The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-03-30

C,,,,in potrick Mordecai Holbrook. q
native ~ WcSfmorennd county, Va, died
at bis residence in Baltimore on TUESDAY
morning, in the eighty-frst year OF his age.
Engineer Patrick Dacey, who wa pa
ralyzed while running his loconi1.i'e on
the Richmond and Danville ruif "sno.'
time since, near News ferry' uieo III MS
residence in Danville on MONDAY
Henry johnson (colored) was caught
Sunday night bv officer Gore stealing meat
from the smoke-ho,,sc Of Messrs. Rowe Il
CO.. on Winter street. Mayor Sener heard
the case yesterday, and as TINS was John-
sons third offence, he was sent on 10 the
grand jury. The proof against nim IL con-
elusive, and of course the penitentiary
will ultimately claim him. Ffeder'ckSourg
Star.
On Sunday morning, while the schooner
A. S. Gaskell, from Richmond 10 New
York, was lying off Craney Island nats,
negro seaman named Ro. Foster made a
mlnderous assault upon the mate, Adoipn
Andersen, Norwegian, crushing his skull
with capstan bar and telling him TO the
deck. Both were taken TO Norfolk; the
wounded man to ST. Vincent de Paul Hos
pital and the negro to Jail.
Upon an examination at Portsmouth be-
fore Justice b. Il. Tatem the negro Foster
and an accessory named William Scholl
were sent to jail for ten days TO await the
result oil Andersen's injuries.
Jesse Hickman and Narcissus Miller
were arrested in Norfolk Monday night for
the murder OF a man named Schwener,
near Elizabeth City, n. G., which was COM
mtted some three years ago. The confess
sion Of the woman short time ago, when
she thought she was dying, that the man
was murdered by Hickman in her presence,
was published in this paper short time
since. 1t is this confession that has led to
the arrest.
AT the trial before Justice Warren on
Tuesday no evidence being adduccd in
proof Of the reported confession (Which
/ the woman Miller denied) the parties were
both discharged.
The boys OF Alexandria city who have
figured quite prominently before the Mayor
OF late as Sunday gamblers, and who have
several times since their public trial been
surprised by the police, have fixed their
meeting-place at the double bridge on the
Washington road. They marched to their
place of rendezvous last Sunday afternoon,
where. with Daflney Grady, their colored
prcceptor, they enjoyed undisturbed their
usual Sunday sports. Becoming tired Of
the game, they commenced stoning four
| little BOYS who had walked down TO the
bridge from Washington, one OF whom
was struck on the head with n rock and
quite badly iniured.-Aierandria Gazette.
TRIES TO SHOOT HER FMTHLEss LOVER
In DanviIle on Tuesday morning, accord
ing to the Register, an Intellectual shooting
affair took place in the barber shop OF the
Arlington. The parties were Belle Holland,
colored society belle, and Sam. Wooding,
a colored barber employed in the shop men,
toned. 1t seems, from the information
we have obtained, that sam. WoOding has
been a sutton OF the girl for some time
past. He was constantly with her, and
the cOlored people regarded the two
as an engaged couple. Both OF them
are very respectable colored people.
He is about twenty-five and she only seven
teen years old. She alleges that they have
been engaged TO be married for some time.
and that under the promise OF marriage he
accomplished her ruin. This morning she
went to the barbcr-shop and demanded OF
Wooding what he intended TO do for her.
Not receiving a satisfactory answer, she
raised fivc.shooter and shot at him. AZ
sight of the pistol he fed, and the bal
passed through the door OF the room into
which h. fed. The girl was arrested and
examined before the mayor.