Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-17
-, p,cHMoND D1spArCH--sUNDAY. OCTOBER n 1886
PETERSBURG.
nycRxAsYp TOBACCO sALEs-sALE OF
An OLD MANSION.
Postal Changes Sudden Death-Per'onal
notwithstanding Account OF a
Southwest Earthquake.
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Correspondents OF the hlchihono Disp
PETERSBURG, Va, October 10. 1886.
The sales Of tobacco, both at the ware
houses and on Change. this week were
light. Very little loose Is coming Into
market, and the light demand on tne part
81 BUYERS has caused a falling OF In the re-
ceipts Of bogsheads, except oil the pes'
quality OF the weed.
The old Bragg mansion. nj the eas'sfn IN
trcmity Of Washington street, Tor so many
wears occupied by the family OF Tue iite Dr.
Bragg, was sold at auction last evening,
and was purchased by Captain Johh u
Griffin for $1,000.
Postmaster Patterson to-day put Oh 'uIce
Democratic etter.cariiers-whlle meh-n
place OF three colored Republicans, re-
moved. Three other appointments VIII DC
made In short time.
The very sudden death OF MRS. Josepn
Harris at her home, near Mount.sinal
church, In Prince George county, Is re-
'ported as haviDg occurred Two or tOres
DAYS ago. She was recovering from speii
OF sickness, and died with her chlid IN beE
arms.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Major Mann Page, Democratic candidate
for Congress in this district, has been COM
PEELED by indisposition to Temporarily
cease from bis canvass and 10 return TO MS
home. at Brandon, to rest and recuperate.
His retirement, IL is hoped, will only De Tor
very brief while.
MIR. Alex. Wilson. wel-known mer.
chant and Knight Templar, is recovering
from spell OF Illness.
MIR. John G. Armistead, clerk OF the
courts OF this city, is confined to bis home
by sickness.
PRIVATE ACCOUNT OF FAMOUS EARTHQUAKE
Aprop6s OF the recent earthquake shocks
In Virginia and along the Atlantic coast
the following extract from letter written
on February 7, 1912, by a citizen OF Loulsi-
ana to gentleman OF Charlotte county, va,
which has been placed in the hands OF your
correspondent, will be.read with interest.
The writer says that he felt several severe
shocks while writing the letter: The re.
heated and almost continual convu'slons OF
Nature have frightened the good people OF
the West. On the 10th OF December we
felt a very severe shock OF an earth-
quake, which lasted about eighteen hours,
and scarcely day since but we nave iet
them in some degree six or el2ht tiines'
Some Of my houses were injured, chimneys
thrown down, and plastering damaged.
Great damage is said TO have been done IN
Louisiana. The Mississippi navigation Tor
the present is destroyed, as 1t has shot up
the old 'sawyers and planters that have
been buried in the mud for perhaps thou
sands of years-some TO twenty feet ABOVE
The surface OF the water-and prevents
boats descending therlver. Severalislands In
the river have been sunk, and number oil
descending YES els lost. The river Is strewn
with wrecks-some from the agitation
of the water; others from running against
'sawyers and planters Up 1.-THE Missouri
river about the Rocky Mountains two or
three volcanoes have opened their craters
and belch out liquid fire. This we have
from Indians, who were there hunting
when they broke out. They were most
dreadfully alarmed. New Madrid, one
hundred and eighty miles from this, on the
Mississippi, is said nearly all to be destroy
ed. Sixty miles OF Prairie county is de-
stroyed People have moved INTO thl'
neighborbood from there. Some have quit
all thoughts of preparing for the coming
crops and wish to move away. Could 1t be
the heat from the comet that has caused the
ebulltion among the mineraSy or has II
been impending for ages OF is 1t to coun'
terpoise the fertility Of the soil The at.
mosphere has generally been muddy and
dark for these two months back"
ROBIN ADAIR.