The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-12
WHAT WAS NEWS
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Reprinted freq Thi. Newspaper
Report. of the Lunn,,o ASYLUM.

We have the last repUr, oil the super
intonucnt OF the state Lunatic Asylum
facts ana ngurcs are taken: There nie
1T present ioi patients unuer treatment.
Among the causes Tor insanity mo fol-
LOWING arc cnuiierated: jealousy, four
cases. ioNo, SIX cases. loss oil an arm,
one case: The war. seventeen cases; IN
,emperanve, thirty-four cases: pecun-
laiS troubles, fourteen cases. Miller
ism. one case. Dr. H.. Il. Stumbling, Tho
able superintendent of the asylum. ar
ful DISABILITY, has returned TO his post
entirely restored 10 health.
Horrors In North CnroIInn.
\ detachment OF Massachusetts
negro regiment. under the colonel com
manding. left Norfolk last week for
currltuck County. \. c., ostensibly to
icaernteS operating there under Lieu
tenant White. Failing in tins. they
visited the home OF Lieutenant White.
and after abusing the dcfenSeless fam
lily of tho lieutenant. using all kinds
or obscene ana d,srespcctful language,
they took .'as n prisoner his daughter,
teen years Of age. The wretches tied
her hands behind her, threw rope
over her shoulders. and in this condi-
ton She was driven by II burly negro
IN front OF tho command, the purpose
being 10 take her to Norfolk When
within five miles Of Norfolk This negro
tinent OF white infantry. the colonel at
the head. The colonel. whose name we
cn,
indignant, Knocked the negro driver
down ana rescued Miss White from the
!usoicnt guard. She was then placed
III carriage and escorted to Norfolk.
Eust Tennessee.
telegram from Dalton. Ga. says:
nag or truce has just arrived at
sold, with twenty eight persons from
hnoxville--ladics and gentlemen-sent
ont rs violent secessionists" Tho
enemy arc reported to have evacuated
knoxville and are retreatiup on AIoys-
willie.
State Officers Named.
the two houses of tho Virginia Log
lsiature yesterday proceeded to tho cx-
ecution OF the joint order for the elec-
ton OF state officials, when the fol-
vote: George w. Munford, Secretary OF
me Commonwealth; j. NJ bennett, An
I rbom, OF l nnb,iG accounts Henry W.
vert. Treasurer; $. III. Parker, Regis
ter of the Land Office: Colin Bass. Su-
perintendent OF the Penitentiary. Tho
election OF Public Printer was post
poncd until the 18th
IsscnDc from Libby Prison.
Iho biggest and most important or
al tho escapes made from Libby Prison
during last Tuesday night. OF the
, nnn , IMAM Lloo Yankee prisoners con.
nhed there, lO9 failed to answer to roll
call yesterday morning Embraced i'm
t, nsc We're eleven colonels, seven ma
1inrs. thirty TWO captains ana hfty-ninc
Heutcn;nts. The remaining prisoners
reported to the Confederate officers tina I
the escapes had been effected by brib-
ing the guards and officers, and at Hrs t
TINS was believed and an investigation
was started, but IL was soon evident
mat the prisoners were trying to throw.
the officers off the track An investi-
cation showed that "A tunnel had been
aug ana that the men escaped through
.his INTO lot across the street from
tne Libby building. The tunnel and
tne opening in the adjoining lot have
pcen Tiled and repaired The colonies
VINO escaped We're \. u. Strcight. Fifty
nrst Indiana Regiment: w. q. Ely.
Eighteenth Connecticut; J. T.. Boyd,
twentieth Army Corps: II. c. Uobard
iWcnty,irst Wisconsin: w. L Ken
arlSk, Third Tennessee Cavalry: w t.
aicIreary twenty first Michigan: Thos
T.. Rose. Seventy seventh PENNSYLVANIA.
j. i. Spofford. Nlncty-seveuth New
york; g. w. Tilden. sixteenth Maine: #
= West, Twenty fourth Wisconsin, and
u. alles. Ninctecnth Pcnnsvlvania The
majors majors We're j; J.. Collins, Twenty ninth
Indiana: q. w. F'itzsimmons. Thirty
teenth Missouri b T. McDonald loom
Dhio; a. Won Mitzel Seventy fourth
pennsylvania; J. ~ Walker. seventy
third Indiana; j. a. Henry Fifth ohio.
~, Fire Near Lynchburg.
Ihc dwelling and granary OF Major
samuel Henry Early, four miles from
Lynchhurg: We're burned to tho ground
nj o'clock last Saturday morning hy.
m incendiary. The mai lost his en-
tire crop Of tobacco. forty barrels Of
lonr and large quantity of grain. lie
mad no Insurance.
Death OF Patriot
ZION. John Richardson. Ex-Governor
OF south Carolina. and member OF the
convention OF 1860. died IN C,olIlrn hio
last Saturday.