The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-11
STAUNTON.

LICE-RAILRoAD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO
A LADY-A VETERAN HARyEsTER--REsIG-
NATION OF RAILROAD OFFICIALS. &C., &C.
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.I
July 10, 1888.
The public interest attached TO the trial
Of the Greaver-Meredlth poisoning case
continues to grow with each day. This is
the sixth day since the commencement OF
the trial. The examination Of witnesses is
not yet concluded, and the courthouse is
crowded every day. The evidence will
probably all be in to-day and the argu-
ments OF counsel be entered upon to-mor
row.
A personal collision occurred Saturday
night between the editors OF two little eve-
ming papers OF this city (the Telegram and
the Ne,cs) growing out OF offensive publi-
cations in their respective sheets. There
was some pretty rough tumbIng, but no
serious injury to either party. An investi-
cation Of the affair before Justice w. b.
Koyncr resulted in trilling fine being im-
posed upon the belligerents and their being
bound over to keep the peace for six
months in the penalty OF 5000 each.
AL OF the police force OF StauntoD, in
Guiding Chief Of Police Waters, have been
reelected. They are as efficient rs any
corps Of any city in the Commonwealth,
and during the last year Of unusual crime
in this locality their activity and zeal have
been well tested.
Mr.. John A. Hannah has threshed from
90 acres Of land TIC bushels Of wheat-an
average OF over 80 bushels TO the acre, q
yield not often reached ia these parts.
The new church OF the Disciples ut Day.
ton, in Rockingham, will be dedicated on
Sunday. Elder s. f. Fowler, OF Char
lottesville. will conduct the services.
A wrecking force has been engaged sew
eral days in removing six freight cars
three box and three fiats-which were
thrown over the Chesapeake and Ohio en-
bankment opposite the lunatic asylum last
Saturday night. They jumped the track
and were hurled over the high embankment
about midnight with loud crash that
startled the denizens in that part OF the
city from their sleep, and although the
bank is steep end one OF the cars was
heavily loaded, but little damage was done
save the loss of time in encumberlng the
track and removing the wreck.
Mr.. John Smith, OF Churchville, one OF
the oldest citizens of Augusta, celebrated
his eighty-sixth birthday last week by
visit to his haryest-field and grading around
an acre OF wheat.
The health OF Bishop GIossbrenner, OF
Churchvile, has improved good deal
since his return from Maryland, and the
present uneasiness OF his friends and
Church on his account has been much re-
lieved. He expects to spends the season at
one OF the Virginia watering-places. Mrs.
George c. Hanger, OF the same village,
was thrown from her horse in the street
last week and one arm badly bruised and
cut by the fall, but her injuries have not
resulted seriously.
Major Thomas Shumate, an agent OF the
coal-mining company at Muchakinock,
Iowa, has taken at different times from Au-
ousta, Albemarle, and Nelson counties over
one thousand negro men, with their fami-
lies and sweethearts, the whole number
running over two thousand, and including
eight hundred voters. His last shipment,
made some ten days ago, amounted to one
hundred and fifty, nearly all men, aud he
is back here again after another lot. This
kind OF mine labor, until recently an eX-
pertinent in the West. proves to be en-
tirely satisfactory TO the proprietors OF the
mines, and while the emigration has made
labor scarcer and dearer in this locality, it
has improved decidedly the political and
intellectual status OF the counties drawn
upon, as they go to stay, being colonlZed
in the land of their adoption by their libe-
raj employers.
Colonel James III. Skinner, well known
in Virginia, member Of the late House Of
Delegates, will sail for Europe in the
steamer Servia from New York on the 18th
instant, with the intention OF making a
several months tour.
Captain w. L. Balthis, Of Baltimore,
late Mayor OF Staus ton, and gallant en-
Confederate artillery officer, is paying a
visit to his old friends in this city.
1t is reported here this morning that
Observation-Disclosures E. L. Smith and
Train-Dispatcher r. Cabel Anderson, OF
Richmond, and l.. G. Anderson and John
Woodward, OF Charlottesville, OF the Ches-
apeake and Ohio railroad, have on account
OF some official misunderstanding resigned
their positions with the company. As
these gentlemen are well known and highly
esteemed here, it is hoped the difficulty
will be satisfactorily adjusted. Vox.