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Statistics of 1860.

--During the year 1860, fifty-one persons died at ages exceeding 100 years. The oldest of these was Milly Lamar, a slave, who died in Georgia at the age of 137.

Twenty-one soldiers of the Revolution--two of them from Virginia — died.

There were seventy-four railroad accidents, by which 1,666 persons were killed and 3,926 wounded. The steamboat accidents numbered 242 by which 3,001 persons lost their lives and 1,090 were wounded.

The fires numbered 251, destroying property to the value of $15,597,000.

The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 3, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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