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The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
125 garments, besides bed clothing and a large supply of handkerchiefs, towels, &c. Their officers are, Miss M. E. Compton, President; Miss. Lou. G. Brokenbrough, Secretary; Miss Lelia Pendleton, Treasurer. Other organizations of a similar character exist in different portions of the county, and there will be no flagging in the energies of our ladies to do their utmost for alleviating the sufferings of their brave defenders. "Union" men — Affairs in Roanoke. A letter from Salem, Roanoke county, Va., furnishes some interesting information, which we subjoin: We have here in our county jail a number of Union men (!) of Carlile & Co's kingdom — Some of them are genteel looking fellows, the rest are rather scarce in the regular habiliments of Southerners — at least, not such as would satiate the desire of a connoisseur. The disaffected portion of Tennessee, not so beguiled eternally as those within the borders of the Old Dominion, begin to see the error of their <
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], An execution in Illinois. (search)
An execution in Illinois. Extraordinary scene — desperation of the Culprit — violent Resistance in his cell and on the gallows. A man named James White was executed at Salem, III., on Thursday, the 15th ultimo, for the murder of Andrew J. Applegate. The Advocate, giving an account of the preliminary arrangements for the execution, the assembling of a large throng of spectators, &c., says: Soon after this time, the public were astounded by the report that the convict, White, had possessed himself of a chain, and, armed with it, threatened instant death to any man who should dare to enter his prison. The report was found to be true. There had been a chain strongly fixed in the floor of the prison, to which it had become necessary on some occasions to secure the prisoners; this chain White, with almost superhuman strength, had wrenched from its fastenings. It was a common-sized ox-chair, about three feel in length, and had upon one of its ends an iron ring n