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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The War upon newspapers. (search)
Fast driving. --Too much speed is worse than none at all. During the month now drawing to its close a desire to urge their steeds to an undue degree of swiftness has been most painfully apparent on the part of the jehu's who have control of the ribbous of the teams of high and low degree who navigate the streets of Richmond. The many narrow escapes might have well been made the subject of a "brief mention," but have been omitted under the idea that the practice would play itself out quietly. Yesterday the Mayor ordered Wallace, slave of Mrs. Martha Howe, a sound drubbing for driving a heavy omnibus against a carriage owned by the Messrs. Woodson, containing a lady and infant child, whose lives were endangered by the rash act.