The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-22
COUNTY COURT CHAT.
Proceedings ut Hanover Courthouse
yesterday-A Peculiar Murder
Trouble About q Marriage
Personal Points.

mOnd was quite large, and they were met
ut the Courthouse by the usual delegations
OF Iianoycrians, representing all sections
oi the county. An agent for the best ma
chine that ever made Il stitch peddler
with q medicine that would cure all dis.
eases; an auctioneer selling horses OF I'M
Tivalled merits; an insurance agent, ana
one or two newspaper-men, added to the
attractions. The day was bright and cold,
and the courthouse officials, true to the
! traditions and customs OF the grand old
| Commonwealth, kindled fires TO heat their
rooms and then kept the doors open to cool
the stoves. They have discarded wood
fires and now burn coal, and anthracite
coal at that.
THE GRAND JURY.
Judge Newman very kindly allowed
time for all strangers to be introduced to
the country people, and for the country
people TO attend to the multiiarious affairs
for which c0urt-days seemed to have been
specially designed by law and nature, and
then called the court TO order (abOut 1917,
and the following grand jurors were sworn
in due form by Deputy-C Jerk Burnley
Taylor: +. 5. Cardoza. Ro. Busby. VI.
J.. Jones, II. VI. Green. Jackson Cary, j.
VI. Leakc. Julian Rufiin, John V. Darra- |
colt, and 4. Il. ElIorson.
INDICTMENTS.
Judge Newman charged the grand jury |
briefly and they retired TO their room and |
proceeded 10 consider a number OF indict- |
ments sent i'm by the Attorney for the Com |
monwealth, Mr.. IIaw. Subsequently they !
returned the following true bills:
Isaac Jones (cOorcd). murder.
John :. IIadcn, subornatiOn OF perjury. |
Charles Winston (coIored), outrageous
assault.
Grandson Stanley, n0ta true bill
TIE MURDER CASE.
This alleged murder was committed on |
March 10th at Johuston's store, which is |
i'm the Atlec's station neighborhOod
Isaac Jones is a coored man OF fair repu- |
tation. lie has several brothers who are |
we-to-do marketmen, and they have en- |
ployed Hon. George ID. Wise to defend !
him. Mr.. Wise was at court yesterday, |
and had an interview i'm Jail with the pris- |
oner. Andrew Jordan, the deceased. was |
by all accounts rough character. He and |
Jones had had fight. Jones got knocked |
down by him several times, and finally had \
to admit that he had enough; whereupon |
the struggle for the time ended, but was |
Immediately renewed, and Jones, seizing |
a stick OF cord wood, gave deceased IA
fearful blow. Deceased was put TO bed, |
where he was visited next morning by |
Jones. Jones then and there made an
other attack upon him, striking him on the |
face with bis list, and was only prevented |
from doing him further injury by the in
terpOsition OF friends.
That day Jordan died.
THE GIST OF IT.
II it be true that the prisoner attacked |
Jordan when lie was upon his death-bed |
the case is one Of peculiar attrOcity other |
wise il Is only one OF the innumerable host
OF cases where death results from row.
Nelson Holmes, q cOlOrcd man. states posi-
lively that he and others were present, and
saw the bedside attack. But this part of
the story j. absolutely denied by prisoner
and his friends. The truth will pretty
surely be known when Mr.. Wise and Mr..
IIaw get through with the examination OF
the witnesses.
The case will not be heard tillneXt term. !
The county people are expecting grand |
speech from Mr.. Wise. When the case
comes to trial crowds will flock to the |
courthouse, bringing their dinners with |
them, so as to feel perfectly easy and re at
no great expense.
TROUBLE ABOUT A MARRIAGE.
The indictment against 1lr. Jonn :. lIa-
den charges that he swOrc that Miss Rora |
West was OF lawful age To enable Mr.. |
Grandson Stanley TO get license to marry |
her. The oath was taken before the Coun- |
tv-Court clerk, Mr.. j. Il. Taylor, and the |
Young lady is now Mrs. Stanley, and a |
happy bride, it is fair to suppose; but her |
relatives are Indignant, and have caused |
these proceedings to be instituted.
4 bill sent in to the grand jury against |
her husband, Mr.. Stanley. was ignored.
The matter has caused quite stir in the |
Beaver Dam district, where the parties re-
side.
PERSONAL.
Among other members OF the bar pres
cnt Yesterday were Colonel W. X. Aylett |
aud Judge Edmund Waddill, and Hill Car
ter. Josiah Lcakc. Aston Cabcll, John
Page. and Me,srs. sydnor, Newton, Jones,
and Sutton.
Colonel Aylctt. now that his hair and
m0uStachc are fairly sprinkled with gray.
begins TO look strIkingy like his brother,
the lamcnted Patrick Henry Aylett.
GENERAL RossER's RESIDENCE.
General Rosser IS remodelliug (or rather
rebuilding the mansion at Courtland, the
home Of the late W. o. Winston, whose
daughter he married, and will soon have
there one Of the finest country residences
i'm Virginia. The house will have seven
teen rooms. Water will be pumped from
well into tank by Windmill, and viii
thence be conveyed by pipes into each and
every room.
General RosSer holds a lucrative posi-
ton in railroad company in the North
west. but is now with his wife in Hanover.
From this investment he evidently does
not intend to desert the Old Dominion
POLITICS.
judge Waddill was engaged taking de-
positions for Mr.. John ;. Wise in the
clerks office yesterday. The proceeding
did not attract much attention. The Han
oyerians have forgot nearly all they knew
about that election, and are now thinking
about the new one soon to come OIL Tor the
election OF county officers. 1t is given out
that the Rcadiusters mean to put full
ticket in the field.
OLD AND NEW.
A tramway has been constructed from
Hanover Courthouse some seven or eight :
miles into the country. The rails are OF {
wood. Timber is transported, and the ma :
employed is mule and car:
There are no explosions on this line, and
the killing OF a brakeman Is unheard Of.
A gentleman from Caroline stated that
he had recently beer at the house OF Mr..
John Long. who lives near Point Eastern. (
and who has reached the advanced age OF
one hundred and one. He is probably the /
oldest man in Virginia that Is, irhite man. ,
There are colored men by The dozen oyera d
hundred years old il you believe them in
MS REGARD. wherein their information Is