Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-19
YOUNG BALDocKs MIsFoRTUNEs.
Operation for Cancer on n Lady 10 Years
OId-Kcpt Away by the Railroad.

AMHERST COURTHOUSE, VA, De-
cember 1S.-(Special)-Young Eppa Bal
dock. whose terrible injuries from being
caught in the machinery OF his fathers
mill were reported in your Geographic
columns last week. is doing fairly well.
His crushed arm was amputated by Drs.
VOORHEES, and Thompson soon after the
accident. Besides the shattered limb he
received severe blow on the back, under
the right shoulder blade, and IL is from
this injury that the greatest trouble Is
apprehended. With one arm gone, an in
jured back. and a crooked leg from
previous accident, he is truly IN a manned
condition. The family has been very UNI
fortunate I'm this respect. as a younger
brother OF Eppa was accidentally shot
and killed while out hunting about two
years ago.
our esteemed County Treasurer, II. c.
Joyner has been III for several months
with cancer of the breast. few days
ago her physicians decided that surgi-
cal operation was her only chance for
life, though her advanced age made her
friends very apprehensive of the result.
She stood the operation finely and is
doing even better than could have been
hoped. She Is IS years old.
Mrs. Mabel COrbett, wife OF Captain
Frank Corbett. late Of the English army,
but now resident here, has been critically
III for week. For several days her case
was considered almost hopeless. She is
now somewhat improved but still danger
ously sick.
LYNCHBURG SUFFERS.
The miserable schedule now in effect
on the Richmond and Danville road is the
subject of much complaint and indigna-
ton on the part of our citizens generally.
II is impossible TO go. from here TO Lynch
burg-only fifteen miles distant, and re-
turn without spending the night there,
the result of which Is that our people are
almost entirely cut off from shopping in
Lynchburg, a matter which Is most seri-
ously felt just at this time, when prepa-
rations for the Christmas festivities are
being made Though a number OF fast
trains pass here they do not take passen-
gers under the present schedule, and the
freights leaving here Ohis Is the end OF the
a local dlvision) are not allowed 10 carry
passengers. If there is any power In the
State Legislature or the Railroad Com
missioner to correct Il this state of things
should not be allowed 10 continue, for the
railroad, which was originally constructed
In part by and for the convenience OF the
people OF this section, seems now TO be
run wholly for the benefit OF through
travel and local interests receive no con-
sheraton Whatever.
RESISTED.
The enforcement Of the school law re-
curing vaccination of all the pupils in
attendance has created quite stir in
this county, many of the parents In the
rural districts being opposed TO II, and
some going even so far as TO withdraw
their children rather than submit to 1t.
In the main. however. better counsels pre-
vail, and sore arms and game legs are
the order of the day.
Rev. c. Hansford Spooner, the new
Methodist minister assigned TO this circuit,
arrived in time TO FIJI his pulpit at this
place last Sunday. There was large
congregation and he made fine impress
sion. Rev.,J. w. Moore. now of ST. James,
Richmond, who was pastor of the church
here last conference year, was very
popular and interesting speaker, and this
community parted with him with regret
Rev. Dr. A. c. Bledsoe. late OF Peters
burg. but who was sent TO Norfolk at the
last conference. spent week here at his
Amherst home before entering upon his
new field Of labor.
Miss Rose Hart. Of Buchanan, is visit
ing Mrs. VOORHEES,.
There is a great scarcity Of hogs in this
county. and pork Is high.