Work on the foundation for the elevator
will be commenced in a few days. The
steam eXcavator is now working it, way to
the site.
The principal streets and avenues have
been ploughed up, and will soon be graded.
The wages Of Iaborers in the employ OF
the railway company have been reduced
from Sl.25 TO 81 per day.