Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-11
RICHMOND
NEWS AND GOSSIP
Weather Statistics Dating
Back to 1857.
ICE is FOUND EVERYWHERE
Tho Owncrship OF "a Conviops Body-
Want tho Fourih Regiment Mus.
tered out in Norfolk Mixed I'm
Name aud GcnenIogy Governor
Tyler Searching For Nnmcs- Death
orMrs. DIR. Dnnawny.
Especial to Virginian-Pilot.)

Richmond. Va, Feb. 10.-Yesterday.
last night and to-day the mercury has
been lower than it has been in Rich
mond but once sIice 1857. Probably
never in the city's history has there
been so much ice everywhere for so
long a period. The city is icebound
The sidewalks in many cases are al
most impossible. Foot passengers
take TO the middle of the streets. The
following is the reading of the Their
mometer al the Weather Bureau here
for tho past twenty-four hours:
At II o'clock yesterday 1t stood at Is
degrees, at it was 10, at 3 it went up
to Il, and then began to fall again. be-
ing 20 degrees at 3 o'clock, is at A..
and l6 ut o'clock. The fall then be-
came more rapid. AT it stood at "A
degrees, at Z it was Is, at ii was II,
at 1t had reached TO- at IL degrees
were recorded. and at II o'clock mid
night the quicksilver stood at de
grees. AT | o'clock this morning the
record was 4, at > o'clock il had drop
ped to 3. and at 8 o'clock 1t was de-
gree above zero. At 4 O'Clock the zero
mark was reached. An hour later II
WIS utSIttS DcloW. al U q CLOCK the
mercury reached 3 degrees below and
when it began to rise slowly. reaching
below at s, one above at .. and the
same ut 10. At IL it was above, and
at l. it recorded 6 degrees above. The
mercury slowly assembled as the sun
gained power, and at 3 o'clock this
afternoon it was between 10 and II de-
grees above zero. At / IL. III. to-day it
was , degrees.
The trouble with the wires has not
greatly abated The damage done was
so great that progress towards COM
pletely repairing ii seems slow. Water
pipes are frozen and bursted all over
the city. In TWO instances steam boil
ers in private houses have exploded
when the frozen water in them was
heated too rapidly. There were no
casualties.
The thermometer is from ten to twen-
ty-three degrees below zero in many
sections below the State. At no point
west of Richmond has 1t failed to
reach the zero point. At Fredericks-
burg it was at twenty-three below to-
day at sunrise.
WHOSE BODY WAS IT?
a difficult and entirely novel ques-
ton has recently arisen In connection
with the disposal OF the body of Il dead
convict.
Application was made to Governor
lyler Tor the pardon OF colored con-
Wet from Fairfax county. 1t was
stated that he was in extremely bad
health, and could live only a short
time. Several gentlemen from Fairfax
county endorsed the application and
Governor Tyler ordered that a pardon
be issued. The pardon was made out
and sent to the penitentiary. When ii
arrived the negro was dead. Was he q
convict when he died? That was Il
question to be decided at once. 1t was
necessary to know whether the body or
the dead convict should be given 10 one
of the medical colleges for dssectins
purposes or to the mans family. If
he died n convict. under the law the
colleges were entitled to the body; IL
he had been made a free man by the
Governor the family must have the
body. The hour At which the pardon
issued was not known. Major Helms.
Superintendent of the -Peni1entiarX
finally decided that the dead man
should have the benefit of the doubt,
and the students lost n disSecting sub