The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-12-16
VIRGINIA NCMS.

DR., George w. Bagby has been engaged
rs staff correspondent to represent the new
Baltimore Times in Virginia.
There have been six eases Of smallpox in
Winchester, Va, recently, only one OF
which proved fatal.
A colored man from the rural districts
created much excitement in Petersburg on
Wednesday night by yelling murder and
fire because $3.50 silver watch had been
stolen from him.
Colonel John Henry Timbcrlake, Of Al
bemarle county, was killed on Saturday az
ternoon last near Mecchum'S River by be-
inc thrown from his horse. 1t appears that
he was riding fast, when his saddle turned,
and he was thrown violently TO the ground,
his head striking a stone. He lived only
short while after the accident.
Tuesday morning about daylight Mr.. J.
Vance Be's team, driven by Mr.. Lewis,
collided with the lIarrisonburg train on
the Wildwood road crossing. Mr.. Lewis
was thrown over fence, one Of his ears
nearly cut oil, and he was severely bruised.
The wagon was demolished, and one Of the
horses very severely injured.
The Pane Courier says: "The AdrdnCe
has been sold by Mr.. VI. l.. Welfey to
Messrs Charles Ii. and F. W. Grove, OF
this place. The new proprietors have
taken charge, and the paper will hereafter
be known as the Page NelcS. Judge james
T.. Stewart will, we understand, be its
chief editor"
Titus Burke and Baldwin Gray, two OF
the sailors Of the sloop George Chapman,
arrived in Baltimore Wednesday morning
OIL the steamer Maggie. They report that
during a fearful gale the sloop, which was
bound from Norfolk, Va, TO the Kappa
hammock river. was blown ont OF her course
and wrecked on Ilogg's Island, of the
coast OF northampton county, Va. All on
board escaped.
| 4 lady OF New Market entered one Of the
| bar-rooms in that place last Saturday night
/ between and s O'Clock, found her nus
| band present. and determining that her
rights should be protected-if not by the
! law, by her own hand-threw over baga-
| telle table, Knocked the legs of, and took
/ her husband home with her. The specta-
! tors and players surrendered at the first
assault, beat 4 hasty retreat, and left the
! field to the victriX.-ShendndOdh Herald.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.-On last Saturday
Isaac Conner and his brother, who live at
Edmund j. Rothgeb's, on Mill creek, were
engaged saving lathS with four-horse-
power machine, when a most frightful ac-
cident befcll the former, by which he came
near losing his life. He was feeding the
machine. Having stopped to the floor and
raising again, block flew from the lathe,
which was in the machine Caused, it is
supposed, by the pinching OF the saw,
striking young Conner on the nose and
completely tearing the upper portion Of
that organ from his face. Our informant,
who saw Conner soon after the accident,
says the wound was most ghastly-looking
zone. DR.. John f. Long dressed the
wound, and, Notwithstanding the terrible
mutilatiOn, enough flesh was secured TO
rebuild the nose, and il is thought that
Conner. when he RECEIVERS, will be but little
disfigured. -P0ge Courier.
A PRoDIGY.-A man by the name Of
Price, near Alma, who is almost blind and
who is wholly uneducated, and not at all
sprightly in other respects, is said TO be
able TO solve almost any problem in mathe-
MATES that can be given him. lie uses no
figures, but makes his calculations on his
fingers Mr.. Hampton, who is teaching in
that neighbOrhood, gave him last week the
following problem, which he solved quick
er than a good scholar present could do
by Algebra a man bought horse,
buggy, and harness. The horse cost S4S
more than the buggy-the buggy two and
three fourthS times as much as the har-
ness, and the harness one seventh OF the
whole sum paid. What was the whole
sum paid-what did each cost? He has no
difficulty in working fractions however
complicated and intricate. Mr.. James +.
Graves informs us that he once asked him
what was the third and the half Of one
third Of 81, and he was ready with the
answer almost as soon as he had finished
the question. We may have more TO say
about him hereafter. He is about twenty
three years old. Page Courier.
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