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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Elections. (search)
In the District composed of Jefferson and Berkeley, Edwin L Moore is believed to be elected. House of Delegates.--The following is a list of the members elect to the House of Delegates as far as received: Albemarle — B H Magruder and — Branch. Alexandria — Harrod Snowden. Amherst — Paulus Powell. Bedford — W M Burwell and Alex Jordan. Berkeley — Israel Robinson and Robert W Hunter. Campbell — F B Dean and Daniel Marr. Charles City, James City, and New Kent — W S Slater, (?) Chesterfield — Wm Ambers. Dinwiddie — H C Worsham. Greensville and Sussex — W T Lundy. Henrico — Joseph J English, (?) Henry — Samuel J Mullins, (50 majority.) King William--Harrison B Tomlin. Marion — A S Haymond and Stephen A Morgan. Monongalia — Evans, Stewart, (?) Montgomery — Douthat. Nansemond — N E Riddick. Nelson — J M Shelton. Petersburg — A M Kelley. Pittsylvania — A Buford and John Gilmer. Prince George a
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
ence by Mr. X. Bourquenot. This house was for a long time kept by a Mr. Muller as a restaurant, bearing the name of "The Retreat." Mr. B. saved a small portion of his furniture, though the building was entirely destroyed. His loss in furniture, at present valuation, will be about $6,000, while the estimated value of the house is about $7,000. There was an insurance of about$3,000 upon the house and furniture. Immediately adjoining Mr. Bourquenot's was a brick building owned by Jones & Slater, and occupied as a stable by two negroes, one of them belonging to Dr. O. A. Strecker, and the other a tree man, calling himself Bob Satterwhite. Dr. S. 's loss in feed, &c., is about $300, while Bob claims to have lost about $85 worth of feed. This building was not much damaged. On the left of the Messrs. Lumpkin's building was above occupied by Mrs. Miller, which was much injured by the falling in of the gable end. The most of Mrs. M. 's furniture was lost, while there was very lit
The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Schofield's last move in East Tennessee. (search)
and Andrew, had robbed Mr. Chiles, and carried off the meat in Jim's cart, and that they were armed with pistols, and intended to defend themselves it molested by the watchmen or any one else. He also carried the police to the place where he had hidden fourteen pieces of the stolen bacon, but it had been removed by some one. Patrick, slave of Thomas Hardgrove, was ordered to be whipped for stealing a half peck of flour from his hirers, Messrs Nimmo & Cabler. Jim, slave of Jones & Slater, charged with having a piece of corn beef, supposed to have been stolen, was discharged. Geo. Turner, a deserter from Camp. Lee, was sent to the Provost Marshal. Barnett, slave of A. Bodeker, charged with stealing three pounds extract of logwood and several china jars, was ordered to be whipped. Charles Phillips was fined $10 for using a cart on the streets without having the number and his initials marked thereon. Wm. J. Walker, charged with stealing a coat from John Ab
The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], Prisoners of War. (search)
Prisoners of War. Letters by flag of truce inform us that among the prisoners at the old Capitol prison, in Washington, is Captain Richard E. Frayser, of this city, an officer of the signal corps. He was captured on the 20th of June. A letter from Fort Delaware says that the following members of the Third company Richmond Howitzers are in that prison: Captain B. H. Smith Jr., Sergeant T. H. Quarles, Corporal Claiborne Hunt, Privates Breeden, Hardwicke, Hutcheson, Hutchins, Courtney, Loraine, Gambol, Bugg, Parker, Fourquerean, Porter, Thompson, Morris, Slater, Crump, Chamberlayne, De Leon, Moultry and Jones. Bohannon and W. H. Roberts are both wounded and in the Federal hospital — the former badly hurt in the leg and body and the latter slightly in the hand. All the others are doing very well and are in good health.
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], An English literary Woman. (search)
le on having escaped uneaten from some place to which he never ought to have gone. "She herself was fond of having occasionally what she called 'a social evening. ' This recreation was held on a Saturday, when there was no work at the Statesman office, when the principal members of the staff would be bidden, and when the condiments provided would be brown bread and butters rolled into corrects, tea and coffee, the lemonade, while the recreation consisted in conversation (among men who had met for every night during the past twelve months), and in examining photographs of the city of Prague. The ribald young men at the office spoke of Mrs. Harding as 'Plutarch,' a name given to her one night when Mr. Slater, the dramatic critic, asked her what novel she was then reading, and she replied, 'Novel, sts! Plutarch's Lives! But they all liked her, notwithstanding; and for her sake and their dear old chief's did penitential duty at the occasional 'social evenings' in Decorum street."
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e city, and require them to report to the Chief Engineer. The President stated that he had information which would render the adoption of the resolution unnecessary. The Government had already ordered them back. The Committee on Finance reported, through the chairman, Mr. Burr, on the resolution asking the renewal of a warrant on the Chamberlain, the same having been lost, and recommended the renewal of the same with the usual security. Also, on the application of Messrs. Jones & Slater, asking for a change in the form of a bond for money due them by the city, and recommending that the said bond be paid, so as to save the trouble of modification. The reports were agreed to. Mr. Stokes, from the Committee on the First Market, reported that the committee had under consideration the petition of John P. Sledd, butcher, asking reinstatement in the market as a butcher, and recommended that the prayer of the petitioner be granted.--Agreed to. Mr. Scott, from the Committ
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