The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-27
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Reprinted from Thi. Newspaper.
HIGHWAY Uoi,bery.

| Highway Robbery.
| Augustus lIaXall, u wel-known citl-
not very far from the city limits, whiio
on his way home night before last was
iicss than 200 yards beyond the city
] limits when an accident to his buggy
caused him TO stop TO look after the
repa i.,iaS The aaHiase he was APP
whom struck hin, over the head
i with slung shot, and he was +, n
dered unconscious. While in this state
or Confcdcratc money and also an order
Tor 10" on William cambridge. TWO
suspects have been arrested. and their
'riai may SHOW some developments.
Dfhrclfs store BurE.ur.xcd.
me store of X. L. DlprclI, on tho
WAS broken into night before last and
robbed of 1000 pounds of sugar and
SOM s0me ether - vnluabiea The loss of the
very scarce in this city.
stole Much 4 tobacco.
Two soldiers. who gave their names
as John Barnes ana Richard AlcGregor.
We're RrraiGncd in the Mayors Court
Yesterday morning charged with steal
ins hoEshead OF tobacco belonging to
mat they took the hogshead of tobacco
,rNh Warehouse on Dock Street,
ana While they were rolling II down
Cary Street to Nineteenth they were
arrested. The tobacco was identihed
as the property Of MIR Mayo The men
We're sent ON TO the grand jury without
From Charleston.
me ihtest telegraph.c reports from
G ,iin gre to the effect that for
tny tWentH- four hours ending AT .
o'clock last evening ii6 shells were
hred by THE Yankee gunhoats into the
CITY but none OF them did any great
damage.
Herald Man Sent North.
-. . Hnlkley. Jovial and altogether
correspondents of the New York Her
aid ana who was captured on tho
picket lines three weeks ago and has
since been held as n prisoner in Castle
thunder, was yesterday sent by the
Fag oil truce boat to city Point and
Cd while In the enemys" hands. and
ne ought TO have been, for ho is y
kilIed III, vie.
Loseph John Mccarthy, who is
charged with murder, was sent on to
inc the Grand Jury Yesterday, He is
iRree months standing. Tho murder,
u murder it was. took place on Cary
Escapes Were Caught.
lhree yankee officers who escaped
! from the prison in Danville two weeks
ago. We're captured yesterday morning
near Richmond and brought to Libby
/ prison. They acknowledge they were
More ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Thc Forty ninth Virginia Regiment
/ OF PeGram's Brigade. has unanimously
! rc-enlistcd. The Thirteenth Virginia
! 'Coionel Terrclls regimenD with the
exception of fifteen or twenty mon
/ mas re-cnliStcd for the war The
| Thirty first. Fifty-second and FIFTY
! eighth Virginia Regiments are coming
around. y large number have already
c-enlisted. ana the others are coming
! in slowly.
The Enemy UctrcntinE.
( ISlegrapnlC reports from MiGSlCsinD nj
are TO the effect that the enemy's
forces along the line OF tho Mobile
and Ohio Railroad are making retro
grade movement in the direction OF
the mississippi River Their mounted
cavalry in North mississippi are also
being driven beck by Generals Forrest
and stephen ID. Lee
From Mobile.
Tho latest news from Mobile IS that
/ the enemy opened fire on Fort Powell
+ At 1880 vest crday morning six NOR
tars and four 2unboats shcllcd MI .lav
hring 3Oi shots. no casualties and no
damage.
! bride burned 10 Dcnth.
I Mrs. Avn a Reeves n bride of only
InreG months was burned TO death IN
kaleiFh Yesterday morning She was
standing near the cooking stove when
her clothing took lire. and before AZ.
siStancc could reach her she was So
severely burned that she died In three
hours.