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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correction. (search)
leaders of thieves, oppressors and common cut-throats.--Granny Scott, who is represented to be in his dotage, was, unluckily for the honor of the Old Dominion, born on her soil, by one of those freaks of nature which sometimes gives to a comely mother a deformed child. He is her first traitor offering of any magnitude.--Fremont, the product of a hason between the young wife of old Col. Pryor and a French dancing master, would have been born in Richmond, in the house at present occupied by H. W. Fry, Esq., next to the City Hall, had not an untimely discovery of the little intimacy alluded to above caused the compulsory absence of Mrs. Pryor and her inamorata from Richmond. Fremont first saw the light of day in Charleston, S. C. Whether goaded by the thoughts of his ignoble birth, or what other motive we know not, he has been engaged all his life in desperate enterprises. From the time he stole Jessie Benton down to this, he has been trying some new scheme to place his name on the ro
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
watch, valued at $200, from Minerva Jackson, a free woman, was ordered to be whipped. A big, Jolly old black woman, who came to the witness stand pulling and blowing as if she was propelled by steam, testified that Bill Jackson acknowledged stealing the money and watch from her daughter Minerva's trunk, and said that he had spent some of the funds, but what was left of it he had given to his mother; the watch was at his aunt's. The accused was ordered to be well whipped. Sally, slave of H. W. Fry, was also whipped for stealing meat from the Second Market. James Simpson was fined for dealing with negroes without permission from their owners. William Wright slave of Robert Land, of King and Queen, and Jim Johnson, slave of Dr Mayo, of Powhatan, arrested on the charge of stealing a large lot of bed quilts, shirts, blankets, &c, from the Medical Purveyor's Department, were called for a hearing. In the room occupied by these negroes the stolen articles were found, as well as