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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], The reported surrender of Burnside. (search)
Almost a Dad. --On Wednesday last the day police arrested Dr. William H. Robertson, of Petersburg, and Dr. W. O. McCorkle, of Tennessee, charged with being about to engage in a duel, in violation of the laws of this Commonwealth. Yesterday morning the parties were before the Major, and each held to bail to keep the peace in the sum of $1,500. The parties were prisoners at Fort McHenry, where a difficulty occurred between them, which they determined to settle as soon as they were liberated. Arriving here on the flag-of-truce boat on Tuesday morning, Dr. Robertson soon after sent a challenge, which was accepted by Dr. McCorkle, and the duel would have taken place on Wednesday morning but for the serious indisposition of Dr. McC.'s second. In the course of the day the acquaintances of the parties got wind of the pending hostilities, and, to prevent the effusion of blood, called in the officers of the law to their aid-- "Blessed is the peace maker," saith the good book.
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
McCown, on the Sunday night previous, and stealing one gold watch belonging to him. It appears that on the night in question two men entered the room occupied by Gen. McC., at Mrs. Barnes's, on Grace, between 8th and 9th streets, one of them with a lighted candle in his hand. Gen. McC., having just gotten in bed, was not asleep, Gen. McC., having just gotten in bed, was not asleep, and immediately raised up and demanded to know the business they had in his room. The fellows apologized and left, but soon after returned, when they were for the second time ordered to leave, the General at the same time jumping out of bed and following them to the door, when they, instead of going to some other room in the housught from Fraydeen James Denay, who has been in jail for some days on another charge, was brought into Court as an accomplice of the prisoner, and to see whether Gen. McC. could not recognize him as one of the parties who entered his room. The General thought he was one of them, but could not swear as to Collier. The Mayor, aft
The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Reported Capture of a Blockade Runner. (search)
vered stored away therein several bottles of liquor, having the Messrs Campbell's label pasted on the outside, besides a lot of sugar, coffee, meal, bacon, and a demijohn, which corresponds with that which was stolen.--The policemen who searched Mrs. McC's store say she claims to have had the bottles over two years; but Mr. James Campbell, one of the partners, asserts that the labels which were found on two of them have not been printed over two months. Finding herself in a hard place, Mrs. McC.ding herself in a hard place, Mrs. McC. denied the statement of the officers, and asserted that the two bottles with the labels on them were left at her store only a day or two ago, by a negro man whom she did not know; but that the unlabelled ones she had purchased some two years since from Mr. Tyler, a merchant, on Cary street. The Mayor, after hearing the evidence, sent the prisoner on to the Hustings Court for further examination. At the adjournment of the Court she had not obtained all.
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