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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Singular discovery. (search)
Miscellaneous cases.
--The following cases of a miscellaneous nature were disposed of by the Mayor yesterday: Samuel Bryant, for disorderly conduct and throwing rocks in the streets — fined $2 and required to give security for good behavior.
George, slave of John P. Bellard, stealing a pair of boots from Putney & Watts--39 lashes.
George, (No. 2.) slave of Benjamin Hatcher, stealing bacon from the Danville Rail Road Company--39 lashes.
Lorenzo Frayser, destroying vast quantities of whiskey — committed in default of surety.
Washington, slave of Pleasants & Frayser, stealing a bed from 2d Georgia Hospital--30 lashes.
Henry W. Small and Charles W. Westcott, disorderly and abusing C. C. Fields in his own house — surety in $100 each.
Benj. Moore, stealing bed clothing from Edward H. Stockes — remanded.
Jerry Dunnavant and Dan Murphy, small boys, steading $2.50 from Charles.
F. Fisher — remanded for trial.
Kitty Ann Isaacs.
stealing $13 in specie from James Webb--25 lashes
The school-girl Po case.
#x2014;Yesterday morning, the case of Amanda, slave of Samuel Overton, and George, slave of Benjamin Hatcher, charged with poisoning the Misses Clarke and Misses Manie, pupils of Miss M. E. Atten, on Thursday, the 20th instant, was taken up by the Mayor and disposed of so far as he was concerned.
Mrs. Clarke, the mother of four of the victims, testified that Amanda, who is the for her family, made a short-cake, about the size of a cup-plate, and calling her daughter Betty into the kitchen, gave it to her to take to school.
Betty divided about a third of the cake with her three sisters, at home, and took the remainder to school.
Soon afterwards her children became very sick, suffering from violent vomiting and pain in the head and stomach.
Becoming alarmed, Mrs. Clarke was in the act of sending for her daughter who had gone to school, when, just at that moment, she was brought home by Miss Allen, seriously ill. They were now well.
She had never
The News.
From the Petersburg lines.
All quiet at Petersburg.
There has been no movement of importance since yesterday week.
The enemy hold their newly-acquired position on Hatcher's creek, and their pickets are thrown out a short distance to the west of that point.
Their new lines take in a very extensive piece of wood land, which will prove a great comfort to them.
They are building observatories at several points along their lines.
With the Yankees, the observatory seems completely to have superseded Professor Lowe and his balloons.
Important from North Carolina--a heavy Yankee column Threatening an advance on Raleigh.
Unofficial intelligence has been received here that a force of the enemy, estimated at twenty thousand men, have landed at Newbern.
It is believed to be their object to advance at once upon Raleigh, or at least upon our lines of railroad in North Carolina.
They are said to have brought with them five locomotives and railroad iron sufficient t