The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-04
Virginia News.

Mrs. VI. A. Dauphin. OF New Orleans,
died of consumption at Roanoke Thursday
night.
Mr.. r. L. Freeman has announced him.
self as IN independent candidate for the
Legislature from ROckbridge.
Mr.. Job Hawhurst, OF Fairfax, was nomi-
mated by Malone convention in AleXan-
dria Thursday for the State Senate from
that district.
Fifty dollars worth of goods and twenty
dollars in cash rewarded the enterprising
burglar who entered the store OF A. e..
Hill, at Marion, few nights ago.
The Middlebrook section Of Augusta
county is excited over the abduction and
assault upon Mrs. Lizzie Weaver by a
man who Is supposed TO have belonged to
a circus.
Professor w. o. English, Of Richmond,
is now in Abingdon. The Standard says ::
Like most persons that visit the Southwest
for recreation and pleasure, he is charmed
with the scenery and pleased with the peo-
pie. and Dronounces the climate to be de-
lightful and strenthening.
The Piedmont Virginidn says: "Mon-
day last coOred man on the Berry-liill
farm in removing a log came across large
snake, which he killed. After it was dis
Matched there came from its pocket forty
Young ones three or four inches long,
which the man also killed." The Vir-
qin,an is not an advocate OF prohibition.l
SAYS the stanton VindicatOr "Mrs. NJ.
NJ. Whtesell, Of South River, met with
singular accident on Thursday evening.
She was stung on the foot by common
bumblebee, and before O'Clock at night
her limb was so fearfully swollen that 1t
was feared it would burst. She suffered
great agony until nearly noon on Friday,
when the swelling yielded to applications,
the most effective OF which was coal-oil."
Monday, saws the Wytheville Dispatch,
scafiold upon which was four men work.
ing on Ohve.Branch church, three miles
from Lead Mines, broke with serious re-
suits. A young man named Gray suffered
double fracture Of the arm, and two
others, james Hollingsworth and Samuel
Pope. were so severely stunned that they
Law senseless about an hour and n half.
John Bradley, the fourth man. swung to
protruding beams OF the building, and re-
ceiyed slight jar on falling.
The Lynchburg Ne,oS says: 1t is under
stood that the order for the removal of the
several principal departments of the Nor
folk and Western railroad from this city to
the town Of Roanoke will not be issued
before the first of September. and perhaps
il NAV be rs late rs the middle of that
month before the removal takes place.
Colonel Frank Huger. superintendent OF
the western division, and the clerks in his
department, will remain in Lynchburg, as
will also Assistant General Freight Agent
w. A. Carpenter and his auxiliaries.
SAYS the Lynchburg Virginian: "a
blast was set of by the hands at work on
the Improvement Of the Amherst road,
near Madison. on Wednesday last. which
hurled immense rocks great distance.
Several OF these rocks, weighing over
thousand pounds each. fell crashing
through the roof OF house from which the
family had been absent only few minutes,
having been previously warned OF the dam
ger. II Is said that il was only after re-
peated warnings the family consented to
leave the house. Had they remained they
would certainly have been killed. They
have removed to house further from the
place OF danger"