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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The honor roll of the University of Virginia , from the times-dispatch, December 3 , 1905 . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], French interests in South America . (search)
North Carolina and Virginia coal.
--Excellent soft coal is now taken in large quantities from the Egypt (N. C.) mines, Bith coal almost as hard and much resembling anthracite is mined extensively in Montgomery county, Va.,
Illness of Wm. Ballard Preston.
--The Lynchburg Virginian learns that the Hon. Wm. Ballard Preston is lying dangerously ill at his residence in Montgomery county, Virginia.
A man named Price, imprisoned, on the charge of conspiring with negroes, made his escape from the jail of Montgomery county, Va., last week.
On Friday last, while P. F. Frazee, Jr., of Columbus, S. C., was on his way to join his company on the coast, he fell from a wagon and broke his neck.
An affray took place recently, a few miles above Dakota La., between Geo. W. Grove and Dr. A. M. Young, in which the latter received two shots, which it was supposed would terminate fatally.
W. A. Lord, transportation agent on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, died recently in consequence of an injury received on the road.
The Charleston Mercury says: Gen. Walker's disease, we regret to learn, has taken an unfavorable turn, presenting symptoms that give much alarm for the result.
Hon. Wm. Pope, of St. Lake's Parish, S. C., died on the 16th of March near Sandersville, Ga.
Alexander Falis, one of the most enterprising merchants of Columbus, S, C., died last Friday.
Arrest of a mail robber.
--W. A. Hopkins, acting postmaster at Big Spring Depot, Montgomery county, Va., was arrested on the 3d of April, by W. E. M. Word, Special Agent of the Post-Office Department, for robbing the mail.
The depredations committed on the above route had been the subject of complaint for some time past, and a watch being kept on the proceedings of Hopkins, his guilt became sufficiently manifest to warrant his being taken into custody.
He did not content himself with taking letters merely, but helped himself to the newspapers passing through his office.
Sentenced.
--Wm. Hopkins, late Postmaster at Big Spring, Montgomery county, Va., has been convicted of robbing the mail, by the Confederate Court in session at Wytheville, and sentenced to ten years and one day's imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Galveston . (search)
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