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The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], Suicide. (search)
Suicide. --Richard M. Coleman, a young man, formerly of Franklin co., Va., committed suicide on Sunday night, the 9th inst., at the Virginia House, Point Pleasant, Mason co., Va., by taking opium.
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
dams' supervision, and by special permission of the War Department, the State defraying the cost. When completed it will be used in getting up the machinery for our Armory here. In determining the model arm, the Commissioners were necessarily obliged to decide upon the relative merits of muzzle-loading and breech-loading arms for infantry. Wishing to be governed by practical experience in this matter, and not by theory, they applied to the War Department, through our Senators, Messrs, Mason and Hunter, for information as to the usages of the European armies in this particular, and learned from the Ordnance Bureau that so far as the Department was informed, all the great armies of Europe adhered to the muzzle-loading musket for infantry. They then instituted a course of experiments at Lexington, under the charge ofMaj.Colston, to test the relative merits of muzzle and breech-loading muskets, and the result was a report from him, recommending most decidedly an adherence to t
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
Scott59459191 Sussex29417793 Taylor57564726 Tazewell734360 Tucker992223 Upshur58933154 Warren46227612 Warwick32720 Washington117891655 Williamsburg434924 Wood83283256 Wythe79561722 Wetzel60790153 Westmoreland1604384 Wirt25515016 wise331028 York902275 135 counties and cities69,51169,60914,855 69,511 Bell's majority88 the following are the unofficial majorities reported from the counties not yet received at the capitol: Bell's majorities. Braxton48 Giles159 Mason277 Nicholas275 Pendleton167 Raleigh159 Webster (New co.) 1,085 995 90 88 Breckinridge's Major's Buchanan120 Calhoun266 Gilmer152 King and Queen255 Roane18 Hampshire184 995 Bell's clear maj. In the counties, official and reported, 178 the following is the vote as it stood in 1859, in the counties not heard from: Letcher. Cabell91 Wayne51 142 Goggin. Clay41 Wyoming93 McDowell82 216 142 74 Goggin's majority in counties not heard from.