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The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late movements in East Tennessee. (search)
Out of his jurisdiction. --Albert Kirby and Joseph Young, both white men, arrested for committing a murderous assault upon and robbing a free negro named John Lawrence, some nights since, in Henrico county, were yesterday arraigned for examination; but His Honor, after ascertaining the locality in which the outrage was perpetrated, decided he had no jurisdiction in the case, and there upon ordered the parties to be taken before Justice Baker, of Henrico county.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Tried for Shooting his step-mother. (search)
Four steamers are at the shoals waiting for a rise to reach here. At Burkesville to-day, a rise of five feet occurred, which will affect the river at the shoals by to-morrow. It rained here all day. Cotton is dull; forty and a half cents is the holding price, with few purchasers. Buyers are shy at the ruling rates. Receipts, four hundred and forty bales; shipments, three hundred and nine bales. It has been raining all day, and still continues, with a prospect of a big rise in the river. The height of the water on the shoals is eight inches, and rising. Chaplain John Lawrence has been appointed by General Fisk, judge advocate to try cases of misdemeanor in which freedmen were implicated. A notice was served on Mayor Brown of his assuming that duty. This order is approved by the citizens generally, as the municipal authorities of this city make a requisite for officers to arrest people on suspicion of drunkenness, and negroes on all real and imaginary offences.
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