The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-18

ROANOKE u 70 have military company
The Lexington Gazette n making 4,
warm tor Coalition IN Rockbridge.
There have been about two thousand
visitors to the Lee mausoleum at Lexington
since the day OF the unwilling ceremonies,
June goth last.
A Fincast'e letter says: Beaver Dam,
formerly one OF the finest farms in the
superb valley Of Mil creek, but Of late
years badly titled, has been sold at auc-
ton to Mr.. George W. Hamburger for
s9,337.50-s35.jO per acre.
A mass-meeting OF the Democrats Of
Lunenburg county win be held on next
court-day Second Monday In september)
I 10 complete the organization OF the Demo-
cratic party for this campaign and nomi
nate candidate for the House OF Dele
| gates.
The store-house and contents belonging
to Messrs. Dabney & Payne, on the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
road, in Caroline county, caught fire We'd
nesday night and were entirely consumed.
including all the books. accounts, and
other papers. IL Is supposed the fire origi.
mated from the explosion OF lamp.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says: cone
day last week mercantile firm OF this
place purchased over 81 900 worth OF dried
cherries, for which they paid the cash.
The purchase was made from q country
merchant in the northern part OF Abe
marie, who had taken the LOT in his store in
the ordinary course OF trade"
The stanton indicator makes this an
nouncement Dr. John Trotter is in Staun-
ton, having Just returned from England.
where he went as the accredited agent Of
the Trotter family Of America to look after
the immense estate. calculated at 5000, 000,-
600, which was left by DR.. Thomas Trot-
ter, OF the East India Company, and Will
liam Trotter, Of London, descendant OF
the Earl Of Gowery, Scotland; and also,
! $500, 900 more, which descended in the
same line from the House OF Clifford, Great
Britain.
The Harrisonburg old Commonwealth
says: The Peaked mountains are burning
at fierce rate. The scene from the hills
around town after dark is magnificent, and
enjoyed by many OF our citizens. We
learn a very large amount OF valuable tim
Der is being destroyed. II is rough on the
whortleberTy-g atherers - and snakeS-for
which these mountains are famous. We
| learn that the Blue Ridge mountains, also
/ the mountains near Union Springs, are on
fire. There has been some loss in these
ranges of mountains by the loss Of grazing
cattle.
The GraysOn Clipper is not much on
SNAKE stories, but comes up 10 the scratch
with the following: About twenty-three
years ago Mr.. CYRUS Walker. who resides
two miles east Of town, swallowed n lead
pencil one and a half inches long. On last
Friday he complained OF an intolerabe
itching sensation just below the left Shout
der-blade. lie called in DR.. Cane, who,
on examination, detected a hard substance
just beneath the skin, and, making an i'm
cision. found, to his great surprise, the
lead pencil swallowed by Mr.. Walker
twenty-three years ago. Mr.. Walker SUI
fcred no inconvenience whatever from the
pencil. The pencil was perfectly sound,
showing no sign Of decay.
! 4 terrible accident occurred at the Bur-
| ford mills, in Amherst county, Thursday
morning. Mr.. Gus BaldOck, the miller,
| had occasion to leave the mil for a short
! time, and went TO his house near by TO
send his eldest son, Glover, to attend to
the machinery during his absence. His
son David, boy OF thirteen, who had
never been allowed to attend 70 any Of the
machinery. was in the mill when his father
/ left, and after he had gone undertook to
attend to it. He was caught between some
OF the parts and fearfully crushed, his right
arm being broken in two places, above and
below the elbow, and both legs at the
thigh, one Of the bones Of his left leg pro-
truding fully four inches through the flesh,
besides receiving an ugly cash on the fore
head. He cannot possibly recover.
A White Sulphur Springs correspondent
OF the Philadelphia EUening Bulletin says :
"The southern women may not dress in
the latest New York styles, but the most OF
them have lovely faces, sweet, unaffected
manners, and splendid, really splendid,
physiques. There is not single parlor in
any hotel in the country which at the pres
emf moment % p. NJ contains greater, or
even anything like an equal, number OF
beautiful women, and the men acknow-
ledge the fact by their numerous presence
during the season. The social intercourse
here is Of the most delightful kind. Taking
it for granted that there are no wolves
(socia) in lambs clothing among the guests,
they all meet on an equal footing OF unre-
strained cOrdiality-one huge family OF
| 800 people,