The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-09
Clipped. Sulied and Condensed.

WE wonder. says the Free Lance. if
the little General. emulating the ex-
ample of Nero. fiddled while Peters
burg was burning.
a GLOUCESTER farmer says that the
heavens commenced weeping on tie day
Of Harrison's Inauguration and have
continued to weep ever since.
GENERAL MALONE says: 1T will be
q cold day when resign the chairman
ship Of the Republican party. and no
power can freeze me out of it, Bully
boy with glass eye.
JONI CRoUsHoRN. living near Stone
wall. in Augusta county, while hunting
on the night Of October 18th, had biz
skull fractered by the fall of tree.
He is not expected to live.
1T is estimated that the cost OF print
ing Mahone's political literature in this
campaign was not lass thaa $50 0OC.
Most. if not all. of this expense will be
born by the Republican National Com
mittee.
On Friday afternoon, Mrs. Juliet +
Ast's. OF Staupton. little seyen-year Old
son. Joseph, had his hand caught in the
cogs of the wheat drill moving in the
field. The h nd was terribly lacerated.
DR.. Glib, o. w called IN and rendered
the necessary AID.
ABOUT twenty-five citizens Of Ports
mouth have enrolled their names for
the organization of a Winchester rifle
team. Sixty names will be enrolled.
and every member Of the team will be
required TO arm and equip himself.
A TERRIBLE elsclio riot occurred at
Woodsboro'. Frederick county. Md. A
constable was shot. the judges were
driven out aud the ballot-box taken.
The opposite factions arranged them
selves on opposite sides Of the road anu
fired on each other.
EDWARD CARTER. aged about twenty /
years, was drowned at Garllck = Ferry t
Thursday. He ana James Norman were /
playing on the wharf. when both fell /
overheard. Norman was saved. Car |
ter is a son of Mr.. Lewis Carter, OF I
West Point.
JIM WILSON, a colored man who works /
on the wbarves near West Point. met [
with serious accident Friday night. a
bae of domestic fell on his leg and
fractured it in the ankle joint. DIS.
Gatewood and Meredith had To ampu
tate the leg little above the ankle.
Mr.. HARVEY RoANE, fireman on
shifting engine in The railroad yards,
West Point, while l,sning out OF the
cab window Monday afternoon, struck
his Lead against the guide way of the
the cattle-yard ana was severely
mashed.
Or Tuesday night Mr. j. p. Sandidge,
OF Sandidge. Amherst county. had
horse stolen from his stable. a search
in the arrest of Richard Hub
bard (coloredl. who Is now repOslng in
jail here. II Is understood DIR. Henry
Loving, ST., also lost horse the same
way.
THE store of Mr. William II. Cam.
eron at Gaylord was burgiariously en-
leTed last Sunday night by unknOw
persons. who carried off about 500
n orth of cotton goods. shoes. cigars.
&c. Recently several characters were
e en- hanging around Gaylord. and sus-
licon naturally connects them with
he robbery.
DR.. JOSEPH WELSH, wealthy Eng
Ishman, who purchased farm IN
county q few years ago.
lied recently, after protracted illness. >
Ia leaves wife aud two nieces, who !
sill probably return to England. The f
Ioctor was All affsble, pleasant gentle
nan. and said TO be fine physician.
10 will be greatly missed.
The most pitiable object in the Ma !
zone party, says the Danville Register,
the late Judge NOwlin. and We have
70 heart to add to his misery by any
arsh words of criticism. We must
sy. however. that In going over to Ma '
one at this time, Judge Nowiin proves
nat his judgment is about as bad as his
olItics.
OK Thursday night Mr.. ID. d. Bah
)ck telegraph operator at Coal Valley Il
q the Chesapeake and Ohio, fell into
q ash-pit while trying TO avoid an APP
reaching train. The fall made him in
nsibie and he was badly burned by
le red hot aches on which he lay. He "
as picked out unconscious. having
zen painfully burned. He is broth r
Mr.. +. =. Babcock. the courteous
anager of the Western Union. tele-
aph office in Slounton.
A ROW occurred between several per- - -
Us at Dunkard meeting near Red =
i'll, in Roanoke county, some days 4
%, in which Mr. Benjamin F. Boon z
as ba.ily stabbed by George L. Hart
an and William Murray, who have &c
zee ned the country. Benjamin T. re
ION, William Ridgway aud John SCI
ION, who were arrested by the other tai
rites charged with assault upon
EN-, were tried and acquitted before
stices Coon aud Martin. G
A NEGRO tramp was stealing ride ..
q Norfolk aud Western freight train i
IN Crewe to Lyncbburg, and as the =,
lin neared the Southside the Island. jot
3 negro fearing arrest. as he says. if MS
rode into the city, jumped out of the '''
< car in which he was riding and, :
Citing on a pile of rock. broke his IL
hit arm below the elbow. Some white ~
Iroad men kindly procured medical
cntiop for tie injured man, and he r
rted out to walk 10 his home in Bed dis,
d. 4
In. WV. j. GAMER. who was born ~
died at Birmine ham, Ala,