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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
mission of deeds which every day, in other communities, brings some culprit to the gallows or consigns him to the penitentiary. We are led to these observations not by the frequent occurrence of robbery and murder in the country — for these have become too common to deserve notice — but by the fact of our attention having been called to one particular case, (not worse, we dare say, than hundreds of others,) in which we happened to know the parties, and which occurred in the county of Mecklenburg during the late marauding expedition of Kantz and Wilson. A body of plunderers rode up to the house of the gentleman in question, whooping and yelling like drunken savages. On the way they fell in with a youth, who was the son of a lady staying at the house, a relative of the family, and ordered him to halt. Instead of halting, the lad (he was about thirteen years old) fled to a neighboring wood. The scoundrels fired at this mere child some half dozen or more shots, evidently with the
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Seamstress and Chambermaid. (search)
Negro Woman for Sale. --On Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock, I shall sell, at the auction-house of Hill, Dickinson & Co., a very valuable Woman, twenty-three years old, with two children; an excellent cook, washer and ironer and house woman; perfectly honest and without fault. She was raised in Warren, North Carolina and Mecklenburg county, Virginia. W. S. Earley, Mecklenburg. de 8--1t
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
cancy in the judgeship of the eighteenth judicial circuit, made vacant by the death of Judge David McComas. Mr. Hunter, of Berkeley, offered a resolution inviting legislation on the subject of desertion and the unlawful evasion of military duty, making both infamous crimes, and disfranchising those found guilty of them. Mr. Baskerville introduced a resolution recommending the immediate rebuilding of that part of the Roanoke and Valley railroad between Raleigh and Gaston, in the county of Granville, North Carolina, and the town of Clarksville, on the Roanoke river, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, and the completion of the line from Clarksville to Keysville, on the Danville railroad, in the county of Charlotte. Mr. Pendleton introduced a resolution to rebuild the burned bridge on the Saltville branch of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad, to facilitate the transportation of wood to the salt works. After some other unimportant business the House adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
: Messrs. Saunders, Keily, Shelton, Baskerville and English. The resolution was reported to the Senate. The following bills were passed: The bill for the relief of Lunsford L. Loving, late sheriff of, Nelson county, for a slave escaped to the enemy while in State employ. Bill for the relief of Joseph G. Bullock, of Fluvanna county, for a slave condemned to death, and hung by a mob, appropriating two thousand dollars. Bill for the relief of Tucker Carrington, of Mecklenburg county, appropriating one thousand dollars. Bill to pay Captain James T. Smith for his services as a partisan ranger. The House refused to take up and consider the bill appropriating sixty-five thousand dollars for the purchase of the life-size portrait of General R. E. Lee, painted by Mr. Bruce, and tendered to the State. Mr. Ward, of Frederick, asked the suspension of the rules in order that the bill might be taken up and considered, but the House refused to suspend. Mr.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], One thousand Dollars reward. (search)
county, Alabama; E. F. B. Longstreet, Jackson county, Florida; Byron Lemly. Jackson, Mississippi; Cuvler Lipscomb, Tavant, Texas; Joseph A. Lipscomb, Spotsylvania, Virginia; Lee Mason, Marion, Virginia; Samuel J. McChemey, Washington, Virginia; George M. Mott, Clarke, Mississippi; William Y. Morris, Wilcox, Alabama; Jacob M. Painter, Wythe, Virginia; Edgar H. Parsons, Tucker, Virginia; John A. Powers, Wilcox, Alabama; Thomas J. Pretlow, Southampton, Virginia; William C. Richardson, Mecklenburg, Virginia; John M. Rushton, Edgehill District, South Carolina; Charles A. Rutledge, Harford, Maryland; Edmund W. Sale, Bedford, Virginia; Melville P. Shelton, Nelson, Virginia; William H. Shepherd, Nelson, Virginia; Milton D. Sizer, Richmond, Virginia; George W. Smith, Madison, Mississippi; John M. Stainback, Brunswick, Virginia; Robert H. Stancell, Northampton. North Carolina; Ratliff P. Talley, Dawson, Georgia; Williams D. Wall, Wilkinson, Mississippi; William H. Walthall, Campbell, Virgini
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