The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-22
WHAT WASNEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Yankees I'm New Kent.
Reprinted fro.a This Newspaper

| wide awake. They gave the ianks 4
None of the picl<ots were injured or
captured. Tho enemy found their plans;
whatever they We're, frustrated nnd
| liamSburg.
| White House Raidcd.
y train was started out Yesterday on
tho York River Road to. replace two
turned TO the city when 1t was heard
| that Il considerable force of Yankees
had reached the White House. Nothing
| moro definite has been heard of their
movements and objects
| From Enst Tennessee.
| An official report from General Long
street. dated Kussellyillc, Tenn. says
tackled and defeated a Yankee nike force ." of
| 1850 at Big Spring, near Tazewen Three
officers and siNty;f9ur privates were
horses. six wagons. one ambulance and
| hity stands of arms.
From the Northern Neck.
The Yankee raiders that appeared in
Wes;moreland and Richmond Coun-
| only damage they dill was to burn
! quantity of bacon at Warsaw, In Rich
mond County.
blockade Hummer Destroyed.
The steamer Vera. Confederate
blockade runner. loaded with supplies
for the government. was run down and
burned off Fort Fisher on the 18th.
ninccnt uniform intended as q present
for General Lee. Full particulars of
the affair have not been received.
RESOLUTIONS of Remembrance.
In tho State Legislature yesterday
resolutions were passed demonstrating
against tho passage of tho bill now
pending in the Confederate Congress
ary service of BOWS olseT nnd me nor from rom
the ages of sixteen to fifty-fivc
On the Nnnsemond River.
number of Yankee gunboats are
operating on the Nansemond River.
tinually going on shore TO annoy the
citizens. Last Saturday n band of Con-
tedcrote scouts secreted themselves in
the woods near the mouth OF Chucka-
tuck Creek and fired upon tho Yankee
raiders, killing two and woundins'
boats shelled Cherry Grove. the hand
some place OF Richard II, Riddick. do
Ing considerable damage. They threat
encu TO burn the place.
Smallpox I'm Knoxville.
smallpox Is raging among the Union
troops and The negroes in Knoxville.
Tenn, there being coo cases among
them, while there are less than n dozen
eases among the white citizens. In
consequence of the smallpox the main
are in camp at Strawberry Plains.
Travelling on Forged Passport.
y. ~ bernstein was arraigncd before
Alexander H. Sands. Confederate States
Commissioner, yesterday on II charge
OF uttering and attempting TO uso a
passport to which M0jor Griswolds
name had been forged Bernstein was
sent on to the grand jury. lie was
trying TO make his way through the
bought the passport from man named
Jacobs paying $500 for 1t. He offered
tho guard who halted him Il bribe OF
! 500 to let him pass
Reckless Driving.
Th ,5 is great complaint especially
thrnnDh ..tS ~ tlna .,kf
| by the drivers. both white and black, OF
government wagons. The negro drivers
well as lmpudent. The Mayor and the
, police Will undoubtedly take this mat
! ter in hand.
Saddle for General Morgan
! ~ the store OF G.. 4. Miles there is
on exhibition magnificent saddle,
which is to be presented to General
| Danvillc. 1t ~ made of the best of
material and is silver mounted.
Married.
At the Grace Street BAPTIST Church
an interesting marriage took place
| when Mr., benjamin Cottrcll and Miss
- Kettle BE- NJ. Face; d9ughter of George
| in the holy bonds Of wedlock. Rev.
j. 3D. Jeter. d. d, performed the ccre-
rncny.
= Horse for General Morgan.
EX-Governor +; i. w. Allston, Of
South Carolina, has a thoroughbred
horse. which he proposes TO present
TO General Morgan, or To any officer OF
| his command whom the general may
| designate.
Desperate Jump.
;, Yesterday n conscript from King VIII
| liam County. who was being brought
TO this city under guard. on the York
River train, jumped from the plat :
form while the train was In very
rapid motion. While he made his es-
cape he reached the ground in very
| ungraccful shape, having turned sew
eritl somcrsaults down n high en-
bankmcnt.
Counterfeit Money.
| y man from Norfolk was arrested
yy o:. Tor trying to pass counter
| feit Confederate money at the Treas
ury Department The money was a
very good counterfeit. but II developed
Of 1t. having bought IT with gold in
that ingenious Yankees have put a
great deal OF counterfeit Confederate
notes in circulation IN Norfolk.
From Charleston.
Charleston January 2O.-The she'll
ing OF Charleston to-day was not as
vigorous as for several days past. Only
daylight to ., o'clock IN the evening.
Little or no damage WAS done.
Cotton burned.
An incendiary fire at the depot in
Columbia. S. C.. yesterday destroyed
5000 bales of cotton and other prop
erty, Of The value, Of S2.ooO,oOo. Nine
iongod to the Confederate government
Latest from the North.
IRON Northern papers Just to hand
some news is obtained:
James. r. Minnis. a dry goods mer-
chant Of Petersburg: Louis Knyton. S
i;ach, James Stein, H. Stein, f. We'll
5. Winehea and j. j. Simms. refugees
from Richmond. have reached BaltI-
more.
Henry ward Becoher in a speech
made in New York, strongly advocated
vigorous conscription in order to re-
pleniSh the depleted and constantly de-
pletirg ranks Of the Yankee army
New DIRK papers have informa tior
OF the burning off lava Head of the
Amcrtcan ship Winged Racer. from Ma
nilla, and the Amanda, bound 70,
Abe Martin
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