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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Breaking a water pipe. (search)
Cotton and tobacco at Petersburg.
--The receipts per Southern railroad from August 12th, 1865, to December 22d, inclusive, were: Cotton, seven thousand five hundred and seventy bales; tobacco, three thousand eight hundred and eighty hogsheads. The receipts of tobacco per Southside railroad from August 9th, 1865, to December 21st, 1865, inclusive, were: Leaf, two thousand six hundred and thirty-two hogsheads; manufactured, six hundred and fifty-seven tierces.
From October 6th to December 21st, there were shipped from Petersburg to foreign markets, three hundred and thirty-five hogsheads of leaf; seventy-three hogsheads of strips; two hundred and fourteen hogsheads of stems: three hogsheads of scraps; two hundred and fifty tierces stems; two hundred and sixty-four boxes manufactured; fifty-five half tierces manufactured; one hundred and thirty-one tierces leaf; one hundred and forty-six tierces strips.
Two hundred and eighty-six bales of cotton were received by the Southern r
Sent to the penitentiary.
--Eliza Jenkins, a negro woman, was arraigned before Judge McEntee yesterday, in the Provost Court, on the following charge: That she did, on the night of Friday, December 22, unlawfully steal, take and carry away from the residence of Johnson Sands, in this city, a white dress, a piece of cloth, a gold locket, and seven dollars in United States currency — all valued at the sum of twenty-seven dollars. On being arraigned, the prisoner plead not guilty.
Mr. Sands testified to having lost the articles mentioned in the charge, with some others, and that he accused two girls in his employment of having stolen them.
These girls went and found the property at some place up town.
Fanny Robinson, one of the servants, testified that she found the property in the possession of Eliza Jenkins.
She was at the house of Mr. Sands on Saturday morning last, and driven away by him on account of her bad character.
She (Eliza) was a noted thief.
After the hearing of s