A Family Poisoned — The family of Mr. George T. Jones, bookseller, near the University of Virginia, consisting of himself, wife and five children, and his clerk, were poisoned last week, but not fatally. Suspicion rests […]
JOHN BROWN’S OUTLAWS. — The Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee had another meeting on Thursday. The Sergeant-at-arms, who has been in search of John Brown, Jr., has returned, and informed the Committee that he is in Ohio, […]
Walter Land, of Princess Anne county, Va., has been sent to the penitentiary for killing his brother-in-law, Benjamin F. Flanagan. He ought to have been hung. He sent for Flanagan and deliberately shot him as he […]
It is stated that the expense of C. T. BUTLER, Esq., is attending the capture and delivery in the Charlestown Jail, of his fugitive slave Moses Horner, amounted to the sum of $1100.
Murder. — In Floyd county, Va., a few days since, Ambrose Cox entered the house of Mr. Moore, his brother-in-law, and shot him dead with a rifle. The cause of the murder was the division of […]
