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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
arner, were sent down with the usual warning. Two vagrant white women, named Margaret Phelan and Amanda Furguson, who were with the interesting party, were committed to jail. The latter's beauty, if she ever had any, was completely spoiled by bruises and scratches, which she accounted for by saying that she got drunk and fell over a chair. Sad commentary on human depravity. Dick, a venerable darkey in uniform, was arrested for carrying a huge bowie-knife. He was on his return home to Danville from a campaign against the Yankees, and the Mayor discharged him after confiscating the weapon. Oliver, a negro who felt Christmas all over him, stole a bottle of brandy, a canteen of rum, and a ham of bacon from his master, Sampson Jones, but his roguery was detected, and he paid the penalty of his guilt. Susan, slave of Miss D. Woodson, arrested some days ago for attempting to get up a conflagration on Mrs. E. Gentry's premises, was on yesterday sentenced to twenty lashes.