The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-10
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Reprinted from rhi. Newspaper.
Startling Arrest.

Startling Arrest.
Phillip Cashmere IL trusted office,
~ General Windei, has been arrested
! chais cu with reasonable correspond.
ence; !, is said that he was caught
ON the flag OF truce boat in the very
YET OIL transferring to Yankee prisoners
,s,iers 10 be taken through the lines.
hi'h iiliInaSc The letters were also
captured and the same ar. being trans.
Ii,.ed- When the translation is com.
pitt"d the case VIII be heard. In the
meantime Cashmere is held us n pris-
oner.
Captured on Eastern shore.
Ntnctc,n OF the prisoners captured
AT Cherrrstone W haIf. In Northampton
County, have been brought to LIBBY
Prison. They came in charge of SER
teant hisItnson. OF the Ninth Nir.
sinia RcGiment, The leaders Of the
expedition which captured these men
also captured two Yankee vessels in
inc Chesapeake Bay, off tho Eastern
Shor". ihey burned one of the vessels
ana bonded the other. OF the prisoners
taken. iiHe were negroes. slaves belong
ing 10 citizens of Norfolk. and six were
MaIyiand renesades belonging TO the
Properly Punished.
In The Mayors Court yesterday morn
Ing Charles j. Reese was fined sloO
cruelty beating a slave girl Reese
Claimed that the girl stole his pocket
nook twicc. In reply the Mayor said:
YOU had no right TO beat her as YOU
haNc done kccsc is German. and
not IN owner of the slave. but had
General Malone Promoted.
irss,nenI paviS has appointed Brig
general Of the Confederate states
army. and has assigned to him the SUI
P.flnt"hdcncN OF transportation over
~ the railroads In the Confederate
states.
Death Of u Congrcssmnu.
samuel III Christian. Congressman
from the Seventh North Carolina Dis
Congress since the beginning of the
Confederate government
Lieutenant janrs Pollard.
friend writes TO us correcting an
error into which some Of tho CITY
papers have fallen; In stating that the
killed Dahlgren was Lieutenant spots.
wood Pollard Spotswood Pollard is
not lientcnant. but gallant private
cavalry. and bore his part we'll In the
AFFAIR, hut tho hero Of the exploit was
Lieutenant James Pollard. OF New Kent
county He was In this city 1T tho
hurried 10 his company, then In King
Milan ,.,i. County, remarlSing, that they
ne would "ndeavor TO lay tithc tax
upon them. lie got there just In time
to. collect. with his own company ana
others. about 100 men. with which he
routed. killed and captured force az
200 under the immediate command Of
pahlgron.
In the Virginia Senate yesterday Mr..
Iricc introduced preamble and reso-
luton in relation To the arrest and
sentence TO hard labor, at Portsmouth.
~ least Butler, Of the Rev. George
~ Balm, William II. H. Hodges aud
John II. Wingacld. and requesting the
Governor to direct the attention Of the
Confederate government to their cases
50 that three of the Federal officers
iie,i IN coniederate prisons may bc
hostages for the same. The prcamhla
and resolution were adopted and quick
~ sent to the House, and there also
believes in Confederate Money.
=. raulkmer, Of Charlotte County.
TAX county believes in Confederate
u oncy lie advertises that he has n
+ov-acre farm ia Charlotte County for
s"ie privately at $50 irr acre, and II
month he viii take Confederate money,
dollar for dollar. in payment
., Go"ds by Biocknde.
William X. Polk. commission mer-
chant, announces the arrival OF
cargo of goods received by blockade
runner direct from England lie viii
among the useful articles to he offered
may be mentioned 1000 yards OF brown
sheetinr, i,Seo yards Of three quarter
500 dozen Ciark's best spool cotton
1000 pounds Of shoe thread. nfty dozen
ladtes c"rscts, fifty dozen tuck combs
loo dozen fine combs. Many table
supplies arc also mentioned in the an
nouncomcut.
From Charleston.
For some reason, not yet exnlainci
the Yankees almost ceased firing on
Charicston yesterday. Only eighteen
shells were shot into rho city. IL
guns and replenshinS their cartridge
BOXES. or Ii may hc that they have
realized the folly OF shooting into
Charleston