The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-12
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Reprinted fro.. Th,. xeu.p.per.
Dcscrtcr Executed.

Dcscrtcr Executed.
| Louisa, Va. January lo.--Yesterday
a deserter from the Orange Artillery,
Cartcr's battalion. was executed. He
deserted in June last while the army
was on route TO Pennsylvania. The
scene was sad one and long to be
talions of the corps were drawn up
In the three sides of n square. and on
/ the fourth side sat the condemned
man, near his grave and his coffin. He
! leaned back against n post, his arms
! being stretched out on a board. Rev
Mr.. Page, of Joness Battalion, attended
| the unhappy man in his last moments.
The condemned man. after he had been
blindfolded. was bade farewell to by
several OF his friends. and the guard
! was then detailed to shoot him. 10
remarked to several OF them: IL hope
we will all meet In heaven. He died
| to save all of u.s." The guard took
their position. ten PAGES from him. and
at the word fire" their bullets pierced
! his heart. His head raised once after
| the volley then sank upon his breast
| and the soul of the unfortunate man
was with his Maker. The deceased was
twenty-six years Of age, and leaves
n wife and three children.
After the SkuIkcrS.
A writer from the front says: Gen
eral Lee has issued an order granting
n furloueh of thirty days to every en-
listed man who shall furnish a recruit
for military duty. Our friends at
home can help us now. If they will
| expose any OF the sl5ulkers who are
successfully lodging duty In the army
and send them TO this army. they can
get thirty-day furlough for their
friends who are now on duty. There
arc plenty OF sllulkers In Richmond.
Send them up
The City Hospitals.
AT the regular monthly meeting of
the City Council yesterday Mr. Rich
ardson, from the COMMITTEES on Hos
pitfalls. read report recommending tho
Increase of charges for patients To the
following rates: For whites. 81 per
day; negroes, So, small children hale
price. He also recommended that the
hospital physicians be paid $40 per
day when there are one or more pa
ucnts In the hospital.
From the Rnpidnn.
Orange Courthouse, Va, January 10.
-Mosby attacked picked post of tho
enemy near Wnrrenton "Wednesday
night last. capturing eighteen prison
crs and killed and wounded eighteen
or twenty more and brought Off forty
ments Of the party captured. Mosby
had no men killed or wounded
From Charleston.
Charleston. January l0-Eishteen
shells were thrown into the city by the
Yankees al intervals of a half an hour
last night. and twenty-eight this ar:
ternoon between 8 and & o'clock No
casualties yet. The Smelling has been
relieved this evening.
ConscriptInE Railroad Employees.
The presidents of the Richmond and
Petersburg and Richmond and Fred
ericksburR Railroads few DAYS ago
presented to Congress 4 most sensible
remonstrance against the indiscrimt-
nate CONSUMPTION OF railroad employees
and replacing them with disabled sol
diers. The remembrance is indorsed
by the presidents of the Wilmington
ana Weldon, Wilmington and Manches-
ter, Raleigh and Castor and other
railroads OF the Confedcracy.
Stole Money From Negro.
MIR. Alexander Gin made complaint
yesterday to the Mayor that on Sat
urday he sent his little negro boy TO
the mill to buy some meal. but that
while he was on his way he was set
upon by several white boys. led by one
named John Basin. who held him and
took from his pockets $40, with which
he was TO pay for the meal. The boy
Bastin Is of bad reputation and Is said
to be attached 10 an organization on
Oregon Hin, known as the Forty
Thieves"
About II, O'clock night before last
q fire broke out in the upper story
oi inc old wooden tenement on Ninth
Street, near the corner OF Broad The
building is owned by Hon James
Lyons. and for a number of years has
been used as Offices for several OF the
legal fraternity. In the third story
some OF the congressional and legis-
lative committees held their meetings
while the FIRST and second stories were
used by Hon. James Lyons, Judge Will
liam H. Lyons. Blackburn Hughes ana
Littleton Tazewcll az law Offices
This building is ono of the Oldest
IN that section Of the city, and has
been occupied by some OF the most
distinguished lawyers of the land,
among them Judges Roane and Wash
ington, and, it is said that great ora
tor Patrick Henry. The damage ia
the building was $500.
Mrs. Allnn's Trial Agnlu Postponed.
The examination of Mrs. Caroline
Patterson Allan on the charge of dis
loyal correspo ndencc with persons In
the lines OF the enemy. which was to
have taken PLACE yesterday before
Confederate States Commissioner Wat
son, has been again postponed. this
time on account of the severe indispo-
sition OF an important witness II e.
probable the trial will be resumed on
the 18th instant
Confederate States Court.
The Confederate States Distric,
Court was In session short while
yesterday, but transacted no business
of general interest.
prtsops
Tho Libby" was the only one OF
these institutions which afforded
sanitary item yesterday. Forty new
Yankee prisoners were deposited there
in. including one commissioned officer