Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-20
PETERSBURG AND VICINITY.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.

| fAfA1 DOLLEH ia SLUOlONs
| Two men KILLED and several InJused-spien.
did Cror Pfospeeis-tIenrtIess Desertion Of
Child Criminal Matters, &c.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dlspatchl
PETERSBURG, August 10, 1885.
A destructive saw-mill accident oc-
CURED yesterday afternoon in Notteway
county, in which there was loss Of both
life and property. Mr.. g. Hadder, of
Blacks-and-Whites, owns mill which
is located about half way between We'll
vile and Bellefonte. Yesterday, while
the mill was in operation, with large
force of laborers at work near it, the
boiler exploded, and five negroes were
bruised by the flying debris and scald-
ed by the boiling water. Two Of the
injured men died shortly after the acci-
dent the others are not fatally injured.
The machinery Of the mill was totally
wrecked, and the loss is about 81, 900.
The names Of the killed aud wounded
cannot be ascertained.
Mr.. George S. Bernard, Common
weaith's attorney in this city, has just
returned from trip in Dinwiddie
county. lie reports the farmers as re-
joicing over the generous crop yields.
Mr.. Bernard says that the tobacco
fields are in splendid condition, and in
the course of long drive his attention
was constantly drawn to them by the
unusually abundant yield which they
promise. The corn crop will be larger
this year than for several years past.
As regards fue-cured tobacco, Mr.
Bernard says that the farmers are very
much encouraged by the prospect which
is offered them. In this section there
is a great deal Of land specially adapted
to the cultivation Of this kind of to-
bacco. Heretofore it has been allowed
to lie idle, and consequently to decrease
in value. But many Of the owners of
this land are preparing to utilize it
now in the production Of tobacco,
which will be hue-cured.
Before Mayor Jarratt this morning
Rachael Jones IA negro woman) was ar
raigned for abandoning her infant. The
testimony showed that there was little
Of maternal kindness about the woman.
She carried the child more than mile
into secluded spot, near the suburbs of
the city, and there laid it in the bushes
on the bank of the little stream that
flows through that section of the city.
For forty-eight hours the infant lay
there until it was found by two men
who happened to pass near and heard
its faint moaning. The woman was
sent on by the mayor to be tried at the
next term Of the Hastings Court for
attempted murder.
This morning Sheriff Lessner, Of Nor
folk county, arrived in the city with a
constable and took charge Of George
Washington, charged with murder, who
was arrested in this vicinity on Sunday.
Sheriff Lessner took the prisoner back
to Norfolk on the midday train. lie
also carried down with him several wit
nesses who had been SUbpGHGed to tes-
tify in the case of the Commonwealth
rs. Pat. Simmons, charged with felo-
NOUS cutting, who is now being tried
in the Norfolk County Court.
DR.. j. II. Claiborne, Of this city, re-
ceived a telegram to-day from his
daughter, Mrs. W. B. McIlwaine, who
is now at the Yellow Sulphur Springs,
stating that shed within the Springs
property fell suddenly this morning, and
that her little daughter Josie had been
caught under it and painfully injured,
DR.. Claiborne left for the Springs on
the midday train to attend the little
sufferer.
DR.. Robert A. Martin, Of this city,
son of r. A. Martin, Esq, left for
Memphis to-day, and in the future will
practice his profession in that city. DR..
Martin is a distinguished graduate of a
northern medical college, and for the
past two years has been attached to one
Of the New York hospitals.
Sheriff Gillian, of Dinwiddie county
came to town to-day and took into Gus
tody, for trial in the County Court
James White, who has been stealing
cows in the county.
1t is learned from citizens Of several
of the counties south Of Petersburg that
deer are very scarce this season. The
disease called "black tongue" which
prevailed among the deer throughout
so destructive that in some localities
this game almost entirely disappeared
as it was not uncommon to find the deaC
bodies, two or three together, lying
about in the woods. 1t is the belle
that several years will elapse before
they appear in any number in the Soutl
Side again. The same disease nearly
swept off all the deer in this section
soon after the war. ROBIN ADAIR.