The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-08-14
STAUNTON.

n-strrOlNTED REPUBLICANS - TIE VALLEY
rr,D AGTN oN lis FEET-SAIE or 4 ZINE
r,rN-G0Op YIELD or wHEAT-REUNION
or Al OLD CONFEDERATE CAVALRY CON-
rt>y ATTEMPTED SUICIDE - ACCIDENT
FlCkPotKE1S.
Correspondence Of The Richmond Dspacb.l
AUGUST -. 1881.
The friend, o. The Valley railroad are now
En- line spirits. as the action Of the stock
b.'l.i, 10 toe meeting Yesterday, al con-
ce3e. in>ure> she speedy resumption Il work
on ihr % flushed line between thi, place
and Lexington.
LIS, wednesday afternoon The crowd at
he c.rcu. $50, dense. and the ticket.buy crs
were pcbtd thickly around the ticket
ws-1r. gambling 10 get their tickets and
MIX ile necessary change. That evening
auity of eight men went 10 the house Of
Oh Uncle II Carter, ColOled man who
ly-, 3bla, . mile from the cuS.groundS,
and GOT into BIZ cOTn.held. The old man
told them be- wanted them TO get ont OF his
field. int they said they would not stay
lon-, aud be saw them stand around in
q circle while two 81 them STOPPED
down inside the circle and remained
ilu> o short time, the whole party see ming
yeiy intent upon something, the old man
could not zee what. They shortly went
away. and the next morning Uncle 81 found
in passing through the field at the spot nine
pocket.bookS and a quantity Of papers,
mos Of them being 81 more or less value.
Ile brought them to town, and from the
papers il was ascertained that i've OF the
pockel-boOks were the property OF Dr..
W. u. GOOde, who had lost S3S, W. r..
Smith, u. \. Alexander, Miss Emma eau
thorn, and Alexander DOwly. Il Is not
yet Known how much more money was lost.
but it was one Of the most wholesale in
stances of pocket.picking that StauntOn has
bad any experience Of.
Cul0rel A. W. Hartman last Sunday lost
by dogs ten fi1e sheep, three Of them being
Southdowns. seven were found, but three
Of them were never found. having been
prob1bly run into the river. One big buck
defended himself from the dogs aud saved
his NE. but was so much exhausted that
De could not walk when be was found. The
seven sheep found were appraised at 500,
and Colonel Hartman will get paid for them
by the county.
4 gentleman we'll posted a. TO this yelr's
wheat crop in Augusta says the quality is
very foe, aud the grain will average be
tween siX'y.oDe and siXtv.hye pounds 10
thr bu,Lel.
Yesterday evening Kent Barber, cOlOred
section hand on the new road. while at
WORK near Wits Mil, met with serious
Gee deut. 4 large boulder fell upon ham,
crushing his thigh. He suffered intensely,
and begged his felloW-hand> 10 Kill bin and
put him out Of bis misery. He was at
tended by Dr.. 4. VI. Heukle.
TIE members Of old Company +, First
Virginia Confederate cavalry, Will hold
their annual rcnoi0u at Fort Defiance on
Friday the 10 %, on which occasion they
viii 20 into camp. General Fitz Lee, un-
dal whom lLey served, has written 10 say
that I possible be will be with them.
NJ samuel Y. Kerr, an old and success
iul farmer OF this county, has sold hls val
us1.e Farm Of four hundred acres, near
SUNNI erdean, FOR $4,000 cash, and will
cone with bis family 10 stanton 20 live.
M. II. =. Dickinson reports The best
Yield II wheat have heard Of this year.
On twenty i've acres OF land lie made six
HUNDRED and twenty-five busbeis-an aver
age II twenty-five bushels 10 the acre.
The >irHghi0ut delegates from Augusta
ana stanton have returned from the
Linclruig Convention thoroughly dis
gu''ed with the manner In which things
were m1nipul1,ed there. Some Of them
sly Thar The Democrats have an easy walk
over llc track DOW. One higdly-resp tcta-
DIE and quite influential colored delegate
declare, lat be will never vote their mon
gTeI ticket. nor will "his constituents"
Another very prominent Republican says
to-day 'bat he will not vote az al, and that
lhefe are a great many Republicans Of the
same way Of thinking. He says they have
Do piiy this campaign. Ii Is the general
opllion among Conservatives here that The
acuou OF the CoaliiOnists 40 Lyncb0urg
Aas Strengthened our ticket. Penn.