The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-29
virginia News.

The horse disease known as "Pinkeyc"
has made its appearance in Petersburg.
A man named Ogden, from Fairfax coun-
Nv. was arrested Saturday afternoon by OIL
Ger Franks for taking away from young
man named James Lyons a turkey he had
won at rattle. Justice Thompson, before
whom Ogden was taken, continued the case
till next Saturday.
In n ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS game yester-
day. between DR.. Carver and Mr.. Eden,
member Of the principal clubs, for elOO a
side nIr. Eden stood at twenty-cight yards
rise and DR.. Carver at thirty yards, Or.
Carver won the match by five birds, killing
tbirty-fiye out Of fifty.-Lyachburg Virgin
ian. e,.s.:
The Richmond and Allegheny Railroad
Company have Just closed contract to de-
liver &C, 900 tons OF ore at Chester, Penn,
from the Greenway district, on the James.
The district embraces the Stonewali, Riv-
clyille. and Greenway mines. The con-
tract, requiring 5000 cars, ten tons each,
il the largest ever made in this country,
and shows how rapidly the iron resources
Of the James-Riyer Valley are being de-
yeloped under the advantages afforded by
the Richmond and Allegheny road. These
ores. as old rs time itself, would have
grown gray in their hiding-places and
rested lndisturbcd to IN eternity hadthelr
discovery and development depended on
the old canal. And this is but a beginning,
a drop in the bucket, OF grand achieve
ments along the Jamcs-River Valley
LwchbHq Pirgiaida.
A VIRGINIA FARMER IN TROUBLE
Charles Sedgwick, representing himself as
Virginia farmer, has gotten into trouble
in Washington. II appears that Sedgwick,
an expert penman, who has been in Wash
ington for week past on spree, under
took to replensh his depleted purse by
forging the name of Charles Weaver, re-
fired butcher, 70 n check on the Bank OF
Washington for S21, and then Influenced
Frank Brooks TO get it cashed fOr him.
John English, formerly Of this city, but
now keeper of the Chesapeake restaurant,
on PENNSYLVANIA avenue, furnished the
money. and. on presenting the check to the
bank, found it 10 be q forgery. Sedgwick
was arrested and arraigned in the Police
Court yesterday, but, by conscntof counsel
on bOtn sides. tue case was continued I'LL
to-day.-Alerdndrid Gazette.
CAPE-nENEY LICHT.-Thc Lighthouse
Board has given notice that on and after
December 10, 1881, the light at Cape Henry,
mouth OF the Chesapeake bay, Virginia,
will be shown from the new tower re-
Gently erected. II will also be changed to
a first-ordcr light, fixed, white, illumina-
ting go degrees OF the horizon. The focal
plane is 1j2 feet above the ground and 100
feet above low water. The light should,
therefore, lie seen in clear weather from
the deck Of a vessel - feet above the sea, a
distance OF lS4 nauticalmiles. The structure
san octagonal tower; the base, scryice-room
and lantern black: the shaft colored on
each face, half white and half black, alter
nately. so that the upper and lower halves
OF the faces show alternately black and
white. The approximate position OF the
lighthouse, as taken from the charts OF the
United states Coast and GeOdctic Survey,
is-latitude $50 So %" north, longitude
100 OO/ 81" west. The old tower, which
will remain as a day mark, is $40 feet from
the new one. bearing southwest by vest
Norfolk Virginian.
A DISTINGUISHED NIRGINIAN.-IIon.J John
w. Daniel. who was the Democratic candi-
date for Governor OF Virginia, was yester-
day Sunday the guest OF General Bradley
T. johnson, at his residence, corner OF
Maryland and North avenues. He declined
to talk very freely on the political situation
or forecast the future of Virginia. When
asked II he thought Virginia would soon
be counted in the solid Democratic column
again, he replied emphatically: Most as
suredIy it viii. The real vote OF Virginia
was not brought out at the late cleo
ton. Thousands OF good Democratic
votes were not cast at all. The Re-
publicans tried for long while to get a
hold in our State, and now the fact that they
have succeeded will have more effect than
can be imagined in arousing the real Dem
ocrats to sense Of their duty and spur
them onward to determination to rescue
the State from the common enemy" Major
Daniel expressed the belief that at the next
presidential election Virginia would be
solid for the Democratic nominee. The
Major is looking hale and hearty, and ap-
pearcd in excellent spirits yesterday. When
politics were mentioned to him by the re-
porter he laughingly said, "Why. | have
not thought of politics since the election."-
Baltimore Gazette.