The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-16

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General Wade Hampton rs 81 Daese'
Springs. =.
IT,. n Thicker spoke yesterday ut
Indian Rock, Botetourt county
Gerer,,C r. Beauregard passed through
petersh,'rc an Thursday on the train from
the Wcst en- route for Old Point.
Hog cholera Il prevailing to great ex; tx,
tent In southern Botetourt, ana severn ,,aa
farmers have lost heavily. Ohe i"'"Ni "'''
already lost nineteen fine hogs'
Hon. Ran. Tucker will meet Riyes ana
Woodtin at Amherst Courthouse on next
Monday.
Right Rev. Bishop J. J. Keane, OF Ricn-
mond Iect,,red at Leesburg on Tuesday,
and On "wednesday morning the Bishop
preached in the chapel, and administered
Tho s,croment of confirmation to several
candidates.
Tho iury I'm the case Of Frank BurkmaIl,
~ baltimore, who has beer on trial at Ming
George Courthouse, Va, charged WIN
double murder, were discharged NJ noon
Monday. The jurors stood ten Tor MUIR
der in the second degree and two for muir
der in the first degree.
The schooner Ellen NJ. Golden, from
Baltimore for Boston, with coal. put IN 10
Norfolk THURSDAY i'm distress. She reports
that on the night OF the 18th, while an
chored off York Spit, she was run into by
the steamer Saragossa and had ilylng IiD-
boom and head-gear carried away, DOW
spirit sprung, and sustained other damages.
The marriage of Mr.. Randolph Meade,
son Of William Meade, Esq, OF Prince
William county, and granddaughter OF
Rishop Meade, to Miss Bessie Meade,
daughter of Drayton G.. Meade, Esq, OF
Toumuier county, was celebrated in the
Episcopal church at The Plains on We'd
nrsdoy by Rev. Mr.. Grammar, and was the
occasion OF large and brilliant gathering.
The Eastyille Herald states that the work
oi construction Of the Peninsula railroad
has actually commenced, and it hopes IN
the course Of q few months to see the road
completed from one end OF the Peninsula
to the other. The Herald adds that the COM
many is in earnest about the work, and
States that the prospective road from POGO
moke CITY to Cherrystone, Va, will make
an airline from Florida to Maine, and put
the products OF the Peninsula into the
New York and Philadelphia markets twen-
ty-sour hours earlier than at present.
The award Of the prize in the competitive
parade at the Baltimore Oriole on Tuesday
TO Baltimore fire company caused some
surprise, because the city fire companies
had formally resolved not to compete for
the prize. The Alexandria (Va.) fire com
panv returned home very much dissatisfied
with that and other features OF their trip.
They also complain that there was no
committee to meet them, and that
they were lett to find their way
tc the engnc-house rs best they could
that in the parade they occupied the rear
portion behind frc-cXtinguishers, and
that they had to pay for all they got to eat.
The Baltimore iremen say they had nothing
to dowith the award OF the prize; that it was
the act of the OriOle committee, who in
their wisdom disregarded the action OF the
firemen's meeting.
Chief Engineer Hennick, OF the Balti
more Fire Department, says that members
of No. 4 Truck Company met the VISITING
fircmen from Alexandria ut the depot, and
assisted in storing their apparatus. lie
thinks the competition should have beer
limited to the visiting companies, and thu
prize awarded to the Alexandria company