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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The United States and Hayti. (search)
House of Delegates. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1862.
The House met at 12 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Woodridge.
The Senate bill to refund to the county of Amherst a license tax paid by George L. Shrader, advanced to him by the County Court of said county, was reported by the Clerk, and passed.
Mr. Newton, from the Committee on Finance, reported the following bills:
A bill to impose a tax on dogs in the county of Alleghany.
A bill providing for the payment of interest to loyal citizens on certain bonds guaranteed by Commonwealth; which was read a second time.
Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, from the Committee on Banks, reported a bill to change the Northwestern Bank of Virginia into a separate and independent bank.
The Clerk read a communication from the Governor, enclosing a tabular statement of the condition of the banks for the month of January.
Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Robertson, of Richmond, from the Joint Committee, report
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Literary intelligence. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Small change. (search)
Recent Deaths.
--Col. Robert Latham, a prominent lawyer of Campbellton, Ga., and Mr. Joseph H. Mead, a well-known citizen of Atlanta, died recently.
Dr. Warner Jones, an eminent physician, died at his residence in Amherst county, Va., on the 8th of April.
By the Governor of Virginia.--a Proclamation.
--Whereas, vacancies have occurred in the House of Delegates of Virginia, occasioned by the resignations of J. Dudley Davis, the delegate elect for the county of Amherst, and Douglas H. Gordon, the delicate elect for the county of Spotsylvania: Therefore, the sheriffs of said counties are hereby required to hold elections at the several places of voting prescribed by law in said counties, on the first Thursday in December next, for delegates to supply the vacancies aforesaid.
Given under my hand as Governor and under the Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this fourteenth day of November, 1862, and in the year of the Commonwealth the 87th.
John Letcher.
By the Governor:
George W. Munford,
no 15--tde Sec'y of the Commonwealth.
Resigned.
--Col. John Dudley Davis, the delegate in the Legislature from Amherst county, has resigned his sent, and Governor Letcher has ordered an election to be held on the first Thursday in December to fill the vacancy.
Election in Amherst. Lynchburg Va., Dec. 8.
--Paulus Powell has received a majority of 19 in Amherst county for the Legislature, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. Davis.
A correspondent of the New York Herald regrets that at the burning of Pensacola, Fla., the houses of those "two arch-rebels Mallory and Chests were spared."
Eight negroes were sold in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, men, women and children, for $18,215, being an average of $2,277.
There was a tornado at Vicksburg on the night of the 30th ult. The falling trees killing six soldiers and wounding 14.
The City Council of La Grange, Ga., for the present year have raised the license for retailing liquor to two thousand dollars.
Maj. Ed. Winston, a prominent citizen of Amherst county, Va., died on the 4th inst.
Chas. E. Haynes, editor of the Casaba, Ala, Gazette, was drowned on the 28th ult.
Mrs. Biandiana Dudley, who erected and endowed the Dudley Observatory, at Albany, N. Y., is dead.
Postage stamps have come into use in Turkey.
They bear a fas simile of the Sultan's autograph.
John Anthon, a noted lawyer of New York, died on the 11th ult.
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late victories — rumors. (search)
Murder.
--Mr. Terisha W. Dillard, of Amherst co., Va., was brutally murdered by some of his servants on Saturday last.
He was superintending some work which he was having done on an island in James river, near his residence, in which six hands were employed--four women and two men — when the murder was executed.
He was caught and held by the men, and the women inflicted the fatal blows.
His body was horribly cut and mangled, presenting a shocking spectacle of mutilation.--After the deed had been performed, the remains were covered up in sand, but soon two of the women made confession of the crime, and, with the two men, were arrested.
The others are yet at large.
A negro, calling himself John Jackson, calling from Amherst county, having a horse in his possession, was arrested near this place May 24th.
He had a certificate signed by W. W. or H Turner.
The negro subsequently made his escape.
The horse it yet in my possession.
The owner, after proving property and paying charges, can take it away. W. T. Reynolds. Bentigilo, Albemarle co. je 1--5t*