Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for George W. Randolph or search for George W. Randolph in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 3 document sections:

nsation to the Commissioners appointed by Virginia to the Federal Government, and to the different States; by Mr. Garrett, of permitting the Board of Officers for the Regiment of King and Queen county, to have power to increase the number of regimental, battalion or company musters; by Mr. Crump, of referring so much of the report made by the Commissioners appointed under the act of Assembly of Jan. 20th, 1860, as refers to the sale of public arms, to the Committee on Military Affairs; by Mr. Randolph, of reporting a bill for the protection of sheep in the counties of Kanawha and Fayette; by Mr. Knotts, of incorporating a company to construct a railroad from some point on the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, by way of Kanawha Court-House, to the mouth of Big Sandy; by Mr. Myers, of authorizing the High Constable of the city of Richmond to sell slaves and other property levied upon, distrained or ordered to be sold under attachment, at the City Hall of said city, or any other public plac
ention to the comparison and purification of the text, in this respect rivalling, if she does not surpass, the labors of the German Universities. The work we have put at the head of this article is of the latter class. The editor, Mr. Blakely, is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has executed his task with great care, and with a full understanding and appreciation of the labors of his predecessors.--The copy which we have is beautifully executed. It was given to us by Mr. J. W. Randolph. We once before took occasion to express our admiration of the venerable father of history — of his rare simplicity, his vivid descriptions, his skill in the construction of his work, and the felicity with which he contrives to work up a vast number of details, comprising the history of the human race from the earliest times to the reign of Xerxes, and the Persian invasion of Greece, into a narrative resembling an epic poem in everything but verse. We said little about the accuracy of
The meeting last night. The African Church was densely crowded last night, and great excitement and confusion prevailed. The object of the meeting, however, was accomplished, in the nomination of the following ticket for the State Convention: George W. Randolph, John O. Steger, and Judge John Robertson. The meeting adjourned at a late hour, and we are unable to give a full report of the proceedings in this issue.