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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Condition of affairs at Nashville. (search)
im in jail for thirty days. Richard D Mitchell was tried for misdemeanor, in assaulting Wm. H. Beveridge, and was fined $21 and the costs of Court. George W. Nelson was put on trial for misdemeanor, in having, on the 14th day of August last with thirteen others, broken out of the city jail. It was in proof that Nelson hNelson had been in jail for ten months for an alleged felony for which the grand jury had never found an indictment. Two of his fellow-prisoners, Melvin Davenport and Charles Toothacre, testified that when the scheme for breaking out was maturing Nelson refused to aid the parties engaged, and after they had gone had to be persuaded to geNelson refused to aid the parties engaged, and after they had gone had to be persuaded to get out. His repugnance was based on the idea that of the grand jury did not indict him he would be discharged anyhow — After his escape he was picked up on Cary street drunk. He was acquitted by the jury. Joseph Mitchel and Pat Murphy, fined for an assault by the Court, on Thursday, paid to the Clerk the amount and costs of p
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a Proclamation. (search)
Sixty negroes for sale in Lynchburg. --By virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court for Nelson county, in the case of "Echols, guardian, &c., against Echols, &c.," made on the 19th day of November, 1862, the undersigned Commissioners, appointed for the purpose, will sell to the highest bidder, at public auction, in front of the Market- house, in the city of Lynchburg, on Tuesday, the 16th day of December next, 1862. about sixty slaves, consisting of men, women, boys and girls, likely and valuable, lately belonging to the estate of John J. London, of Soldiers'jey. Terms--The purchasers will be required to deposit in the Citizens' Savings Bank of Lynchburg, to the credit of "Ro. J. Echols, guardian, &c., against M. W. Echols, &c.," in Nelson Circuit Court, the amount of their several purchases, and deliver the certificates of deposit to the Commissioners before the delivery to them of the slaves purchased. R. J. Borola. au 20--tds R. W. Whitehead.