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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Rappahannock lines. (search)
Man and woman shot in Manchester. --An extraordinary shooting affair occurred in our neighboring town of Manchester on Sunday night. From facts since developed it appears that about half-past 9 o'clock, an individual known as Jack Hines mad his way through a corn-field adjoining the house of a family named. Washer, and poinManchester on Sunday night. From facts since developed it appears that about half-past 9 o'clock, an individual known as Jack Hines mad his way through a corn-field adjoining the house of a family named. Washer, and pointing a pistol through an open window of the dwelling discharged it at Susan Washer, who was sitting there in company with a man named May. The ball struck the female on the left side, and grazing the flesh directly over the heart, passed through her right arm above the elbow, and then struck May, going through his arm and lodging refuge. This desperate act is supposed to have been prompted by jealousy as Hines had previously made sanguinary threat in consequence of the female's apparent partially for another. The incident occasioned a good deed of excitement in the peaceful village of Manchester, where assassination is by no means a coming occurrence.
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
e are no very extensive works near the city for its defence. On the side toward Fair Oaks there are some batteries, but the most powerful fortifications are at Manchester, on the south side of the river, commanding the approach to the city from that direction. He has not seen the new iron-clad vessel being built at Richmond, for this purpose to a considerable extent, but a break occurred at the time of the great freshet, and it had been of little use since. There are no vessels in James river above the city. Large quantities of tobacco are stored in the city, most of last year's crop being still on hand. Some time since experiments were made to only independent observer who has visited that corps for some weeks," that the force is "in a deplorable condition;" that there are "twice as many civilians on James river as there are soldiers," and that no hope seems to be entertained, either by officers or men, of reaching Richmond in that direction before spring even if reinfo